FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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| US 07296396 | Wilson 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) | Kenneth J. Wilson (Ridgecrest, California); Warrent K. Jaul (Ridgecrest, California); Shannon L. Fitzpatrick (Ridgecrest, California); Robert G. Burman (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A supersonic combustion apparatus and method for using the same including a fixed geometric nozzle having a converging area, throat, and a diverging area, at least one fuel injection means and at least one flame stabilization means located in the divergent area, and an exit plane adjacent and downstream to the diverging area, where an initial first injection/flame stabilization means is located in the diverging area and the exit plane Mach is varied by heat addition in the diverging area by at least one more fuel injection means. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014376 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296488 | Hock 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) | Vince F. Hock (Mahomet, Illinois); Charles P. Marsh (Urbana, Illinois); Warren C. Whittaker (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Frank Robb (Middletown, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A system incorporating a robot to inspect ferrous surfaces. Preferably, the robot is an articulated device having a tractor module for motive power and steering, a power module for electrical power and communications and additional motive power, and a third module for cleaning and inspection. The robot uses sensors and generates and transmits signals to a computer through a tether and receives direction from an operator via the computer and tether. The computer continuously monitors the location of the robot and supports the robot during deployment. In a specific application, the robot travels the interior of a tank on a set of magnetized wheels. Prior to inspection, the tank surface is cleaned of deposits by rotary cutters and rotary brushes on the third module. The robot obtains thickness measurements via onboard ultrasonic transducers that contact the cleaned surface. A method for implementing inspection of ferrous surfaces is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098732 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/866.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296528 | Doyle 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) | Christopher J. Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida); Robert W. James (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A platform for providing an interface between a host vessel and ship-to-shore craft has a water buoyant surface that is transportable on the host vessel, an angled deck within the surface, an inner and outer ramp, and an inner and outer deck of different deck heights within the platform. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489810 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296530 | Bernstein 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) | Charles Bernstein (Panama City, Florida); John Dudinsky (Panama City, Florida); Paul Moser (Panama City, Florida); Daniel Kucik (Panama City, Florida); Doug Freeman (Panama City, Florida); David Jennings (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An unmanned system performs inspection, identification and/or neutralization of underwater objects. An unmanned vehicle that operates at a water's surface stows underwater crawling and/or swimming vehicles that can operate underneath a water's surface. A winch associated with each robotic vehicle is mounted on the unmanned vehicle. An electro-mechanical tether electrically and mechanically couples a corresponding robotic vehicle to the unmanned vehicle, and is mechanically coupled to a corresponding winch for control of the paying out and reeling in thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311760 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296568 | Capon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Avon Protection Systems, Inc. (Cadillac, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Capon (Salisbury, United Kingdom); Tim John Maclean (Bath, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A respirator speech transmitter and exhalation valve module comprising a resilient exhalation valve having a low airflow resistance for exhalation but providing a secure seal against inadvertent inhalation through the exhalation valve module. An exhalation airflow channel is formed between a module body on the outside of the channel and a conical airflow guide and the exhalation valve on the inside of the channel. The exhalation airflow channel is in the form of an amplification horn. The airflow channel produces a smooth airflow for unrestricted exhalation and high intelligibility of a user's speech. The module includes a drinking conduit for selectively fluidly connecting a mouthpiece in the respirator to a beverage container and further includes an electrical communication block with internal and external fittings for connecting a microphone in the mask to a radio or amplifier carried by the mask user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/484342 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/201.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296654 | Berman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morris S. Berman (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method and apparatus for reducing vibrations in an electrical device, wherein the apparatus comprises a plurality of stacked metal plates, wherein the stacked metal plates move frictionally opposed to one another upon excitation of the device, and wherein movement of the stacked metal plates produces damping of the vibrations. The apparatus further comprises a clamp retaining the stacked metal plates, and a plurality of retaining mechanisms, wherein the clamp adjusts a force holding the stacked metal plates together, and wherein the clamp controls an amount of friction produced by the movement of the stacked metal plates. Also, the surfaces of the stacked metal plates comprise a machined surface finish, wherein the machined surface finish controls an amount of friction produced by the movement of the stacked metal plates. Moreover, the stacked metal plates are dimensioned and configured to control a frequency response of the vibrations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956589 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296967 | Shapiro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason David Shapiro (Methuen, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine wall includes opposite back and front sides. Film cooling holes are inclined longitudinally through the wall. Adjacent holes are spaced laterally apart and are inclined oppositely for channeling cooling air therethrough in counterflow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224922 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297041 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating dielectric encapsulated electrodes. The process includes anodizing a metal to form a dielectric layer with columnar micropores; dissolving a portion of the dielectric layer and then anodizing the resultant structure a second time. The nanoporous structure that results can provide properties superior to those of conventional dielectric encapsulated metals. The pores of the dielectric may be backfilled with one or more materials to further tailor the properties of the dielectric. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/958174 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297113 | Russell 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) | Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Paul R. de la Houssaye (San Diego, California); Jamie K. Pugh (San Diego, California); William Pugh (San Diego, California); Dennis E. Amundson (San Diego, California); Howard W. Walker (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment is a microprobe. An example of the microprobe comprises a housing having an aperture. This example of the microprobe also comprises an ISFET attached to the housing. The ISFET may have a gate located proximate the aperture. This example of the microprobe further comprises a reference electrode attached to the housing proximate the aperture. Another embodiment is a microsensor system. Another embodiment is a method for measuring a characteristic of tissue. Yet another embodiment is a method for monitoring tissue pH. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872131 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297186 | Brennan 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) | Timothy Brennan (Waldorf, Maryland); Mark Wallner (Accokeek, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible bag for receiving flowable material is suspended, as from a gantry, and is tethered transversely and yet has substantially free movement along three sides for complete filling. The length of the tethers may be selected to prevent complete collapse of the bag when empty, and tubular perforated members having an “H” configuration within the bag may be provided for this purpose. Auxiliary structures provide for cooling of materials provided to the bag, their diffusion on inlet to the bag, their recirculation in the bag, and their removal from the bag. Accessories for use with wet gas provide for separation of inlet liquid and drainage of condensate within the bag. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843651 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297268 | Herrington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MIOX Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney E. Herrington (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frank R. Hand (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Improvements in product water throughput from a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane achieved by thinner feed spacers in the RO element (22), enhanced recovery (ratio of permeate to feed), pressure recovery of the retentate fluid pressure opposing the feed water pressure, and fluid pulsing of the RO element feed stream. These features are preferably combined to optimize the performance and cost per unit volume of water produced. The system of the invention preferably comprises a dual head reciprocating pump (20), an RO element (22) with a housing, and a differential pressure activated (“DPA”) valve (24). The DPA valve (24), in combination with offsetting fluid pressures on the two pump heads (28, 30), generate energy recovery. The frequency and amplitude of the reciprocating pump (20) create a pulse wave in the RO element (22) that improves permeate quality and throughput. A control system preferably monitors system parameters to optimize the reciprocating pump (20) speed and amplitude to tune the optimal frequency and amplitude required for maximum throughput and permeate quality from any given RO element (22) configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759753 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297290 | Fuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Fuchs (Reno, Nevada); Faramarz Gordaninejad (Reno, Nevada); Hatice Gecol (Reno, Nevada); Ben Hu (Reno, Nevada); Beril Kavlicoglu (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetorheological materials having a supramolecular polymer gel as a component of the carrier are disclosed. Useful supramolecular polymers for gels include those having terpyridine ligands which can participate in metal coordination bonding. The magnetizable particles of magnetorheological materials can have supramolecular surfactant-polymer coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915257 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297305 | Andrady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony L. Andrady (Apex, North Carolina); David S. Ensor (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for producing fibrous materials in which the apparatus includes an extrusion element configured to electrospin a substance from which the fibers are to be composed by an electric field extraction of the substance from a tip of the extrusion element, a collector disposed from the extrusion element and configured to collect the fibers, a chamber enclosing the collector and the extrusion element, and a control mechanism configured to control a gaseous environment in which the fibers are to be electrospun. The method includes providing a substance from which the fibers are to be composed to a tip of an extrusion element, applying an electric field to the extrusion element in a direction of the tip, controlling a gaseous environment about where the fibers are to be electrospun, and electrospinning the substance from the tip of the extrusion element by an electric field extraction of the substance from the tip into the controlled gaseous environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/819945 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297580 | Sriram |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a unit cell of a metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET). The unit cell of the MESFET includes a source, a drain and a gate. The gate is disposed between the source and the drain and on an n-type conductivity channel layer. A p-type conductivity region is provided beneath the source and has an end that extends towards the drain. The p-type conductivity region is spaced apart from the n-type conductivity channel region and is electrically coupled to the source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/142551 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297626 | Cole 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) | Melanie W. Cole (Churchville, Maryland); Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A Ni2Si-nSiC Ohmic contact is formed by pulsed laser ablation deposition (PLD) of Ni2Si source target deposited on a n-SiC substrate or SiC substrate wafer with SiC epilayer. The Ni2Si Ohmic contact on n-SiC was rapid thermal annealed at 950° C. for 30 s in a N2 ambient. The resultant Ohmic contact is characterized by excellent current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, an abrupt void free contact-SiC interface, retention of the PLD as-deposited contact layer width, smooth surface morphology, and absence of residual carbon within the contact layer or at the interface. The detrimental effects of contact delamination due to stress associated with interfacial voiding; and wire bond failure, non-uniformity of current flow and SiC polytype alteration due to extreme surface roughness; have been eliminated as has electrical instability associated with carbon inclusions at the contact-SiC interface, after prolonged high temperature and power device operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356065 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297785 | Bode 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) | Elizabeth Bode (Frederick, Maryland); David A. Norwood, Jr. (Thurmont, Maryland); William J. Hurtle (Dugway, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules having sequences that are unique to Bacillus anthracis and method of making and using thereof. Also disclosed are kits comprising the nucleic acid molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934488 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297966 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Wei (Malibu, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for monitoring the surface roughness of a metal, comprises impinging a laser beam onto the surface of a metal layer to induce the formation of a plasmon therein, and monitoring a current of decay electrons emitted by the plasmon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205782 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298067 | Kosinski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Kosinski (Neptune, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A packaging system for piezoelectric devices is provided that substantially reduces and avoids the deleterious effects of environmental vibrations and shocks with gas or fluid-filled chambers that drastically improve the resonator's ability to withstand unwanted disturbances and decrease or eliminate the attendant frequency shifts. The damped piezoelectric resonator packaging system combines a resonator package, a membrane and gas/fluid-filled chambers that dampen dynamic amplification of the resonator and firmly restrain the resonator within the packaging system. The selection of gas or fluid for the chamber depends upon variables such as the type of waves being propagated and interaction with the piezoelectric substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543279 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298176 | Ngo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas); Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin J. Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logic gate has an asymmetrical dual-gate PFET device for charging a dynamic node during a pre-charge phase of a clock. A logic tree evaluates the dynamic node during an evaluate phase of the clock. The front gate of the asymmetrical dual-gate PFET device is coupled to the clock signal and the back gate is coupled to the ground potential of the power supply. When the clock is a logic zero both the front gate and the back gate are biased ON and the dynamic node charges with maximum current. The clock signal transitions to a logic one during the evaluation phase of the clock turning OFF the front gate. The back gate remains ON and the asymmetrical dual-gate PFET device operates as a keeper device with a current level sufficient to counter leakage on the dynamic node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204401 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298232 | Rauscher |
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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) | Christen Rauscher (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide filter with a signal input port at a first end and a signal output port at a second end includes a dielectric core of moldable material where the outer surface of its periphery has a metal layer with nonmetallized openings positioned at opposite ends of the filter to accommodate the input and output ports. The filter's periphery is configured to provide a cascade connection of a plurality of metal-bounded ridge-waveguide sections with interspersed metal-bounded evanescent-mode coupling regions. The filter can be joined through a manifold to realize a frequency-multiplexer, with the manifold containing a cascade connection of electrically short waveguide segments and quasi-lumped waveguide circuit components, such as irises. The filter and multiplexer are amenable to the application of cost-effective injection molding techniques to manufacture the dielectric core. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355894 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298238 | Eaton 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) | Deran S. Eaton (Waldorf, Maryland); Robert M. Daily (Swan Point, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable transformer incorporating windings embedded in a thin film substrate. The windings are flat wire traces embedded into the substrate, primary on one side and secondary on the other. The secondary windings may be planar or different coils spatially arrayed throughout a thickness of the substrate. The secondary winding may include multiple tap points, effectively providing multiple secondary coils referenced to the single primary coil. Each tap point is bridged to a field effect or CMOS transistor path by which a digital controls permit dynamic adjustment of the turns ratio. The final secondary output depends on the activated transistor paths. Multiple secondary outputs from a single secondary coil and a digitally programmable turns ratio are available aspects. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/650759 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298244 | Cress, Sr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Cress, Sr. (Rolla, Missouri); Richard D. Wallace (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Corey L. Piepenburg (Nottingham, Maryland); Jerry Huen (Joppa, Maryland); Michael J. Trzeciak (Aberdeen, Maryland); Mark S. Schlein (Abingdon, Maryland); Bruce Archambault (Waynesville, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An NBC marker light is designed to be simplistic, lightweight, and expendable. The case is two pieces, designed for ease of assembly. The assembly includes a circuit card, one or more batteries, light sources, typically IR and visible LEDs, and a custom designed rotary switch. A diffuser is designed to enhance side visibility in all directions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217855 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298251 | Meyers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Douglas R. Carlson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Robert C. Becker (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand held Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader is provided. The reader includes a housing having a perimeter around an inner edge. The reader also includes a full-sized dipole antenna including two antenna elements coupled by a balun transformer. The antenna has nearly a unity gain over a range of angles. The reader also includes a transceiver, coupled to the dipole antenna by a suitable cable, the transceiver adapted to send and receive signals. The reader further includes a processor for processing signals received at the antenna. The first and the second antenna segments of the dipole antenna are wrapped along the perimeter around the inner edge of the housing. