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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 01, 2008
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| US 07313829 | Serra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Payload Systems, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marco Serra (Lucca, Italy); Timothy Alan Sutherland (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hermanus Stephanus Pretorius (Derry, New Hampshire); Cleveland Arthur Heath (Medfield, Massachusetts); Jerrell Edward Jarvis (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealing device for a body suit and a sealing method utilize a reactive seal that incorporates a swelling polymer activated upon contact with a fluid medium, such as water. The reactive seal can be embodied in a neck seal, wrist seal, or ankle seal of the body suit, where the reactive seal is designed to be loose and comfortable to wear, only exerting sealing pressure when needed. The swelling polymer can be a superabsorbent hydrogel such as a blend of polyacrylate polymer with poly-anionic beads (PAB). In one application, a 50/50 blend of polyacrylate and PAB is used, such that the reactive seal can autonomously tighten within about 10 to 15 seconds. The device and method can be used in various other applications to form a seal for preventing the passage of fluid from one volume to another. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264187 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/2.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07313881 | Gieseke 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) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Mystic, Connecticut); Nicholas Bitsakis (Seekonk, Massachusetts); Benoit G. Gauthier (Little Compton, Rhode Island); Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A pneumatic launcher has a plenum chamber section, an intermediate chamber section and a launch tube section connected together in a generally linear arrangement. The plenum chamber section defines a plenum chamber that has a closed end and an open end. The intermediate chamber section has aft and forward rupture disks consecutively arranged to define an intermediate chamber. The plenum chamber is pressurized with a pressurized gas to a design plenum pressure and the intermediate chamber is pressurized with a pressurized gas to pressure that is about one-half the design plenum pressure. The intermediate chamber is then depressurizing to produce a pressure imbalance between the plenum and intermediate chambers that causes said aft and forward rupture disks to rupture. As a result, pressure equilibrium occurs between the plenum chamber and launch tube thereby discharging the fluid and projectile from the interior of the launch tube. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985082 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/1.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07313976 | Swain et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Swain (Melbourne, Florida); Arthur Touzot (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The dynamic testing of materials in moving solutions, such as anti-fouling paint in seawater, is conducted in a cylindrical tank. A stirrer having a drive shaft and one or more paddles or blades is driven by a variable speed motor to rotate and to impart rotational velocity to a liquid, which passes over the test materials which are attached to the periphery of the tank. The flow conditions over the surface can be well characterized. The surface of the test materials may be instrumented to measure physical, chemical and hydrodynamic conditions. The energy required for testing is reduced over prior art techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973028 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/865.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314006 | Georgantzis 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) | Peter Georgantzis (East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania); Hugh D. MacMillan (Stanhope, New Jersey); Brian A. Levine (Jersey City, New Jersey); Henry E. Hudgins (Lords Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonlethal canister tank round comprising a cartridge having a combustible case and containing propellant; a canister projectile attached to the cartridge, the canister projectile being generally cylindrical, comprising high density polyurethane foam and including a body and a cap for closing an open end of the body, the body defining a payload space therein; and a payload disposed in the payload space, the payload comprising one of rubber balls, fin stabilized projectiles, an inert material and fillable fin stabilized projectiles. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162678 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/498 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314520 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Powell (Apex, North Carolina); Mark Brady (Carrboro, North Carolina); Stephen G. Mueller (Durham, North Carolina); Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina); Robert T. Leonard (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A high quality single crystal wafer of SiC is disclosed having a diameter of at least about 3 inches and a 1 c screw dislocation density of less than about 2000 cm−2. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957806 |
| 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 117/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314521 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Powell (Apex, North Carolina); Mark Brady (Carrboro, North Carolina); Robert Tyler Leonard (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A high quality single crystal wafer of SiC is disclosed having a diameter of at least about 100 mm and a micropipe density of less than about 25 cm−2. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957807 |
| 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 117/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314597 | Haupt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Gerald Haupt (San Diego, California); James Ha (San Diego, California); David Rose (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical agent detector with a lesser demand sensor, a greater demand sensor, an inlet; and a manifold; and methods associated therewith. The manifold is positioned between the inlet and the sensors, and includes a first intake associated with the lesser demand sensor, a second intake associated with a greater demand sensor, and at least one restrictor. The first intake is placed closer to the inlet than the second intake, and the second intake is isolated from the inlet by at least one restrictor within the manifold. The intakes and restrictor are sized and positioned such that the ratio between: the conductance of the path from the inlet to the greater demand sensor to the conductance of the path between the sensors effectively isolates the lesser demand sensor from the effects of the greater demand sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842436 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314624 | Baker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Baker (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tarek Hamouda (Milan, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for the stimulation of immune responses. Specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions for the use of nanoemulsion compounds as mucosal adjuvants to induce immunity against environmental pathogens. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the present invention provides nanoemulsion vaccines comprising a nanoemulsion and an inactivated pathogen or protein derived from the pathogen. The present invention thus provides improved vaccines against a variety of environmental and human-released pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/162970 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314646 | Sawyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Florida); David Lawrence Burris (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material having superior tribological properties includes a first polymer being a transfer film forming polymer and a second polymer mixed with the first polymer. The first polymer is at least 10 weight % of the composite and the composite provides a wear rate of <10−7 mm3/Nm and an average friction coefficient of said composite no more than 0.15. The first polymer can be PTFE and the second polymer a polyaryletherketone (e.g., PEEK). A method of forming composites includes the steps of providing a plurality of transfer film forming polymer particles and second polymer particles, and molding or extruding the particles at a temperature sufficient to allow softening and mobilization of at least one of the transfer film forming polymer particles and the plurality of strengthening phase polymer particles to form an interconnected network, wherein the composite formed provides a wear rate of <10−7 mm3/Nm. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914615 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314735 | Goodson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Governement of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy J. Goodson (Madison, Wisconsin); Margaret McFall-Ngai (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jennifer Kimbell (Honolulu, Hawaii); Joseph Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Ryan Kramer (Kettering, Ohio); Rajesh R. Naik (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of reflectin proteins is identified herein that is deposited in flat, structural platelets in reflective tissues of the squid Euprymna scolopes. These proteins are encoded by at least six genes in three subfamilies and have no reported homologues outside of squids. Reflectins possess 5 repeating domains, that are remarkably conserved among members of the family. The proteins have a highly unusual composition with four relatively rare residues (tyrosine, methionine, arginine, and tryptophan) comprising ˜57% of a reflectin, and several common residues (alanine, isoleucine, leucine, and lysine) occurring in none of the family members. These protein-based reflectors in squids provide a striking example of nanofabrication in animal systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070723 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314755 | Hand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Hand (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Michael A. Menze (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for reliably stabilizing eukaryotic cells that express the P2X7 receptor channel, particularly mammalian and other vertebrate cells, including human cells, for example mammalian macrophages, or hematopoietic stem cells, in order to introduce otherwise membrane-impermeable compounds that are helpful for stabilizing the cells during drying, chilling, freezing, freeze-drying, or cryopreservation. The cells are exposed to extracellular ATP in concentration sufficient to open pores in the plasma membrane. One or more otherwise membrane-impermeable compounds that aid the survivorship of cells are then introduced, for example, trehalose, and after a brief time the pores are closed—for example, by adding divalent cations, or by diluting the extracellular solution. Once the trehalose or other stabilizing compound has been introduced, the cells may be stably preserved. By taking advantage of an endogenous mammalian receptor and ATP, no antigenic compounds need be introduced. