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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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| US 07322101 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine rotor stack may be engineered or reengineered to include one or more longitudinally outwardly concave spacers. The spacers may provide a longitudinal compression force that increases with rotational speed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408453 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322141 | Leung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fee Chan Leung (Hazlet, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A firearm includes a barrel that has a central axis, a receiver fixedly supporting the barrel, a gunstock that is connected to the receiver and that comprises a longitudinal axis, and a shoulder stock extending in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the gunstock. The gunstock and the receiver may each be configured to provide for angular movement of the gunstock relative to the receiver and, in turn, the barrel whereby the central axis of the barrel varies in a generally radial direction extending from the longitudinal axis of the gunstock. In this way, the firearm may be discharged by a warfighter, standing adjacent to a corner, around the corner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288067 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/71.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322142 | Leung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fee Chan Leung (Hazlet, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A firearm includes a barrel that has a central axis, a receiver fixedly supporting the barrel, a gunstock that is connected to the receiver and that has a longitudinal axis and a fore grip connected to the receiver. The gunstock and the receiver are each configured to provide for angular movement of the gunstock relative to the receiver and, in turn, the barrel and wherein the fore grip and the receiver are each configured to provide for angular movement of the fore grip relative to the receiver and, in turn, the barrel whereby the central axis of the barrel varies in a generally radial direction extending from the longitudinal axis of the gunstock. In this way, the firearm may be discharged by a warfighter, standing adjacent to a corner, around the corner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288068 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/71.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322195 | Borja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Edward Borja (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Gavin Julian Hendricks (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic resonator for use in an engine is provided. The acoustic resonator includes a cavity having a volume, an aperture, and a passage connecting the aperture and the cavity. The aperture has a profiled surface for delaying separation of fluid entering the passage and for reducing losses caused by fluid separation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109930 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322268 | Wallin |
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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) | C. Roger Wallin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A defense system for protecting a static structure, such as a building in an urban environment, from attack from an aircraft is provided. The air defense system includes at least one launching device for discharging a fluid payload at an incoming aircraft. Each launching device is mounted to an exterior wall of the static structure. In a preferred embodiment, the launching device is a water cannon. In a typical system, an array of launching devices are mounted to an exterior wall of the static structure which may be subject to attack from an aircraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963010 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322294 | Laib |
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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) | Gerald Laib (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a thin film explosive detonator includes forming a substrate layer; depositing a metal layer in situ on the substrate layer; and reacting the metal layer to form a primary explosive layer. The method and apparatus formed thereby integrates fabrication of a micro-detonator in a monolithic MEMS structure using “in-situ” production of the explosive material within the apparatus, in sizes with linear dimensions below about 1 mm. The method is applicable to high-volume low-cost manufacturing of MEMS safety-and-arming devices. The apparatus can be initiated either electrically or mechanically at either a single point or multiple points, using energies of less than about 1 mJ. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/362596 |
| 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 12/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322373 | Lewis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Lewis (South Bend, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A high pressure valve assembly (10) comprising a valve sleeve (14) and a valve body (16) slidably mounted in the valve sleeve (14) is disclosed, the valve body (16) and valve sleeve (14) each having first ends (18, 56) and second ends (20, 58). A sidewall (22) extends between the valve sleeve first end (18) and second end (20) which sidewall (22) has an inner surface (24) and an outer surface (26) and at least one opening (30) therethrough. The sidewall (22) also includes at least one channel (40) having a first end (42) facing the inner surface (24) at a first location closer to the first valve sleeve end (18) than to the second valve sleeve end (20) and a second end (44) facing the inner surface (24) at a second location closer to the second valve sleeve end (20) than to the first valve sleeve end (18). A method of using the valve assembly (10) is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861959 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/516.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322786 | Rivera 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) | Rafael Rivera (Magnolia, New Jersey); Christopher Clemmer (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile loader is driven to a dockside location underlying the spreader bar of a marine terminal crane. A delivery vehicle such as a train or a truck is driven into the loader at such dockside location so that containers maybe transferred between the delivery vehicle and a platform located within the loader in lateral adjacency to the delivery vehicle. Motorized devices are provided for respectively transferring containers between the delivery vehicle and the platform, aligning the platform below the spreader bar, elevating the platform toward the overlying crane spreader bar to reduce its required descent for attachment to the container and aligning the crane spreader bar as it descends onto a container. A sensor grid is provided in the loader for sensing variations in size and location of containers on the delivery vehicle relative to a hoist and the crane spreader bar for controlling its adjustment to provide for precise placement of containers on the platform in underlying relation to the crane spreader bar by the motorized devices. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758555 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Material or article handling 414/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07322932 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health System - Oregon (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Xie (Portland, Oregon); Lisa A. Buckley (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioprosthetic valve graft comprises a valve frame and valve flaps, the latter acting to open or close a valve aperture to directionally control fluid flow through the bioprosthesis. The bioprosthetic valve graft comprises method for suturelessly attaching a biomaterial suturelessly bonded to the A method for securing a biomaterial to a valve frame includes positioning a flexible valve frame defining an open area on a first major surface of a biomaterial sheet having a peripheral edge, wherein positioning serves to approximate the valve frame and the peripheral edge of the biomaterial sheet to form an at least first bonding locus; and suturelessly bonding the biomaterial to the valve frame at the at least first bonding locus. The method avoids the disadvantages associated with conventional sutures and substantially reduces medical complications in implantations. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/770978 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323051 | Hobgood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hudson M. Hobgood (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Jason R. Jenny (Raleigh, North Carolina); David Phillip Malta (Raleigh, North Carolina); Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina); Calvin H. Carter, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina); Robert Tyler Leonard (Raleigh, North Carolina); George J. Fechko, Jr. (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for producing a high quality bulk single crystal of silicon carbide in a seeded growth system. The method includes positioning a seed crystal on the seed holder with a low porosity backing material that provides a vapor barrier to silicon carbide sublimation from the seed and that minimizes the difference in thermal conductivity between the seed and the backing material to minimize or eliminate temperature differences across the seed and likewise minimize or eliminate vapor transport from the rear of the seed that would otherwise initiate and propagate defects in the growing crystal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248458 |
| 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 07323052 | Tsvetkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina); David Phillip Malta (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jason Ronald Jenny (Wake Forest, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for growing bulk single crystals of silicon carbide is provided. The apparatus includes a sublimation chamber with a silicon vapor species phase outlet that allows the selective passage of atomic silicon vapor species while minimizing the concurrent passage of other vapor phase species. The apparatus can provide control of vapor phase stoichiometry within the sublimation chamber, which in turn can allow the production of bulk silicon carbide single crystals with reduced intrinsic point defects concentration. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089064 |
