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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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| US 07302744 | Huang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dehua Huang (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method that involves establishing the performance level of a proposed acoustic transducer array. Deriving a geometric shape for the array based on the established performance level. Selecting piezoceramic materials based on considerations related to the performance level and derived geometry. Forming small primary shapes of the selected piezoceramic materials for use as the basic elements of the larger derived geometric shape of the array. Arranging the basic elements into a mosaic of the larger derived geometric shape. Filling the interstices between the basic elements with urethane to bind the mosaic of basic elements thereby fabricating the completed piezoceramic transducer array. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076111 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07302856 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly sensitive and ultra-high density array of electromechanical nanowires is fabricated. Nanowires are extremely sensitive to the strain induced by the attachment of biological and chemical species. Real-time detection is realized through piezoresistive transduction from the specially designed materials that form the nanowires. These specially designed materials include doped silicon or germanium, doped III-V semiconductors such as GaAs, GaN and InAs systems, and ultra-thin metal films. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826007 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303383 | Sreenivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Matthew E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an imprint lithography system for impinging a flux of light upon a liquid to polymerize the liquid, the system including, a source of light producing the flux of light; and a template having overlay marks being disposed between the liquid and the source of light and being opaque to the flux of light, with a pitch of the overlay marks establishing a polarization of the flux of light such that the flux of light impinges upon and polymerizes the liquid in superimposition with the overlay marks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864214 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/174.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303598 | Namazian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Altex Technologies (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehdi Namazian (Palo Alto, California); John T. Kelly (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and process for reformulating liquid fuel. In one step of the process the fuel is fractionated into light and heavy fractionates. The light fractionate is then reformed in a steam reformer into a reformed fuel that is suitable for use in fuel cells or other energy-producing devices. The heavy fractionate is burned with a part of the resulting heat used in the reforming step. In one embodiment the light fractionate is desulfurized before entering the reforming step. In another embodiment the heavy fractionate is directed into a holding vessel for subsequent use as a fuel which is suitable for burning to produce heat or other energy. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796592 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303638 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Olaf Hansen (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David William Anderson (Cromwell, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for enhancing the cold-formability of Ti 6-2-4-2 sheet material are described herein. Embodiments of these methods comprise cold-forming a predetermined, pretreated Ti 6-2-4-2 alloy into a cold-formed shape; subjecting the cold-formed shape to a post-forming annealing cycle comprising: heating the cold-formed shape to about 1450±25 ° F.; holding the cold-formed shape at about 1450±25° F. for about 15±2 minutes; and cooling the cold-formed shape to room temperature. Embodiments of these methods further comprise subjecting the predetermined Ti 6-2-4-2 alloy to a pre-forming annealing cycle comprising: heating the predetermined alloy to a pre-forming annealing temperature of about 1550-1750° F.; holding the predetermined alloy at the pre-forming annealing temperature for about 30 minutes; and cooling the predetermined alloy to room temperature. These methods allow components comprising 90° bend angles, having a bend factor as low as about 6.2 T, to be achieved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847740 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303684 | Cha |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Yul Cha (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | An economically viable process for the microwave destruction of contaminated water-based liquids, such as by chemical and biological agents, employs carbonaceous materials to enhance the efficiency of the microwaves while keeping the bulk temperature down to only a modest rise. A second absorption reactor is used not employing microwaves. The cyclic microwave use of both reactors allows high efficiency for the total process of destruction—adsorption. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754294 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/694 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303700 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Miller (Chandler, Arizona); Timothy J. Krey (Phoenix, Arizona); Donald J. Bridges (Mesa, Arizona); James L. Melquist (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically clear structural laminate includes a thermosetting resin, a silane coupling agent and a filler. The laminate has a high weight to strength ratio and is capable of optical transmission over a wide range of temperatures. The laminate has increased tensile strength and is capable of being easily formed into complex shaped components. The structural properties of the laminate make it useful as aircraft canopies and windows. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931781 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/1.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303752 | Hotez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Hotez (Rockville, Maryland); James Ashcom (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Mahnaz Bdamchian (Reston, Virginia); Bin Zhan (North Potomac, Maryland); Yan Wang (Rockville, Maryland); John Hawdon (Bowie, Maryland); Alexander Loukas (The Gap QLD, Australia); Angela Williamson (Toowong QLD, Australia); Brian Jones (Shelton, Connecticut); Jeffrey Bethony (Washington, District of Columbia); Gaddam Goud (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Maria Elena Bottazzi (Washington, District of Columbia); Susana Mendez (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Preparations which elicit an immune response to hookworm antigens and which may be utilized as hookworm vaccines are provided. In addition, a method of increasing the effectiveness of vaccinations against infectious diseases in patients infected with hookworm is provided. The method involves chemically treating the hookworm infestation prior to administering the vaccine. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825692 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303754 | Moss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Patricia L. Earl (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Linda Wyatt (Rockville, Maryland); Leigh Anne Eller (Kampala, Uganda); Thomas C. VanCott (Brookeville, Maryland); Matthew Edward Harris (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides modified virus Ankara (MVA), a replication-deficient strain of vaccinia virus, expressing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) env, gag, and pol genes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/238155 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303759 | Mershon |
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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) | Millard Marsden Mershon (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein relates to methods for reducing and/or stopping bleeding or fluid loss from open wound, denuded tissue, or burned skin, comprising the step of applying to the open wound, denuded tissue or burned skin a gel-forming composition comprising at least one of the following compositions: a polyacrylic acid having the structural formula [CH2═CHCO2H]n, where n is between 10,000 and 70,000; a polyacrylic acid and a desiccated water soluble organic or inorganic base; polyacrylic acid and a desiccated poorly soluble basic salt, and a polyvinyl alcohol having the structural formula of [CH2═CHOH]n, where n is between 15,000 and 150,000. When the gel-forming composition is applied to the open wound, denuded tissue, or burned skin, its ions react therein in the presence of water from blood or body fluid therein to form an aqueous gel or mucilage having sufficient viscosity and adhesiveness to cover and adhere to the open wound, denuded tissue, or burned skin so that bleeding or fluid loss is thereby reduced and/or stopped. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178448 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303860 | Vogeli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernhard Vogeli (Boston, Massachusetts); Timothy A. Savas (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Caroline A. Ross (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-fabricated structure and method of forming a micro-fabricated structure are disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming a first pattern in a first photo-resist, transferring the first pattern in the first photo-resist to a mask layer, forming a second pattern in a second photo-resist, and transferring the second pattern in the second photo-resist to the mask layer. In various embodiments, the method may further include the steps of forming a first pattern in a first photo-resist, forming a second pattern in a second photo-resist, and transferring the first and second patterns to a target layer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/313309 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303872 | Sussman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Sussman (Madison, Wisconsin); Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter J. Belshaw (Madison, Wisconsin); James H. Kaysen (Madison, Wisconsin); Kathryn Richmond (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for the direct synthesis of double stranded DNA molecules of a variety of sizes and with any desired sequence. The DNA molecule to be synthesis is logically broken up into smaller overlapping DNA segments. A maskless microarray synthesizer is used to make a DNA microarray on a substrate in which each element or feature of the array is populated by DNA of a one of the overlapping DNA segments. The complement of each segment is also made in the microarray. The DNA segments are released from the substrate and held under conditions favoring hybridization of DNA, under which conditions the segments will hybridize to form duplexes. The duplexes are then separated using a DNA binding agent which binds to improperly formed DNA helixes to remove errors from the set of DNA molecules. The segments can then be hybridized to each other to assemble the larger target DNA sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376720 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303898 | Hurtado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alicia Hurtado (New York, New York); Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are new defective Sindbis viral vectors made from wild type Ar-339 Sindbis virus, with differences in replicase and envelope proteins between JT vectors and consensus Sindbis virus sequences, and also between JT and Ar-339 vectors. Also disclosed are plasmids