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965039 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314773 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Jiangeng Xue (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method which lower the series resistance of photosensitive devices includes providing a transparent film of a first electrically conductive material arranged on a transparent substrate; depositing and patterning a mask over the first electrically conductive material, such that openings in the mask have sloping sides which narrow approaching the substrate; depositing a second electrically conductive material directly onto the first electrically conductive material exposed in the openings of the mask, at least partially filling the openings; stripping the mask, leaving behind reentrant structures of the second electrically conductive material which were formed by the deposits in the openings of the mask; after stripping the mask, depositing a first organic material onto the first electrically conductive material in between the reentrant structures; and directionally depositing a third electrically conductive material over the first organic material deposited in between the reentrant structures, edges of the reentrant structures aligning deposition so that the third electrically conductive material does not directly contact the first electrically conductive material, and does not directly contact the second electrically conductive material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205122 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314777 | DCamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon B. DCamp (Savage, Minnesota); Harlan L. Curtis (Champlin, Minnesota); Lori A. Dunaway (New Hope, Minnesota); Max C. Glenn (Chanhassen, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated process for performing MEMS packaging including automatically attaching a die to a chip carrier, resulting in a chip carrier assembly, automatically moving the chip carrier assembly into a vacuum chamber, wherein the vacuum chamber includes one or more lids therein, automatically securing a lid to the chip carrier assembly within the vacuum chamber, thereby forming a packaged die, and automatically removing the packaged die from the vacuum chamber. Unique vacuum chambers suitable for MEMS packaging are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988799 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314799 | Merrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc. (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Neil Merrett (Starkville, Mississippi); Igor Sankin (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Junction field-effect transistors with vertical channels and self-aligned regrown gates and methods of making these devices are described. The methods use techniques to selectively grow and/or selectively remove semiconductor material to form a p-n junction gate along the sides of the channel and on the bottom of trenches separating source fingers. Methods of making bipolar junction transistors with self-aligned regrown base contact regions and methods of making these devices are also described. The semiconductor devices can be made in silicon carbide. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293261 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/268 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314801 | Kiesel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California); Oliver Schmidt (Palo Alto, California); Arnd Willy Walter Geis (Menlo Park, California); Noble Marshall Johnson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device including a metal oxide layer, a channel area of the metal oxide layer, a preservation layer formed on the channel area of the metal oxide layer, and at least two channel contacts coupled to the channel area of the metal oxide layer, and a method of forming the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/313341 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314926 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Antisoma Research Limited (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald M. Miller (Louisville, Kentucky); Paula J. Bates (Louisville, Kentucky); John O. Trent (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for inhibiting the proliferation of malignant and/or hyperplastic cells in a subject by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a guanosine rich oligonucleotide. The present invention also provides oligonucleotides which are capable of being specifically bound to a specific cellular protein which is nucleolin and/or nucleolin-like in nature, which is implicated in the proliferation of cells, specifically malignant and/or hyperplastic cells, and a method for their selection. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/958251 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314941 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); ZettaCore, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert S. Loewe (Morrisville, North Carolina); Kannan Muthukumaran (Raleigh, North Carolina); Arounaguiry Ambroise (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a phosphono-substituted dipyrromethane comprises reacting an aldehyde or acetal having at least one phosphono group substituted thereon with pyrrole to produce a phosphono-substituted dipyrromethane; and wherein the phosphono is selected from the group consisting of dialkyl phosphono, diaryl phosphono, and dialkylaryl phosphono. Additional methods, intermediates and products are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553542 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315222 | Freeman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Will Freeman (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An impedance matching feed is disclosed for use in a ridge waveguide which allows a coaxial transmission line, generally having an impedance of fifty ohm, to be matched to a ridge waveguide of arbitrary impedance. The matching feed consist of a transformer which is located inside the ridge of the waveguide, a probe and a quarter wave choke. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183222 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315277 | Henderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Henderson (Ellicott City, Maryland); Mark A. Asher (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system and method for reducing a bit-depth requirement for an A/D converter in a GPS receiver having an antenna for receiving an analog input signal and a low noise amplifier for amplifying the input signal, comprising a filter for filtering about a bandwidth B the amplified signal; a down-conversion module centering the frequency of the filtered signal about a center frequency f0; an automatic gain controller (AGC) for setting a set point of the input signal; an adder for adding noise to the gain controlled signal, said noise based upon the bandwidth B and center frequency f0; and an analog to digital (A/D) converter for converting the added noise signal to a digital signal, wherein the noise added to the gain controlled signal reduces the bit depth requirement of the A/D converter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425271 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315372 | Billard 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) | Barton D. Billard (Fredericksburg, Virginia); William Baedke (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Imaging systems may include a light source that directs light towards a scattering medium. A digital imaging system receives transmitted light that is transmitted through the scattering medium substantially without being scattered, and also receives multiple components of scattered light that are passed through the scattering medium after being scattered. The digital imaging system then outputs image intensity information related to the transmitted light and the scattered light. An imaging controller determines a property of the scattering medium, based on spatial correlations related to the image intensity information. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251536 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315426 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong Koo Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Zhijun Sun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher C. Capelli (Kenosha, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano-optic device comprises a plurality of subwavelength apertures in a metal film or between metal islands. The device is adapted to shape a radiation beam transmitted there through. For example, beam shaping includes at least one of beam focusing, beam bending and beam collimating. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001154 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315485 | Stack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Stack (Panama City Beach, Florida); Gerald Dobeck (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of determining a classification of at least one underwater object is provided. The method includes generating at least one low-resolution imagery of an object from a plurality of frequencies produced by a detection device and extracting at least 5 characteristics of the object within the low-resolution imagery at each of the plurality of frequencies. The method further includes generating at least 15 features from the at least 5 characteristics and classifying the features to determine the identity of the at least one underwater object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/326672 |