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031693 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298255 | Pereira 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) | Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Hai-Long Nguyen (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensory system for determining the orientation of an object, wherein the sensory system includes a plurality of non-uniformly spaced waveguide sensors or array(s) of waveguide sensors. The non-uniformly spaced waveguide sensors are responsive to received radio frequency signals wherein the received power of the signals is dependent upon the orientation of the waveguide(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161413 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298277 | Olstad 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) | William D. Olstad (Panama City, Florida); Dennis G. Gallagher (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for monitoring one or more depth associated parameters of an object submerged in water. A first set of alarm devices are mounted in the system's housing such that they are accessible from the exterior thereof. The first set of alarm devices, defined by an audio generator, a tactile generator, and a light, are initiated in accordance with a predetermined initiation scheme when at least one of the monitored parameters does not satisfy predetermined threshold criteria associated therewith. A second set of alarm devices are tethered to the system's housing for remote positioning with respect thereto. The second set of alarm devices utilize the same types of alarm devices as the first set of alarm devices and are also initiated in accordance with the predetermined initiation scheme. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229434 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298313 | Fiden 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) | William H. Fiden (Woodland Hills, California); Donald Walter Czubiak (Westlake Village, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a radar system capable of transmitting data communications concurrently with and on a non-interfering basis with the normal radar functions. A continuous-wave carrier frequency is generated and transmitted to perform the normal radar function such as the processing of doppler data. For data communication purposes, the carrier signal is pulse modulated at selected pulse repetition frequencies with the selected PRF transmitted as first-order sideband components of the fixed carrier frequency. PRF selection is made in accordance with input digital data. A remotely-disposed command link receiver processes the incoming carrier wave and its sideband components to reconstruct the information contained in the transmitted data rates. Sensitivity and optimum detection by the command link receiver is achieved in a special manner that includes a phase locking of the received carrier frequency to the generated carrier frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 1975 |
| APPL NO | 05/626674 |
| 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 342/57 |
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| US 07298315 | Gerlach 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) | Karl R Gerlach (Chesapeake Beach, Maryland); Shannon D Blunt (Shawnee, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A radar pulse compression repair (RPCR) system includes a receiver for receiving a radar return signal, a matched filter for applying matched filtering to the radar return signal to generate a matched filter output, a processor programmed for applying Radar Pulse Compression Repair (RPCR) to the matched filter output to suppress a plurality of range sidelobes from the matched filter output, and a detector for receiving the RPCR-processed output. The RPCR invention in operating upon the output of the matched filter enables RPCR to be employed as a post-processing stage in systems where it is not feasible to replace the existing pulse compression apparatus. RCPR can also be selectively employed when it is possible that large targets are present that may be masking smaller targets, thereby keeping computational complexity to a minimum. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268410 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/159 |
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| US 07298332 | Ryken, Jr. 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) | Marvin L. Ryken, Jr. (Oxnard, California); Albert F. Davis (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An X-Band microstrip antenna for use on a fourteen inch diameter projectile to transmit telemetry data. The X-Band microstrip antenna is configured to wrap around the projectile's body without interfering with the aerodynamic design of the projectile. The X-Band microstrip antenna operates at 7900 to 8100 MHz telemetry frequency band. Sixteen microstrip antenna elements equally spaced around the projectile provide for linear polarization and a quasi-omni directional radiation pattern. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288056 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
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| US 07298456 | Cherala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Pawan K. Nimmakayala (Austin, Texas); Mario J. Meissl (Austin, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a system to vary dimensions of a substrate, such as a template having a patterned mold. To that end, the system includes a substrate chuck adapted to position the substrate in a region; a pliant member; and an actuator sub-assembly elastically coupled to the substrate chuck through the pliant member. The actuator assembly includes a plurality of lever sub-assemblies, one of which includes a body lying in the region and spaced-apart from an opposing body associated with one of the remaining lever sub-assemblies of the plurality of lever sub-assemblies. One of the plurality of lever assemblies is adapted to vary a distance between the body and the opposing body. In this manner, compressive forces may be applied to the template to remove unwanted magnification or other distortions in the pattern on the mold. The pliant member is configured to attenuate a magnitude of resulting Forces sensed by the substrate chuck generated in response to the compressive forces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/142808 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/72 |
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| US 07298491 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Olson (Glendale, Arizona); Charles H. Lange (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) includes a sensing coil with a particular magnetic sensitivity magnitude and direction with respect to the geometric axis of the sensing coil. The FOG also includes a plurality of magnetic compensators. Each magnetic compensator is fabricated so as to have a particular magnetic sensitivity magnitude and direction, the magnitude being comparable to that of the sensing coil, with large tolerances relative to the magnitude and direction. The compensators are positioned relative to one another and to the sensing coil such that the combined magnetic sensitivities of the compensators cancel the magnetic sensitivity of the sensing coil. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010217 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/460 |
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| US 07298548 | Mian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corp. (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution for directing electromagnetic radiation, such as visible light, from multiple fields of view in differing directions to a single view point is provided. The radiation received from one or more fields of view is directed onto a first reflective surface, the radiation reflected off of the first reflective surface is then directed to a view point that comprises a transparent portion of the first reflective surface. In this manner, the invention enables the viewing and/or imaging of the radiation from any location in the full panorama at a single location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205242 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/366 |
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| US 07298555 | Capps |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. David Capps (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the system serves as a transmitter and comprises an optics system; a plurality of source elements positioned on the focal plane; and, a small angle beam steerer. The plurality of source elements are each capable of providing a point source of radiation to the optics system. The optics system provides a collimated output. The small angle beam steerer receives the collimated output and redirects the collimated output through a small angular deviation. The redirected output is thus transmitted in a desired direction without a need for mechanical gimbals and is capable of covering a large angular range with respect to the optical axis of the optics system. The system can also be implemented as a receiver. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/021185 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/618 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen Kim (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A latch driver circuit is provided as a local oscillator driver for driving a passive mixer of an RF receiver. The driver circuit includes a differential amplifier stage coupled to a supply and a biasing circuit. The amplifier stage is operative to receive and process first and second input signals from a local oscillator for providing first and second amplified signals. The driver circuit further includes a latch stage coupled to the differential amplifier stage, which is operative to receive and process the first and second amplified signals for providing latched versions thereof. A filtering stage of the latch driver circuit is operative to receive and filter the latched versions of the first and second amplified signals for providing first and second mixer signals. Each of the first and second mixer signals includes signal content associated with a fundamental frequency particularly tuned for driving the passive mixer circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041183 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/318 |
