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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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| US 07320785 | Greengard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Greengard (New York, New York); Per Svenningsson (New York, New York); Sergey V. Rakhilin (Yorktown, New York); Natalia Starkova (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating the phosphorylation of DARPP-32 in a serotonergic receptor intracellular signaling pathway. The invention provides methods and compositions for modulating the activities of DARPP-32, casein kinase 1 (CK1), cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5), AMPA receptors, protein phosphatase-1 (PP-1), protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C), protein phosphatase 2B (PP2B) and/or protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) in cells or tissues. The invention provides methods of treating serotonergic intracellular signaling pathway disorders, e.g., depression. The invention provides methods of treating dopamine-related disorders. The invention provides methods of identifying agents that modulate the activities of serotonergic receptor intracellular signaling molecules, DARPP-32, casein kinase 1, cyclin-dependent kinase 5, AMPA receptors, protein phosphatase-1, protein phosphatase 2C, protein phosphatase 2B and/or protein phosphatase 2A, for use in such treatments. The invention also provides methods of modulating phosphorylation-dependent activation of AMPA receptors for use in such treatments. |
| FILED | Monday, August 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218137 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
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| US 07320787 | Seed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Seed (Boston, Massachusetts); Charles Romeo (Belmont, Massachusetts); Waldemar Kolanus (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of directing a cellular response in a mammal by expressing in a cell of the mammal a chimeric receptor which causes the cells to specifically recognize and destroy an infective agent, a cell infected with an infective agent, a tumor or cancerous cell, or an autoimmune-generated cell. The chimeric receptor includes an extracellular portion which is capable of specifically recognizing and binding the target cell or target infective agent, and (b) an intracellular portion of a protein-tyrosine kinase which is capable of signalling the therapeutic cell to destroy a receptor-bound target cell or a receptor-bound target infective agent. Also disclosed are cells which express the chimeric receptors and DNA encoding the chimeric receptors. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/151193 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07320788 | Shan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Celiac Sprue Research Foundation (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lu Shan (Stanford, California); Michael Bethune (Stanford, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Jonathan Gass (Stanford, California); Gail G. Pyle (Stanford, California); Gary Gray (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering an effective dose of glutenase to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969314 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.600 |
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| US 07320795 | Milich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Milich (Escondido, California); Jean-Noel Billaud (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to hepatitis virus core proteins and nucleic acids. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods comprising recombinant hepatitis virus core proteins or nucleic acids for use in vaccine formulations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630070 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/189.100 |
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| US 07320798 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zongtao Zhang (Unionville, Connecticut); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer coating is particularly useful for the coating of implants such as orthopedic and dental implants, particularly metallic implants. The first layer comprises a dense material insoluble and inert in body fluids. The second layer comprises apatite and a binder. The first layer protects the metallic implants from corrosion, apatite dissolution, and interfacial reaction with apatite and the binder. The binder allows adjustment of the thermal expansion coefficient between the coating and the metallic substrate. This multi-layer coating has both high bond strength to implants and excellent bioactivity with the surrounding body tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418626 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
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| US 07320799 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zongtao Zhang (Unionville, Connecticut); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer coating is particularly useful for the coating of implants such as orthopedic and dental implants, particularly metallic implants. The multi-layer coating has both high bond strength to implants and excellent bioactivity with the surrounding body tissue. A method of making a coated implant includes depositing a first layer on a metallic substrate, wherein the first layer comprises a material selected from the group consisting of nitride compounds, boride compounds, carbide compounds, and mixtures of two or more of the foregoing materials; forming at least one slurry comprising an apatite and a binder, wherein the apatite has greater than about 90% crystallinity, and wherein the binder is inert in body fluids; depositing the slurry on the first layer to form a green coating; and sintering the green coating to form a second layer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418871 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