| 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 117/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323414 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Javier Martinez Lopez (Cadiz, Spain); Juan Carlos Rojo (East Setauket, New York); Kenneth Morgan (Castleton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect of the invention, an improved process for preparing a surface of substrate is provided wherein the surface of the substrate is prepared for a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process, the CMP process is performed on the surface of the substrate, and the surface of the substrate is finished to clear the substrate surface of any active ingredients from the CMP process. Also, an improved substrate produced by the method is provided. According to one aspect of the invention, particular polishing materials and procedures may be used that allow for increased quality of AlN substrate surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363816 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/689 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323581 | Gardiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin A. Gardiner (Strasslach, Germany); Thomas H. Baum (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Connie L. Gordon, legal representative (Durango, Colorado); Timothy E. Glassman (Portland, Oregon); Sophia Pombrik (Bethel, Connecticut); Brian A. Vaastra (Nampa, Idaho); Peter S. Kirlin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A metalorganic complex composition comprising a metalorganic complex selected from the group consisting of: metalorganic complexes comprising one or more metal central atoms coordinated to one or more monodentate or multidentate organic ligands, and complexed with one or more complexing monodentate or multidentate ligands containing one or more atoms independently selected from the group consisting of atoms of the elements C, N, H, S, O and F; wherein when the number of metal atoms is one and concurrently the number of complexing monodentate or multidentate ligands is one, then the complexing monodentate or multidentate ligand of the metalorganic complex is selected from the group consisting of beta-ketoiminates, beta-diiminates, C2-C10 alkenyl, C2-C15 cycloalkenyl and C6-C10 aryl. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/649549 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323635 | Chittibabu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kethinni G. Chittibabu (Nashua, New Hampshire); Jin-An He (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lynne Ann Samuelson (Marlboro, Massachusetts); Lian Li (N. Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Susan Tripathy, legal representative (Acton, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Srinivasan Balasubramanian (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a photovoltaic cell includes contacting a cross-linking agent with semiconductor particles, and incorporating the semiconductor particles into the photovoltaic cell. |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/165877 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323868 | Mishkevich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor G. Mishkevich (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Douglas R. Browning (Denville, New Jersey); Richard T. Gieske (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention generally relates to a temperature-independent method of determining an engine health parameter, namely stand-off distance, between an eddy current sensor and a conductive element. The method includes receiving a signal from the eddy current sensor and demodulating a waveform from the received signal. The method also includes determining a predetermined set of substantially temperature-independent parameters from the waveform and determining the stand-off distance based on the predetermined set of substantially temperature-independent parameters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230930 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323908 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascaded pass-gate test circuit including interposed split-output drive devices provides accurate measurement of critical timing parameters of pass gates. The rise time and fall time of signals passed through the pass gate can be separately measured in a ring oscillator or one-shot delay line configuration. Inverters or other buffer circuits are provided as drive devices to couple the pass gates in cascade. The final complementary tree in each drive device is split so that the only one of the output pull-down transistor or pull-up transistor is connected to the next pass gate input, while the other transistor is connected to the output of the pass gate. The result is that the state transition associated with the device connected to the pass gate input is dominant in the delay, while the other state transition is propagated directly to the output of the pass gate, bypassing the pass gate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260571 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323915 | Josephson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon E. Josephson (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A DLL includes a control module coupled with a phase detect signal. The phase detect signal is used by a control module to generate feedback and output select signals. The feedback and output select signals are each coupled to a multiplexer. Each multiplexer is coupled to a Multi-Tap Delay Line (MTDL). The MTDL provides a plurality of delayed signals that are selectable by the two multiplexers. The first multiplexer, coupled to the feedback select signal, selects a feedback clock signal. The second multiplexer, coupled to the output select signal, select a DLL output signal. The control module may receive other signals, such as a delay select signal, that may be used to program or set the delay of the output signal. In addition, a plurality of output signals may be available from the DLL. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335749 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323941 | Happer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Happer (Princeton, New Jersey); Yuan-Yu Jau (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for making atomic clocks or atomic magnetometers as self-modulated laser systems based on the physics of push-pull optical pumping. An atomic vapor cell is required to be in the laser cavity. With proper conditions, spontaneous push-pull optical pumping can occur inside the laser cavity. This causes the laser beam to be modulated at hyperfine-resonance frequency. With a fast photodetector, the modulated laser signal can be converted into the electrical signal, which serves as the atomic clock ticking signal or magnetometer signal. The self-modulated laser system does not use any local oscillator and the microwave circuit to lock the oscillator frequency to the hyperfine-resonance frequency, and therefore can consume less power and become more compact than conventional systems. This invention will benefit applications of time measurements and magnetic-field measurements. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/284064 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323946 | Seefeldt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Seefeldt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Bradley A. Kantor (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system and method for determining the lock condition of a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is described. The lock detect circuit generates a fast lock detect signal that may be used to detect a transient loss of lock. The lock detect circuit may also include a phase alignment detect circuit to detect a misalignment in the phase of a reference clock and a feedback clock. Additionally, the lock detect circuit may include a reference clock detect circuit to detect if the reference clock signal is detected. Output signals from all of the above circuits may be communicated to a logic circuit in order to create an enhanced lock detect signal. An extended lock detect signal may also be communicated to the logic circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254569 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323955 | Jachowski |
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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) | Douglas R. Jachowski (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An absorptive bandstop filter includes at least two frequency-dependent networks, one of which constitutes a bandpass filter, that form at least two forward signal paths between an input port and an output port and whose transmission magnitude and phase characteristics are selected to provide a relative stopband bandwidth that is substantially independent of the maximum attenuation within the stopband and/or in which the maximum attenuation within the stopband is substantially independent of the unloaded quality factor of the resonators. The constituent network characteristics can also be selected to provide low reflection in the stopband as well as in the passband. The absorptive bandstop filter can be electrically tunable and can substantially maintain its attenuation characteristics over a broad frequency tuning range. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145219 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324001 | Crisman |
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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) | Everett E. Crisman (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting and discriminating between water and ice formation on a number of objects, such as aircraft or roadways is described. The system includes an optical element or sensor adapted to receive at least first and second wavelengths of light from a multi-wavelength light source and for outputting attenuated versions of the first and second wavelengths of light. A detector senses and converts the attenuated versions of the first and second wavelengths of light to electrical signals proportional to the light intensities of the first and second wavelengths of light. A processor is coupled to receive and process the electrical signals for determining one or more light intensity values and for actuating one or more indicators corresponding to one of a number of predetermined states of operation of the optical element, including a normal state of operation, a rain state of operation and/or an ice state of operation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217840 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/580 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324016 | Milgram |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judah H. Milgram (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Red, green and white colored lights are emitted from navigation orientation indicating light emitting devices mounted within a helicopter rotor blade near its tip. The light emissions from such devices are under control to respectively indicate passage of the rotor blade through limited arcuate portions of the travel path of the rotor blade end tip. Operational control over the light emitting devices is effected by data processing of outputs from air-speed responsive sensors on the blade end tip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288070 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/981 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324035 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Harris (Gainesville, Florida); Du Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Dazhi Wei (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An amplifier-based system having pulsed output includes an amplifier for amplifying a time varying voltage signal to produce an output voltage signal. A voltage-to-current (V-I) converter converts the output voltage signal into a current signal. An output stage including a current integrator integrates the current signal to generate an integrated voltage. An amplitude to time converter