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| US 07299089 | Wolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick D. Wolf (Durham, North Carolina); Deborah S. Won (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting neural signal information. Methods, systems, and computer programs products are disclosed for neural channel selection in a multi-channel system. A method according to one embodiment can include a step for receiving a plurality of neural signals on a first plurality of channels. The method can also include a step for calculating criterion variable value for the neural signal on each of the channels. In addition, the method can include a step for ranking the channels by the criterion variable value. The method can also include a step for calculating mutual information between a measured output and a total population activity for the first plurality of channels. Further, the method can include a step for determining a second plurality of channels that encodes a predetermined amount of the mutual information. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922752 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/545 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elan Moritz (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Event data associated with possible terrorist activities occurring at geographically-dispersed locations is monitored and analyzed. Event data collected from the locations is delineated by one or more data classes. Statistical analyses performed on the event data are based on one of a number of unique time periods or blocks. Results of the statistical analyses are used in the performance of a number of correlations in order to identify patterns occurring in the data classes and/or correlations between the data classes. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962817 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07299219 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob William Green (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); John Lane Schultz (Whiteford, Maryland); Yair Amir (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael Truman Goodrich (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for maximal gathering of fresh information added to a network such as the as the Internet and for processing the gathered fresh information. A link server (2) sends a batch of links to check (3) to a crawler (1B). Crawler (1B) them executes its crawling assignment by filtering the encountered content and extracting only that which is new or changed (4). Crawler (1B) then returns this content (4) to at least one data center and any interested web mining application (5). By using the crawlers (1A-E) to filter the data and only return or notify regarding, the fresh content, less bandwidth is needed to get the information to the web mining application (5). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/257255 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/2 |
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| US 07299364 | Noble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Noble (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark D. Corner (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Two embodiments of a method and system to maintain application data secure and authentication token for use therein are provided. The present invention uses transient authentication, in which a small hardware token continuously authenticates the user's presence over a short-range, wireless link. Four principles underlying transient authentication are described as well as the two embodiments for securing applications. In the first embodiment, applications are protected transparently by encrypting in-memory state when the user departs and decrypting this state when the user returns. This technique is effective, requiring just seconds to protect and restore an entire machine. In the second embodiment, applications utilize an API for transient authentication, protecting only sensitive state. Ports of three applications, PGP, SSH, and Mozilla are described with respect to this API. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608459 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark Alan Kliewer (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Zagzebski (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Elastography is used to examine soft tissue of the uterus to detect tumors and to evaluate the strength of the cervix of the uterus based on its elastographic properties. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420125 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297329 | Akashi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Koichi Akashi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Irving L. Weissman (Redwood City, California); Motonari Kondo (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially enriched mammalian hematopoietic cell subpopulation is provided, which is characterized by progenitor cell activity for lymphoid lineages, but lacking the potential to differentiate into myeloid and erythroid lineages. Methods are provided for the isolation and culture of this common lymphoid progenitor cell (CLP). The cell enrichment methods employ reagents that specifically recognize CDw127 (IL-7 receptor α); CD117 (c-kit) protein, in conjunction with other markers expressed on lineage committed cells. The murine cells are also characterized as expressing low levels of sca-1 (Ly-6E and Ly-6A). The CLPs are predominantly cycling, blast cells. These cells give rise to B cells, T cells and natural killer cells, as evidenced by their growth and differentiation in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093951 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07297335 | Rosenblum |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Rosenblum (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel immunotoxins and methods of treating neoplastic diseases. These immunotoxins are comprised of a conjugation of an antigen binding region exhibiting binding specificity for the CD33 protein and a cell growth modulator. The immunotoxins of the present invention specifically and selectively kill tumor cells that are characterized by the expression of CD33 antigen. Thus, the novel immunotoxins would be useful in treating human leukemias, both acute and chronic, and other myelodysplastic syndromes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386204 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297340 | Apicella |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Apicella (Solon, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compounds and methods for immunizing a patient against a biofilm-producing bacterial infection and a vaccine related thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753980 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/256.100 |
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| US 07297484 | Wittwer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Technology (Salt Lake City, Utah); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl T. Wittwer (Salt Lake City, Utah); C. Wade Dummer (Layton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method for characterizing nucleic acids. A nucleic acid is combined with a double stranded nucleic acid-specific dye to form a detectable complex between the dye and one or more double stranded structures within the nucleic acid. The combination is then exposed to varying temperatures and the fluorescence emission of the dye is measured to determine the melting temperature(s) for the double stranded structures. In some embodiments that melting temperature profile is then compared to melting temperature profiles generated for other nucleic acid(s) to discern differences between the compared nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423621 |
| 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 07297492 | Eriksson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Progeria Research Foundation, Inc. (Peabody, Massachusetts); Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Maria H. Eriksson (Solna, Sweden); Francis S. Collins (Rockville, Maryland); Leslie B. Gordon (Foxboro, Massachusetts); W. Ted Brown (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are point mutations in the LMNA gene that cause HGPS. These mutations activate a cryptic splice site within the LMNA gene, which leads to deletion of part of exon 11 and generation of a mutant Lamin A protein product that is 50 amino acids shorter than the normal protein. In addition to the novel Lamin A variant protein and nucleic acids encoding this variant, methods of using these molecules in detecting biological conditions associated with a LMNA mutation in a subject (e.g., HGPS, arteriosclerosis, and other age-related diseases), methods of treating such conditions, methods of selecting treatments, methods of screening for compounds that influence Lamin A activity, and methods of influencing the expression of LMNA or LMNA variants are also described. Oligonucleotides and other compounds for use in examples of the described methods are also provided, as are protein-specific binding agents, such as antibodies, that bind specifically to at least one epitope of a Lamin A variant protein preferentially compared to wildtype Lamin A, and methods of using such antibodies in diagnosis, treatment, and screening. Also provided are kits for carrying out the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943400 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07297493 | Lorenzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew V. Lorenzi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Toru Miki (North Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene designated as FRAG1 from and its encoded protein is disclosed. A fusion protein called FGFR2-ROS, which is formed by chromosomal rearrangement of rat FRAG1 with FGFR2 is also disclosed. Methods of producing FRAG1 protein, related fusion proteins, and antibodies against FRAG1 are disclosed, as are related pharmaceuticals and methods of using such nucleic acids, polypeptides, and antibodies are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993191 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07297514 | Downs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diana Downs (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeff A. Gralnick (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing superoxide damage to a cell is disclosed. In one embodiment, this method comprises the step of engineering the cell to produce more than a native amount of the YggX protein or its homolog, wherein the cells are rendered more resistant to superoxide damage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/955502 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07297518 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Quake (San Marino, California); Ido Braslavsky (Pasadena, California); Benedict Hebert (Pasadena, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and apparatus for analyzing polynucleotide sequences by asynchronous base extension. Some applications of the invention utilize total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to image polynucleotide molecules at single molecule resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/099459 |
| 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 |