used for the production of the vectors, methods for producing the vectors, methods for treating mammals suffering from tumors and pharmaceutical formulations for use in the treatment methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/392926 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303969 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Berger (Newark, Delaware); Phillip E. Thompson (Springfield, Virginia); Roger Lake (Dallas, Texas); Karl Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Sean L. Rommel (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Interband tunnel diodes which are compatible with Si-based processes such as, but not limited to, CMOS and SiGe HBT fabrication. Interband tunnel diodes are disclosed (i) with spacer layers surrounding a tunnel barrier; (ii) with a quantum well adjacent to, but not necessarily in contact with, one of the injectors, and (iii) with a first quantum well adjacent to, but not necessarily in contact with, the bottom injector and a second quantum well adjacent to, but not necessarily in contact with, the top injector. Process parameters include temperature process for growth, deposition or conversion of the tunnel diode and subsequent thermal cycling which to improve device benchmarks such as peak current density and the peak-to-valley current ratio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/934334 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304103 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jeffrey L. Bahr (Houston, Texas); Jiping Yang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention incorporates new processes for blending derivatized carbon nanotubes into polymer matrices to create new polymer/composite materials. When modified with suitable chemical groups using diazonium chemistry, the nanotubes can be made chemically compatible with a polymer matrix, allowing transfer of the properties of the nanotubes (such as mechanical strength) to the properties of the composite material as a whole. To achieve this, the derivatized (modified) carbon nanotubes are physically blended with the polymeric material, and/or, if desired, allowed to react at ambient or elevated temperature. These methods can be utilized to append functionalities to the nanotubes that will further covalently bond to the host polymer matrix, or directly between two tubes themselves. Furthermore, the nanotubes can be used as a generator of polymer growth, wherein the nanotubes are derivatized with a functional group that is an active part of a polymerization process, which would also result in a composite material in which the carbon nanotubes are chemically involved. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632284 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304164 | Damavarapu 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) | Reddy Damavarapu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); C. Rao Surapaneni (Long Valley, New Jersey); Nathaniel Gelber (Randolph, New Jersey); Raja G. Duddu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); MaoXi Zhang (Flanders, New Jersey); Paritosh R. Dave (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | 1-Methyl-2,4,5-Trinitroimidazole is synthesized starting from 4-nitroimidazole using stepwise nitration method and further methylation using Dimethylsulphate. It is relatively insensitive to impact and its thermal stability is excellent. The calculated detonation properties indicate that its performance is about 30% better than TATB. It can be prepared easily, with reasonable yield, starting from commercially available Imidazole. Results from impact sensitivity, friction sensitivity, time-to-explosion temperature and vacuum stability tests indicate that it is less sensitive than both RDX and HMX. The good oxygen balance and measured heat of formation data of this material indicate that its propellant performance should be good. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/549146 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/327.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304288 | Aldrich 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) | Robert C. Aldrich (King George, Virginia); Wesley J. Marshall (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Pulses of optical radiation are counted by a pulse counter in a way representative of its effects on tissue. An analog to digital converter digitizes detected optical radiation pulses and an integrator integrates the digitally detected pluses. The integrator has a time constant characteristic sufficient to combine digitally detected pluses that are close enough together so that they are effectively one pulse with respect to tissue exposure limits. The integrator can be programmable to a particular time constant based on a thermal confinement duration of human tissue and wavelength of laser pulses. A counter circuit counts pulses, and a display displays the counted pulses. A capture circuit enables counting the number of pulses occurring within a capture duration by the counter circuit. The analog to digital converter can be configured to a sensitivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178664 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304298 | Swenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Dakota State University (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orven F. Swenson (Fargo, North Dakota); Feng Hong (Potsdam, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoemissive ion mobility spectrometer is disclosed for of chlorinated hydrocarbons and nitro-organic materials. Backside illumination of a thin gold film by pulsed laser radiation, pulsed ultraviolet xenon flashlamp, or like UV source, is used to produce bursts of low energy photo-emitted electrons. These swarms of thermalized electrons are directly attached by electronegative analytes or by reactant molecules, followed by charge transfer to the more electronegative analyte. Total internal reflection is incorporated for the backside illumination using optical elements such as a fused silica prism. The spectrometer allows for the direct vaporization of adsorbed explosive molecules from surfaces followed by direct injection into the photoemissive ion mobility spectrometer through a heated inlet. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491508 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304334 | Agarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Sumithra Krishnaswami (Morrisville, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina); Edward Harold Hurt (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) are provided including silicon carbide (SiC) substrates. An epitaxial SiC base region is provided on the SiC substrate. The epitaxial SiC base region has a first conductivity type. An epitaxial SiC emitter region is also provided on the SiC substrate. The epitaxial SiC emitter region has a second conductivity type, different from the first conductivity type. The epitaxial SiC emitter region has first and second portions. The first portion is provided on the SiC substrate and the second portion is provided on the first portion. The second portion has a higher carrier concentration than the first portion. Related methods of fabricating BJTs are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229474 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304363 | Shah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pankaj B. Shah (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique of spreading current flowing in a semiconductor device comprising an electrode, a drift region adjacent to the electrode, a junction termination extension implant region in the drift region, and a current spreader adjacent to the junction termination extension implant region and the electrode. The current spreader is adapted to reduce current densities and electrostatic fields (preferably simultaneously) in an area connecting the electrode with the drift region. Moreover, the current spreader is adapted to spread current flowing from the electrode into the drift region. The semiconductor device further comprises an ohmic metal contact connected to the electrode and an implant pocket in the drift region, wherein the implant pocket is adapted for terminating electrostatic field lines in the semiconductor device. Preferably, the current spreader comprises an ohmic metal and the electrode comprises any of an anode and a cathode. |
| FILED | Friday, November 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997484 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304607 | Miyamoto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawai'i (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Y. Miyamoto (Honolulu, Hawaii); Wayne A. Shiroma (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Grant S. Shiroma (Hilo, Hawaii); Blaine T. Murakami (Mililani, Hawaii); Aaron Ohta (Honolulu, Hawaii); Michael Tamamoto (Mililani, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S/N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. One mobile may send a broadcast interrogator signal, causing the other mobile devices to send a reply signal back to the interrogating mobile device only in the direction of the interrogating mobile device, such that each of the other mobile devices identifies its position to only the interrogating mobile device in response to its broadcast interrogator signal. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296240 |
| 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 342/370 |
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| US 07304645 | Blask et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourn, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Blask (Melbourne, Florida); Tim Faulkner (Palm Bay, Florida); Mark Rahmes (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises loading LADAR point data into a three-dimensional voxel array as a plurality of components (304); determining connected components in the array (306); determining a size for each component and a hit count of occupied voxels (316); and determining whether each occupied voxel is to be written to an output file (312), wherein occupied voxels are written (312) to the output file according to a set of criteria based on statistics for determining when a voxel represents a light pulse reflected by a physical object. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892055 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304732 | Polcawich 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) | Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland); Paul Pellegrino (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) cell is fabricated using microelectromechanical (MEMS) techniques. The multi-layer structure includes an inner layer with a patterned resonant cavity disposed between top and bottom outer layers and a microphone acoustically coupled to the resonant cavity. In the preferred embodiment, the microphone is a piezoelectric thin-film membrane formed on one of the outer layers. The inner layer is additionally patterned to include buffer cavities on either side of the resonant cavity, and one or both of the top and bottom outer layers are also patterned to include buffer cavities aligned with the buffer cavities in the inner layer on either side of the resonant cavity. The preferred fabrication method involves joining an inner silicon substrate to a pair of outer silicon substrates, thereby encapsulating the resonant cavity, and depositing a piezoelectric thin film onto one of the outer substrates which is then patterned to create an acoustic sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/716748 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
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| US 07304742 | Gurton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristan P. Gurton (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of photoacoustic devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. One device embodiment, among others, comprises a flow-through configuration for a test sample gas and a modular set of two or more solid-state or gaseous based lasers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246291 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