| 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 367/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315679 | Hochberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Hochberg (Pasadena, California); Tom Baehr-Jones (Pasadena, California); Chris I. Walker (Pasadena, California); Jeremy Witzens (Pasadena, California); Lawrence C. Gunn (Altadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiment comprise silicon-on-insulator waveguide designs that simultaneously achieve both high optical confinement, low-loss, and provide for electrical connections. In certain embodiments, high index contrast waveguides comprise a central elongate waveguide portion and a segmented portion comprising a single thin layer of Silicon-On-Insulator that achieves both high optical confinement and minimal insertion loss. Other devices, such as chemical and biological sensors, and optical elements may also be fabricated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146940 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
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| US 07315801 | Dowd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Secure Computing Corporation (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Dowd (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Thomas R. Markham (Anoka, Minnesota); Tomo Foote-Lennox (Maple Grove, Minnesota); David Apostal (Roseville, Minnesota); Raymond Lu (Shoreview, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A network security modeling system which simulates a network and analyzes security vulnerabilities of the network. The system includes a simulator which includes a network vulnerabilities database and a network configuration module having network configuration data. The simulator determines vulnerabilities of the simulated network based on the network configuration data and the vulnerabilities database. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/483127 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315815 | Gersho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Gersho (Goleta, California); Vladimir Cuperman (Goleta, California); Tian Wang (Goleta, California); Kazuhito Koishida (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced low-bit rate parametric voice coder that groups a number of frames from an underlying frame-based vocoder, such as MELP, into a superframe structure. Parameters are extracted from the group of underlying frames and quantized into the superframe which allows the bit rate of the underlying coding to be reduced without increasing the distortion. The speech data coded in the superframe structure can then be directly synthesized to speech or may be transcoded to a format so that an underlying frame-based vocoder performs the synthesis. The superframe structure includes additional error detection and correction data to reduce the distortion caused by the communication of bit errors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/401068 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315858 | Potok et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Mark Thomas Elmore (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Joel Wesley Reed (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jim N. Treadwell (Louisville, Tennessee); Nagiza Faridovna Samatova (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources (14, 51) according to respective maps (52) of the information sources (14), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents (26, 53) and storing the XML-language documents in a storage medium, searching for documents (55) according to a search query (13) having at least one term and identifying the documents (26) found in the search, and displaying the documents as nodes (33) of a tree structure (32) having links (34) and nodes (33) so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265974 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/6 |
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| US H2208 | Stytz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin R. Stytz (Beavercreek, Ohio); Sheila B. Banks (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An intelligent agent-accomplished detection and tracking system responsive to sensed characteristics in a cloud of chemical or biological warfare agent(s) dispersed over a geographic area of the earth. The intelligent agent elements of the invention provide an organized and repeated comparison of signal data extracted from overhead dispersed conventional sensors of the chemical or biological agent material and accomplish communication with other agents and the outside world using a common flexible communication language. The intelligent agent elements are disposed in hierarchical arrays having at least lower level, mid level and upper level locations and are inclusive of multiple path forward and feedback agent communications. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336301 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/12 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herman Buschke (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for assessing episodic memory in a subject. Also provided are methods for assessing semantic memory in a subject. The present invention further provides methods for screening for an agent directed to treating, slowing down the progress of, attenuating the symptoms of, or preventing dementia characterized by episodic memory impairment. Additionally, the present invention provides methods for screening for an agent directed to treating, slowing down the progress of, attenuating the symptoms of, or preventing dementia characterized by semantic memory impairment. Finally, the present invention provides methods for measuring semantic memory in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/350155 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/300 |
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| US 07314550 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isiah M. Warner (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida); Constantina P. Kapnissi (Nicolia, Cyprus) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric surfactants (molecular micelles) are disclosed for use in open tubular capillary electrochromatography or in high performance liquid chromatography. For example, fused silica capillaries are coated with thin films of charged polymers in a polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM). A PEM coating may be formed in situ by alternate rinses with positive and negative polyelectrolytes. At least the innermost of the negatively charged polymer layers is a molecular micelle. Prototype embodiments have successfully separated seven benzodiazepines from one another. The run-to-run, day-to-day, week-to-week and capillary-to-capillary reproducibilities were very good, with relative standard deviation values less than 0.01. The PEM-coated capillary was very robust over at least 200 runs. Stability against high and low pH values was also observed. Using chiral polymerized micelles, chiral separations may be achieved, as was demonstrated with a separation of the enantiomers of 1,1′-binaphthyl-2,2′-dihydrogenphosphate. Alternatively, layers for use in this invention may be formed from zwitterionic polymers in lieu of separate cationic and anionic layers. Zwitterionic polymer layers may be used either with or without molecular micelles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283471 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
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| US 07314609 | Elmaleh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Elmaleh (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel imaging agents for clinical diagnosis of injuries and diseases, in the form of a radionuclide in spatial proximity to a substantially pure stereoisomer of a fatty acid analog. The invention also provides methods for using the novel imaging agents, and kits containing one or more of the novel imaging agents of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/274505 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.890 |
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| US 07314615 | Karin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Karin (San Diego, California); Joseph A. DiDonato (Westlake, Ohio); David M. Rothwarf (La Jolla, California); Makio Hayakawa (Tokyo, Japan); Ebrahim Zandi (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding IκB kinase (IKK) catalytic subunit polypeptides, which are associated with an IKK serine protein kinase that phosphorylates a protein (IκB) that inhibits the activity of the NF-κB transcription factor, vectors comprising such nucleic acid molecules and host cells containing such vectors. In addition, the invention provides nucleotide sequences that can bind to a nucleic acid molecule of the invention, such nucleotide sequences being useful as probes or as antisense molecules. The invention also provides isolated IKK catalytic subunits, which can phosphorylate an IκB protein, and peptide portions of such IKK subunit. In addition, the invention provides anti-IKK antibodies, which specifically bind to an IKK complex or an IKK catalytic subunit, and IKK-binding fragments of such antibodies. The invention further provides methods of substantially purifying an IKK complex, methods of identifying an agent that can alter the association of an IKK complex or an IKK catalytic subunit with a second protein, and methods of identifying proteins that can interact with an IKK complex or an IKK catalytic subunit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739821 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07314618 | Econs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Research and Technology Institute (Indianapolis, Indiana); Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtat Munchen (Munich, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Econs (Indianapolis, Indiana); Ken White (Carmel, Indiana); Tim Matthias Strom (Munich, Germany); Thomas Meitinger (Munich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies that bind to FGF23 polypeptides and to FGF23 mutant polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/379334 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07314623 | Grusby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Grusby (Newton, Massachusetts); Andrea Wurster (Arlington, Massachusetts); Deborah Young (Melrose, Massachusetts); Mary Collins (Natick, Massachusetts); Matthew Whitters (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for modulating T helper (Th) cell development and function using modulators of IL-21, e.g., human IL-21, activity or level. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620169 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07314625 | FitzGerald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. FitzGerald (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides chimeric proteins comprising a non-toxic Pseudomonas exotoxin A sequence and a Type IV pilin loop sequence, wherein the Type IV loop sequence is inserted within the non-toxic Pseudomonas exotoxin A. The invention also provides polynucleotides encoding the chimeric proteins, and compositions comprising the polynucleotides or the chimeric proteins. The invention also provides methods for using the chimeric proteins, polynucleotides and compositions of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/432412 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