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| US 07320863 | Carrasco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Carrasco (Bronx, New York); Ge Dai (Bronx, New York); Orlie Levy (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a purified and isolated nucleic acid encoding a sodium/iodide symporter. The present invention also provides purified sodium/iodide symporter, a vector comprising nucleic acid encoding sodium/iodide symporter, a host cell transformed with the vector, and a method for producing recombinant sodium/iodide symporter. In addition, the present invention provides nucleic acid probes and mixtures thereof specific for sodium/iodide symporter nucleic acid and antibodies immunoreactive with sodium/iodide symporter. The present invention also provides a method for diagnosing and treating thyroid disorders associated with non-functional sodium/iodide symporter. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for the selective ablation of tissue. The present invention also provides a method for identifying an iodide transport protein in non-thyroid tissue. Finally, the present invention provides a non-human, transgenic model for a thyroid disorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/937239 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07320865 | Barany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Matthew Lubin (Rye Brook, New York); George Barany (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for identifying a target nucleotide sequence. This method involves forming a ligation product on a target nucleotide sequence in a ligase detection reaction mixture, amplifying the ligation product to form an amplified ligation product in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mixture, detecting the amplified ligation product, and identifying the target nucleotide sequence. Such coupling of the ligase detection reaction and the polymerase chain reaction permits multiplex detection of nucleic acid sequence differences. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590384 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07320870 | Laurie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon W. Laurie (Charlottesville, Virginia); Sandhya Sanghi (Temple, Texas); Kumar Rajesh (Temple, Texas); Angela J. Lumsden (Mosman Park, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel lacrimal gland protein (designated lacritin) and the nucleic acid sequences encoding that protein. Lacritin has activity as a growth factor on both human corneal epithelial cells and on the lacrimal acinar cells that produce it. Accordingly, one embodiment of the present invention is directed to the use of lacritin to treat Dry Eye and other disorders requiring the wetting of the eye. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714586 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07320881 | Lasker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent A. Lasker (Atlanta, Georgia); June M. Brown (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are Nocardia farcinica-specific primers comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1-39. Provided is a polynucleotide represented by SEQ ID NO:41 and SEQ ID NO:40. Further provided is a method of identifying a Nocardia farcinica infection in a subject with the primer identified by SEQ ID NO:1-39, or detecting the presence of a polynucleotide consisting of the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:40 or SEQ ID NO:41. Also provided is a method of identifying Nocardia farcinica infection in a subject by amplifying DNA from the subject using a Nocardia farcinica-specific primer comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:1-39. Further provided is a kit for identifying Nocardia farcinica comprising a Nocardia farcinica-specific primer comprising SEQ ID: NO:1-39 and a kit for identifying Nocardia farcinica comprising a Nocardia farcinica specific primer capable of amplifying SEQ ID NO:41. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100338 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
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| US 07320959 | Anderson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Anderson (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for treating structural heart disease in a subject, comprising administering an effective amount of an inhibitor of CaMKII to the subject, whereby the administration of the inhibitor treats the structural heart disease in the subject. Also provided are transgenic animal models for treating structural heart disease. Further provided is a means of screening for a compound that can treat structural heart disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/491323 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07320991 | Figg 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, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Figg (Fairfax, Virginia); Kurt Eger (Leipzig, Germany); Uwe Teubert (Hameln, Germany); Michael Weiss (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael Guetschow (Bonn, Germany); Thomas Hecker (Erfurt, Germany); Sunna Hauschildt (Leipzig, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of thalidomide metabolites having superior anti-angiogenic properties have now been isolated and identified. In addition, thalidomide analogs that mimic the effects of the isolated and identified active thalidomide metabolites, and variations of such thalidomide analogs, have been developed. Such thalidomide analog compounds show enhanced potency in the inhibition of undesirable angiogenesis without the undesirable effects of administration of thalidomide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469359 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/323 |
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| US 07321027 | Mahmood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashfaq Mahmood (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Matthias Friebe (Berlin, Germany); Cristina Bolzati (Ferrara, Italy); Alun G. Jones (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Alan Davison (North Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and related technetium and rhenium complexes thereof which are suitable for imaging or therapeutic treatment of tumors, e.g., carcinomas, melanomas and other tumors. In another embodiment, the invention relates to methods of imaging tumors using radiolabeled metal complexes. Preferred radiolabeled complexes for imaging tumors include technetium and rhenium complexes. The high tumor uptake and significant tumor/nontumor ratios of the technetium complexes of the invention indicate that such small technetium-99m-based molecular probes can be developed as in-vivo diagnostic agents for melanoma and its metastases. In yet another embodiment, the invention relates to methods of treatment of tumors using a radiolabeled metal complex as a radiopharmaceutical agent to treat the tumor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/279214 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/14 |