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| US 07297532 | Puglisi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Puglisi (Stanford, California); Scott C. Blanchard (Palo Alto, California); Ruben L. Gonzalez (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Translationally competent ribosomes are bound to a solid substrate through a specific attachment site. A spatial array of such immobilized ribosomes may be produced on a planar substrate, microbeads, on fiber optics. One or more components of the ribosome complex are preferably labeled, e.g. with a fluorescent dye. Ribosomal RNAs, including mRNA and tRNA; and/or ribosomal proteins may be labeled at specific positions, and arrays of immobilized ribosomes may comprise a panel of different labels and positions of labels. Fluorescence detection can then be used to monitor conformational dynamics and translation rates. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/352504 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/317.100 |
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| US 07297536 | Harms et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome S. Harms (Madison, Wisconsin); Gary A. Splitter (Brooklyn, Wisconsin); Kurt A. Eakle (Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin); Robert D. Bremel (Hillpoint, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Inducible gene expression systems and a method thereof. A first inducible gene expression system includes a first vector comprising at least one retroviral promoter and at least one factor to induce the retroviral promoter. At least one gene product is expressed in proportion to retroviral promoter induction. The method includes providing a first vector comprising at least one retroviral promoter and providing at least one factor corresponding to the retroviral promoter. The retroviral promoter is induced with the at least one factor. At least one protein is expressed based on the induction of the retroviral promoter. A second inducing expression system includes a first vector comprising at least one retroviral promoter, an inducer for the retroviral promoter, and at least one protein expressed in proportion to retroviral promoter induction. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/763976 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07297542 | Curiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Curiel (Birmingham, Alabama); Victor N. Krasnykh (Birmingham, Alabama); Igor Dmitriev (Homewood, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides means to modify the tropism of recombinant adenoviral vectors using genetic methods to alter the adenoviral fiber cell-binding protein. The present invention generates an adenovirus with modified fiber gene such that novel tropism is achieved. This recombinant adenovirus has a fiber gene modified in the HI loop domain. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/245603 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/456 |
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| US 07297685 | Ferran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christiane Ferran (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Maria B. Arvelo (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features a novel method of treating vascular disease that involves modifying smooth muscle cells to express a gene encoding a protein having both anti-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic activity. Preferably, the protein of the invention also has an anti-proliferative effect in smooth muscle cells. In general, the method is useful in preparing vascularized organs and vessels for transplant into a patient. Alternatively, the present invention can be applied to treat atherosclerotic lesions in damaged vessels. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/461200 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07297762 | Shrader et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alanna Schepartz Shrader (Wilton, Connecticut); Jason W. K. Chin (San Diego, California); Reena Zutshi (New Haven, Connecticut); Stacey E. Rutledge (New Haven, Connecticut); Joanne D. Kehleck Martin (Guilderland, New York); Neal J. Zondlo (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a protein scaffold, such as an avian pancreatic polypeptide, that can be modified by substitution of two or more amino acid residues that are exposed on the alpha helix domain of the polypeptide when the polypeptide is in a tertiary form. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/840085 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297786 | McCray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. McCray (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Anthony J. Fischer (Iowa City, Iowa); Hong P. Jia (Iowa City, Iowa); Maureen D. Donovan (Swisher, Iowa); Patrick L. Sinn (Iowa City, Iowa); Mark Aaron Behlke (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to small interfering RNA molecules targeted against a gene of interest in respiratory epithelial cells, and methods of using these RNA molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179848 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297807 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathlyn Parker (Setauket, New York); Huanyan Cao (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to intermediate compounds of the formula wherein R1 is H or a protecting group, R2 and R3 each independently represent H, methyl, or a leaving group, provided that at least one, but not both, of R2 and R3 is a leaving group. The intermediate compounds are useful for the synthesis of discodermolide, its derivatives, and related compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421290 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297836 | Mucke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lennart Mucke (San Francisco, California); Jorge J. Palop (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of detecting an amyloid peptide-related neurological disorder in an individual; and methods for staging an amyloid peptide-related neurological disorder in an individual. The methods involve detecting a level of a calcium-responsive gene product, such as calbindin, in a hippocampal neuron, especially a granule cell of the dentate gyrus. The invention further provides identifying an agent that treats an amyloid peptide-related neurological disorder, as well as agents identified by the methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809777 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297837 | Nicolaides et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Nicolaides (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (BelAir, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Dominant negative alleles of human mismatch repair genes can be used to generate hypermutable cells and organisms. By introducing these genes into cells and transgenic animals, new cell lines and animal varieties with novel and useful properties can be prepared more efficiently than by relying on the natural rate of mutation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/558149 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297943 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Xuan-Qi Wang (Los Angeles, California); Amish Desai (Altadena, California); Terry D. Lee (San Diego, California); Lawrence Licklider (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS device with an overhanging ‘polymer’ capillary provides vital and significant improvements in interfacing a MEMS electrospray nozzle to an MS inlet or other macroscopic instrumentation. The fabrication methodology associated therewith is easily expanded to include built-in micro particle filters and centimeter long serpentine micro channels provided on-chip and fabricated using a low temperature process. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472392 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298144 | Reeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustee of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott B. Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin); Brian A. Hargreaves (San Francisco, California); Jean H. Brittain (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Homodyne image reconstruction is combined with an iterative decomposition of water and fat from MR signals obtained from a partial k-space signal acquisition in order to maximize the resolution of calculated water and fat images. The method includes asymmetrical acquisition of under-sampled MRI data, obtaining low resolution images, and then estimating a magnetic field map and phase maps of water and fat image signals from the low resolution images. The acquired data is again filtered and Fourier transformed to obtain an estimate of combined fat and water signals using the estimated magnetic field map and phase maps. Water and fat images are then estimated from which phases of the water and fat images are determined. The real parts of the water and fat images are then used in calculating water and fat images using a homodyne process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253825 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298820 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian A. Nelson (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation therapy system produces a treatment beam that is detected by an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) after it passes through the subject being treated. A chopper wheel modulates low energy components of the beam while leaving the higher energy components substantially unmodulated. Modulated components in the image signals produced by the EPID are detected and used to produce portal images. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394727 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298881 | Giger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maryellen L Giger (Elmhurst, Illinois); HuiHua Wen (Wilmette, Illinois); Li Lan (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer software product for correlating medical images, comprising: obtaining first image data representative of a first medical image including a first abnormality; obtaining second image data representative of a second medical image including a second abnormality; determining at least one feature value for each of the first and second abnormalities using the first and second image data; calculating, based on the determined feature values, a likelihood value indicative of a likelihood that the first and second abnormalities are a same abnormality; and outputting the determined likelihood value. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056368 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298883 | Giger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maryellen L Giger (Elmhurst, Illinois); Dacian Bonta (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme to aid in the detection, characterization, diagnosis, and/or assessment of normal and diseased states (including lesions and/or images). The scheme employs lesion features for characterizing the lesion and includes non-parametric classification, to aid in the development of CAD methods in a limited database scenario to distinguish between malignant and benign lesions. The non-parametric classification is robust to kernel size. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/724395 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07299088 | Thakor et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nitish V Thakor (Clarksville, Maryland); Anastasios Bezerianos (Patras, Greece); Feras Al Hatib (Irvine, California); Hasan Al-Nashash (Sharjah, U.A.E., Arab Emirates); Joseph Paul (Singapore, Singapore); David Sherman (Parkville, Maryland); Shanbao Tong (Baltimore, Maryland); Santosh Venkatesha (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include methods and apparatus for determining whether a neurological event has occurred in a subject. An apparatus includes at least one sensor adapted to sense electroencephalogram signals from the subject. The apparatus also includes an electroencephalogram acquisition module adapted to receive the electroencephalogram signals from at least one sensor, and a processing and analysis module adapted to receive signals from the electroencephalogram acquisition module and determine changes in neurological function using entropy analysis. |