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| US 07314631 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Rockville, Maryland); Anna P. Durbin (Takoma Park, Maryland); Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Tao Tao (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric parainfluenza viruses (PIVs) are provided that incorporate a PIV vector genome or antigenome and one or more antigenic determinant(s) of a heterologous PIV or non-PIV pathogen. These chimeric viruses are infectious and attenuated in humans and other mammals and are useful in vaccine formulations for eliciting and immune responses against one or more PIVs, or against a PIV and non-PIV pathogen. Also provided are isolated polynucleotide molecules and vectors incorporating a chimeric PIV genome or antigenome which includes a partial or complete PIV vector genome or antigenome combined or integrated with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) encoding antigenic determinant(s) of a heterologous PIV or non-PIV pathogen. In preferred aspects of the invention, chimeric PIV incorporate a partial or complete human PIV vector genome or antigenome combined with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) from a heterologous PIV or non-PIV pathogen, wherein the chimeric virus is attenuated for use as a vaccine agent by any of a variety of mutations and nucleotide modifications introduced into the chimeric genome or antigenome. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/458813 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
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| US 07314632 | Fitzgerald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Fitzgerald (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides Pseudomonas exotoxin A-like chimeric immunogens that include a non-native epitope in the Ib domain of Pseudomonas exotoxin. Methods of eliciting an immune response using these immunogens also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/462682 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/236.100 |
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| US 07314709 | Marnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence J. Marnett (Nashville, Tennessee); Jeffery J. Prusakiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Kevin R. Kozak (Nashville, Tennessee); Philip J. Kingsley (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting an activity of a COX-2 enzyme in a subject that includes obtaining a sample of the subject; detecting an amino acid eicosanoid metabolite in the sample, wherein the presence of the amino acid eicosanoid metabolite indicates the activity of the COX-2 enzyme of the subject. Preferably the amino acid eicosanoid metabolite is a PGH2-Gly or HETE-Gly metabolite. The metabolite may be detected based on metabolism of a COX-2-selective substrate. Preferably, the substrate is a lipoamino acid. More preferably, the lipoamino acid is selected from NAGly, N-arachidonyl-alanine, and δ-arachidonyl aminobutuyic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/213633 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07314712 | Storici et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesca Storici (Durham, North Carolina); Lysle Kevin Lewis (San Marcos, Texas); Michael A. Resnick (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides several methods to generate nucleic acid mutations in vivo, for instance in such a way that no heterologous sequence is retained after the mutagenesis is complete. The methods employ integrative recombinant oligonucleotides (IROs). Specific examples of the described mutagenesis methods enable site-specific point mutations, deletions, and insertions. Also provided are methods that enable multiple rounds of mutation and random mutagenesis in a localized region. The described methods are applicable to any organism that has a homologous recombination system. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/484989 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07314723 | Zwiebel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence J. Zwiebel (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying agents which modulate mosquito odorant receptors. The methods disclosed herein use genetic material of mosquito odorant receptors to express those receptors in a foreign host system in which the endogenous receptors have been removed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/954778 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07314725 | Drayna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Drayna (Potomac, Maryland); Un-Kyung Kim (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Mark Leppert (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic and amino acid sequences of a taste cell receptor that serves as a sensor for the bitter taste of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), antibodies to such PTC taste receptor, methods of detecting such nucleic and amino acid sequences, and methods of screening for modulators of such PTC taste receptor. |
| FILED | Friday, July 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/484525 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 07314733 | Conrad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Conrad (Medford, Massachusetts); Peter Davies (Rye, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid sequence encoding saitohin (STH), an isolated nucleic acid sequence that hybridizes to said sequence, and a purified protein encoded by said nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also provides a purified STH protein, and a method of making STH protein. The present invention is further directed to an antibody specific for STH, and a method for producing said antibody. Additionally, the present invention discloses a vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding STH, a host cell transformed with said vector, and transgenic nonhuman animals. The present invention further provides methods for determining whether a subject has, or is at increased risk for developing, a neurodegenerative disease, and for assessing said subject's prognosis. Finally, the present invention discloses kits for determining whether a subject has, or is at increased risk for developing, a neurodegenerative disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/495545 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07314735 | Goodson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Governement of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy J. Goodson (Madison, Wisconsin); Margaret McFall-Ngai (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jennifer Kimbell (Honolulu, Hawaii); Joseph Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Ryan Kramer (Kettering, Ohio); Rajesh R. Naik (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of reflectin proteins is identified herein that is deposited in flat, structural platelets in reflective tissues of the squid Euprymna scolopes. These proteins are encoded by at least six genes in three subfamilies and have no reported homologues outside of squids. Reflectins possess 5 repeating domains, that are remarkably conserved among members of the family. The proteins have a highly unusual composition with four relatively rare residues (tyrosine, methionine, arginine, and tryptophan) comprising ˜57% of a reflectin, and several common residues (alanine, isoleucine, leucine, and lysine) occurring in none of the family members. These protein-based reflectors in squids provide a striking example of nanofabrication in animal systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070723 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07314736 | Remington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. James Remington (Eugene, Oregon); George T. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides proteins that can be used to determine the redox status of an environment (such as the environment within a cell or subcellular compartment). These proteins are green fluorescent protein (GFP) variants (also referred to as redox sensitive GFP (rosGFP) mutants), which have been engineered to have two cysteine amino acids near the chromophore and within disulfide bonding distance of each other. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules that encode rosGFPs, vectors containing such encoding molecules, and cells transformed therewith. The disclosure further provides methods of using the rosGFPs (and encoding molecules) to analyze the redox status of an environment, such as a cell, or a subcellular compartment within a cell. In certain embodiments, both redox status and pH are analyzed concurrently. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255677 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07314755 | Hand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Hand (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Michael A. Menze (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for reliably stabilizing eukaryotic cells that express the P2X7 receptor channel, particularly mammalian and other vertebrate cells, including human cells, for example mammalian macrophages, or hematopoietic stem cells, in order to introduce otherwise membrane-impermeable compounds that are helpful for stabilizing the cells during drying, chilling, freezing, freeze-drying, or cryopreservation. The cells are exposed to extracellular ATP in concentration sufficient to open pores in the plasma membrane. One or more otherwise membrane-impermeable compounds that aid the survivorship of cells are then introduced, for example, trehalose, and after a brief time the pores are closed—for example, by adding divalent cations, or by diluting the extracellular solution. Once the trehalose or other stabilizing compound has been introduced, the cells may be stably preserved. By taking advantage of an endogenous mammalian receptor and ATP, no antigenic compounds need be introduced. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965039 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/374 |
