FedInvent™ Patents

New Taxpayer Funded Patents for Tuesday, May 08, 2007 

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FedInvent analyzed 69 taxpayer-funded patents this week.

On Tuesday, May 08, 2007, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 69 taxpayer-funded patents; including 61 patents containing government interest statements and 14 patents where federal government agencies were an assignee or applicant. Together, 69 patents granted this week are the result of US government-funded research & development.

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The List of This Week's Patents

Just a list — patent number with a link and the title, for those patentistas who like to browse.

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Patent Title
001 07213409
 
Reconfigurable hydrogen transfer heating/cooling system 
002 07213473
 
Sample preparation system for microfluidic applications 
003 07213476
 
Stackable differential mobility analyzer for aerosol measurement 
004 07213497
 
Inflatable trajectory altering and blast energy absorption system 
005 07213967
 
Method and system for conservative evaluation, validation and monitoring of thermal processing 
006 07214000
 
On-grade barrier and method of its use 
007 07214298
 
Microfabricated cell sorter 
008 07214303
 
Cantilever probes for nanoscale magnetic and atomic force microscopy 
009 07214306
 
Elevated potential deposition of rhenium on graphite substrates from a ReO2/H2O2 solution 
010 07214333
 
Electrodes for solid state gas sensor 
011 07214346
 
Optoelectronic detection system 
012 07214372
 
Methods using lineage restricted glial precursors from the central nervous system 
013 07214373
 
Methods, compositions and kits relating to chitinases and chitinase-like molecules and inflammatory disease 
014 07214375
 
Methods of decreasing the accumulation of extracellular matrix associated with glomerulonephritis with anti-TGF-β-specific antibodies 
015 07214380
 
Adjuvant therapy 
016 07214428
 
Highly luminescent functionalized semiconductor nanocrystals for biological and physical applications 
017 07214432
 
Coating compositions, their preparation, and coated articles made therefrom 
018 07214442
 
High specific power, direct methanol fuel cell stack 
019 07214477
 
Layered device with capture regions for cellular analysis 
020 07214479
 
E. coli O157:H7 C1-INH-binding protein and methods of use 
021 07214482
 
Steroid-activated nuclear receptors and uses therefor 
022 07214483
 
KCNQ2 and KCNQ3—potassium channel genes which are mutated in benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC) and other epilepsies 
023 07214485
 
Nested methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction cancer detection method 
024 07214488
 
Detection of MECT1-MAML2 fusion products 
025 07214489
 
Methods and compositions for detection and analysis of polynucleotides using light harvesting multichromophores 
026 07214492
 
Nucleic acid arrays to monitor water and other ecosystems 
027 07214496
 
Modified G-protein coupled receptors 
028 07214498
 
Tumor associated antigens and methods of using the same 
029 07214510
 
Regulation of gene expression by protein methylation 
030 07214511
 
Hormone receptor compositions and methods 
031 07214515
 
Viral delivery system for infectious transfer of large genomic DNA inserts 
032 07214519
 
Screening method for identifying heme independent modulators of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) activity using αβCys105 mutant sGC 
033 07214524
 
Marek\'s disease virus vaccine 
034 07214531
 
Pressure transduced chemical assay and method 
035 07214534
 
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding mutant μ opioid receptors 
036 07214543
 
Method and apparatus for sensing nitroaromatics 
037 07214545
 
Element-coded affinity tags 
038 07214599
 
High yield method for preparing silicon nanocrystal with chemically accessible surfaces 
039 07214627
 
Graded junction termination extensions for electronic devices 
040 07214661
 
Methods of therapy with thrombin derived peptides 
041 07214665
 
2-propynyl adenosine analogs having A2A agonist activity and compositions thereof 
042 07214693
 
Heterocyclic selective androgen receptor modulators and methods of use thereof 
043 07214695
 
Compositions and methods for stabilizing transthyretin and inhibiting transthyretin misfolding 
044 07214696
 
Compositions and methods for stabilizing transthyretin and inhibiting transthyretin misfolding 
045 07214734
 
Liquid crystalline composites containing phyllosilicates 
046 07214749
 
Catalyst system for high activity and stereoselectivity in the homopolymerization and copolymerization of olefins 
047 07214769
 
Method for inverse solid phase synthesis of peptides 
048 07214779
 
Termini cysteine-added variants of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor 
049 07214787
 