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| US 07321046 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Youseung Shin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jean-Hugues Fournier (Montreal, Canada); John Mancuso (Montreal, Canada); Billy W. Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Arndt Bruckner (Hallstadt, Germany); Yoshikazu Fukui (Otsu, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Dictyostatin and its analogs show great promise as new anticancer agents. The present invention provides dictyostatin analogs, synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of dictyostatin analogs, and synthetic methods for the synthesis of such analogs and intermediates. Dictyostatin analogs can have the following structure or its enantiomer wherein R1 is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or a halogen atom; R2 is H, a protecting group, an alkyl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; Ra, Rb and Rc are independently an alkyl group or an aryl group; Rd is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxylalkyl group, —RiSiRaRbRc or a benzyl group, wherein Ri is an alkylene group; Re is an alkyl group, an allyl group, a benzyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or —NRgRh, wherein Rg and Rh are independently H, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R3 is (CH2)n where n is and integer in the range of 0 to 5, —CH2CH(CH3)—, —CH═CH—, —CH═C(CH3)—, or —C≡C—; R4 is wherein R23a is H, a protecting group, an alkyl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; R23b is H, a protecting group, an alkyl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe, or R23a and R23b together form a portion of six-membered acetal ring incorporating CRtRu; Rt and Ru are independently H, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an alkoxyaryl group; and R5 is H or OR2b, wherein R2b is H, a protecting group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; provided that the compound is not dictyostatin 1. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139949 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/271 |
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| US 07321065 | Scanlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Scanlan (San Francisco, California); Matthew E. Hart (San Francisco, California); David K. Grandy (Portland, Oregon); James R. Bunzow (Portland, Oregon); Motonori Miyakawa (South San Francisco, California); Edwin Saavedra Tan (San Francisco, California); Katherine L. Suchland (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Thyronamine derivatives and analogs, methods of using such compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are disclosed. Methods of preparing such compounds are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825881 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07320271 | Hintz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Hintz (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a Syntactic Landmine Detector. The syntactic landmine detector processes a received signal from a ground penetrating RADAR which contains at least one spatial sequence, the spatial sequence containing relative spatial information locating impedance discontinuities. The spatial sequence is then associated with at least one physical characteristic of a landmine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247325 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.130 |
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| US 07320285 | Munsinger 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) | Terrence Lane Munsinger (Ridgecrest, California); David L. Riggs (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A safe and arm device and method for a fuze in a bomb utilizing a piston and a drive shaft to rotate a rotor in and out of the safe and armed positions. The piston is operated by a difference in air pressure within the fuze as the bomb leaves its delivery vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100234 |
| 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 12/229 |
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| US 07320338 | Cabuz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugen I. Cabuz (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Jay G. Schwichtenberg (New Hope, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A microvalve assembly that can help protect a microvalve or an assembly of microvalves from the environment. Such a microvalve assembly may be mechanically assembled, without the use of adhesives and/or other materials that might out-gas and/or otherwise reduce the performance of the electrostatically actuated devices contained therein. In particular, a microvalve assembly can include a base fixture, a clamp fixture that is configured to be attached to the base fixture, and an electrostatically actuated microvalve that is disposed between the base fixture and the clamp fixture. The clamp fixture may be mechanically secured to the base fixture. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908998 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/884 |
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| US 07320389 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Myers (Altamonte Springs, Florida); Roger W. Graves (Orlando, Florida); George Go (Orlando, Florida); Thomas E. Higgins (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a three-axis damping system employing dampers and springs in spatially oriented arrays to isolate an object against translational forces in any direction as well as rotational forces. The inventive system also is biased in the vertical static position to compensate for gravity. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/818894 |
| ART UNIT | 3683 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Brakes 188/380 |