generates a pulse train from the integrated voltage, wherein a timing of the pulses in the pulse train represents the original time varying voltage signal. The pulse train representation permits transmission and accurate remote reconstruction of the original time varying voltage signal, such as signals generated by electrodes implanted inside a subject, including neural signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844950 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324036 | Petre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Petre (Agoura, California); Shubha Kadambo (Thousand Oaks, California); Joseph F. Jensen (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an adaptive, intelligent transform based Analog to Information Converter (AIC) for wideband signals by directly converting an analog signal to information (e.g., features, decisions). This direct conversion is achieved by (i) capturing most of the information of a wideband signal via hardware/software implemented mathematical transformations, (ii) effectively removing unwanted signals such as jammer and interfere from the input signal, and (iii) using novel algorithms for highly accurate decision making and feature extraction (e.g., high probability of detection with low probability of false alarm). The jump in the improvement over today's state-of-the-art is in terms of effective and optimum signal information extraction at high-speed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845487 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324041 | Weatherford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaun David Weatherford (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining an angle for each of two RF signals at different frequencies and offset from each other. The average angle of a composite signal is obtained from the two RF signals over a frequency difference period by averaging the frequency difference period. The average angle of the composite signal is the dominant signal's angle. The smaller signal's angle is then calculated from the dominant signal's angle, an angle centroid, and the signal voltages for the two RF signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489805 |
| 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 342/95 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-wei Andy Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An airborne radio frequency (RF) antenna terminal system includes a two-axis gimbals control system and a phased array antenna. The phased array antenna electronically steers the receive and transmit beams using phase shifters. The electronically steered beams provide a virtual third-axis for the two-axis gimbals control system. The combination of the electronically steered beams and the two-axis gimbaled system provides accurate beam steering for the keyhole region of the two-axis gimbals control system so that the RF communication link is prevented from being lost in the keyhole region. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090410 |
| 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 342/359 |
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| US 07324065 | Turchinetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beverly Turchinetz (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); John Derov (Lowell, Massachusetts); Everett Crisman (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna radiation collimator structure is provided as including a number of resonator circuit boards oriented to form a block structure. A sheet of dielectric material is disposed between each of the number of resonator circuit boards to maintain a substantially uniform spacing between each of the resonator circuit boards. A plurality of conductive unit resonator cells may be disposed on first planar surfaces of each of the number of resonator circuit boards and a plurality of conductive strip lines may also be disposed on second planar surfaces of each of the number of resonator circuit boards. In this arrangement, radiation applied to a substantially central location of the block structure interacts with the plurality of conductive unit resonator cells and the plurality of conductive strip lines for redirecting the radiation out of front and rear facing surfaces of the block structure as respective first and second substantially collimated beams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340822 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
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| US 07324196 | Goldstein et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Goldstein (Belmont, Massachusetts); Pajo Vujkovic-Cvijin (Burlington, Massachusetts); Marsha J. Fox (Lexington, Massachusetts); Steven M. Adler-Golden (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Jamine Lee (Burlington, Massachusetts); Jason A. Cline (Burlington, Massachusetts); Brian Gregor (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectral encoder for producing spectrally selected images of a radiation field containing multiple spectral components. An imaging spectrograph defines a first optical path that produces from the input radiation field a spectrally dispersed image comprising multiple spectral components displaced along a dispersion direction. Spectral pass bands are encoded on the dispersed image by a programmable spatial light modulator using one or more spatial masks. The imaging spectrograph further defines a second optical path that reverses the spectral dispersion of the first path and produces a spectrally-encoded polychromatic output image containing only those spectral components encoded by the spatial mask. The first and second optical paths share a common dispersing element. A detector records at least one spatial region of the spectrally encoded output image. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/403564 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 07324207 | Kirkpatrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Kirkpatrick (Stone Ridge, Virginia); Ali A. Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark Allen Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Thomas Sosnowski (Pickney, Michigan); Philippe Bado (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device is useful for analyzing an optical signal pulse to determine information related to the pulse, such as information related to its temporal coherence length. The optical device generally includes a plurality of interferometric devices to generate one or more respective interference patterns from the optical signal pulse, and a plurality of detectors associated with each respective interferometric device to receive the one or more respective interference patterns. At least one of the plurality of interferometric devices is disposed in a glass substrate. The optical device may be integrated in an optical correlation system having an analyzer coupled to the plurality of detectors to determine the temporal coherence length or other pulse-related information for the optical signal pulse based on the received interference patterns. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/112245 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/478 |
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| US 07324213 | Hartman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald D. Hartman (Odessa, Florida); Douglas A. Chamberlin (Trinity, Florida); Kim R. Heinicka (Seminole, Florida); John Koss (Fort Worth, Texas); Bryan Williams (Novi, Michigan); Brandon Noska (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to determine unwanted noise produced by simulation equipment. In one embodiment, an angular rotation noise measuring system comprises a stable body, a laser, at least one interferometer and at least one mirror. The laser is adapted to generate a primary laser beam and is mounted to the stable body. The at least one interferometer is adapted to split the primary laser beam into two or more out of phase secondary laser beams. Moreover, the interferometer is coupled to the stable body. The at least one mirror is coupled to a fixture on a vibration generating device. The fixture is adapted to hold a device under test. Each mirror is adapted to reflect an associated secondary laser beam back to the interferometer such that an interference pattern is formed with the secondary laser beams. Changes to the interference pattern determine the angular rotation noise caused by the vibration generating device. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010055 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/510 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keyvan Sayyah (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic oscillator includes an optical transceiver that serves the dual purpose of detecting a feedback RF lightwave signal carried on a laser beam and electrically filtering the RF lightwave signal to modulate the RF lightwave signal in accordance therewith, to thereby set up steady state oscillations in the modulated RF lightwave signal and thereby generate a multi-tone oscillating lightwave. |
| FILED | Monday, December 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/023918 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
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| US 07324714 | Cranch 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) | Geoffrey A. Cranch (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Gordon M. H. Flockhart (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a multicore fiber including three cores. The three cores include two pairs of cores, each pair of cores lying in a plane. The planes of the two pairs of cores are non-coplanar. The multicore fiber includes a rosette, the rosette including three coplanar interferometers. Each interferometer of the three interferometers are located in a respective core of the three cores. Each interferometer includes a first reflector and a second reflector. The first reflectors of the rosette are coplanar. The second reflectors of the rosette are coplanar. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733962 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
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| US 07324761 | Schulz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Schulz (Harvard, Massachusetts); Paula J. Donovan (Dedham, Massachusetts); Scott Henion (Clinton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are an optical transmitter and a method for generating a single sideband optical signal. The method includes generating a data signal at a first power level and at a second power level with a predetermined ratio being defined between the power levels. The data signal at the first power level is applied to a phase module disposed in a laser cavity of a semiconductor laser to generate a frequency modulated laser signal having a double sideband. The intensity of the frequency modulated laser signal is modulated in response to the data signal at the second power level to yield the single sideband optical signal. Optical transmitters implementing the method have an increased manufacturing yield and reliability, a lower fabrication cost and a decreased size compared to other optical single sideband optical transmitters. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038989 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/185 |