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| US 07314760 | Cole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC. UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence A Cole (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jaime M Riley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides prenatal screening methods for Down's syndrome. Specifically, the methods of the invention comprise determining the amount of hyperglycosylated human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) charge isoforms in a biological sample from a pregnant woman and comparing the amount of highly acidic and less acidic isoforms with those found in a sample taken from a pregnant woman carrying a normal fetus. The methods of the invention can be employed during any stage of pregnancy. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862791 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/87 |
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| US 07314855 | Ronai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ze'ev Ronai (Suffern, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel therapies for cancer and, in particular, to therapies that are particularly suited to tumor cells resistant to other types of therapies such as radiation, chemotherapy, or combinations of both approaches. The invention provides methods for identifying and implementing strategies to inhibit a transcription factor which, in combination with other factors, renders the cells resistant and inhibits apopotosis of the cells. The invention provides an inhibitory ATF2 N-terminal fragment, specifically a fragment corresponding to amino acid residues 50-100 of ATF2 (termed peptide II). The invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor cell growth with such peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/076905 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07314858 | Lehrer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert I. Lehrer (Santa Monica, California); Alan J. Waring (Irvine, California); Alexander M. Cole (Orlando, Florida); Teresa B. Hong (El Monte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Retrocyclin peptides are small antimicrobial agents with potent activity against bacteria and viruses. The peptides are nonhemolytic, and exhibit minimal in vitro cytotoxicity. A pharmaceutical composition comprising retrocyclin as an active agent is administered therapeutically to a patient suffering from a bacterial and/or viral infection, or to an individual facing exposure to a bacterial and/or viral infection, especially one caused by the HIV-1 retrovirus or other sexually-transmitted pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982145 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07314916 | Singer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Singer (Duarte, California); Ralf Landgraf (Van Nuys, California); Dennis J. Slamon (Woodland Hills, California); David Eisenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provided herein identifies and characterizes the domain in HER3 receptor that interacts with heregulin ligand. Typical embodiments of the invention disclosed herein include HER3 variant polypeptides having amino acid sequences which differ from the native HER3 polypeptide sequence and which have altered affinities for heregulin. Also disclosed herein are methods and materials for identifying compounds that bind to the heregulin binding domain in HER3 as well as methods and materials for modulating the interaction between HER3 and heregulin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/406679 |
| 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 07314917 | Nelsestuen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vitamin K-dependent polypeptides with enhanced membrane binding affinity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate clot formation in mammals. Methods of modulating clot formation in mammals are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828901 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/380 |
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| US 07314921 | Cox, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The growth hormone supergene family comprises greater than 20 structurally related cytokines and growth factors. A general method is provided for creating site-specific, biologically active conjugates of these proteins. The method involves adding cysteine residues to non-essential regions of the proteins or substituting cysteine residues for non-essential amino acids in the proteins using site-directed mutagenesis and then covalently coupling a cysteine-reactive polymer or other type of cysteine-reactive moiety to the proteins via the added cysteine residue. Disclosed herein are preferred sites for adding cysteine residues or introducing cysteine substitutions into the proteins, and the proteins and protein derivatives produced thereby. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866580 |
| 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 530/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314927 | Reed |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel anticode oligomers and methods of using them for controlling the growth of cancer cells expressing the bcl-2 gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/961458 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314929 | Lam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LKT Laboratories, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke K. T. Lam (North Oaks, Minnesota); Nayaz Ahmed (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound containing an alkylene selenocyanate or an alkylene isoselenocyanate moiety effective to prevent the occurrence or progression of cancer or a precancerous condition. The compound can be provided and administered in the form of a pharmaceutical composition, a cosmetic, a food additive, supplement, or the like. Methods for synthesis and use of the chemopreventive compound of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263808 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314959 | Fahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Fahl (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel D. Peebles (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin); Richard C. Copp (Oregon, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel polyamine and amino thiol compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for administration in conjunction with cancer chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The compounds are administered locally to provide protection against the adverse side-effects of chemotherapy or radiation therapy, such as alopecia, mucositis and dermatitis. Pharmaceutical preparations comprising one or more chemoprotective polyamines or amino thiols formulated for topical or local delivery to epithelial or mucosal cells are disclosed. Methods of administering the pharmaceutical preparations are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915089 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315756 | Yarnykh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasily L. Yarnykh (Seattle, Washington); Chun Yuan (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-slice double inversion recovery (DIR) pulse sequence with read out of a signal for imaging successive slices implemented on a magnetic resonance image scanner. In the method, when the DIR pulse sequence is applied before imaging each slice, a slab-selective inversion re-inverts the entire slab that includes all of the slices. All slices are imaged within a predefined repetition time (TR). The number, N, of slices acquired per TR controls the inversion time to execute the read out of the signal for imaging each slice at a zero-crossing point of blood. In a test, multi-slice DIR images of carotid arteries were obtained with N ranging from 2-8, for four subjects. The results were compared with those for both standard single-slice DIR, and inflow saturation techniques. Multi-slice DIR with N=2-6 provided blood flow suppression in carotid arteries similar to that of single-slice DIR, and significantly better than inflow saturation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788937 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph Rightley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for selectively channeling a high temperature fluid without chemically reacting with the fluid. The apparatus includes an inlet and a membrane positioned adjacent to the inlet, each composed of a chemically inert material. The membrane is formed by compressive preloading techniques. The apparatus further includes a seat disposed on the inlet adjacent to the membrane. The seat is composed of a heat resistant and chemically inert material. Operation of the apparatus requires that the temperature of the fluid remains below the chemical characteristic melting point of the seat. The apparatus further includes an actuator coupled to the membrane for rendering the membrane in an open and a closed position with respect to the seat. Specifically, the actuator supplies a load in the normal direction to the membrane to selectively engage the membrane in a plurality of predetermined configurations. Operatively, the apparatus receives the fluid at the inlet. The fluid is received at a high temperature and is directed from the inlet to the membrane. In the closed position, the actuator engages the membrane to prevent the fluid from flowing from the inlet between the membrane and the seat. Alternatively, in the open position, the actuator engages the membrane to permit fluid flow from the inlet between the membrane and the seat to at least one outlet provided by the apparatus. In one exemplary embodiment, the fluid may be discharged from the at least one outlet to a sensor in fluid communication with the at least one outlet. Accordingly, the sensor may measure the fluid channeled through the heat resistant and chemically inert environment provided by the apparatus. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955123 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314505 | Wheeler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick R. Lewis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel E. Trudell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Onium salt chemistry can be used to deposit very uniform thickness stationary phases on the wall of a gas chromatography column. In particular, the stationary phase can be bonded to non-silicon based columns, especially microfabricated metal columns. Non-silicon microfabricated columns may be manufactured and processed at a fraction of the cost of silicon-based columns. In addition, the method can be used to phase-coat conventional capillary columns or silicon-based microfabricated columns. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/156975 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314507 | Ganesan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana Tech of The University of Montana (Butte, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kumar Ganesan (Butte, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A metallic filter effectively removes mercury vapor from gas streams. The filter captures the mercury which then can be released and collected as product. The metallic filter is a copper mesh sponge plated with a six micrometer thickness of gold. The filter removes up to 90% of mercury vapor from a mercury contaminated gas stream. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993719 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314569 | Cadena C. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fernando Cadena C. (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Michael D. Johnson (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a method and composition using akaganeite, an iron oxide, as an ion adsorption medium for the removal of arsenic from water and affixing it onto carrier media so that it can be used in filtration systems. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/818552 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/681 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314582 | Beitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James V. Beitz (Hinsdale, Illinois); Clayton W. Williams (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a lanthanide-halide based humidity indicator and method of producing such indicator. The color of the present invention indicates the humidity of an atmosphere to which it is exposed. For example, impregnating an adsorbent support such as silica gel with an aqueous solution of the europium-containing reagent solution described herein, and dehydrating the support to dryness forms a substance with a yellow color. When this substance is exposed to a humid atmosphere the water vapor from the air is adsorbed into the coating on the pore surface of the silica gel. As the water content of the coating increases, the visual color of the coated silica gel changes from yellow to white. The color change is due to the water combining with the lanthanide-halide complex on the pores of the gel. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/839203 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/408.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314682 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Jeom-Soo Kim (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An uncycled electrode for a non-aqueous lithium electrochemical cell including a lithium metal oxide having the formula Li(2+2x)/(2+x)M′2x/(2+x)M(2−2x)/(2+x)O2−δ, in which 0≦x<1 and δ is less than 0.2, and in which M is a non-lithium metal ion with an average trivalent oxidation state selected from two or more of the first row transition metals or lighter metal elements in the periodic table, and M′ is one or more ions with an average tetravalent oxidation state selected from the first and second row transition metal elements and Sn. Methods of preconditioning the electrodes are disclosed as are electrochemical cells and batteries containing the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825931 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314684 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U Chicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A positive electrode active material for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries of general formula Li1+xNiαMnβAγO2 and further wherein A is Mg, Zn, Al, Co, Ga, B, Zr, or Ti and 0<x<0.2, 0.1≦α≦0.5, 0.4≦β≦0.6, 0≦γ≦0.1 and a method of manufacturing the same. Such an active material is manufactured by employing either a solid state reaction method or an aqueous solution method or a sol-gel method which is followed by a rapid quenching from high temperatures into liquid nitrogen or liquid helium. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/800292 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314764 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shimon Weiss (Pinole, California); Marcel Bruchez, Jr. (Albany, California); Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal compound is described capable of linking to an affinity molecule. The compound comprises (1) a semiconductor nanocrystal capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation and/or absorbing energy, and/or scattering or diffracting electromagnetic radiation—when excited by an electromagnetic radiation source or a particle beam; and (2) an affinity molecule linked to the semiconductor nanocrystal. The semiconductor nanocrystal is linked to an affinity molecule to form a semiconductor nanocrystal probe capable of bonding with a detectable substance. Exposure of the semiconductor nanocrystal to excitation energy will excite the semiconductor nanocrystal causing the emission of electromagnetic radiation. Further described are processes for respectively: making the luminescent semiconductor nanocrystal compound; making the semiconductor nanocrystal probe; and using the probe to determine the presence of a detectable substance in a material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370656 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314773 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Jiangeng Xue (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method which lower the series resistance of photosensitive devices includes providing a transparent film of a first electrically conductive material arranged on a transparent substrate; depositing and patterning a mask over the first electrically conductive material, such that openings in the mask have sloping sides which narrow approaching the substrate; depositing a second electrically conductive material directly onto the first electrically conductive material exposed in the openings of the mask, at least partially filling the openings; stripping the mask, leaving behind reentrant structures of the second electrically conductive material which were formed by the deposits in the openings of the mask; after stripping the mask, depositing a first organic material onto the first electrically conductive material in between the reentrant structures; and directionally depositing a third electrically conductive material over the first organic material deposited in between the reentrant structures, edges of the reentrant structures aligning deposition so that the third electrically conductive material does not directly contact the first electrically conductive material, and does not directly contact the second electrically conductive material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205122 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314847 | Siriwardane |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranjani V. Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making a granular sorbent to capture carbon dioxide from gas streams comprising homogeneously mixing an alkali metal oxide, alkali metal hydroxide, alkaline earth metal oxide, alkaline earth metal hydroxide, alkali titanate, alkali zirconate, alkali silicate and combinations thereof with a binder selected from the group consisting of sodium ortho silicate, calcium sulfate dihydrate (CaSO4.2H2O), alkali silicates, calcium aluminate, bentonite, inorganic clays and organic clays and combinations thereof and water; drying the mixture and placing the sorbent in a container permeable to a gas stream. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969674 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315141 | Krafft |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey A. Krafft (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the production of extremely wide bandwidth THz radiation comprising: delivering an electron beam from a source to an undulator that does not deflect the angle or transversely move the electron beam; and optimizing the undulator to yield peak emission in the middle of the THz band (1 THz). These objectives are accomplished by magnetically bending the orbit of the incoming electron beam in the undulator according to the function x(z)=xo exp(−z2/2σ2) and controlling the transverse magnetic field to be B(z)=B0(1−z2/σ2)exp(−z2/2σ2). |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204536 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315563 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Smith (London, Tennessee); William B. Dress (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for multicarrier orthogonal spread-spectrum (MOSS) data communication. A method includes individually spread-spectrum modulating at least two of a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed carriers, wherein the resulting individually spread-spectrum modulated at least two of a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed carriers are substantially mutually orthogonal with respect to both frequency division multiplexing and spread-spectrum modulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/726475 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
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| US 07315858 | Potok et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Mark Thomas Elmore (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Joel Wesley Reed (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jim N. Treadwell (Louisville, Tennessee); Nagiza Faridovna Samatova (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources (14, 51) according to respective maps (52) of the information sources (14), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents (26, 53) and storing the XML-language documents in a storage medium, searching for documents (55) according to a search query (13) having at least one term and identifying the documents (26) found in the search, and displaying the documents as nodes (33) of a tree structure (32) having links (34) and nodes (33) so as to indicate similarity of the documents to each other. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265974 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/6 |
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| US 07315877 | Bhanot et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gyan V. Bhanot (Princeton, New Jersey); Dong Chen (Croton-On-Hudson, 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); Pavlos M. Vranas (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present in invention is directed to a method, system and program storage device for efficiently implementing a multidimensional Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of a multidimensional array comprising a plurality of elements initially distributed in a multi-node computer system comprising a plurality of nodes in communication over a network, comprising: distributing the plurality of elements of the array in a first dimension across the plurality of nodes of the computer system over the network to facilitate a first one-dimensional FFT; performing the first one-dimensional FFT on the elements of the array distributed at each node in the first dimension; re-distributing the one-dimensional FFT-transformed elements at each node in a second dimension via “all-to-all” distribution in random order across other nodes of the computer system over the network; and performing a second one-dimensional FFT on elements of the array re-distributed at each node in the second dimension, wherein the random order facilitates efficient utilization of the network thereby efficiently implementing the multidimensional FFT. The “all-to-all” re-distribution of array elements is further efficiently implemented in applications other than the multidimensional FFT on the distributed-memory parallel supercomputer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468998 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/401 |