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| US 07320457 | Heim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathon R. Heim (Pacifica, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Roy David Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California); Marcus Rosenthal (Pacifica, California); Richard P. Heydt (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes devices for controlling fluid flow, such as valves. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contact with a fluid where the deflection of the electroactive polymer may be used to change a characteristic of the fluid. Some of the characteristic of the fluid that may be changed include but are not limited to 1) a flow rate, 2) a flow direction, 3) a flow vorticity, 4) a flow momentum, 5) a flow mixing rate, 6) a flow turbulence rate, 7) a flow energy, 8) a flow thermodynamic property. The electroactive polymer may be a portion of a surface of a structure that is immersed in an external fluid flow, such as the surface of an airplane wing or the electroactive polymer may be a portion of a surface of a structure used in an internal flow, such as a bounding surface of a fluid conduit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383005 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.60 |
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| US 07320813 | Pollack 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) | Steve Pollack (Silver Spring, Maryland); Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia); Ranganathan Shashidhar (Woodbridge, Virginia); Yung-Hoon Ha (Springfield, Virginia); Nikolay Nikoloy (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymerization process is provided using a mixture of a solvent, a monomer, an oxidizing agent, and a moderator. The mixture is coated on a substrate and heated to initiate oxidative polymerization. At least one of three process conditions is used: the solvent having a boiling point in excess of about 120° C.; the total concentration of the monomer, the oxidizing agent, and the moderator being at least about 40% by weight; and the molar concentration of the moderator being greater than the molar concentration of the monomer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/735208 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/240 |
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| US 07321242 | Mandegaran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sam Mandegaran (Tustin, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for driving an output signal in a high speed integrated circuit. The apparatus and methods enable the output voltage swing from the driver to exceed the breakdown voltage of any individual element in the output driver. A high speed driver can utilize one or more transistors in a stacked configuration, such that the breakdown voltage of the entire stacked configuration is based on the number of transistors in the stack. The driver is configured to distribute the output voltage substantially equally among each of the stacked transistors, such that the driver is able to source an output voltage swing that is greater than the breakdown voltage of any individual transistor in the driver. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107402 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/89 |
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| US 07321580 | Ramanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subramanian Ramanathan (Concord, Massachusetts); Cesar A. Santivanez (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (508) and system (226) provide directional medium access control for wireless nodes (102) in a wireless network (100), each of the nodes (102) having a transceiver (228) and a plurality of antennas (232, 234, 236, 238, 240) in selective communication with the transceiver (228). Packets (202) are transmitted from a transmitting node (106) of the nodes (102) when a channel (104) is sensed as being free in a beam direction of a selected one of the antennas (232, 234, 236, 238, 240), and in accordance with a pre-determined transmission mode (304) for the data packet (202). The transmitting node (106) is periodically placed in a forced idle state, thereby being prevented from transmitting data packets (202), but being able to receive and respond to data packets (202) from other nodes (102). |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/273748 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321604 | Umstadter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Umstadter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fei He (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yue-Ying Lau (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to generate a beam of coherent light including x-rays or XUV by colliding a high-intensity laser pulse with an electron beam that is accelerated by a synchronized laser pulse. Applications include x-ray and EUV lithography, protein structural analysis, plasma diagnostics, x-ray diffraction, crack analysis, non-destructive testing, surface science and ultrafast science. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752604 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321641 | Moulthrop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Alfred Moulthrop (Los Angeles, California); Michael Steven Muha (Torrance, California); Christopher Patrick Silva (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications system reduces downconverter inaccuracies in time-domain measurements or samples of received microwave communications I and Q complex signals by converting received signal to baseband taking measurements or samples of the I and Q waveforms at differing phase shifts of a demodulating carrier signal for a local oscillator or carrier tracking loop used during downconversion so that I and Q imbalances may be detected and removed by lowpass equivalent averaging for improved characterization of downconverters or for improved signal reception. In the preferred form, the phase shifts are 0 and π/2 for a conventional measurement, and then at θ, and θ+π/2, with θ=π/4+mπ/2 for an integer m for the second measurement where I and Q imbalances and baseband nonlinearities are indicated by differences between the two measured or sampled signals, where θ provides for optimum error detection for reducing the errors by averaging the measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860232 