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| US 07324908 | Browning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Browning (Denville, New Jersey); Victor R. Mishkevich (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Richard T. Gieske (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention generally pertains to a method of compensating for temperature variations in an eddy current sensor signal. The method may include the steps of receiving an initial signal from an eddy current sensor (ECS) in response to a conductive element passing the ECS and sensing an ECS temperature and an ECS board temperature. The method may also include determining a subset of correction coefficients based on the ECS temperature and the ECS board temperature and determining a temperature correction factor from the subset of correction coefficients. The method may then compute a temperature corrected signal from the initial signal and the temperature correction factor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633553 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/99 |
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| US 07324979 | Butler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Dana Butler (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew Charles Coon (Columbia, Maryland); Robert Warren Kanyuck (Laurel, Maryland); Ernest Scott Stickels (Lothian, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically adaptive neural network systems and methods provide environmentally adaptable classification algorithms for use, among other things, in multi-static active sonar classification. Classification training occurs in-situ with data acquired at the onset of data collection to improve the classification of sonar energy detections in difficult littoral environments. Accordingly, in-situ training sets are developed while the training process is supervised and refined. Candidate weights vectors evolve through genetic-based search procedures, and the fitness of candidate weight vectors is evaluated. Feature vectors of interest may be classified using multiple neural networks and statistical averaging techniques to provide accurate and reliable signal classification. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652542 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen R. Berger, legal representative (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Richard A. Stone (Havertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium having computer-executable modules for judging changes in components of an eye. The inventive computer-implemented method includes the steps of acquiring, displaying, and superimposing at least two digital images of the components of the eye. The method further includes the step of processing at least one of the digital images such that the superimposed images may be compared, and the step of flickering among the superimposed digital images. The step of acquiring the images may include the step of converting a photographic representation of the components of the eye to the digital image. The step of processing may include registering, warping, and/or aligning the digital images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/432230 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
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07322972 — In vivo port wine stain, burn and melanin depth determination using a photoacoustic probe
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Viator (Portland, Oregon); Steven L. Jacques (Portland, Oregon); J. Stuart Nelson (Laguna Niguel, California); Guenther Paltauf (Graz, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoacoustic probe for port wine stain (PWS), burn and melanin depth measurements is comprised of optical fibers for laser light delivery and a piezoelectric element for acoustic detection. The probe induced and measured photoacoustic waves in acryl amide tissue phantoms and PWS skin in vivo. Acoustic waves were denoised using spline wavelet transforms, then deconvolved with the impulse response of the probe to yield initial subsurface pressure distributions in phantoms and skin. The waves were then analyzed for epidermal melanin concentration, using a photoacoustic melanin index (PAMI) related to the amount of laser energy absorbed by melanin. Propagation time of the photoacoustic wave was used to determine the depth of blood perfusion underlying necrotic, burned tissue. Thus, the photoacoustic probe can be used for determining PWS, burn and melanin depth for most patients receiving laser therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/359782 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/9 |
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| US 07323181 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Hamilton, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Washington); Patricia D McNeill (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648780 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
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| US 07323208 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter X. Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xiaohua Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified porous materials are disclosed having interconnected, complexly shaped three-dimensional surfaces. The modification is accomplished by crosslinking the three-dimensional surfaces and/or by coating the three-dimensional surfaces with a layer of a predetermined material. The porous materials are macro structures including at least one of nano-features, micro-features, and combinations thereof. The modifying accomplishes changing surface properties of the porous materials, changing the three-dimensional surfaces, and/or rendering the porous materials substantially stable in a predetermined environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999459 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.100 |
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| US 07323297 | Szoka, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis C. Szoka, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Jinkang Wang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises stabilized polynucleotide complexes that have a cryoprotectant and are lyophilized. Cryoprotectant compounds comprise carbohydrates or sugars, preferably lactose and sucrose, but also glucose, maltodextrins, mannitol, sorbitol, trehalose, and others. Other suitable cryoprotectants include amino acids such as betaines and prolines. Polynucleotide complexes stabilized according to the invention can be used for transfection, and exhibit improved tranfection efficiency with respect to polynucleotide complexes without cryoprotection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/485430 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07323298 | Shalon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tidhar Dari Shalon (Menlo Park, California); Patrick O. Brown (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the relative amounts of individual polynucleotides in a complex mixture of different-sequence polynucleotides is disclosed. The polynucleotides, after fluorescent labeling, are contacted under hybridization conditions with an array of different DNA sequences disposed at discrete locations on a non-porous surface, at an array density of at least about 100 sequences/cm2, where the different DNA sequences in the array are effective to hybridize to individual polynucleotides in the mixture. The level of fluorescence associated with each array sequence provides a measure of its relative amount in the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 08/688488 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07323334 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qun-Yong Zhou (Irvine, California); Michelle Y. Cheng (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of identifying compounds that modulate neurogenesis. The methods involve providing a compound that modulates prokineticin receptor signaling; contacting a neural stem or progenitor cell with the compound; and determining the ability of the compound to modulate neurogenesis. The invention also provides methods for modulating neurogenesis. The methods involve contacting a neural stem or progenitor cell with an effective amount of a compound that modulates prokineticin receptor signaling. Such methods are useful for both ex vivo or in vivo therapeutic applications where neural regeneration is desirable. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/680554 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07323346 | Thadhani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi I. Thadhani (Boston, Massachusetts); Myles S. Wolf (Brookline, Massachusetts); Tanya Lynn Knickerbocker (Brighton, Massachusetts); Gavin MacBeath (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying pregnant subjects having, or predisposed to having, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and gestational hypertension. The methods are applicable to urine and/or blood samples and can be conducted prior to the third trimester of pregnancy, and as early as the first trimester. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920116 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
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| US 07323551 | Marinkovich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and inhibiting squamous cell carcinoma using agents that target the laminin 5 alpha 3 G4-G5 domain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/766317 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.100 |
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| US 07323552 | Arnaout et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Amin Arnaout (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Rui Li (Medford, Massachusetts); Jian-Ping Xiong (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides comprising all or part of a variant integrin α subunit A domain and its flanking region are described. In solution or in membrane-associated form, the A domain polypeptides of the invention exists predominantly in a high affinity conformation. In the polypeptides of the invention, referred to as variant integrin polypeptides, a crucial isoleucine or glutamic acid residue is altered. For example, the glutamic acid can be either deleted or replaced with different amino acids residue, e.g., glutamine, aspartic acid, or alanine The variant integrin polypeptides of the invention selectively impair binding of activation-dependent ligands, but not independent ligands. They are useful in screening assays for the identification of molecules that enhance binding of variant polypeptides with impaired binding. In addition, they are useful in distinguishing between activation-dependent ligands and activation-independent ligands. They are also useful for generating antibodies, e.g., monoclonal antibodies, which bind to the impaired form of an integrin. Some such antibodies recognize an epitope that is either not present or not accessible on an integrin that is in the high affinity conformation. The variant integrin polypeptides of the invention can be derived from any integrin α subunit that could be used therapeutically. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/144259 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