Recombinant vaccine against botulinum neurotoxin 
050 07214790
 
Genes and proteins encoded thereby 
051 07214813
 
Preparation of chiral cyclic amino acids and derivatives 
052 07215045
 
Roll-ring conductive wheel 
053 07215122
 
Phantom for production of controllable fMRI signal 
054 07215142
 
Multi-stage inverse toggle 
055 07215213
 
Apparatus and system for suspending a chip-scale device and related methods 
056 07215221
 
Harmonic termination circuit for medium bandwidth microwave power amplifiers 
057 07215252
 
Proximity sensor 
058 07215298
 
Extendable/retractable antenna calibration element 
059 07215337
 
Systems and methods for the estimation of user interest in graph theoretic structures 
060 07215545
 
Liquid cooled diamond bearing heat sink 
061 07215629
 
Magnetic recording device for heat assisted magnetic recording 
062 07215826
 
Rendering three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data to two-dimensional contrast and range mappings thereof 
063 07215860
 
Optical transmission fiber with a glass guiding cladding 
064 07215864
 
Low-cost portable fiber-optic connector cleaner 
065 07216036
 
Integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor 
066 07216123
 
Methods for ranking nodes in large directed graphs 
067 07216214
 
System and method for re-ordering memory references for access to memory 
068 PP17710
 
Fast-growing willow shrub named ‘Fish Creek’ 
069 RE39620
 
GPS airborne target geolocating method 

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Patent Count By Department

This is the count of taxpayer-funded patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week. These patents contain a Government Interest Statement in the body of the patent document or are patents where the government is an assignee. Agency numbers are aggregated by the agency named in the Government Interests Statement and the contract number cited in the government interest section of the patent.

Department This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 30 405
Department of Defense (DOD) 23 499
Department of Energy (DOE) 7 247
Department of Commerce (DOC) 4 37
National Science Foundation (NSF) 4 155
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 3 60
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2 10
Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1 40
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) 1 9
Non-Profit Organization (NPO) 1 3
Government Rights Acknowledged 2 35

Patents By Funding Agency

FedInvent Patents are patents funded by US taxpayers. Taxpayer-funded patents have Government Interest Statements in the body of the patent or are patents where an agency of the US federal government has retained the title to the patent and is listed as an assignee. The presence of a government interest statement, as required by the Bayh-Dole Act, indicates the holder of a federal contract, grant, or cooperative research agreement has elected to retain the title of inventions conceived and reduced to practice during that contract.

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Patent Title
001 07214372
 
Methods using lineage restricted glial precursors from the central nervous system 
002 07214373
 
Methods, compositions and kits relating to chitinases and chitinase-like molecules and inflammatory disease 
003 07214375
 
Methods of decreasing the accumulation of extracellular matrix associated with glomerulonephritis with anti-TGF-β-specific antibodies 
004 07214380
 
Adjuvant therapy 
005 07214477
 
Layered device with capture regions for cellular analysis 
006 07214479
 
E. coli O157:H7 C1-INH-binding protein and methods of use 
007 07214482
 
Steroid-activated nuclear receptors and uses therefor 
008 07214483
 
KCNQ2 and KCNQ3—potassium channel genes which are mutated in benign familial neonatal convulsions (BFNC) and other epilepsies 
009 07214485
 
Nested methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction cancer detection method 
010 07214488
 
Detection of MECT1-MAML2 fusion products 
011 07214489
 
Methods and compositions for detection and analysis of polynucleotides using light harvesting multichromophores 
012 07214496
 
Modified G-protein coupled receptors 
013 07214498
 
Tumor associated antigens and methods of using the same 
014 07214510
 
Regulation of gene expression by protein methylation 
015 07214511
 
Hormone receptor compositions and methods 
016 07214515
 
Viral delivery system for infectious transfer of large genomic DNA inserts 
017 07214519
 
Screening method for identifying heme independent modulators of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) activity using αβCys105 mutant sGC 
018 07214531
 
Pressure transduced chemical assay and method 
019 07214534
 
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding mutant μ opioid receptors 
020 07214545
 
Element-coded affinity tags 
021 07214661
 
Methods of therapy with thrombin derived peptides 
022 07214665
 
2-propynyl adenosine analogs having A2A agonist activity and compositions thereof 
023 07214693
 
Heterocyclic selective androgen receptor modulators and methods of use thereof 
024 07214695
 
Compositions and methods for stabilizing transthyretin and inhibiting transthyretin misfolding 
025 07214696
 
Compositions and methods for stabilizing transthyretin and inhibiting transthyretin misfolding 
026 07214769
 
Method for inverse solid phase synthesis of peptides 
027 07214779
 
Termini cysteine-added variants of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor 
028 07214790
 