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| US 07304781 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie J. Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Carlos Fernando Rondina Mateus (San Jose De Campos, Brazil); Michael Chung-Yi Huang (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sub-wavelength grating structure that has a very broad reflection spectrum and very high reflectivity comprising segments made of high refractive index material disposed on a layer of low refractive index material and a low refractive index material disposed above and between the segments. The index differential between the high and low index materials determines the bandwidth and modulation depth. The larger difference in refractive indices gives rise to wider reflection bands. The reflection is sensitive to parameters such as the grating period, the grating thickness, the duty cycle of the grating, the refractive index and the thickness of the low index layer underneath the grating. The design is scalable for different wavelengths, and facilitates monolithic integration of optoelectronic devices at a wide range of wavelengths from visible to far infrared. The sub-wavelength grating reflectors may be used in a variety of settings such as tunable etalon filters and as a replacement for conventional distributed Bragg reflectors. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/479986 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304912 | Gendron |
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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) | Paul John Gendron (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A scale adaptive filtering scheme is developed for underspread channels based on a model of the linear time varying channel operator as a process in scale. Recursions serve the purpose of adding detail to the filter estimate until a suitable measure of fidelity and complexity is achieved. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345678 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304972 | Cain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Bibb Cain (Indialantic, Florida); Thomas Jay Billhartz (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication network includes a plurality of mobile nodes each including a transceiver, a directional antenna, such as a phased array antenna, connected to the transceiver, and a controller connected to the transceiver. The controller schedules a respective semi-permanent time slot for each time frame to establish a communication link with each neighboring mobile node and leaves at least one available time slot in each time frame. The controller also schedules the at least one available time slot to also serve the communication link with a neighboring mobile node based upon link communications demand. The directional antenna is aimed by the controller towards each neighboring mobile node during communication therewith. The controller also coordinates communication with each neighboring mobile node by allocating time slots based upon link communications demand. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280949 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305021 | Ledvina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent M. Ledvina (Ithaca, New York); Mark L. Psiaki (Brooktondale, New York); Steven P. Powell (Ithaca, New York); Paul M. Kintner, Jr. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time software receiver that executes on a general purpose processor. The software receiver includes data acquisition and correlator modules that perform, in place of hardware correlation, baseband mixing and PRN code correlation using bit-wise parallelism. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316536 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305168 | Rodgers 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) | J. Scott Rodgers (San Diego, California); Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Michael G. Lovern (Spring Valley, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (Kapolei, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A Electronic/Photonic Bandgap Device (NC#98614). The apparatus includes a substrate; an electronics layer operatively coupled to the substrate; and an optical bus layer operatively coupled to the electronics layer. The optical bus layer comprises at least one 3D photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the electronics layer and comprising a plurality of honeycomb-like structures having a plurality of high index regions and a plurality of low index regions, wherein the plurality of honeycomb-like structures comprises at least four honeycomb-like structures layered over each other, wherein a second honeycomb-like structure is offset from a first honeycomb-like structure, wherein a third honeycomb-like structure is offset from a second honeycomb-like structure, and wherein a fourth honeycomb-like structure is not offset from the first honeycomb-like structure. The 3D photonic bandgap structure and the electronics layer are monolithically integrated over the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729595 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305308 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac M. Daniel (Morton Grove, Illinois); Sun Kyoung Kim (Hanam, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus to detect and characterize a defect in a fiber preform residing in a preform-receiving cavity of a mold or simulated mold of the type used for liquid composite molding (e.g., resin transfer molding) to make a composite component or structure. The defect may result from fiber preform misplacement in the cavity, accidental inclusions, preform density variations, and/or distortion of the preform. Transient gas or other fluid pressures at multiple locations of the cavity are measured during changing of fluid pressure in the cavity. The measured transient pressures, or data derived therefrom, are analyzed to determine membership of the fiber preform in one of two or more groups that include a standard defect-free group and a defective group, whereby the method determines if the fiber preform or its position in the cavity deviates from the standard defect-free group. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030719 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305373 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Cunningham (Lexington, Massachusetts); Oliver Dain (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used automatic generation of classification rules used in machine learning. A single rule is formed of one or more logical expressions and an associated target. Using a set of training data, rules are formed one logical expression at a time using special data structures that require each feature to be sorted only once per rule formation. The FOIL gain metric is used in determining optimal splits for categorical features. Rule formation ceases with the production of five bad rules in which a bad rule is one in which there are more negative than positive examples in the training data set. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395859 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305378 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Distributed privacy preserving data mining techniques are provided. A first entity of a plurality of entities in a distributed computing environment exchanges summary information with a second entity of the plurality of entities via a privacy-preserving data sharing protocol such that the privacy of the summary information is preserved, the summary information associated with an entity relating to data stored at the entity. The first entity may then mine data based on at least the summary information obtained from the second entity via the privacy-preserving data sharing protocol. The first entity may obtain, from the second entity via the privacy-preserving data sharing protocol, information relating to the number of transactions in which a particular itemset occurs and/or information relating to the number of transactions in which a particular rule is satisfied. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892691 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Judah H. Milgram (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Side-slip of an aircraft during flight is detected through a pair of pressure sensors fixedly mounted on opposite lateral sides of the aircraft fuselage. Pressure measurement signals at said sensors are fed to electronic circuitry within the aircraft for generating magnitude and frequency signals reflective of the side-slip that are applied to a pair of vibrators respectively mounted on the undersides of a pair of pilot foot pedals located within the cockpit. The foot pedals are connected by linkage to the tail rudder on the aircraft fuselage. The varying magnitude and frequency of vibrations applied to the rudder foot pedals by the vibrators enables the pilot to immediately sense side-slip through the feet on the pedals. In response to such side-slip sensing, one of the pedals may be timely depressed for side-slip corrective angular displacement of the rudder. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975112 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/75.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William Mark Richter (Nashville, Tennessee); Jamie Hameed Noon (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Peter William Axelson (Minden, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Wheelchair hand rim device comprised of a heat conducting tubular hand rim and a continuous circumferential elastomeric interface that has a cross-sectional contour comprised of an outwardly extending horizontal member having a proximal end coupled to an outboard side of a wheel rim transitioning into a downwardly depending member terminating to a distal end coupled to an inboard upper portion of the tubular hand rim such that a majority of the tubular hand rim is exposed and devoid of the elastomeric interface. When braking, a user only uses the heat conducting tubular hand rim. When pushing, the user grips across both the tubular hand rim and the contoured elastomeric interface, which deforms to fit the hand, thereby providing improved comfort, frictional coupling, and impact attenuation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861016 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/250.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303740 | Carrasco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Carrasco (New York, New York); Orsolya Dohan (Bronx, New York); Uygar H. Tazebay (Ankara, Turkey); Irene L. Wapnir (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for diagnosing breast cancer in a subject. The present invention also provides a method for treating breast cancer in a subject. Finally, the present invention provides a method for assessing the efficacy of breast cancer therapy in a subject who has undergone or is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/961615 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303751 | Narum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Narum (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Kim L. Sim (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions that inhibit the binding of Plasmodium falciparum to erythrocytes include a family of erythrocyte binding proteins (EBPs). The EBPs are paralogues of the P. falciparum binding protein EBA-175. The present invention includes peptides of the paralogues that prevent the binding of P. falciparum. Antibodies specific for each paralogue that also prevent the binding of P. falciparum are also included. Methods of the invention utilize the paralogues, antibodies thereof and peptide compositions for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of P. falciparum diseases such as malaria, as well as methods for the detection of P. falciparum in biological samples and culture media. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630629 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303752 | Hotez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Hotez (Rockville, Maryland); James Ashcom (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Mahnaz Bdamchian (Reston, Virginia); Bin Zhan (North Potomac, Maryland); Yan Wang (Rockville, Maryland); John Hawdon (Bowie, Maryland); Alexander Loukas (The Gap QLD, Australia); Angela Williamson (Toowong QLD, Australia); Brian Jones (Shelton, Connecticut); Jeffrey Bethony (Washington, District of Columbia); Gaddam Goud (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Maria Elena Bottazzi (Washington, District of Columbia); Susana Mendez (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Preparations which elicit an immune response to hookworm antigens and which may be utilized as hookworm vaccines are provided. In addition, a method of increasing the effectiveness of vaccinations against infectious diseases in patients infected with hookworm is provided. The method involves chemically treating the hookworm infestation prior to administering the vaccine. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825692 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303754 | Moss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Patricia L. Earl (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Linda Wyatt (Rockville, Maryland); Leigh Anne Eller (Kampala, Uganda); Thomas C. VanCott (Brookeville, Maryland); Matthew Edward Harris (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides modified virus Ankara (MVA), a replication-deficient strain of vaccinia virus, expressing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) env, gag, and pol genes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/238155 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303769 | Seshi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beerelli Seshi (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an isolated pluri-differentiated human mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs), a method for isolating and purifying human mesenchymal progenitor cells from Dexter-type cultures, and characterization of and uses, particularly therapeutic uses for such cells. Specifically, there is provided isolated MPCs which can be used for diagnostic purposes, to enhance the engraftment of hematopoietic progenitor cells, enhance bone marrow transplantation, or aid in the treatment or prevention of graft versus host disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/055292 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/577 |
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| US 07303770 | Fahey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jed W. Fahey (Eldersburg, Maryland); Paul Talalay (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Vegetable sources of cancer chemoprotective agents have been identified which are extraordinarily rich in glucosinolates, metabolic precursors of isothiocyanates. The vegetable sources are used to provide a dietary means of reducing the level of carcinogens in mammals. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/825989 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303866 | Halazonetis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thanos D. Halazonetis (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thanos D. Halazonetis (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of identifying modulators of an interaction between 53BP1 and histone H3 (H3). The present invention also relates to methods of use of inhibitors of an interaction between 53BP1 and H3. The present invention further relates to fragments of 53BP1 and H3, as well as other methods and uses. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253190 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303887 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaodong Wang (Dallas, Texas); Qing Zhong (Dallas, Texas); Wenhua Gao (Dallas, Texas); Fenghe Du (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A HECT-domain containing E3 ubiquitin ligase that mediates the polyubiquitination of Mcl-1, named Mule for Mcl-1 ubiquitin ligase E3, is described. Methods and compositions for modulating functional interaction between Mcl-1 and Mule protein and Mcl-1 mediated apoptosis are described. Diagnostic and prognostic methods based on Mule expression in patient cells are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132977 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07303898 | Hurtado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alicia Hurtado (New York, New York); Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are new defective Sindbis viral vectors made from wild type Ar-339 Sindbis virus, with differences in replicase and envelope proteins between JT vectors and consensus Sindbis virus sequences, and also between JT and Ar-339 vectors. Also disclosed are plasmids used for the production of the vectors, methods for producing the vectors, methods for treating mammals suffering from tumors and pharmaceutical formulations for use in the treatment methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/392926 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.400 |
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| US 07303906 | Blattner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Scarab Genomics, LLC (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin); Gyorgy Posfai (Szeged, Hungary); Christopher D. Herring (Madison, Wisconsin); Guy Plunkett, III (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeremy Glasner (Madison, Wisconsin); Trevor Twose (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses that a bacterium having a genome that is genetically engineered to be at least 10% smaller than the genome of its native parent strain has better transformation competence. Specific E. coli strains, having significantly reduced genome sizes, are disclosed which are highly transformation competent. A medium and methodology is taught which enables transformation efficiencies to be increased further. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655914 |
| 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 435/252.800 |
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| US 07303915 | Levin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard A. Levin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In vitro-differentiated retinal ganglion cells can be produced by exposing a mammalian retinal ganglion cell line to a protein kinase inhibitor. The differentiated retinal ganglion cells can be used to identify agents that protect retinal ganglion cells in vivo or in vitro from cell injury (including cell death) and agents that affect retinal ganglion cell ion channel activity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361342 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07304034 | Tracey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Huan Yang (Douglaston, New York); Howland Shaw Warren, Jr. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are disclosed for inhibiting the release of a proinflammatory cytokine from a vertebrate cell, and for inhibiting an inflammatory cytokine cascade in a patient. The compositions comprise a vertebrate HMGB A box, and an antibody preparation that specifically binds to a vertebrate HMGB B box. The methods comprise treating a cell or a patient with sufficient amounts of the composition to inhibit the release of the proinflammatory cytokine, or to inhibit the inflammatory cytokine cascade. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/300072 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07304035 | Carney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthologic Corp. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas); Roger S. Crowther (League City, Texas); David J. Simmons (St. Louis, Missouri); Jinping Yang (Galveston, Texas); William R. Redin (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of stimulating bone growth at a site in a subject in need of osteoinduction. The method comprises the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor to the site. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038014 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07304046 | Borch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Borch (Lafayette, Indiana); Marcy Hernick (West Lafayette, Indiana); Carolee Flader (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a compound of formula I: wherein R1, Ra, Rb, Rc, and Rd have any of the values defined in the specification, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds or salts. The compounds are useful for treating cancer in animals. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/725191 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/138 |
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| US 07304092 | Austin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Austin (New York, New York); Viet-Ahn A. Nguyen (Saffron Walden, United Kingdom); Doris Pupowicz (Marly, Switzerland); Albert Deisseroth (San Diego, California); Tao Wang (Acton, Massachusetts); Enrica Lerma (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating tumors, cancer and hyperproliferative diseases including psoriasis, genital warts and hyperproliferative cell growth diseases, including hyperproliferative keratinocyte diseases such as hyperkeratosis, ichthyosis, keratoderma or lichen planus. These compounds are described according to the chemical structure: where R1 is H, OH, F, Cl, Br, I, a C1-C6 optionally substituted alkyl or alkenyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group or a group; Ra is a H, OH, C1-C10, optionally substituted alkyl or alkenyl group, an optionally substituted O—(C1-C7 alkyl group) or O-aryl group, an amine group which is optionally substituted with at least one C1-C10 alkyl group which may be optionally substituted, or a single optionally substituted aryl group, biphenyl group, (C1-C6) alkylenearyl group, (C1-C6) alkylenebiphenyl group, heteroaryl group, heterocyclic group, (C1-C6) alkylene heteroaryl group or (C1-C6) alkylene heterocyclic group; R2 is a group; Rb is a H, OH, C1-C10, optionally substituted alkyl or alkenyl group, an optionally substituted O—(C1-C7 alkyl group) or O-aryl group, an amine group which is optionally substituted with at least one C1-C10 alkyl group which may be optionally substituted, or a single optionally substituted aryl group, biphenyl group, (C1-C6) alkylenearyl group, (C1-C6) alkylenebiphenyl group, heteroaryl group, heterocyclic group, (C1-C6) alkylene heteroaryl group or (C1-C6) alkylene heterocyclic group; R3 and R6 are each independently selected from H, OH, F, Cl, Br, I, a C1-C6 optionally substituted alkyl or alkenyl group, an optionally substituted aryl group, a carbamate, alkylene carbamate, urethane or alkylene urethane; R4 is a group, wherein Rb is as described above; and R5 is a group, wherein Rb is as described above, with the proviso that at least one of R1 and R2 or R4 and R5 contains an Ra or Rb group which is an amine group which is optionally substituted with at least one C1-C10 alkyl group which may be optionally substituted, or a single optionally substituted aryl group, biphenyl group, (C1-C6) alkylenearyl group, (C1-C6) alkylenebiphenyl group, heteroaryl group, heterocyclic group, (C1-C6) alkylene heteroaryl group or (C1-C6) alkylene heterocyclic group; or a stereoisomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, and polymorph thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705483 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/529 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl Saxinger (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, among other things, a polypeptide that binds with the gp120 envelope protein of HIV, in particular HIV-1, under physiological conditions, a nucleic acid that encodes such a polypeptide and can be expressed in a cell, a composition comprising such a polypeptide or nucleic acid or an antibody and a carrier therefor, a composition comprising a solid support matrix to which is attached an above-described polypeptide or an anti-antibody to a specified polypeptide sequence, a method of making an antibody to gp120, and a method of removing HIV from a bodily fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/084813 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