| FILED | Sunday, June 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/452190 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07296458 | Dimeo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (New Fairfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A (MEMS)-based gas sensor assembly for detecting a fluorine-containing species in a gas containing same, e.g., an effluent of a semiconductor processing tool undergoing etch cleaning with HF, NF3, etc. Such gas sensor assembly in a preferred embodiment comprises a free-standing silicon carbide support structure having a layer of a gas sensing material, preferably nickel or nickel alloy, coated thereon. Such gas sensor assembly is preferably fabricated by micro-molding techniques employing sacrificial molds that are subsequently removable for forming structure layers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/784606 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297243 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Jacobson (Knoxville, Tennessee); J. Michael Ramsey (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated device employing a bridging membrane and methods for electrokinetic transport of a liquid phase biological or chemical material using the same are described. The bridging membrane is deployed in or adjacent to a microchannel and permits either ionic current flow or the transport of gas species, while inhibiting the bulk flow of material. The use of bridging membranes in accordance with this invention is applicable to a variety of processes, including electrokinetically induced pressure flow in a region of a microchannel that is not influenced by an electric field, sample concentration enhancement and injection, as well as improving the analysis of materials where it is desired to eliminate electrophoretic bias. Other applications of the bridging membranes according to this invention include the separation of species from a sample material, valving of fluids in a microchannel network, mixing of different materials in a microchannel, and the pumping of fluids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668930 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297246 | Patel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamlesh D. Patel (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for altering the surface properties of a particle bed. In application, the method pertains particularly to an electrokinetic pump configuration where nanoparticles are bonded to the surface of the stationary phase to alter the surface properties of the stationary phase including the surface area and/or the zeta potential and thus improve the efficiency and operating range of these pumps. By functionalizing the nanoparticles to change the zeta potential the electrokinetic pump is rendered capable of operating with working fluids having pH values that can range from 2-10 generally and acidic working fluids in particular. For applications in which the pump is intended to handle highly acidic solutions latex nanoparticles that are quaternary amine functionalized can be used. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830773 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297865 | Terao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akira Terao (Cupertino, California); Ralph Krippendorf (Stadtroda, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflector array comprises a plurality of partial parabolic reflectors arranged in rows and columns with each reflector directing radiation to a receiver or from a transmitter located at the focus of the reflector. In a compact photovoltaic cell arrangement, each cell is shielded from direct radiation by the adjacent reflector. The reflectors can be formed as one unit with reflective material or with the reflecting surfaces coated with aluminum, silver, or other suitable reflecting material. A secondary reflector can be positioned at the focus of a reflector for directing radiation to a receiver or from a transmitter located at a more accessible location in the array. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632625 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297868 | Bhattacharya |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Davis, Joseph and Negley (Mill Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raghu Nath Bhattacharya (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic cell exhibiting an overall conversion efficiency of at least 9.0% is prepared from a copper-indium-gallium-diselenide thin film. The thin film is prepared by simultaneously electroplating copper, indium, gallium, and selenium onto a substrate using a buffered electro-deposition bath. The electrodeposition is followed by adding indium to adjust the final stoichiometry of the thin film. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627322 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwok K. Ma (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite transistor is disclosed for use in radiation hardening a CMOS IC formed on an SOI or bulk semiconductor substrate. The composite transistor has a circuit transistor and a blocking transistor connected in series with a common gate connection. A body terminal of the blocking transistor is connected only to a source terminal thereof, and to no other connection point. The blocking transistor acts to prevent a single-event transient (SET) occurring in the circuit transistor from being coupled outside the composite transistor. Similarly, when a SET occurs in the blocking transistor, the circuit transistor prevents the SET from being coupled outside the composite transistor. N-type and P-type composite transistors can be used for each and every transistor in the CMOS IC to radiation harden the IC, and can be used to form inverters and transmission gates which are the building blocks of CMOS ICs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/358391 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298091 | Pickard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Pickard (Palo Alto, California); Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact matching network couples an RF power supply to an RF antenna in a plasma generator. The simple and compact impedance matching network matches the plasma load to the impedance of a coaxial transmission line and the output impedance of an RF amplifier at radio frequencies. The matching network is formed of a resonantly tuned circuit formed of a variable capacitor and an inductor in a series resonance configuration, and a ferrite core transformer coupled to the resonantly tuned circuit. This matching network is compact enough to fit in existing compact focused ion beam systems. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/060826 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.510 |
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| US 07298486 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Wang (Port Jefferson, New York); Pramod Kulkarni (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring aerosol size distribution within a sample containing aerosol particles. The device generally includes a spectrometer housing defining an interior chamber and a camera for recording aerosol size streams exiting the chamber. The housing includes an inlet for introducing a flow medium into the chamber in a flow direction, an aerosol injection port adjacent the inlet for introducing a charged aerosol sample into the chamber, a separation section for applying an electric field to the aerosol sample across the flow direction and an outlet opposite the inlet. In the separation section, the aerosol sample becomes entrained in the flow medium and the aerosol particles within the aerosol sample are separated by size into a plurality of aerosol flow streams under the influence of the electric field. The camera is disposed adjacent the housing outlet for optically detecting a relative position of at least one aerosol flow stream exiting the outlet and for optically detecting the number of aerosol particles within the at least one aerosol flow stream. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/026726 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298532 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clarence E. Thomas (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of writing a spatially heterodyne hologram having spatially heterodyne fringes includes: passing a single write beam through a spatial light modulator that digitally modulates said single write beam; and focusing the single write beam at a focal plane of a lens to impose a holographic diffraction grating pattern on the photorefractive crystal, the holographic diffraction grating pattern including the spatially heterodyne hologram having spatially heterodyne fringes, wherein only said single write beam is incident on said photorefractive crystal without a reference beam. A method of replaying a spatially heterodyne hologram having spatially heterodyne fringes at a replay angle includes: illuminating a photorefractive crystal having a holographic diffraction grating with a beam from a laser at an illumination angle, the holographic diffraction grating pattern including the spatially heterodyne hologram having spatially heterodyne fringes, wherein a difference between said illumination angle and said replay angle defines a diffraction angle α that is a function of a plane wave mathematically added to original object wave phase and amplitude data of said spatially heterodyne hologram having spatially heterodyne fringes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166859 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298947 | DeSanto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard DeSanto (Dunkirk, Maryland); James T. Veligdan (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical panel system including stackable waveguides is provided. The optical panel system displays a projected light image and comprises a plurality of planar optical waveguides in a stacked state. The optical panel system