Genes and proteins encoded thereby 
029 07214813
 
Preparation of chiral cyclic amino acids and derivatives 
030 07215122
 
Phantom for production of controllable fMRI signal 

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Department of Defense (DOD) Agencies

Patent Title
001 07214498
 
Tumor associated antigens and methods of using the same 
002 07215142
 
Multi-stage inverse toggle 
003 07215213
 
Apparatus and system for suspending a chip-scale device and related methods 
004 07215864
 
Low-cost portable fiber-optic connector cleaner 

Department of the ARMY (DOA)

Patent Title
001 07214000
 
On-grade barrier and method of its use 
002 07214298
 
Microfabricated cell sorter 
003 07214428
 
Highly luminescent functionalized semiconductor nanocrystals for biological and physical applications 
004 07214432
 
Coating compositions, their preparation, and coated articles made therefrom 
005 07214519
 
Screening method for identifying heme independent modulators of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) activity using αβCys105 mutant sGC 
006 07214787
 
Recombinant vaccine against botulinum neurotoxin 
007 07216214
 
System and method for re-ordering memory references for access to memory 

Department of the Navy (DON) | United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Patent Title
001 07213409
 
Reconfigurable hydrogen transfer heating/cooling system 
002 07213497
 
Inflatable trajectory altering and blast energy absorption system 
003 07214306
 
Elevated potential deposition of rhenium on graphite substrates from a ReO2/H2O2 solution 
004 07214489
 
Methods and compositions for detection and analysis of polynucleotides using light harvesting multichromophores 
005 07215221
 
Harmonic termination circuit for medium bandwidth microwave power amplifiers 
006 07215545
 
Liquid cooled diamond bearing heat sink 
007 07215826
 
Rendering three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data to two-dimensional contrast and range mappings thereof 
008 07215864
 
Low-cost portable fiber-optic connector cleaner 

Department of the Air Force (DAF)| United States Space Force (USSF)

Patent Title
001 07214346
 
Optoelectronic detection system 
002 07215045
 
Roll-ring conductive wheel 
003 07215252
 
Proximity sensor 
004 RE39620
 
GPS airborne target geolocating method 

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Emerging Technology

Emerging Climate Change Technologies

Patents containing 'Y" CPC symbols indicate emerging climate change and clean technology inventions.

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Class

About Y Emerging Technology Symbols

Patent documents that contain a Y02 or Y04 CPC symbol are already classified elsewhere. USPTO adds the Y symbols to the classification data to monitor new technological developments covering clean technology and inventions impacting climate change, important American science and technology interests.

Y02 — Green House Gas Mitigation

Y02 covers selected technologies, that control, reduce, or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, and technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. Y02A covers technologies for adaptation to climate change, — technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change in human, industrial (including agriculture and livestock), and economic activities. Y02P covers climate change mitigation technologies in any kind of industrial processing or production activity, including the agroalimentary industry (relating to agriculture and food), agriculture, fishing, ranching and the like.

Y04 — Enabling Technologies

Y04 is focused on the information and communications inventions that facilitate climate change technology. Y04S covers systems integrating technologies related to power network operation, communication, or information technologies for improving electrical power generation, transmission, distribution, management, or usage. Examples of the art covered here are technologies related to smart grids, home appliances, and systems supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles.

The Health Complex

This section contains the count of patents funded by The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) organized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute; and HHS subagencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and others. These agencies together are called the Health Complex.

Department | Agency This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)30405
National Institutes of Health (NIH)28362
National Cancer Institute (NCI)340
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)28
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)13
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)13

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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD)

FedInvent follows the HERD the Higher Education Research and Development institutions — the colleges and universities; research institutions, and medical schools that benefit from federal funding and rely on it to make important discoveries that drive American innovation. Taxpayer-funded patents coming from American and sometimes foreign universities are an important indicia of the vitality of the American innovation ecosphere.

MEMBERS OF THE HERD

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at 916 US colleges and universities that expended at least $150,000 in separately accounted for R&D in the fiscal year. We use the NSF list to keep track of which colleges and universities are receiving taxpayer-funded patents and filing patent applications.

WATCH This SPACE

We're working on our data analytics and will be reporting taxpayer-funded patents and patent applications shortly. In the meantime, FedInvent will post interesting information about the HERD Innovation Ecosphere here.

Top Ten Universities By R&D Expenditures
  1. Johns Hopkins University
  2. University of Michigan
  3. University of Washington
  4. University of California, San Diego
  5. University of California, San Francisco
  6. Columbia University in the City of New York
  7. Stanford University
  8. University Pittsburgh
  9. University Pennsylvania
  10. Duke University

Count By Tech Center

Patents organized by count and Technology Center where the patent was examined.