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| US RE39988 | Wickboldt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Wickboldt (Walnut Creek, California); Paul G. Carey (Mountain View, California); Patrick M. Smith (San Jose, California); Albert R. Ellingboe (Malahide, Ireland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor doping process which enhances the dopant incorporation achievable using the Gas Immersion Laser Doping (GILD) technique. The enhanced doping is achieved by first depositing a thin layer of dopant atoms on a semiconductor surface followed by exposure to one or more pulses from either a laser or an ion-beam which melt a portion of the semiconductor to a desired depth, thus causing the dopant atoms to be incorporated into the molten region. After the molten region recrystallizes the dopant atoms are electrically active. The dopant atoms are deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) or other known deposition techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/768656 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murti V. Salapaka (Ames, Iowa); Tathagata De (Ames, Iowa); Pranav Agarwal (Ames, Iowa); Deepak Ranjan Sahoo (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach to detect when a cantilever loses interaction with a sample, thereby detecting when a portion of an image obtained using a cantilever is spurious is presented. An observer based estimation of cantilever deflection is compared to the cantilever deflection and the resulting innovation is used to detect when the cantilever loses interaction. The loss of interaction is determined when the innovation is outside of and/or below a threshold level. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/419616 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314070 | Jeon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noo Li Jeon (Irvine, California); Stephan K. W. Dertinger (Munich, Germany); Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Insung S. Choi (Daejeon, South Korea); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for treating a fluid. A method for treating a fluid may include combining two or more separate streams into a common stream and then splitting the common stream into a new set of separate streams wherein the separate streams may possess different properties. The separate streams may be combined to produce a gradient, such as a concentration gradient or shear gradient. The apparatus of the invention may provide a network of fluidic channels that may be used to manipulate a fluid to produce, for example, a gradient or a series of solutions containing a substance at varying concentrations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037459 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314550 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isiah M. Warner (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida); Constantina P. Kapnissi (Nicolia, Cyprus) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric surfactants (molecular micelles) are disclosed for use in open tubular capillary electrochromatography or in high performance liquid chromatography. For example, fused silica capillaries are coated with thin films of charged polymers in a polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM). A PEM coating may be formed in situ by alternate rinses with positive and negative polyelectrolytes. At least the innermost of the negatively charged polymer layers is a molecular micelle. Prototype embodiments have successfully separated seven benzodiazepines from one another. The run-to-run, day-to-day, week-to-week and capillary-to-capillary reproducibilities were very good, with relative standard deviation values less than 0.01. The PEM-coated capillary was very robust over at least 200 runs. Stability against high and low pH values was also observed. Using chiral polymerized micelles, chiral separations may be achieved, as was demonstrated with a separation of the enantiomers of 1,1′-binaphthyl-2,2′-dihydrogenphosphate. Alternatively, layers for use in this invention may be formed from zwitterionic polymers in lieu of separate cationic and anionic layers. Zwitterionic polymer layers may be used either with or without molecular micelles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283471 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314723 | Zwiebel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence J. Zwiebel (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying agents which modulate mosquito odorant receptors. The methods disclosed herein use genetic material of mosquito odorant receptors to express those receptors in a foreign host system in which the endogenous receptors have been removed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/954778 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314735 | Goodson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Governement of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy J. Goodson (Madison, Wisconsin); Margaret McFall-Ngai (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jennifer Kimbell (Honolulu, Hawaii); Joseph Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Ryan Kramer (Kettering, Ohio); Rajesh R. Naik (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of reflectin proteins is identified herein that is deposited in flat, structural platelets in reflective tissues of the squid Euprymna scolopes. These proteins are encoded by at least six genes in three subfamilies and have no reported homologues outside of squids. Reflectins possess 5 repeating domains, that are remarkably conserved among members of the family. The proteins have a highly unusual composition with four relatively rare residues (tyrosine, methionine, arginine, and tryptophan) comprising ˜57% of a reflectin, and several common residues (alanine, isoleucine, leucine, and lysine) occurring in none of the family members. These protein-based reflectors in squids provide a striking example of nanofabrication in animal systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070723 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314758 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Peter Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Newark, Delaware); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA). |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327740 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315041 | Fong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching Yao Fong (Davis, California); Meichun Qian (Davis, California); Lin H. Yang (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a switching device that can vary a spin-polarized current based on an input signal. The switching device comprises a first conducting region, a second conducting region, and a half-metal region interposed between the first conducting region and the second conducting region. The half-metal region comprises a material which, at the intrinsic Fermi level, has substantially zero available electronic states in a minority spin channel. Changing the voltage of the half-metal region with respect to the first conducting region moves its Fermi level with respect to the electron energy bands of the first conducting region, which changes the number of available electronic states in the majority spin channel, and in doing so, changes the majority-spin polarized current passing through the switching device. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134002 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315303 | Guskov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Guskov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrei Khodakovsky (Pasadena, California); Peter Schröder (Pasadena, California); Wim Sweldens (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a hybrid mesh representation of an object surface is provided, along with the hybrid mesh representation and data structures corresponding to various polygons in the hybrid mesh representation. The hybrid mesh representation comprises a base mesh and one or more higher level meshes. At least one of the higher level meshes representing a patch is an irregular mesh. The method of forming the hybrid mesh representation comprises the steps of forming a base mesh, and then forming one or more higher level meshes from the base mesh through one or more regular refinement operations in combination with at least one irregular operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977555 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07313925 | Tilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isothermal Systems Research, Inc. (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Tilton (Colton, Washington); Jeff Weiler (Liberty Lake, Washington); Randal T. Palmer (Liberty Lake, Washington); Philip W. Appel (Liberty Lake, Washington); Paul A. Knight (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomizer for thermal management system for efficiently thermally managing one or more heat producing devices. The atomizer for thermal management system includes a housing having a coolant passage and a dispensing end, an orifice within the dispensing end, and an actuator manipulating a plunger within the housing. The plunger includes a head that is sealable within a recessed portion of the orifice to open or close the orifice. The coolant passes through the coolant passage into the orifice for spraying upon a heat producing device. The actuator may reciprocate so that the coolant spray emitted through the orifice is pulsating. The pulsing frequency may be increased to increase cooling or decreased to decrease cooling of the heat producing device. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861333 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/259.