further comprises a support system that aligns and supports the waveguides in the stacked state. In one embodiment, the support system comprises at least one rod, wherein each waveguide contains at least one hole, and wherein each rod is positioned through a corresponding hole in each waveguide. In another embodiment, the support system comprises at least two opposing edge structures having the waveguides positioned therebetween, wherein each opposing edge structure contains a mating surface, wherein opposite edges of each waveguide contain mating surfaces which are complementary to the mating surfaces of the opposing edge structures, and wherein each mating surface of the opposing edge structures engages a corresponding complementary mating surface of the opposite edges of each waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714338 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Allen Northrup (Berkeley, California); Richard M. White (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated microfabricated instrument for manipulation, reaction and detection of microliter to picoliter samples. The instrument is suited for biochemical reactions, particularly DNA-based reactions such as the polymerase chain reaction, that require thermal cycling since the inherently small size of the instrument facilitates rapid cycle times. The integrated nature of the instrument provides accurate, contamination-free processing. The instrument may include reagent reservoirs, agitators and mixers, heaters, pumps, and optical or electromechanical sensors. Ultrasonic Lamb-wave devices may be used as sensors, pumps and agitators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/482933 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297494 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Bao (Mableton, Georgia); Nitin Nitin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Probes for detecting a target polynucleotide are provided. One aspect provides a molecular beacon probe set wherein the donor molecular beacon comprises a quantum dot and an acceptor molecular beacon comprises at least one reporter. The probes optionally comprise a protein transduction domain, targeting signal, or a combination thereof. Methods for detecting target polynucleotides using the disclosed probes are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041103 |
| 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 |
07297619 — System and method for making nanoparticles using atmospheric-pressure plasma microreactor
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Mohan Sankaran (Cleveland, Ohio); Konstantinos P. Giapis (Pasadena, California); Richard C. Flagan (Pasadena, California); Dean Holunga (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for making nanoparticles. The system includes a first cathode including a first metal tube associated with a first end and a second end, a first anode including a second metal tube associated with a third end and a fourth end, and a first container including a first gas inlet. The first end and the third end are located inside the first container. The first end and the third end are separated by a first gap, the first metal tube is configured to allow a first gas to flow from the second end to the first end, and the first container is configured to allow a second gas to flow from the first gas inlet into the second metal tube through at least a first part of the first gap. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123884 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297990 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Berger (Columbus, Ohio); Phillip E. Thompson (Springfield, Virginia); Niu Jin (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon-based interband tunneling diode (10, 110) includes a degenerate p-type doping (22, 130) of acceptors, a degenerate n-type doping (32, 118) of donors disposed on a first side of the degenerate p-type doping (22, 130), and a barrier silicon-germanium layer (20, 136) disposed on a second side of the degenerate p-type doping (22, 130) opposite the first side. The barrier silicon-germanium layer (20, 136) suppresses diffusion of acceptors away from a p/n junction defined by the degenerate p-type and n-type dopings (22, 32, 118, 130). |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/903442 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298497 | Millerd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MetroLaser, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Millerd (Aliso Viego, California); Neal J. Brock (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for splitting, imaging, and measuring wavefronts with a reference wavefront and an object wavefront. A wavefront-combining element receives and combines into a combined wavefront an object wavefront from an object and a reference wavefront. A wavefront-splitting element splits the combined wavefront into a plurality of sub-wavefronts in such a way that each of the sub-wavefronts is substantially contiguous with at least one other sub-wavefront. The wavefront-splitting element may shift the relative phase between the reference wavefront and the object wavefront of the sub-wavefronts to yield a respective plurality of phase-shifted sub-wavefronts. The wavefront-splitting element may then interfering the reference and object wavefronts of the phase-shifted sub-wavefronts to yield a respective plurality of phase-shifted interferograms. An imaging element receives and images the phase-shifted interferograms. A computer connected to the imaging element measures various parameters of the objects based on the phase-shifted interferograms. Examples of measurements include flow parameters such as the concentrations of selected gaseous species, temperature distributions, particle and droplet distributions, density, and so on. In addition to flow parameters, the displacement (e.g., the vibration) and the profile of an object may be measured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/349843 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07299089 | Wolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick D. Wolf (Durham, North Carolina); Deborah S. Won (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting neural signal information. Methods, systems, and computer programs products are disclosed for neural channel selection in a multi-channel system. A method according to one embodiment can include a step for receiving a plurality of neural signals on a first plurality of channels. The method can also include a step for calculating criterion variable value for the neural signal on each of the channels. In addition, the method can include a step for ranking the channels by the criterion variable value. The method can also include a step for calculating mutual information between a measured output and a total population activity for the first plurality of channels. Further, the method can include a step for determining a second plurality of channels that encodes a predetermined amount of the mutual information. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922752 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/545 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07299280 | Gerla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of University of California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Gerla (Santa Monica, California); M. Yahya Sanadidi (Santa Monica, California); Claudio E. Casetti (Turin, Italy); Saverio Mascolo (Irsina, Italy); Scott Lee (Whittier, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for congestion control of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection. A TCP source monitors received acknowledgments (ACKs) and uses header information associated with the ACKs to determine an amount of data delivered at a TCP receiver. The amount of delivered data, divided by the time requited to deliver the data, gives a measure of instant data rate. The instant data rate is input to a filtering and averaging process to generate an estimate of the end-to-end bandwidth share or data rate of the connection. For the entire duration of the connection, the TCP source updates its estimate of the end-to-end bandwidth share every time an ACK is received. The estimate of the end-to-end bandwidth share is used the reset a congestion window and a slow start threshold whenever packet loss is indicated such as whenever a timeout expires or whenever three (3) duplicate ACKs are received. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272646 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07299364 | Noble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Noble (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark D. Corner (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Two embodiments of a method and system to maintain application data secure and authentication token for use therein are provided. The present invention uses transient authentication, in which a small hardware token continuously authenticates the user's presence over a short-range, wireless link. Four principles underlying transient authentication are described as well as the two embodiments for securing applications. In the first embodiment, applications are protected transparently by encrypting in-memory state when the user departs and decrypting this state when the user returns. This technique is effective, requiring just seconds to protect and restore an entire machine. In the second embodiment, applications utilize an API for transient authentication, protecting only sensitive state. Ports of three applications, PGP, SSH, and Mozilla are described with respect to this API. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/608459 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07297368 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ultramet (Pacoima, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Williams (Camarillo, California); Robert Benander (Sylmar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a carbon fiber-carbon matrix reinforced ceramic composite wherein the result is a carbon fiber-carbon matrix reinforcement is embedded within a ceramic matrix. The ceramic matrix does not penetrate into the carbon fiber-carbon matrix reinforcement to any significant degree. The carbide matrix is a formed in situ solid carbide of at least one metal having a melting point above about 1850 degrees centigrade. At least when the composite is intended to operate between approximately 1500 and 2000 degrees centigrade for extended periods of time the solid carbide with the embedded reinforcement is formed first by reaction infiltration. Molten silicon is then diffused into the carbide. The molten silicon diffuses preferentially into the carbide matrix but not to any significant degree into the carbon-carbon reinforcement. Where the composite is intended to operate between approximately 2000 and 2700 degrees centigrade for extended periods of time such diffusion of molten silicon into the carbide is optional and generally preferred, but not essential. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824746 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297621 | Brandon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik Brandon (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). More specifically, the present invention relates to employing a flexible, conductive particle-polymer composite material for ohmic contacts (i.e. drain and source). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826140 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298547 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NP Photonics Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Arizona); Jihong Geng (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A 2-μm fiber Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) source provides a wide emission bandwidth and improved spectral stability/purity for a given output power. The fiber ASE source is formed from a heavy metal oxide multicomponent glass selected from germanate, tellurite and bismuth oxides and doped with high concentrations, 0.5-15 wt. %, thulium oxides (Tm2O3) or 0.1-5 wt% holmium oxides (Ho2O3) or mixtures thereof. The high concentration of thulium dopants provide highly efficient pump absorption and high quantum efficiency. Co-doping of Tm and Ho can broaden the ASE spectrum. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517164 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298768 | Jiang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NP Photonics, Inc (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A heavy metal oxide glass selected from germanate, tellurite and bismuth oxide glasses provides a host for highly efficient Thulium doped 2 μm oxide glass and fiber lasers. The concentration of Thulium ions is high enough that energy transferred by the phenomenon of cross-relaxation will enhance laser emission at 2 μm and suppress emission at 1.5 μm so that 2 μm emission is dominant. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990869 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07298897 | Dominguez 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) | Jesus A. Dominguez (Orlando, Florida); Steven J. Klinko (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for finding an optimal threshold for binarization of a gray scale image employs fuzzy reasoning. A triangular membership function is employed which is dependent on the degree to which the pixels in the image belong to either the foreground class or the background class. Use of a simplified linear fuzzy entropy factor function facilitates short execution times and use of membership values between 0.0 and 1.0 for improved accuracy. To improve accuracy further, the membership function employs lower and upper bound gray level limits that can vary from image to image and are selected to be equal to the minimum and the maximum gray levels, respectively, that are present in the image to be converted. To identify the optimal binarization threshold, an iterative process is employed in which different possible thresholds are tested and the one providing the minimum fuzzy entropy measure is selected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779551 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07299280 | Gerla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of University of California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Gerla (Santa Monica, California); M. Yahya Sanadidi (Santa Monica, California); Claudio E. Casetti (Turin, Italy); Saverio Mascolo (Irsina, Italy); Scott Lee (Whittier, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for congestion control of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection. A TCP source monitors received acknowledgments (ACKs) and uses header information associated with the ACKs to determine an amount of data delivered at a TCP receiver. The amount of delivered data, divided by the time requited to deliver the data, gives a measure of instant data rate. The instant data rate is input to a filtering and averaging process to generate an estimate of the end-to-end bandwidth share or data rate of the connection. For the entire duration of the connection, the TCP source updates its estimate of the end-to-end bandwidth share every time an ACK is received. The estimate of the end-to-end bandwidth share is used the reset a congestion window and a slow start threshold whenever packet loss is indicated such as whenever a timeout expires or whenever three (3) duplicate ACKs are received. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272646 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07296458 | Dimeo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (New Fairfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A (MEMS)-based gas sensor assembly for detecting a fluorine-containing species in a gas containing same, e.g., an effluent of a semiconductor processing tool undergoing etch cleaning with HF, NF3, etc. Such gas sensor assembly in a preferred embodiment comprises a free-standing silicon carbide support structure having a layer of a gas sensing material, preferably nickel or nickel alloy, coated thereon. Such gas sensor assembly is preferably fabricated by micro-molding techniques employing sacrificial molds that are subsequently removable for forming structure layers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/784606 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07296460 | Dimeo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Michele Stawasz (Bethel, Connecticut); Thomas H. Baum (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Mackenzie E. King (Southbury, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey F. Roeder (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas detector and process for detecting a fluorine-containing species in a gas containing same, e.g., an effluent of a semiconductor processing tool undergoing etch cleaning with HF, NF3, etc. The detector in a preferred structural arrangement employs a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based device structure and/or a free-standing metal element that functions as a sensing component and optionally as a heat source when elevated temperature sensing is required. The free-standing metal element can be fabricated directly onto a standard chip carrier/device package so that the package becomes a platform of the detector. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057594 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297399 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Zhang (Schenectady, New York); Sandeep Shrikant Tonapi (Niskayuna, New York); Ryan Christopher Mills (Rexford, New York); Arun Virupaksha Gowda (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal transport structure having a thermal transport layer and a resin layer is provided. The thermal transport layer may include a first surface and a second surface, and having a thermally conductive material disposed in the thermal transport layer, where the thermally conductive material is oriented in a predetermined direction in order to facilitate heat conduction relative to the predetermined direction. Further, the resin layer is secured to the thermal transport layer second surface, where the resin layer is relatively less thermally conductive than the thermal transport layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247114 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07297500 | Hsieh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn University, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh (Auburn, Alabama); Fur-Chi Chen (Montgomery, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Monoclonal antibodies are provided which bind to heat-treated proteins of meats. The antibodies are useful in detecting the presence of an exogenous meat in a cooked or raw meat sample. Furthermore, the antibodies can be used to determine the end point temperature of a meat sample. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/077020 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07297613 | Mountain |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Jerome Mountain (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of making an integrated passive, such as a high quality decoupling capacitor, includes providing a first temporary support, a silicon capacitor wafer, and providing an oxide layer and a conductive layer on it. Then, a second temporary support, such as a handle wafer, may be attached to the capacitor wafer (i.e., to the oxide layer on it) by an adhesive bond. The capacitor wafer may then be destructively removed. A second conductive layer is then provided on an exposed backside of the oxide layer. The addition of a second electrode on the second conductive layer yields the desired high quality capacitor. Further processing steps, such as solder bumping, may be carried out while the capacitor wafer is still attached to the handle wafer. When the desired processing steps are complete, the handle wafer is removed, and the relatively thin high quality integrated capacitor wafer results. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/149029 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07298548 | Mian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corp. (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution for directing electromagnetic radiation, such as visible light, from multiple fields of view in differing directions to a single view point is provided. The radiation received from one or more fields of view is directed onto a first reflective surface, the radiation reflected off of the first reflective surface is then directed to a view point that comprises a transparent portion of the first reflective surface. In this manner, the invention enables the viewing and/or imaging of the radiation from any location in the full panorama at a single location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205242 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07297489 | Keating et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Keating (Brookline, Massachusetts); Igor Splawski (Alston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the determination of the genomic structure of HERG which is a gene associated with long QT syndrome. The sequences of the 15 intron/exon junctions has been determined and this information is useful in devising primers for amplifying and sequencing across all of the exons of the gene. This is useful for determining the presence or absence of mutations which are known to cause long QT syndrome. Also disclosed are many new mutations in HERG which have been found to be associated with long QT syndrome. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/696708 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07297820 | Kung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to labeled compounds, and methods of making labeled compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218587 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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