Tech Center Count
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry 34
2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components 14
1700 Chemical and Materials Engineering 10
2600 Communications 4
3600 Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review 4
2100 Computer Architecture Software and Information Security 2
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Gaming and Medical Devices/Processes 1

For more information on the types of inventions examined in each Technology Center, see the About Tech Centers section of this page.

Patents By Scientific Domain.

This section contains the number of patents by high level scientific and technical domain. The data is arranged by the first Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC) patent symbol assigned to the patent. This indicates the scope and nature of the invention for a patent or a patent application.

Global patent offices use patent classification as their lingua franca — the common language — for exchanging information about inventions and what scientific and technical art a patent contains. The classifications assigned to a patent are used by patent examiners to find prior art and to determine if a particular patent's claims are novel. Patent classifications are also used for global enforcement of patent rights, treaties, and agreements.

Class Class Definition First
(Original)
Inventive
(CrossRef)
USPC 435 Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 17 0
USPC 514 Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 5 0
USPC 424 Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 4 0
USPC 073 Measuring and testing 2 0
USPC 205 Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 2 0
USPC 385 Optical waveguides 2 0
USPC 428 Stock material or miscellaneous articles 2 0
USPC 436 Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 2 0
USPC 438 Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 2 0
USPC 530 Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 2 0
USPC 536 Organic compounds 2 0
USPC 701 Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 2 0
USPC 062 Refrigeration 1 0
USPC 089 Ordnance 1 0
USPC 204 Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 1 0
USPC 264 Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 1 0
USPC 307 Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 1 0
USPC 324 Electricity: Measuring and testing 1 0
USPC 326 Electronic digital logic circuitry 1 0
USPC 331 Oscillators 1 0
USPC 333 Wave transmission lines and networks 1 0
USPC 340 Communications: Electrical 1 0
USPC 343 Communications: Radio wave antennas 1 0
USPC 345 Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 1 0
USPC 361 Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 1 0
USPC 369 Dynamic information storage or retrieval 1 0
USPC 374 Thermal measuring and testing 1 0
USPC 382 Image analysis 1 0
USPC 404 Road structure, process, or apparatus 1 0
USPC 422 Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 1 0
USPC 429 Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 1 0
USPC 524 Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 1 0
USPC 526 Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 1 0
USPC 560 Organic compounds 1 0
USPC 707 Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 1 0
USPC 711 Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 1 0
USPC PLT Plants 1 0

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Count of Inventors by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on the location information of first named inventors and of all inventors on the patent.

Country First Named Inventors All Inventors
United States of America 69 189
Belgium 0 3
Canada 0 1
China PRC 0 1
Japan 0 1
U.S. State First Named Inventors All Inventors
California 19 51
Massachusetts 5 23
Florida 5 15
Maryland 4 11
Texas 4 8
North Carolina 3 8
New Mexico 3 7
New Jersey 3 6
Utah 3 4
New York 2 11
Virginia 2 7
Connecticut 2 4
Illinois 2 4
Pennsylvania 2 3
Ohio 2 2
Minnesota 1 3
Missouri 1 3
Arizona 1 2
Tennessee 1 2
Washington 1 2
Wisconsin 1 2
Colorado 1 1
Mississippi 1 1
Indiana 0 3
Alabama 0 2
New Hampshire 0 1
South Carolina 0 1
Vermont 0 1
West Virginia 0 1

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Count of Assignees and Applicants by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on location information of Assignees and Applicants.

Country Assignees Applicants
United States of America 690
Belgium 10
U.S. State Assignees Applicants
California 220
District of Columbia 90
Massachusetts 70
New Mexico 30
New York 30
North Carolina 30
Connecticut 20
Florida 20
Tennessee 20
Texas 20
Utah 20
Alabama 10
Arizona 10
Colorado 10
Illinois 10
Maryland 10
Minnesota 10
Missouri 10
New Jersey 10
Pennsylvania 10
Virginia 10
Washington 10
Wisconsin 10

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Technology Center Explainer

How Tech Centers and Art Units Are Organized And Why It Matters

Patents travel from Technology Center to Art Unit to Group Art Unit to Patent Examiner.

The USPTO's patent corps is organized into Technology Centers (TCs), groups of patent examiners with specific scientific and technical domain expertise. Technology Centers are further divided into Art Units (AUs) organized by major types of inventive art within a scientific or technical domain. Art Units are organized into Group Art Units, even more specialized and granular teams of examiners.