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| US 07304138 | Maciag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maine Medical Center Research Institute (Scarborough, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Maciag (Freeport, Maine); Ann B. Zimrin (Baltimore, Maryland); Deena J. Small (Scarborough, Maine); Igor A. Prudovsky (Old Orchard Beach, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to therapeutic and diagnostic methods and compositions based on Jagged/Notch proteins and nucleic acids, and on their role in the signaling pathway relating to endothelial cell migration and/or differentiation. In addition, this invention provides a substantially purified Jagged protein, as well as a substantially purified nucleic acid or segment thereof encoding Jagged protein, or a functionally equivalent derivative, or allelic or species variant thereof. Further, this invention provides a substantially purified soluble Jagged protein and a substantially purified nucleic acid encoding same as well as a recombinant cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding a soluble Jagged protein. Soluble Jagged provides further therapeutic and diagnostic methods relating to diseases, disorders, and conditions involving Jagged/Notch signaling including, inter alia, angiogenesis, differentiation, and control of gene expression. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650650 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07304142 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philadelphia, Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Thomas Boyd (Handbridge, United Kingdom); Dale Stewart Haines (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Nikolina Vlatkovic (Handbridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding mammalian MDM2 binding protein and polypeptide sequences for the mammalian MDM2 binding protein are provided. Also provided are vectors containing these nucleic acid sequences, host cells which express these proteins and antibodies targeted to these proteins. In addition, methods and compositions for modulating the G1 phase of the cell cycle via altering expression and/or activity of a mammalian MDM2 binding protein are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/650159 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/358 |
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| US 07304203 | Spelsberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Spelsberg (Rochester, Minnesota); Malayannan Subramaniam (Zumbrota, Minnesota); Merry Jo Velasquez (Cannon Falls, Minnesota); Nalini M. Rajamannan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods related to a transgenic non-human animal (e.g., a transgenic non-human mammal) whose genome comprises a disrupted TIEG allele are provided. Methods for making such transgenic non-human animals, and using them to identify and characterize agents that affect conditions related to TIEG activity, such as cardiac hypertrophy and bone formation also are provided. In addition, materials and methods related to the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944454 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304724 | Durkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Durkin (Irvine, California); Sheng-Hao Tseng (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for accurately performing quantitative diffuse optical spectroscopy on a sample includes a light source and a source optical fiber that is optically coupled to the light source. A diffuser material is interposed between the source optical fiber and the sample, the diffuser material comprising a high scattering, low absorption material. The diffuser material effectively increases the photon path length from the light source to the sample, which limits the depth of interrogation to superficial volumes despite the penetrating nature of the radiation typically used. A detector optical fiber is provided adjacent to or laterally disposed from the source optical fiber. The detector optical fiber is coupled to a detector which detects photons collected in the detector optical fiber. The detector optical fiber and the source optical fiber may be separated by a distance of less than 5 mm while still permitting the diffusion approximation to remain valid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104033 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305109 | Gagnon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | MariBeth Gagnon (Rockaway, New Jersey); Roger Taylor (Lilburn, Georgia); James V. Lange (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Tommy Lee (Snellville, Georgia); Carlyn Collins (Atlanta, Georgia); Richard Draut (Snellville, Georgia); Edward Kujawski (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated microscope and computer system captures a set of images for a capture area in a plurality of focal planes. The images can then be integrated into composite images for browsing to simulate viewing an item, such as a biological sample, under a microscope. A corrective filter can be constructed from the images to avoid an effect called “tiling.” Before capture, variable focal plane error can be avoided by collecting z locations for a set of points in the capture area. During image browsing, entire composite images can be loaded into memory in compressed form. Compressed image portions can be pre-decompressed to avoid delay as a browsing user navigates throughout the composite images. Pre-decompression can be done by a thread separate from the thread performing navigation operations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345863 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305111 | Arimura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hidetaka Arimura (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Feng Li (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Junji Shiraishi (Westmont, Illinois); Kunio Doi (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for detecting at least one nodule in a medical image of a subject, including identifying, in the medical image, an anatomical region corresponding to at least a portion of an organ of interest; filtering the medical image to obtain a difference image; detecting, in the difference image, a first plurality of nodule candidates within the anatomical region; calculating respective nodule feature values of the first plurality of nodule candidates based on pixel values of at least one of the medical image and the difference image; removing false positive nodule candidates from the first plurality of nodule candidates based on the respective nodule feature values to obtain a second plurality of nodule candidates; and determining the at least one nodule by classifying each of the second plurality of nodule candidates as a nodule or a non-nodule based on at least one of the pixel values and the respective nodule feature values. True-positive nodules are identified using linear discriminant analysis and/or a Multi-MTANN. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767342 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
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| US 07305319 | Vicci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leandra Vicci (Siler City, North Carolina); Richard Superfine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for controlling motion of and optically tracking a mechanically unattached probe (202) in three-dimensions are disclosed. A mechanically unattached magnetic probe (202) is placed in the system under test. The position of the probe is optically tracked in three dimensions by sensing light scattered by the probe and direct light from a light source. Magnetic poles (200) positioned about the probe are selectively magnetized to control motion of the probe in three dimensions by minimizing error between a sensed position and a desired position. In one implementation, the coil currents are time division multiplexed such that the average force on the probe produces motion in a desired direction. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/487860 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dresser, Inc. (Addison, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Donahue (Colgate, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of embodiments of a piston may have a shape that provides enhanced piston guidance. In such embodiments, the piston shape may include an axial profile that is configured to provide certain thrust load characteristics. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265870 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Expansible chamber devices 092/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303029 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); David S. Pixton (Lehi, Utah); Michael Briscoe (Lehi, Utah); James McPherson (Sandy, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A filter for a drill string comprises a perforated receptacle having an open end and a perforated end and first and second mounting surfaces are adjacent the open end. A transmission element is disposed within each of the first and second mounting surfaces. A capacitor may modify electrical characteristics of an LC circuit that comprises the transmission elements. The respective transmission elements are in communication with each other and with a transmission network integrated into the drill string. The transmission elements may be inductive couplers, direct electrical contacts, or optical couplers. In some embodiments of the present invention, the filter comprises an electronic component. The electronic component may be selected from the group consisting of a sensor, a router, a power source, a clock source, a repeater, and an amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711596 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303280 | Olivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scot S. Olivier (Livermore, California); Carmen J. Carrano (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing an improved resolution retina image comprising an imaging camera for capturing a retina image and a computer system operatively connected to the imaging camera, the computer producing short exposures of the retina image and providing speckle processing of the short exposures to provide the improved resolution retina image. The system comprises the steps of capturing a retina image, producing short exposures of the retina image, and speckle processing the short exposures of the retina image to provide the improved resolution retina image. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017384 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303593 | Guidotti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Guidotti (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur H. Andazola (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick W. Reinhardt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a blended powder mixture, whereby two or more powders are mixed in a container with a liquid selected from nitrogen or short-chain alcohols, where at least one of the powders has an angle of repose greater than approximately 50 degrees. The method is useful in preparing blended powders of Li halides and MgO for use in the preparation of thermal battery separators. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/246609 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Physical processes 023/302.R00 |