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314648 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Stewart (Santa Cruz, California); Daniel B. Leiser (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite thermal protection structure, for applications such as atmospheric re-entry vehicles, that can withstand temperatures as high as 3600° F. The structure includes an exposed surface cap having a specially formulated coating, an insulator base adjacent to the cap with another specially formulated coating, and one or more pins that extend from the cap through the insulator base to tie the cap and base together, through ceramic bonding and mechanical attachment. The cap and insulator base have corresponding depressions and projections that mate and allow for differences in thermal expansion of the cap and base. A thin coating of a reaction cured glass formulation is optionally provided on the structure to allow reduce oxidization and/or to reduce catalytic efficiency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911747 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315644 | Macy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Macy (St. Peters, Missouri); Robert B. Luecking (Titusville, Florida); Ronald P. Marsden (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for providing a means for identifying recovered component parts of a destroyed assembly quickly and relatively easily using digital or electronic scanning techniques and comparison to virtual components that are presumed to have constituted the original assembly. The method also provides a means for digitally rigging the component parts in three-dimensional virtual space, thereby minimizing and, in some situations, possibly eliminating any need to physical rig the component parts. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631151 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315678 | Siegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute Of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Siegel (La Canada, California); Cavour Yeh (Los Angeles, California); Fred Shimabukuro (Rancho Palos Verde, California); Scott Fraser (La Canada-Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of radio-frequency (RF) waveguides. More specifically, the present invention pertains to a method and apparatus that provides ultra-low-loss RF waveguide structures targeted between approximately 300 GHz and approximately 30 THz. The RF waveguide includes a hollow core and a flexible honeycomb, periodic-bandgap structure surrounding the hollow core. The flexible honeycomb, periodic-bandgap structure is formed of a plurality of tubes formed of a dielectric material such as of low-loss quartz, polyethylene, or high-resistivity silicon. Using the RF waveguide, a user may attach a terahertz signal source to the waveguide and pass signals through the waveguide, while a terahertz signal receiver receives the signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/300639 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07315758 | Kwiatkowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof C. Kwiatkowski (College Station, Texas); Ryan T. Hayes (College Station, Texas); James W. Magnuson (College Station, Texas); Anthony Giletto (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for the transdermal delivery of a therapeutic agent to a biological subject that includes a first electrode comprising a first array of electrically conductive microprojections for providing electrical communication through a skin portion of the subject to a second electrode comprising a second array of electrically conductive microprojections. Additionally, a reservoir for holding the therapeutic agent surrounding the first electrode and a pulse generator for providing an exponential decay pulse between the first and second electrodes may be provided. A method includes the steps of piercing a stratum corneum layer of skin with two arrays of conductive microprojections, encapsulating the therapeutic agent into biocompatible charged carriers, surrounding the conductive microprojections with the therapeutic agent, generating an exponential decay pulse between the two arrays of conductive microprojections to create a non-uniform electrical field and electrokinetically driving the therapeutic agent through the stratum corneum layer of skin. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860557 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07313917 | Yeghiazarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lilit L. Yeghiazarian (Los Angeles, California); Ulrich Wiesner (Ithaca, New York); Carlo D. Montemagno (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Movement of a gel structure is propagated by successively applying external stimuli to cause volume phase transition in the gel structure by alternately causing the gel structure to collapse and swell to move the center of mass of the gel structure in the direction of successive stimuli application. The movement is mediated by confining structure for the gel and anchoring—the starting side of the gel in the swelling cycle. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/880602 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314562 | Svirklys et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3R Foam LLC (Gaston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Svirklys (Ontario, Canada); Dennis Shanklin (Gaston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Floating wetland structures of the invention are generally formed from one or more floatation panels made of a plurality of polymeric foam particles arranged in a piled laminate structure. The foam particles are arranged within the piled laminate structure so as to define void pathways between at least a portion of said foam particles. The void pathways within the piled laminate structure are of sufficient size and quantity to allow rainwater to flow through and of such an orientation to allow for the roots of vegetation to easily penetrate the structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116499 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314758 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Peter Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Newark, Delaware); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA). |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327740 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07314906 | Kiely et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Kiely (Missoula, Montana); Kylie Kramer (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing high molecular weight stereoregular head, tail-poly(alkylene D-glucaramides) is described. Amidoamino acids are esterified in cold alcohol and then polymerized in a protic solvent to form steroregular prepolymers. The prepolymers are then further polymerized by dissolving them in a solvent to form larger, purer postpolymers. Compositions of matter prepared using the subject method are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/734417 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07314382 | Nolan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zyvex Labs, LLC (Richardson, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Nolan (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus including a positioner that is transitional from a first positioner orientation towards a second positioner orientation and that comprises a bistable member having a first substantially stable state corresponding to the first positioner orientation and a second substantially stable state corresponding to the second positioner orientation. The apparatus also includes a coupler that is transitional from a first coupler orientation towards a second coupler orientation in response to transition of the bistable-member. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/131760 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07314552 | Minevski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zoran Minevski (The Woodlands, Texas); Jason Maxey (College Station, Texas); Carl Nelson (College Station, Texas); Dylan Taylor (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The method for separating ferrate salts from a solution comprising providing contact between the solution of essentially of aqueous hydroxide and the ferrate salts and a surface having a magnetic attraction, magnetically securing the ferrate salts to the surface; and eliminating contact between the solution and the surface. Contact is provided by immersing the surface in the solution, passing the liquid ferrate mixture over the surface, or combinations thereof. The magnetic attraction may be induced by permanent magnets, electromagnets, and combinations thereof. The apparatus for ferrate production comprises an electrochemical cell having an iron-containing anode, cathode, and an aqueous hydroxide solution in fluid communication with both the anode and the cathode, and a magnetic separator in fluid communication with the aqueous hydroxide solution for separating ferrate salts from the aqueous hydroxide solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116486 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07314736 | Remington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. James Remington (Eugene, Oregon); George T. Hanson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides proteins that can be used to determine the redox status of an environment (such as the environment within a cell or subcellular compartment). These proteins are green fluorescent protein (GFP) variants (also referred to as redox sensitive GFP (rosGFP) mutants), which have been engineered to have two cysteine amino acids near the chromophore and within disulfide bonding distance of each other. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules that encode rosGFPs, vectors containing such encoding molecules, and cells transformed therewith. The disclosure further provides methods of using the rosGFPs (and encoding molecules) to analyze the redox status of an environment, such as a cell, or a subcellular compartment within a cell. In certain embodiments, both redox status and pH are analyzed concurrently. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255677 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07315306 | Bobrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Bobrow (Arlington, Massachusetts); R. Bruce Roberts (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Colin Ware (Durham, New Hampshire); Ronald Pickett (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one example, icons in a link-analysis display that represent data objects satisfying a selection criterion are made to execute distinctive motion. In another example, three-dimensional models of moving bodies in whose features components of respective data objects are encoded are projected onto a screen plane, and the resultant values are used to generate the display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431338 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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