Group Art Units (GAUs) are where patent examiners prosecute patent applications. Patent applications are docketed to examiners based on specific subject matter classifications of a particular GAU.

Understanding Technology Centers, Art Units, and Group Art Units helps you understand what type of inventions are being prosecuted within each scientific and technical domain, how long it takes from the date a patent application is filed to the time a final decision on the patentability of the invention is made.

Technology Centers and Art Units

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Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1610 Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
1620 Organic Chemistry
1630 Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
1640 Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
1650 Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzyme
1660 Plants

About Plant Patents

Plant Patents are granted to an inventor who has invented, or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. If you've ever eaten a pluot, you've enjoyed the fruit of a plant patent.

Plant patent numbers begin with a "PP" followed by a five digit number. The first Plant Patent was issued in 1931. Plant patents are valid for 20 years from the filing date.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1710 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
1720 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
1730 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
1740 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
1760 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
1770 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
1780 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
1790 Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2110 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
2120 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
2130 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
2140/2170 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
2150/2160 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
2180 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
2190 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2410/2460/2470 Multiplex, VoIP
2420 Cable and Television
2430/2490 Cryptography and Security
2440/2450 Computer Networks
2480 Recording and Compression

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2610 Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
2620 Selective Visual Display Systems
2630 Digital and Optical Communications
2640 Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
2650 Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing; Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression
2660 Digital Cameras; Image Analysis; Applications; pattern Recognition; Color and Compression; Enhancement and Transformation
2670 Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory
2680 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
2690 Selective Visual Display Systems

More broadly TC 2800 Art Units cover Semiconductors/Memory, Circuits/Measuring and Testing, Optics/Photocopying, Printing/Measuring and Testing.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2810/2820/2890 Semiconductors/Memory
2830/2840 Electrical Circuits and Systems
2850/2860 Printing/Measuring and Testing
2870/2880 Optics

About Design Patents

The design FOR an article. Not to the design OF an article.

Patents examined here cover Design patents cover the appearance of an article. The design for an article consists of the visual characteristics embodied in or applied to an article. Since a design is manifested in appearance, the subject matter of a design patent application may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation.

Design is inseparable from the article to which it is applied and cannot exist alone merely as a scheme of surface ornamentation. It must be a definite, preconceived thing, capable of reproduction and not merely the chance result of a method.

Design patent numbers begin with a "D" followed by a six digit number. The first Design Patent was issued in 1843. The term of a design patent is 15 years measured from the date of grant, if the design application was filed on or after May 13, 2015 (or 14 years if filed before May 13, 2015).

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3610 Surface Transportation
3620 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
3630 Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
3640 Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
3650 Material and Article Handling
3660 Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
3670 Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
3680 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
3690 Business Methods — Finance/Banking/ Insurance

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3710 Amusement and Education Devices
3720 Manufacturing Devices and Processes, Machine Tools and Hand Tools
3730 Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
3740 Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems
3750 Fluid Handling and Dispensing
3760 Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
3770 Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
3780 Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3970 Express Abandonments
3990 Central Reexamination Unit

FedInvent Patents

Each week FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding from the US federal government. We assemble a weekly patent catalog and analyze the inventions, the inventors, and the entities who received the patents. We map the patents back to the agency that funded the R&D that led to the new invention. FedInvent uses the funding opportunity descriptions, the grants, and the contracts that define the research areas of interest, and the R&D policies and priorities of that drove and are driving the funding to organize each week's patents.

ABOUT OUR DATA

The weekly patent catalog includes patents with government interest statements indicating federal funding; and patents where the assignee, the owner of the invention, is the federal government. This includes work on federal grants, work on federal contracts, innovation by Federal Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) funded by Federal Departments and University Affiliated Research Centers funded by DoD.

Not every inventor is a government contractor. There are many inventions conceived and patented by scientists and engineers working for the federal government or serving in the military.

THE NUMBERS MAY NOT MATCH THE NUMBER OF PATENTS WE ANALYZE EACH WEEK

The numbers in the tables presented on this page will not add up to the number of patents granted each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention. Patents and funding have a many-to-many relationship. One patent may have more than one funding grant or contract associated with it. A grant or contract may lead to more than one patent. More than one agency may have funded the inventors or the contract. More than one university or business may have worked together on an invention. When we report the numbers here, we associate a patent with all of the entities and funding that are reflected on the patent and report them to you. This approach presents a more complete picture of what's going on in the federal innovation ecosphere. Put another way, the numbers in the tables presented on this page may not always add up to the number of patents each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention.

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