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| US 07323561 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kannan Muthukumaran (Raleigh, North Carolina); Duddu S. Sharada (Tamil Nadu, India); Ana Z. Muresan (Raleigh, North Carolina); W. Justin Youngblood (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A first aspect of the invention is a method of making a porphyrin-metal complex, comprising: (a) providing a first reagent selected from the group consisting of 1-acyldipyrromethanes, 1-acyldipyrrins, dipyrromethane-1-carbinols 1,9-diacyldipyrromethanes and 1,9-diacyldipyrrins; and then (b) condensing the first reagent with either itself (in the case of 1-acyldipyrromethanes, 1-acyldipyrrins, and dipyrromethane-1-carbinols) or a dipyrromethane (in the case of 1,9-diacyldipyrromethanes and 1,9-diacyldipyrrins) in a reaction mixture comprising a solvent and a second reagent selected from the group consisting of palladium and copper complexes to produce the porphyrin-metal complex (with the metal being palladium or copper). In preferred embodiments of the foregoing, the reaction mixture further comprises a base such as KOH or NaH. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/020901 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
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| US 07323604 | MacMillan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David MacMillan (Pasadena, California); Stephane Ouellet (St. Lazare, California); Jamison Tuttle (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nonmetallic, chiral organic catalysts are used to catalyze the 1,4-hydride reduction of an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound. The α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound may be an aldehyde or cyclic ketone, and the hydride donor may be a dihydropyridine. The reaction is enantioselective, and proceeds with a variety of hydride donors, catalysts, and substrates. The invention also provides compositions effective in carrying out the 1,4-hydride addition of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/285428 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/312 |
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| US 07323608 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); Artis Klapars (Scotch Plains, New Jersey); Fuk Y. Kwong (Sai Wan Ho, China PRC); Eric R. Streiter (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jacopo Zanon (Venice, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming methods. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-sulfur bond between the sulfur atom of a thiol moiety and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In other embodiments, the present invention relates to copper(II)-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-nitrogen bond between the nitrogen atom of an amide and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to copper-catalyzed methods of forming a carbon-carbon bond between the carbon atom of cyanide ion and the activated carbon of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl halide or sulfonate. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a copper-catalyzed method of transforming an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl chloride or bromide into the corresponding aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl iodide. Yet another embodiment of the present invention relates to a tandem method, which may be practiced in a single reaction vessel, wherein the first step of the method involves the copper-catalyzed formation of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl iodide from the corresponding aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl chloride or bromide; and the second step of the method involves the copper-catalyzed formation of an aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl nitrile, amide or sulfide from the aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl iodide formed in the first step. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090951 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 570/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323619 | Baltimore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Elizabeth J. Hong (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Carlos Lois-Caballe (South Pasadena, California); Shirley Pease (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing transgenic animals, particularly transgenic birds and fish, using retroviral constructs engineered to carry the transgene(s) of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243820 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323683 | Krutchinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew N. Krutchinsky (San Francisco, California); Herbert Cohen (New York, New York); Brian T. Chait (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manipulating ions in an ion trap includes storing ions, spatially compressing, and ejecting selected ions according to mass-to-charge ratio. An ion trap includes an injection port, an arm having a first and a second end for confining and spatially compressing the ions, and an ejection port for ejecting the ions from the second end. The arm includes two pairs of opposing electrodes, which provide a quadrupole electric field potential at any cross-section of the ion trap. The distance between opposing electrodes and the cross-sectional area of the electrodes increases from the first to second end. The electrodes may be tapered cylindrical rods or of hyperbolic cross-section. Ions selected for ejection are spatially compressed into a region at the second (wider) end. The ion trap may include one arm, with either orthogonal or axial ejection, or two arms with a central insert for orthogonal ejection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216459 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323692 | Rowlands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York); Sunnybrook and Woman's College Health Sciences Center (, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rowlands (Toronto, Canada); Wei Zhao (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an indirect AMFPI wherein a phosphor such as a structured cesium iodide (CsI) is used to convert x-ray energy to optical photons or a charge, which is then detected by a two-dimensional array of either thin-film transistors (TFTs) such as an amorphous a-Se TFTs or a photodiode array. A scanning control circuit generates pulses to turn on the TFTs one row at a time, and thus the charge in the individual arrays is transferred from the TFT to one or more external charge-sensitive amplifiers. The charge-sensitive amplifiers are shared by all the pixels in the same column. The two-dimensional array can be read in real time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201658 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324007 | Sunderman 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl B. Sunderman (Spokane, Washington); Jeffrey Craig Johnson (Medical Lake, Washington); Steve P. Signer (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A rock bolt includes a hollow body and a gap along a length of the hollow body. At least one strain gauge is affixed to an inner surface of the rock bolt and is accessible from the gap. The rock bolt may include a data logger within the hollow body and coupled to receive signals from one or more strain gauges, and to record these signals in a memory. The data logger may comprise a data port adapted to be accessible from the outside of a bore hole into which the rock bolt is inserted. The data logger also may include at least one of a visual and auditory alarm. A graphic user interface software program can be used to download data from the data logger and set certain operating parameters of the data logger. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/499299 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324329 | Dweik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Giner, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Badawi M. Dweik (Foxboro, Massachusetts); John W. Forchione (Ashland, Massachusetts); Mourad Manoukian (Watertown, Massachusetts); John A. Kosek (Danvers, Massachusetts); Anthony B. LaConti (Lynnfield, Massachusetts); David A. Evans (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-voltage electrochemical-electrolytic capacitor. The capacitor includes a cathode comprising a plurality of electrically-conductive particles in intimate electrical contact with one another and disposed in a proton-conductive, electrically-non-conductive, solid ionomer matrix. The capacitor also includes an anode comprising a plurality of electrically-conductive particles in intimate electrical contact with one another and disposed in a proton-conductive, electrically-non-conductive solid ionomer matrix, the electrically-conductive particles of the anode differing in composition from the electrically-conductive particles of said cathode. The capacitor further includes a proton-conducting dielectric positioned between and in contact with each of the cathode and the anode, the proton-conducting dielectric comprising a solid ionomer. Preferably, the capacitor is assembled by constructing a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising the cathode and an extra thickness of solid ionomer on its inner surface, the second portion comprising the anode and an extra thickness of solid ionomer on its inner surface. When the first and second portions are brought together, the extended thicknesses of the solid ionomer jointly form the proton-conducting dielectric. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316416 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324675 | Raman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raghav Raman (Cupertino, California); Sandy A. Napel (Menlo Park, California); Geoffrey D. Rubin (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to quantify the radial endoluminal irregularity of aortoiliac arteries is provided. Radial endoluminal outlines of a vessel of interest are determined. The cross sectional area is determined for the area outlined by each endoluminal outline. Using this cross sectional area a shape is selected that has substantially the same area as the endoluminal outline. Subsequently, the shape is fitted to the endoluminal outline. In one aspect, the irregularity index is calculated as the ratio of the endoluminal outline and the outline of the fitted shape. In another aspect, the irregularity index is calculated as the ratio of at least a part of the endoluminal outline and the outline of the fitted shape that corresponds to the same part of the endoluminal outline. The irregularity index is visualized using a color scheme, a range of numbers, or a set of labels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722851 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07322205 | Bourne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Davis Energy Group, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Bourne (Davis, California); Brian Eric Lee (Monterey, California); Mark J. Berman (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A roof top cooling unit has an evaporative cooling section that includes at least one evaporative module that pre-cools ventilation air and water; a condenser; a water reservoir and pump that captures and re-circulates water within the evaporative modules; a fan that exhausts air from the building and the evaporative modules and systems that refill and drain the water reservoir. The cooling unit also has a refrigerant section that includes a compressor, an expansion device, evaporator and condenser heat exchangers, and connecting refrigerant piping. Supply air components include a blower, an air filter, a cooling and/or heating coil to condition air for supply to the building, and optional dampers that, in designs that supply less than 100% outdoor air to the building, control the mixture of return and ventilation air. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885001 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323024 | Morrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Morrell (Knoxville, Tennessee); Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); David M. Cecala (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Chemical processing apparatuses which incorporate a process vessel, such as a crucible or retort, and which include a gas separation or filtration system. Various embodiments incorporate such features as loose filtration material, semi-rigid filtration material, and structured filtration material. The vessel may include material that is a microwave susceptor. Filtration media may be selected so that if it inadvertently mixes with the chemical process or the reaction products of such process, it would not adversely affect the results of the chemical process. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008655 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/385.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323071 | Branagan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Branagan (Iona, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses a method of forming a metallic coating. A metallic glass coating is formed over a metallic substrate. After formation of the coating, at least a portion of the metallic glass can be converted into a crystalline material having a nanocrystalline grain size. The invention also encompasses metallic coatings comprising metallic glass. Additionally, the invention encompasses metallic coatings comprising crystalline metallic material, with at least some of the crystalline metallic material having a nanocrystalline grain size. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841873 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323092 | Karger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry L. Karger (Newton, Massachusetts); Lev Kotler (Brighton, Massachusetts); Frantisek Foret (Malden, Massachusetts); Marek Minarik (Winthrop, Massachusetts); Karel Kleparnik (Brno, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | While the present invention has been described in conjunction with a preferred embodiment, one of ordinary skill, after reading the foregoing specification, will be able to effect various changes, substitutions of equivalents, and other alterations to the compositions and methods set forth herein. It is therefore intended that the protection granted by Letters Patent hereon be limited only by the definitions contained in the appended claims and equivalents thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/653398 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323113 | Hoffmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Hoffmann (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for producing a lithographic pattern using a mask that includes the same materials as the material to be etched, allowing the pattern to be transferred and the etch mask to be removed in one step. In accordance with features of the invention, the method includes building up of a layer or layers of material of specific thickness on top of a substrate so that temporal control of an etching process allows formation of the desired pattern. Different exchange bias directions can be established by the use of shape anisotropy for the exchange biased component of a spin valve device. This enables several different magnetic reference directions to be present on a single chip, which allows a more compact magnetic field sensor to be developed. In accordance with features of the invention, different field directions are established on one single chip by using shape anisotropy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/980507 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323159 | Ahluwalia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh K. Ahluwalia (Burr Ridge, Illinois); Shabbir Ahmed (Naperville, Illinois); Sheldon H. D. Lee (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved fuel processor for fuel cells is provided whereby the startup time of the processor is less than sixty seconds and can be as low as 30 seconds, if not less. A rapid startup time is achieved by either igniting or allowing a small mixture of air and fuel to react over and warm up the catalyst of an autothermal reformer (ATR). The ATR then produces combustible gases to be subsequently oxidized on and simultaneously warm up water-gas shift zone catalysts. After normal operating temperature has been achieved, the proportion of air included with the fuel is greatly diminished. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/780348 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323270 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pinakin Patel (Danbury, Connecticut); Willam Urko (West Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular multi-stack fuel-cell assembly in which the fuel-cell stacks are situated within a containment structure and in which a gas distributor is provided in the structure and distributes received fuel and oxidant gases to the stacks and receives exhausted fuel and oxidant gas from the stacks so as to realize a desired gas flow distribution and gas pressure differential through the stacks. The gas distributor is centrally and symmetrically arranged relative to the stacks so that it itself promotes realization of the desired gas flow distribution and pressure differential. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916235 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323306 | Dunn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J Dunn (Bellport, New York); Daniel van der Lelie (Shoreham, New York); Maureen K. Krause (Quogue, New York); Sean R. McCorkle (Mastic Beach, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for analyzing the organismic complexity of a sample through analysis of the nucleic acid in the sample. In the disclosed method, through a series of steps, including digestion with a type II restriction enzyme, ligation of capture adapters and linkers and digestion with a type IIS restriction enzyme, genome signature tags are produced. The sequences of a statistically significant number of the signature tags are determined and the sequences are used to identify and quantify the organisms in the sample. Various embodiments of the invention described herein include methods for using single point genome signature tags to analyze the related families present in a sample, methods for analyzing sequences associated with hyper- and hypo-methylated CpG islands, methods for visualizing organismic complexity change in a sampling location over time and methods for generating the genome signature tag profile of a sample of fragmented DNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/791074 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323335 | Shanklin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Shanklin (Shoreham, New York); Edward J. Whittle (Greenport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing fatty acid desaturase mutants having a substantially increased activity towards substrates with fewer than 18 carbon atom chains relative to an unmutagenized precursor desaturase having an 18 carbon chain length specificity, the sequences encoding the desaturases and to the desaturases that are produced by the methods. The present invention further relates to a method for altering a function of a protein, including a fatty acid desaturase, through directed mutagenesis involving identifying candidate amino acid residues, producing a library of mutants of the protein by simultaneously randomizing all amino acid candidates, and selecting for mutants which exhibit the desired alteration of function. Candidate amino acids are identified by a combination of methods. Enzymatic, binding, structural and other functions of proteins can be altered by the method. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822370 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323677 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuji Wang (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A device comprising a fiber grating loop ringdown (FGLRD) system of analysis is disclosed. A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) or Long-Period grating (LPG) written in a section of single mode fused silica fiber is incorporated into a fiber loop. By utilizing the wing areas of the gratings' bandwidth as a wavelength dependent attenuator of the light transmission, a fiber grating loop ringdown concept is formed. One aspect of the present invention is temperature sensing, which has been demonstrated using the disclosed device. Temperature measurements in the areas of accuracy, stability, high temperature, and dynamic range are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181798 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324011 | Richardson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A pipeline communication system and method includes a pipeline having a surface extending along at least a portion of the length of the pipeline. A conductive bus is formed to and extends along a portion of the surface of the pipeline. The conductive bus includes a first conductive trace and a second conductive trace with the first and second conductive traces being adapted to conformally couple with a pipeline at the surface extending along at least a portion of the length of the pipeline. A transmitter for sending information along the conductive bus on the pipeline is coupled thereto and a receiver for receiving the information from the conductive bus on the pipeline is also couple to the conductive bus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825804 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324899 | Zhdanov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Zhdanov (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Mineral exploration needs a reliable method to distinguish between uneconomic mineral deposits and economic mineralization. A method and system includes a geophysical technique for subsurface material characterization, mineral exploration and mineral discrimination. The technique introduced in this invention detects induced polarization effects in electromagnetic data and uses remote geophysical observations to determine the parameters of an effective conductivity relaxation model using a composite analytical multi-phase model of the rock formations. The conductivity relaxation model and analytical model can be used to determine parameters related by analytical expressions to the physical characteristics of the microstructure of the rocks and minerals. These parameters are ultimately used for the discrimination of different components in underground formations, and in this way provide an ability to distinguish between uneconomic mineral deposits and zones of economic mineralization using geophysical remote sensing technology. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/492221 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07323136 | Barrera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Yildiz Bayazitoglu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to fullerene, nanotube, or nanofiber filled metals and polymers. This invention stems from a cross-disciplinary combination of electromagnetic and acoustic processing and property enhancement of materials through fullerene or nanofiber additives. Containerless processing (CP) in the form of electromagnetic field enduced and/or acoustic mixing leads to controlled dispersion of fullerenes, nanotubes, or nanofibers in various matrices. The invention provides methods of mixing that highly disperse and align the fullerenes, nanotubes, or nanofibers within the matrices of metals and polymers. The invention provides new compositions of matter and multifunctional materials based on processing, composition, and degree of in situ processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/182081 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323319 | Huang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faqing Huang (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods for incorporating adenosine derivatives into the 5′ end of transcribed RNA are disclosed. Adenosine derivatives include naturally occurring compounds such as Coenzyme A, NAD, and FAD, as well as various non-naturally occurring compounds. The derivatives can be used to impart desirable properties to the RNA such as fluorescence, the ability to bind to receptors or ligands, and improved catalytic activity. The transcribed RNAs can be used in a variety of applications including nucleic acid detection, designed or random generation of catalytic RNAs, antisense applications, and in the study of RNA structure and function. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/250029 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323340 | Bassler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Technologies International (Alberta, Canada); Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael G. Surette (Calgary, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimulates LuxQ luminescence genes, and is believed also to stimulate a variety of pathogenesis related genes in the bacterial species that produce it. A new class of bacterial genes is involved in the biosynthesis of autoinducer-2. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409783 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323511 | Cholli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok L. Cholli (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Ashish Dhawan (Lowell, Massachusetts); Vijayendra Kumar (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing an antioxidant polymer includes forming or obtaining a first polymer having reactive pendant groups, where the first polymer does not include cyclic anhydride repeat units, and derivatizing the first polymer with an antioxidant. Another method of preparing an antioxidant polymer includes forming or obtaining a first polymer having reactive pendant groups and derivatizing the first polymer with an antioxidant, where the antioxidant is attached to the first polymer by an acetal, amide, amine, carbamate, carbonate, ester, ether or thioether linkage or by a carbon-carbon bond. The invention is also directed to polymers that are generally prepared by these methods, compositions that include such polymers and methods of using such polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040193 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/611 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323531 | Toulokhonova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irina S. Toulokhonova (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are fluorescent polysiloxanes and methods of making them. Fluorescent aryl alcohols or fluorescent aryl carbinols are reacted with hydropolysiloxanes in the presence of a catalyst to link the fluorescent groups to the polysiloxane chain through an ether linkage. The resulting compounds are fluorescent and have other desirable properties. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982065 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323540 | Velev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlin Dimitrov Velev (Cary, North Carolina); Rossitza Gueorguieva Alargova (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming polymer microrods, the method including the steps of providing a polymer solution comprising a polymer dissolved in a first solvent; providing a dispersion medium comprising a second solvent, wherein the first solvent and the second solvent are miscible or partially soluble in each other, and wherein the polymer is insoluble in the second solvent; adding the polymer solution to the dispersion medium to form a dispersed phase of polymer solution droplets within the dispersion medium; and introducing a shear stress to the dispersion medium and dispersed polymer solution droplets for a time and at a shear rate sufficient to elongate the polymer solution droplets to form microrods and solidify the microrods by attrition of the polymer solvent into the dispersion medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153888 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/502.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324035 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Harris (Gainesville, Florida); Du Chen (Gainesville, Florida); Dazhi Wei (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An amplifier-based system having pulsed output includes an amplifier for amplifying a time varying voltage signal to produce an output voltage signal. A voltage-to-current (V-I) converter converts the output voltage signal into a current signal. An output stage including a current integrator integrates the current signal to generate an integrated voltage. An amplitude to time converter generates a pulse train from the integrated voltage, wherein a timing of the pulses in the pulse train represents the original time varying voltage signal. The pulse train representation permits transmission and accurate remote reconstruction of the original time varying voltage signal, such as signals generated by electrodes implanted inside a subject, including neural signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844950 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07325040 | Truong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thanh N. Truong (Salt Lake, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for a remote desktop environment for a grid enabled system. The system can include a grid enabled server capable of being connected into a grid network. A client computer can be in communication with the grid enabled server. A user desktop environment can be provided for the client computer, and the user desktop environment can securely connect to the grid enabled server, a grid computing network, and map to client computer operating system resources. In addition, a file manager can be in communication with the user desktop environment. The file manager may be configured to allow users to own and directly access user accounts and directories on the grid enabled server. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215956 |
| ART UNIT | 2141 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07323319 | Huang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faqing Huang (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and methods for incorporating adenosine derivatives into the 5′ end of transcribed RNA are disclosed. Adenosine derivatives include naturally occurring compounds such as Coenzyme A, NAD, and FAD, as well as various non-naturally occurring compounds. The derivatives can be used to impart desirable properties to the RNA such as fluorescence, the ability to bind to receptors or ligands, and improved catalytic activity. The transcribed RNAs can be used in a variety of applications including nucleic acid detection, designed or random generation of catalytic RNAs, antisense applications, and in the study of RNA structure and function. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/250029 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323869 | Penanen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin I. Penanen (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A readout scheme for measuring the output from a SQUID-based sensor-array using an improved subranging architecture that includes multiple resolution channels (such as a coarse resolution channel and a fine resolution channel). The scheme employs a flux sensing circuit with a sensing coil connected in series to multiple input coils, each input coil being coupled to a corresponding SQUID detection circuit having a high-resolution SQUID device with independent linearizing feedback. A two-resolution configuration (course and fine) is illustrated with a primary SQUID detection circuit for generating a fine readout, and a secondary SQUID detection circuit for generating a course readout, both having feedback current coupled to the respective SQUID devices via feedback/modulation coils. The primary and secondary SQUID detection circuits function and derive independent feedback. Thus, the SQUID devices may be monitored independently of each other (and read simultaneously) to dramatically increase slew rates and dynamic range. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279137 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324661 | Kemp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colgate-Palmolive Company (New Yrok, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Herbert Kemp (Somerset, New Jersey); Ashit Talukder (Simi Valley, California); James Lambert (Sunland, California); Raymond Lam (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented system and method of intra-oral analysis for measuring plaque removal is disclosed. The system includes hardware for real-time image acquisition and software to store the acquired images on a patient-by-patient basis. The system implements algorithms to segment teeth of interest from surrounding gum, and uses a real-time image-based morphing procedure to automatically overlay a grid onto each segmented tooth. Pattern recognition methods are used to classify plaque from surrounding gum and enamel, while ignoring glare effects due to the reflection of camera light and ambient light from enamel regions. The system integrates these components into a single software suite with an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to do an end-to-end run of a patient record, including tooth segmentation of all teeth, grid morphing of each segmented tooth, and plaque classification of each tooth image. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836567 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07322369 | Medina |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marjorie B. Medina (Glenside, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of detaching microorganisms (e.g., bacteria) from, or of inhibiting microbial (e.g., bacterial) attachment to, animal or poultry carcasses or seafood or parts thereof, wherein the method involves contacting animal or poultry carcasses or seafood or parts thereof at least once with at least one of the following: (i) a polysulfated polysaccharide, (ii) carboxymethyl cellulose, or (iii) guanidine or arginine, optionally together with sodium chloride and at least one non-ionic surfactant, or (iv) mixtures thereof, in an amount effective to detach microorganisms (e.g., bacteria) from, or inhibit microbial (e.g., bacterial) attachment to, animal or poultry carcasses or seafood or parts thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/960389 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323178 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio Department of Agriculture (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Zhang (New Albany, Ohio); Sree Kumari Rajeev (Pickerington, Ohio); Beverly Byrum (Grove City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) causes abortion and respiratory infection in horses. Only certain strains of EHV-1 cause encephalitis. Vaccination of horses with live attenuated or inactivated vaccines against EHV-1 is commonly practiced using commercial vaccine products. None of those vaccines have been tested for protection of horses against neurologic manifestation caused by EHV-1. Clinical evidence indicates that horses vaccinated with the commercial vaccines were protected against the respiratory diseases caused by EHV-1. However, the vaccinated horses were not protected against neurological disease. In this invention, we describe the development of a new inactivated EHV-1 vaccine. The new vaccine will protect vaccinated horses against neurological disease as well as respiratory disease and abortion caused by EHV-1. The vaccine will use a newly isolated Findlay strain of EHV-1 as the master seed virus. This virus was extremely virulent and caused high morbidity (>80%) in a well-vaccinated horse population. This virus was highly neurotropic as over 30% of the sick animals developed neurologic disease. The vaccine is formatted with the Findlay strain of EHV-1 and alum as adjuvant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/027151 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/229.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07324046 | Wu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-wei Andy Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An airborne radio frequency (RF) antenna terminal system includes a two-axis gimbals control system and a phased array antenna. The phased array antenna electronically steers the receive and transmit beams using phase shifters. The electronically steered beams provide a virtual third-axis for the two-axis gimbals control system. The combination of the electronically steered beams and the two-axis gimbaled system provides accurate beam steering for the keyhole region of the two-axis gimbals control system so that the RF communication link is prevented from being lost in the keyhole region. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090410 |
| 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 342/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324761 | Schulz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Schulz (Harvard, Massachusetts); Paula J. Donovan (Dedham, Massachusetts); Scott Henion (Clinton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are an optical transmitter and a method for generating a single sideband optical signal. The method includes generating a data signal at a first power level and at a second power level with a predetermined ratio being defined between the power levels. The data signal at the first power level is applied to a phase module disposed in a laser cavity of a semiconductor laser to generate a frequency modulated laser signal having a double sideband. The intensity of the frequency modulated laser signal is modulated in response to the data signal at the second power level to yield the single sideband optical signal. Optical transmitters implementing the method have an increased manufacturing yield and reliability, a lower fabrication cost and a decreased size compared to other optical single sideband optical transmitters. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038989 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07323181 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Hamilton, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Washington); Patricia D McNeill (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648780 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07324329 | Dweik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Giner, Inc. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Badawi M. Dweik (Foxboro, Massachusetts); John W. Forchione (Ashland, Massachusetts); Mourad Manoukian (Watertown, Massachusetts); John A. Kosek (Danvers, Massachusetts); Anthony B. LaConti (Lynnfield, Massachusetts); David A. Evans (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-voltage electrochemical-electrolytic capacitor. The capacitor includes a cathode comprising a plurality of electrically-conductive particles in intimate electrical contact with one another and disposed in a proton-conductive, electrically-non-conductive, solid ionomer matrix. The capacitor also includes an anode comprising a plurality of electrically-conductive particles in intimate electrical contact with one another and disposed in a proton-conductive, electrically-non-conductive solid ionomer matrix, the electrically-conductive particles of the anode differing in composition from the electrically-conductive particles of said cathode. The capacitor further includes a proton-conducting dielectric positioned between and in contact with each of the cathode and the anode, the proton-conducting dielectric comprising a solid ionomer. Preferably, the capacitor is assembled by constructing a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising the cathode and an extra thickness of solid ionomer on its inner surface, the second portion comprising the anode and an extra thickness of solid ionomer on its inner surface. When the first and second portions are brought together, the extended thicknesses of the solid ionomer jointly form the proton-conducting dielectric. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316416 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07324681 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OG Technologies, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Shuh Chang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Gutchess (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hsun-Hau Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to solving the problems associated with the detection of surface defects on metal bars as well as the problems associated with applying metal flat inspection systems to metal bars for non-destructive surface defects detection. A specially designed imaging system, which is comprised of a computing unit, line lights and high data rate line scan cameras, is developed for the aforementioned purpose. The target application is the metal bars (1) that have a circumference/cross-section-area ratio equal to or smaller than 4.25 when the cross section area is unity for the given shape, (2) whose cross-sections are round, oval, or in the shape of a polygon, and (3) are manufactured by mechanically cross-section reduction processes. The said metal can be steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, bronze, titanium, nickel, and so forth, and/or their alloys. The said metal bars can be at the temperature when they are being manufactured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194985 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07322358 | Tam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Path (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Tam (Seattle, Washington); Glenn D. Austin (Seattle, Washington); Yancy Seamans (Seattle, Washington); William Robert Van Lew, Jr. (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A female condom is provided that includes a pouch of resilient membranous material and a hydrophilic cling mechanism. According to an embodiment of the invention, the cling mechanism includes three or more foam cling elements attached to an outer surface of the pouch. Upon insertion, the foam cling elements cling lightly to vaginal walls proximate a transition zone between the vagina's introitus and its rugated internal tissue. The foam cling elements may be shaped to permit them to nestle into a user's rugated internal vaginal tissue. An inserter may be coupled to the pouch for facilitating insertion of the condom. The inserter may retain a distal portion of the pouch in a collapsed form. The cling mechanism may be contained within the dissolvable inserter. The inserter may be dissolvable in the presence of vaginal moisture. Methods are also provided for collapsing the pouch and compressing it into an insertion package. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/665452 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323175 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Forsyth Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Smith (Natick, Massachusetts); Martin A. Taubman (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic compositions and subunit vaccines for dental caries are described which comprise peptide subunits of glucan binding protein-B and peptide subunits of glucan binding protein-B in combination with peptide subunits of glucosyltransferase. Methods of provoking an immune response to S. mutans glucan binding protein-B or glucosyltransferase. Methods of immunizing a mammal against dental caries are also described, along with antibodies which bind particular epitopes of glucan binding protein-B or glucosyltransferase. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383930 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323190 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation at State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Setauket, New York); Michael Hadjiargyrou (Coram, New York); Dufei Fang (Painted Post, New York); Xinhua Zong (Centereach, New York); Kwangsok Kim (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell storage and delivery systems and methods for storing and delivering viable cells to a mammal are disclosed. The cell storage and delivery systems include a biodegradable and/or bioabsorbable fibrous matrix physically associated with viable cells to contain and release the cells at a controlled rate. The biodegradable and/or bioabsorable matrix can be formed by electrospinning fibers of biodegradable and/or bioabsorbable fiberizable material. The methods include methods for storing viable cells and for delivering viable cells to a mammal using the cell storage and delivery system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919616 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07323313 | Pruitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Pruitt (Williamsville, New York); Alexander Hastie (Buffalo, New York); Lawrence Mielnicki (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for identifying a plurality of pairs of interacting proteins and plasmids for use in the method. The pair of plasmids is adapted for use in a modified two hybrid system wherein wherein each plasmid comprises a recombinase recognition site. The method comprises the steps of providing cDNAs encoding test polypeptides, inserting the cDNAs into the first and second plasmids, recombining the first and second plasmids to obtain recombined plasmids, isolating and digesting the recombined plasmids, ligating the restriction fragments to a universal adapter to provide a pool of digested fragments flanked by a universal adapter, selecting and amplifying desired sequences, forming concatamers from the amplified sequences, and sequencing the concatamers to determine the nucleotide sequences encoding a plurality of pairs of interacting proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842741 |
| 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 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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