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321883 | Freedy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Perceptronics Solutions, Inc. (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos Freedy (Encino, California); Marvin Cohen (Arlington, Virginia); Elan Freedy (Fairfax, Virginia); Gershon Weltman (Sherman Oaks, California); James McDonough (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated facilitator for use in structuring a group decision process using end user collaboration units through which corresponding stories are entered and feedback is provided, the facilitator including at least one database which stores models for problem solving; and at least one automated facilitation server which receives information on a problem to be resolved, receives the stories from the collaboration end units relating to the problem to form a story matrix, translates the story matrix into an influence diagram and/or decision tree displayed on the end user collaboration units using the stored models, provides alerts of divergences to be resolved by the end user collaboration units to resolve the problem according to the stored models, updates the displayed influence diagrams and decision trees according to feedback received from the user collaboration units due to the alert using the stored models, and provides a best solution based upon the updates which indicates a sensitivity of the solution to changes in parameters of the story matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498884 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321884 | Burkard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guido Burkard (Irvington, New York); David P. DiVincenzo (Tarrytown, New York); George A. Keefe (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Roger H. Koch (Amawalk, New York); James R. Rozer (Peekskill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and structure) of coupling a qubit includes locating the qubit near a transmission line approximately at a location corresponding to a node at a predetermined frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782811 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321942 | Flautner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARM Limited (Cambridge, United Kingdom); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krisztian Flautner (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Trevor Nigel Mudge (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David Walter Flynn (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A performance counter accumulates a value by periodically adding a variable increment value representing the amount of work performed. The increment value can be varied in dependence upon the processor clock frequency and may be adjusted under hardware and/or software control. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687924 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321989 | Grayver |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Grayver (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multithreaded processor is programmed for executing multiple simultaneous working programs by respective processor worker threads each executing the identical code having identical results for achieving redundant operations that can be compared to each other by one or more checker threads for determining when one of the working programs or checker threads has failed for a single event fault detection and recovery of a failed worker or checker monitoring program so as to mitigate the effects of single event failure that may be due to radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029706 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07320219 | Sun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Detroit Diesel Corporation (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min Sun (Windsor, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling an internal combustion engine using model based control, the engine including a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT) driven in response to a VGT command signal and/or an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve driven in response to an EGR valve command signal to recirculate exhaust to an engine intake manifold. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372927 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/605.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07320838 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Alberta, Canada); Mohammad Farooque (Danbury, Connecticut); Chao-Yi Yuh (New Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric assembly for electrically insulating a manifold or other component from a liquid electrolyte fuel cell stack wherein the dielectric assembly includes a substantially impermeable dielectric member over which electrolyte is able to flow and a barrier adjacent the dielectric member and having a porosity of less than 50% and greater than 10% so that the barrier is able to measurably absorb and chemically react with the liquid electrolyte flowing on the dielectric member to form solid products which are stable in the liquid electrolyte. In this way, the barrier inhibits flow or creepage of electrolyte from the dielectric member to the manifold or component to be electrically insulated from the fuel cell stack by the dielectric assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405569 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07320886 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genecor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl4, and the corresponding BGL4 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL4, recombinant BGL4 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208701 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321049 | Alvarez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Alvarez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Rodolfo A. Martinez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Clifford J. Unkefer (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to labeled compounds of the formulae wherein Q is selected from the group consisting of —S—, —S(═O)—, and —S(═O)2—, Z is selected from the group consisting of 1-naphthyl, substituted 1-naphthyl, 2-naphthyl, substituted 2-naphthyl, and phenyl groups with the structure wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a C1-C4 lower alkyl, a halogen, and an amino group selected from the group consisting of NH2, NHR and NRR′ where R and R′ are each independently selected from the group consisting of a C1-C4 lower alkyl, an aryl, and an alkoxy group, and X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a C1-C4 lower alkyl group, and a fully-deuterated C1-C4 lower alkyl group. The present invention is also directed to a process of preparing labeled compounds, e.g., process of preparing [13C]methacrylic acid by reacting a (CH3CH2O—13C(O)—13CH2)— aryl sulfone precursor with 13CHI to form a (CH3CH2O—13C(O)—13C(13CH3)2)— aryl sulfone intermediate, and, reacting the (CH3CH2O—13C(O)—13C(13CH3)2)— aryl sulfone intermediate with sodium hydroxide, followed by acid to form [13C]methacrylic acid. The present invention is further directed to a process of preparing [2H8]methyl methacrylate by reacting a (HOOC—C(C2H3)2— aryl sulfinyl intermediate with CD3I to form a (2H3COOC—C(C2H3)2)— aryl sulfinyl intermediate, and heating the(2H3COOC—C(C2H3)2)— aryl sulfinyl intermediate at temperatures and for time sufficient to form [2H8]methyl methacrylate. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268227 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321070 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodolfo A. Martinez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Clifford J. Unkefer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Marc A. Alvarez (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to asymmetric chiral labeled glycerols including at least one chiral atom, from one to two 13C atoms and from zero to four deuterium atoms bonded directly to a carbon atom, e.g., (2S) [1,2-13C2]glycerol and (2R) [1,2-13C2]glycerol, and to the use of such chiral glycerols in the preparation of labeled amino acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/629982 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/852 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321193 | Antoniadis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Homer Antoniadis (Mountain View, California); Benjamin Claus Krummacher (Regensburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus such as a light source has a multi-element light extraction and luminescence conversion layer disposed over a transparent layer of the light source and on the exterior of said light source. The multi-element light extraction and luminescence conversion layer includes a plurality of light extraction elements and a plurality of luminescence conversion elements. The light extraction elements diffuses the light from the light source while luminescence conversion elements absorbs a first spectrum of light from said light source and emits a second spectrum of light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345795 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321226 | Yakymyshyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FieldMetrics, Inc (Seminole, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Paul Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida); Michael Allen Brubaker (Loveland, Colorado); Pamela Jane Yakymyshyn (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described to provide temperature compensation and self-calibration of a current sensor based on a plurality of magnetic field sensors positioned around a current carrying conductor. A reference electrical current carried by a conductor positioned within the sensing window of the current sensor is used to correct variations in the output signal due to temperature variations and aging. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556954 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/117.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321260 | Larson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Larson (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A ping-pong amplifier with reduced glitching is described. The ping-pong amplifier includes a nulling amplifier coupled to a switching network. The switching network is used to auto-zero a ping amplifier within a ping-pong amplifier. The nulling amplifier drives the output of a ping amplifier to a proper output voltage level during auto-zeroing of the ping amplifier. By being at a proper output voltage level, glitches associated with transitioning between a ping amplifier and a pong amplifier are reduced or eliminated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/369384 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321604 | Umstadter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Umstadter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fei He (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yue-Ying Lau (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to generate a beam of coherent light including x-rays or XUV by colliding a high-intensity laser pulse with an electron beam that is accelerated by a synchronized laser pulse. Applications include x-ray and EUV lithography, protein structural analysis, plasma diagnostics, x-ray diffraction, crack analysis, non-destructive testing, surface science and ultrafast science. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752604 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07320223 | Dabney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Dabney (Tanner, Alabama); Susan V. Elrod (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided to control the environment experienced by a child in a child safety seat. Each of a plurality of thermoelectric elements is individually controllable to be one of heated and cooled relative to an ambient temperature. A first portion of the thermoelectric elements are positioned on the child safety seat such that a child sitting therein is positioned thereover. A ventilator coupled to the child safety seat moves air past a second portion of the thermoelectric elements and filters the air moved therepast. One or more jets coupled to the ventilator receive the filtered air. Each jet is coupled to the child safety seat and can be positioned to direct the heated/cooled filtered air to the vicinity of the head of the child sitting in the child safety seat. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/047343 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321185 | Schultz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc R. Schultz (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Two similarly shaped, such as rectangular, shells are attached to one another such that they form a resulting thin airfoil-like structure. The resulting device has at least two stable equilibrium shapes. The device can be transformed from one shape to another with a snap-through action. One or more actuators can be used to effect the snap-through; i.e., transform the device from one stable shape to another. Power to the actuators is needed only to transform the device from one shape to another. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370377 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07321713 | Akiyama et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shoji Akiyama (Brighton, Massachusetts); Xiaoman Duan (Amesbury, Massachusetts); Lionel C. Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts); Yasha Yi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide structure includes a core structure that has low index materials. A photonic crystal cladding structure utilized in guiding optical modes in the core. The photonic crystal cladding structure includes alternating layers of Si and Si3N4. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230024 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07321854 | Sharma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeev Sharma (State College, Pennsylvania); Mohammed Yeasin (Utica, New York); Sanshzar Kettebekov (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present method incorporates audio and visual cues from human gesticulation for automatic recognition. The methodology articulates a framework for co-analyzing gestures and prosodic elements of a person's speech. The methodology can be applied to a wide range of algorithms involving analysis of gesticulating individuals. The examples of interactive technology applications can range from information kiosks to personal computers. The video analysis of human activity provides a basis for the development of automated surveillance technologies in public places such as airports, shopping malls, and sporting events. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666460 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07320884 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cognis Corporation (Ambler, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin W. Anderson (Indian Springs, Ohio); J. Douglas Wenzel (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for forming a color and odor stable polycarboxylic acid or polyhydroxy acid is provided. The process is carried out by fermenting a mixture containing a substrate which can be converted by fermentation into a polycarboxylic acid or a polyhydroxy acid, an organism capable of transforming the substrate by fermentation in a fermentation medium containing a source of carbon and energy, a source of inorganic nitrogen, a source of phosphate, a metal, a biotin which is substantially free of particulate matter and bacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762895 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07320753 | Roos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Frederich Roos (Dumfries, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ambient anaerobic digester system for anaerobic digestion of animal waste with biogas production and recovery is provided. The anaerobic digester system includes a substantially flexible bladder for anaerobically digesting the animal waste with biogas production and transmitting the biogas to at least one biogas storage container, biogas use device or a combination thereof. In a preferred form, the substantially flexible bladder has a waste inlet, a digester effluent outlet, one or more sludge access ports and a biogas outlet in a top surface thereof. The anaerobic digester system may inexpensively, simply, reliably, and effectively be used to treat animal waste without energy expenditure and little capital expense, thus minimizing pollution typically caused by animal waste. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682086 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07320937 | Pal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rathindra N. Pal (Beltsville, Maryland); Kingsley R. Berlin (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a reliable method of electroless-plating integrated circuit die that achieves high yield. Die are attached to a holder using a polyimide adhesive to eliminate voltage differences on bond pads which would otherwise interfere with the plating. The die are aggressively cleaned using multiple cleaning solutions, one heated to a user-defined temperature. Each cleaning is followed by an aggressive rinse in de-ionized water. Die are immersed into multiple metal solutions at user-definable temperatures. Each immersion is followed by an aggressive rinse in de-ionized water, one with heated de-ionized water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253879 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/678 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George L. Cebry (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus (54) is provided for preventing cross conduction in a synchronous rectifier of a DC-DC converter (10). The DC-DC converter has an input MOSFET switch (26) coupled to primary windings (22) of an isolation transformer (20), an output MOSFET switch (30) coupled to secondary windings (24) of the isolation transformer, and a complementary output MOSFET switch (34) coupled to an output terminal (14). A synchronous rectifier timing circuit (54) comprises a first timing output signal circuit (62) responsive to a pulse width modulated signal for providing first and second timing output signals (55, 56) that switches low at time t1 and high at time t4 to control the input MOSFET switch and output MOSFET switch, respectively, and a second timing output signal circuit (64) responsive to the pulse width modulated signal for providing a third timing output signal (58) that switches high at time t2 and low at time t3 to control the complementary output MOSFET switch. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264067 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/21.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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