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| US 07303628 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Delia Milliron (Berkeley, California); Liberato Manna (Lecce, Italy); Steven M. Hughes (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are nanostructures comprising distinct dots and rods coupled through potential barriers of tuneable height and width, and arranged in three dimensional space at well defined angles and distances. Such control allows investigation of potential applications ranging from quantum information processing to artificial photosynthesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887013 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/86 |
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| US 07303657 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho); J. Stephen Herring (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jon D. Grandy (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for forming a chemical hydride is described and which includes a pseudo-plasma-electrolysis reactor which is operable to receive a solution capable of forming a chemical hydride and which further includes a cathode and a movable anode, and wherein the anode is moved into and out of fluidic, ohmic electrical contact with the solution capable of forming a chemical hydride and which further, when energized produces an oxygen plasma which facilitates the formation of a chemical hydride in the solution. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693291 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/164 |
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| US 07303736 | Williamson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Williamson (Pleasanton, California); Fernando A. Reboredo (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for hydrogen storage comprising a porous nano-structured material with hydrogen absorbed on the surfaces of the porous nano-structured material. The system of hydrogen storage comprises absorbing hydrogen on the surfaces of a porous nano-structured semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/081489 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303840 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Naichao Li (Croton on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An activated electrode for a non-aqueous electrochemical cell is disclosed with a precursor of a lithium metal oxide with the formula xLi2MnO3.(1−x)LiMn2−yMyO4 for 0<x<1 and 0≦y<1 in which the Li2MnO3 and LiMn2−yMyO4 components have layered and spinel-type structures, respectively, and in which M is one or more metal cations. The electrode is activated by removing lithia, or lithium and lithia, from the precursor. A cell and battery are also disclosed incorporating the disclosed positive electrode. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057790 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.950 |
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| US 07303874 | Bavykin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei G. Bavykin (Darien, Illinois); Natalia V. Mirzabekova, legal representative (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for using nucleotide sequence variations of 16S and 23S rRNA within the B. cereus group to discriminate a highly infectious bacterium B. anthracis from closely related microorganisms. Sequence variations in the 16S and 23S rRNA of the B. cereus subgroup including B. anthracis are utilized to construct an array that can detect these sequence variations through selective hybridizations and discriminate B. cereus group that includes B. anthracis. Discrimination of single base differences in rRNA was achieved with a microchip during analysis of B. cereus group isolates from both single and in mixed samples, as well as identification of polymorphic sites. Successful use of a microchip to determine the appropriate subgroup classification using eight reference microorganisms from the B. cereus group as a study set, was demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647423 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303888 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall W Nelson (Phoenix, Arizona); Peter Williams (Phoenix, Arizona); Jennifer Reeve Krone (Granbury, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Rapid mass spectrometric immunoassay methods for detecting and/or quantifying antibody and antigen analytes utilizing affinity capture to isolate the analytes and internal reference species (for quantification) followed by mass spectrometric analysis of the isolated analyte/internal reference species. Quantification is obtained by normalizing and calibrating obtained mass spectrum against the mass spectrum obtained for an antibody/antigen of known concentration. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459471 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07303894 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arlene A. Wise (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Cheryl R. Kuske (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas C. Terwilliger (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Detection of phenols using engineered bacteria. A biosensor can be created by placing a reporter gene under control of an inducible promoter. The reporter gene produces a signal when a cognate transcriptional activator senses the inducing chemical. Creation of bacterial biosensors is currently restricted by limited knowledge of the genetic systems of bacteria that catabolize xenobiotics. By using mutagenic PCR to change the chemical specificity of the Pseudomonas species CF600 DmpR protein, the potential for engineering novel biosensors for detection of phenols has been demonstrated. DmpR, a well-characterized transcriptional activator of the P. CF600's dmp operon mediates growth on simple phenols. Transcription from Po, the promoter heading the dmp operon, is activated when the sensor domain of DmpR interacts with phenol and mono-substituted phenols. By altering the sensor domain of the DmpR, a group of DmpR derivatives that activate transcription of a Po-lacZ fusion in response to eight of the EPA's eleven priority pollutant phenols has been created. The assays and the sensor domain mutations that alter the chemical specificity of DmpR is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/665455 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304300 | Partin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judy K. Partin (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark L. Stone (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John Slater (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James R. Davidson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of covertly tagging an object for later tracking includes providing a material capable of at least one of being applied to the object and being included in the object, which material includes deuterium; and performing at least one of applying the material to the object and including the material in the object in a manner in which in the appearance of the object is not changed, to the naked eye. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082030 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304475 | Kautz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Kautz (Lenexa, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic sensor package having a biasing mechanism involving a coil-generated, resistor-controlled magnetic field for providing a desired biasing effect. In a preferred illustrated embodiment, the package broadly comprises a substrate; a magnetic sensor element; a biasing mechanism, including a coil and a first resistance element; an amplification mechanism; a filter capacitor element; and an encapsulant. The sensor is positioned within the coil. A current applied to the coil produces a biasing magnetic field. The biasing magnetic field is controlled by selecting a resistance value for the first resistance element which achieves the desired biasing effect. The first resistance element preferably includes a plurality of selectable resistors, the selection of one or more of which sets the resistance value. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251306 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304826 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Westborough, Massachusetts); Nexans (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Yuan (South Grafton, Massachusetts); James F. MaGuire (Andover, Massachusetts); Arnaud Allais (Hannover, Germany); Frank Schmidt (Langenhagen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing protection for a superconducting electrical cable located in a utility power network includes detecting a fault current on the superconducting electric cable, determining the cumulative total energy dissipated in the superconducting electrical cable from the fault current and at least one prior fault current over a predetermined time period, and determining whether to disconnect the superconducting electrical cable from the utility power network on the basis of the cumulative total energy dissipated. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459167 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304872 | Yakymyshyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Field Metrics, Inc. (Seminole, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Paul Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida); Pamela Jane Hamilton (Seminole, Florida); Michael Allen Brubaker (Loveland, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular, low weight impedance dropping power supply with battery backup is disclosed that can be connected to a high voltage AC source and provide electrical power at a lower voltage. The design can be scaled over a wide range of input voltages and over a wide range of output voltages and delivered power. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162807 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305052 | Spiridon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Spiridon (Palo Alto, California); Dave Benzel (Livermore, California); Farid U. Dowla (Castro Valley, California); Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California); Erwin T. Rosenbury (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel technique and structure that maximizes the extraction of information from reference pulses for UWB-TR receivers is introduced. The scheme efficiently processes an incoming signal to suppress different types of UWB as well as non-UWB interference prior to signal detection. Such a method and system adds a feedback loop mechanism to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of reference pulses in a conventional TR receiver. Moreover, sampling the second order statistical function such as, for example, the autocorrelation function (ACF) of the received signal and matching it to the ACF samples of the original pulses for each transmitted bit provides a more robust UWB communications method and system in the presence of channel distortions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/815450 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305064 | Dilmanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Avraham Dilmanian (Yaphank, New York); John W. McDonald, III (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assisting recovery of an injury site of brain or spinal cord injury includes providing a therapeutic dose of X-ray radiation to the injury site through an array of parallel microplanar beams. The dose at least temporarily removes regeneration inhibitors from the irradiated regions. Substantially unirradiated cells surviving between the microplanar beams migrate to the in-beam irradiated portion and assist in recovery. The dose may be administered in dose fractions over several sessions, separated in time, using angle-variable intersecting microbeam arrays (AVIMA). Additional doses may be administered by varying the orientation of the microplanar beams. The method may be enhanced by injecting stem cells into the injury site. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591125 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305324 | Beshears et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Beshears (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stephen G. Batsell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Robert K. Abercrombie (Knoxville, Tennessee); Matthew B. Scudiere (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Clifford P. White (Seymour, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An asset identification and information infrastructure management (AI3M) device having an automated identification technology system (AIT), a Transportation Coordinators' Automated Information for Movements System II (TC-AIMS II), a weigh-in-motion system (WIM-II), and an Automated Air Load Planning system (AALPS) all in electronic communication for measuring and calculating actual asset characteristics, either statically or in-motion, and further calculating an actual load plan. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/998305 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305487 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow (Mount Kisco, New York); Todd E. Takken (Mount Kisco, New York); Pavlos M. Vranas (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a massively parallel computing system having a plurality of nodes configured in m multi-dimensions, each node including a computing device, a method for routing packets towards their destination nodes is provided which includes generating at least one of a 2m plurality of compact bit vectors containing information derived from downstream nodes. A multilevel arbitration process in which downstream information stored in the compact vectors, such as link status information and fullness of downstream buffers, is used to determine a preferred direction and virtual channel for packet transmission. Preferred direction ranges are encoded and virtual channels are selected by examining the plurality of compact bit vectors. This dynamic routing method eliminates the necessity of routing tables, thus enhancing scalability of the switch. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469001 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07302856 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly sensitive and ultra-high density array of electromechanical nanowires is fabricated. Nanowires are extremely sensitive to the strain induced by the attachment of biological and chemical species. Real-time detection is realized through piezoresistive transduction from the specially designed materials that form the nanowires. These specially designed materials include doped silicon or germanium, doped III-V semiconductors such as GaAs, GaN and InAs systems, and ultra-thin metal films. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826007 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07302858 | Walsh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); William Hnat (Floyd Knobs, Indiana); Douglas Jackson (New Albany, Indiana); Ji-Tzuoh Lin (Louisville, Kentucky); John Naber (Prospect, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a MEMS cantilever strain sensor. Capacitor plates in a MEMS device of the invention are carried on cantilevered opposing micro-scale plates separated by a micro-scale gap under an unstrained condition. At least one of the micro-scale plates may be attached to a substrate or forms a substrate, which may be part of a monitored system. When a load is applied to the substrate, distal ends of the opposing cantilevered micro-scale plates become further separated, resulting in a change of capacitance. The change of capacitance is proportional to a load and therefore is an indication of the strain. Electrodes may be integrated into the strain sensor to provide a connection to measurement circuitry, for example. Sensors of the invention also provide for telemetric communication using radio frequency (RF) energy and can be interrogated without a power supply to the sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/949723 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303694 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Yan-Yeung Luk (Manlius, New York); Sean Francis Campbell (Bothell, Washington); Li-Lin Cheng (Madison, Wisconsin); Chang-Hyun Jang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid crystal compositions that exhibit little or no toxicity with respect to cells include liquid crystals with chemical functional groups such as fluorine atoms, fluorophenyl groups, or difluorophenyl groups. Liquid crystals with little or no toxicity to cell lines may be added to cell culture media or added to components used in cell culture media. Cells may be grown in cell culture media that includes liquid crystals that exhibit little or no toxicity to cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892827 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303871 | Hausch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix Hausch (Langenselbold, Germany); Gary Gray (Stanford, California); Lu Shan (Stanford, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering an effective dose of glutenase to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/367405 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07303969 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Berger (Newark, Delaware); Phillip E. Thompson (Springfield, Virginia); Roger Lake (Dallas, Texas); Karl Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Sean L. Rommel (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Interband tunnel diodes which are compatible with Si-based processes such as, but not limited to, CMOS and SiGe HBT fabrication. Interband tunnel diodes are disclosed (i) with spacer layers surrounding a tunnel barrier; (ii) with a quantum well adjacent to, but not necessarily in contact with, one of the injectors, and (iii) with a first quantum well adjacent to, but not necessarily in contact with, the bottom injector and a second quantum well adjacent to, but not necessarily in contact with, the top injector. Process parameters include temperature process for growth, deposition or conversion of the tunnel diode and subsequent thermal cycling which to improve device benchmarks such as peak current density and the peak-to-valley current ratio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/934334 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304103 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jeffrey L. Bahr (Houston, Texas); Jiping Yang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention incorporates new processes for blending derivatized carbon nanotubes into polymer matrices to create new polymer/composite materials. When modified with suitable chemical groups using diazonium chemistry, the nanotubes can be made chemically compatible with a polymer matrix, allowing transfer of the properties of the nanotubes (such as mechanical strength) to the properties of the composite material as a whole. To achieve this, the derivatized (modified) carbon nanotubes are physically blended with the polymeric material, and/or, if desired, allowed to react at ambient or elevated temperature. These methods can be utilized to append functionalities to the nanotubes that will further covalently bond to the host polymer matrix, or directly between two tubes themselves. Furthermore, the nanotubes can be used as a generator of polymer growth, wherein the nanotubes are derivatized with a functional group that is an active part of a polymerization process, which would also result in a composite material in which the carbon nanotubes are chemically involved. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632284 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304172 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Zengquan Qin (Copley, Ohio); Claire Tova Cohen (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(propylene carbonates) are prepared from propylene oxide and CO2 with less than 10% cyclic propylene carbonate by product using cobalt based catalysts of structure preferably in combination with salt cocatalyst, very preferably cocatalyst where the cation is PPN+ and the anion is Cl− or OBzF5−. Novel products include poly(propylene carbonates) having a stereoregularity greater than 90% and/or a regioregularity of greater than 90%. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244231 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304220 | Conkling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Conkling (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina); Wen Song (San Diego, California); Nandini Mendu (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA encoding a plant quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPRTase) enzyme, and constructs comprising such DNA are provided. Methods of altering quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase expression are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356076 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304298 | Swenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Dakota State University (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orven F. Swenson (Fargo, North Dakota); Feng Hong (Potsdam, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoemissive ion mobility spectrometer is disclosed for of chlorinated hydrocarbons and nitro-organic materials. Backside illumination of a thin gold film by pulsed laser radiation, pulsed ultraviolet xenon flashlamp, or like UV source, is used to produce bursts of low energy photo-emitted electrons. These swarms of thermalized electrons are directly attached by electronegative analytes or by reactant molecules, followed by charge transfer to the more electronegative analyte. Total internal reflection is incorporated for the backside illumination using optical elements such as a fused silica prism. The spectrometer allows for the direct vaporization of adsorbed explosive molecules from surfaces followed by direct injection into the photoemissive ion mobility spectrometer through a heated inlet. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491508 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07304607 | Miyamoto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawai'i (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Y. Miyamoto (Honolulu, Hawaii); Wayne A. Shiroma (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Grant S. Shiroma (Hilo, Hawaii); Blaine T. Murakami (Mililani, Hawaii); Aaron Ohta (Honolulu, Hawaii); Michael Tamamoto (Mililani, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-directivity transponder system uses a dual system of a retrodirective array transmitting a data signal peak toward an interrogator source, and a self-null-steering array transmitting a null toward the interrogator source and a jamming signal elsewhere, resulting in high S/N reception at the interrogator source and avoidance of interception. Integrating modulators would allow each array to transmit different data while the spectra of the transmitted signals are identical, thus disabling interception. The system enables secure point-to-point communications and can be used for short-distance wireless data transmission systems such as wireless LAN and RFID servers. One mobile may send a broadcast interrogator signal, causing the other mobile devices to send a reply signal back to the interrogating mobile device only in the direction of the interrogating mobile device, such that each of the other mobile devices identifies its position to only the interrogating mobile device in response to its broadcast interrogator signal. As another aspect, self-steering signal transmission is employed for randomly oriented satellites using circularly polarized, two-dimensional retrodirective arrays. Quadruple subharmonic mixing is used as an effective means of achieving phase conjugation when a high-frequency LO is not feasible or inapplicable. These features may be used for small-satellite communications, secure tactical communications, search and rescue, enemy location fixing and tracking, UAV command and control, forest fire detection, marine-based tracking, and many other applications requiring secure communications with high signal directivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296240 |
| 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 342/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305028 | Balakrishnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaiganesh Balakrishnan (Dallas, Texas); Richard K. Martin (Ithaca, New York); C. Richard Johnson, Jr. (Newfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for equalizing data and systems utilizing the method. The method of this invention for equalizing (by shortening the channel response) data includes minimizing a function of the data and a number of equalizer characteristic parameters, where the function utilizes auto-correlation data corresponding to equalized data. Updated equalizer characteristic parameters are then obtained from the minimization and an initial set of equalizer characteristic parameters. Finally, the received data is processed utilizing the equalizer defined by the minimization. The method of this invention can be implemented in an equalizer and the equalizer of this invention may be included in a system for receiving data. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/390289 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07304103 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jeffrey L. Bahr (Houston, Texas); Jiping Yang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention incorporates new processes for blending derivatized carbon nanotubes into polymer matrices to create new polymer/composite materials. When modified with suitable chemical groups using diazonium chemistry, the nanotubes can be made chemically compatible with a polymer matrix, allowing transfer of the properties of the nanotubes (such as mechanical strength) to the properties of the composite material as a whole. To achieve this, the derivatized (modified) carbon nanotubes are physically blended with the polymeric material, and/or, if desired, allowed to react at ambient or elevated temperature. These methods can be utilized to append functionalities to the nanotubes that will further covalently bond to the host polymer matrix, or directly between two tubes themselves. Furthermore, the nanotubes can be used as a generator of polymer growth, wherein the nanotubes are derivatized with a functional group that is an active part of a polymerization process, which would also result in a composite material in which the carbon nanotubes are chemically involved. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632284 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305021 | Ledvina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent M. Ledvina (Ithaca, New York); Mark L. Psiaki (Brooktondale, New York); Steven P. Powell (Ithaca, New York); Paul M. Kintner, Jr. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time software receiver that executes on a general purpose processor. The software receiver includes data acquisition and correlator modules that perform, in place of hardware correlation, baseband mixing and PRN code correlation using bit-wise parallelism. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316536 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305154 | Banks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Banks (Olmstead Township, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method and the resulting product thereof comprising a solid light-conducting fiber with a point of attachment and having a textured surface site consisting a textured distal end prepared by being placed in a vacuum and then subjected to directed hyperthermal beams comprising oxygen ions or atoms. The textured distal end comprises cones or pillars that are spaced upon from each other by less than 1 micron and are extremely suitable to prevent cellular components of blood from entering the valleys between the cones or pillars so as to effectively separate the cellular components in the blood from interfering with optical sensing of the glucose concentration for diabetic patients. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483887 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07303244 | Ready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Ready (Santa Cruz, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features. By printing each design layer in a printing direction aligned with the parallel layout features, the individual print solution droplets deposited onto the substrate do not dry before adjacent droplets are deposited. Therefore, printed patterns having accurate geometries and consistent electrical properties can be printed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824994 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07305582 | Moser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Availigent, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise E. Moser (Santa Barbara, California); Peter M. Melliar-Smith (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for checkpointing a multithreaded application program, based on the egalitarian and competitive active replication strategy. The invention enables different threads to be checkpointed at different times in such a way that the checkpoints restore a consistent state of the threads at a new or recovering replica, even though the threads operate concurrently and asynchronously. Separate checkpoints are generated for the local state of each thread and for the data that are shared between threads and are protected by mutexes. The checkpoint of the shared data is communicated in a special message that also determines the order in which the claims of mutexes are granted to the threads. A source-code preprocessor tool is described for inserting code into an application program to checkpoint the state of the thread during normal operation and to restore the state of the thread from the checkpoint subsequently. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651756 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07303878 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max F. Rothschild (Ames, Iowa); Kwan Suk Kim (Ames, Iowa); Rebecca S. Emnett (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic markers in the porcine melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) gene are disclosed which are associated with favorable meat quality traits including, drip loss, marbling, pH and color. Further, novel sequence data from regions of the gene are disclosed which may be used in a PCR test to screen for the presence of the marker. The genetic marker may be used to screen animals for breeding purposes which have the desired traits. Kits which take advantage of the PCR test are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816304 |
| 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 |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07305304 | Leyton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Leyton (Norman, Oklahoma); Ross Keith (Townsville, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for making a decision of whether to carry additional fuel on an aircraft for a particular flight based on a forecast, such as for low visibility and ceiling. Preferably, observations-based probabilistic forecasts are utilized. The forecast probability of the weather at the planned aerodrome being below a prescribed minimum level is calculated using statistical regression analysis of past data. An optimal probability is estimated using cost parameters on an individual flight bases. If this forecast probability is greater than the optimal probability for a particular flight, then extra fuel is carried by that flight. This is in contrast to current practice whereby the same categorical forecast is applied to all flights. The combination of improved short-term forecasts and identification of optimal forecast probabilities minimizes the financial impact of errors and weather forecasts on airline operations thereby providing a superior financial outcome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243726 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07305373 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Cunningham (Lexington, Massachusetts); Oliver Dain (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used automatic generation of classification rules used in machine learning. A single rule is formed of one or more logical expressions and an associated target. Using a set of training data, rules are formed one logical expression at a time using special data structures that require each feature to be sorted only once per rule formation. The FOIL gain metric is used in determining optimal splits for categorical features. Rule formation ceases with the production of five bad rules in which a bad rule is one in which there are more negative than positive examples in the training data set. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/395859 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07305378 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Distributed privacy preserving data mining techniques are provided. A first entity of a plurality of entities in a distributed computing environment exchanges summary information with a second entity of the plurality of entities via a privacy-preserving data sharing protocol such that the privacy of the summary information is preserved, the summary information associated with an entity relating to data stored at the entity. The first entity may then mine data based on at least the summary information obtained from the second entity via the privacy-preserving data sharing protocol. The first entity may obtain, from the second entity via the privacy-preserving data sharing protocol, information relating to the number of transactions in which a particular itemset occurs and/or information relating to the number of transactions in which a particular rule is satisfied. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892691 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07303203 | Richter et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William Mark Richter (Nashville, Tennessee); Jamie Hameed Noon (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Peter William Axelson (Minden, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Wheelchair hand rim device comprised of a heat conducting tubular hand rim and a continuous circumferential elastomeric interface that has a cross-sectional contour comprised of an outwardly extending horizontal member having a proximal end coupled to an outboard side of a wheel rim transitioning into a downwardly depending member terminating to a distal end coupled to an inboard upper portion of the tubular hand rim such that a majority of the tubular hand rim is exposed and devoid of the elastomeric interface. When braking, a user only uses the heat conducting tubular hand rim. When pushing, the user grips across both the tubular hand rim and the contoured elastomeric interface, which deforms to fit the hand, thereby providing improved comfort, frictional coupling, and impact attenuation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861016 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/250.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07304261 | Avant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bruce A. Brandt (Gainesville, Virginia); Jay David Fadely (Palmetto, Florida); Michael Ray Little (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing mailpiece information in an identification code sorting system by an identification code server. In one embodiment, a primary identification code server receives an identification file containing identification information uniquely corresponding to a mailpiece. In this embodiment, the primary identification code server processes the mailpiece information and may send the identification file to a secondary identification code server. In another embodiment, a secondary identification code server receives an identification file from a primary identification code server and processes the mailpiece information. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326447 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, December 04, 2007.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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