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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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| US 07334466 | Brislin |
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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) | Philip Brislin (Budd Lake, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and accompanying methods to evaluate the performance of an antipersonnel/canister projectile using either test data or theoretical data. It provides a three dimensional projection of the fragments/payload that can be evaluated using a variety of performance criteria. The method can be applied to numerous target types and shapes. This method can also be adjusted to evaluate antipersonnel projectiles that utilize a fuze dispersion (payload is dispersed with an explosive charge). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/306605 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334630 | Goodson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Goodson (Belmont, California); Chuan-Hua Chen (Stanford, California); David E. Huber (Mountain View, California); Linan Jiang (Menlo Park, California); Thomas W. Kenny (San Carlos, California); Jae-Mo Koo (Stanford, California); Daniel J. Laser (San Francisco, California); James C. Mikkelsen (Los Altos, California); Juan G. Santiago (Fremont, California); Evelyn Ning-Yi Wang (Stanford, California); Shulin Zeng (Sunnyvale, California); Lian Zhang (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods according to the present invention utilize micropumps that are capable of generating high pressure and flow without moving mechanical parts and the associated generation of unacceptable electrical and acoustic noise, as well as the associated reduction in reliability. These micropumps are fabricated with materials and structures that improve performance, efficiency, and reduce weight and manufacturing cost relative to presently available micropumps. These micropumps also can allow for recapture of evolved gases and deposited materials, which may provide for long-term closed-loop operation. Apparatus and methods according to the present invention also allow active regulation of the temperature of the device through electrical control of the flow through the pump and can utilize multiple cooling loops to allow independent regulation of the spatial and temporal characteristics of the device temperature profiles. Novel enclosed microchannel structures are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136793 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334760 | Lisy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Mohammed Modarreszadah (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Mehul P. Patel (Streetsboro, Ohio); Jack M. DiCocco (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Reed Carver (Aurora, Ohio); Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a flow control device and more particularly to reactive self-contained modular flow control device with deployable flow effectors. The present invention further relates to a method of operating the flow control device. One embodiment of the present invention includes a method of controlling air flow across a surface of an aircraft under certain flight conditions comprising the steps of sensing fluid separation from the surface by measuring the pressure on the surface; determining a standard deviation of the pressure measurements over a period of time; and deploying a flow effector in response to the standard deviation of the pressure measurements exceeding a predetermined threshold number. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/523161 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334980 | Trinks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Trinks (Wallingford, Connecticut); Steven G. Lemieux (South Windsor, Connecticut); Gregory E. Reinhardt (South Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A retainer for securing the outer air seal assembly of a turbine rotor stage in a locked position. The outer air seal is suspended from the turbine casing over the rotor stage and is locked to the casing by annular segmented locking keys. A series of circumferentially spaced seats are located upon the front face of the locking key segments with the outer surfaces of the seats describing a circle approximating a first diameter. A split ring retainer is slidably carried in a radially disposed groove and is arranged to secure the key segments in a locked position. A series of lugs extend inwardly from the inside wall of the ring. The lugs are circumferentially spaced about the ring with the inner surface of the lugs approximating a circle having a second diameter that is less that of the first diameter approximated by the seats. The lugs are spaced so that each lug can be seated upon a seat to flex the ring outwardly in a radial direction and thus secure the key segment in a locking position. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091204 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334985 | Lutjen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine); Dmitriy Romanov (Wells, Maine); Jeremy Drake (South Berwick, Maine); Gary Grogg (South Berwick, Maine); Gregory E. Reinhardt (South Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine shroud section includes a cooling passage that bleeds cooling air through an opening in a surface. The cooling passage forms an angle relative to an expected fluid flow direction. The angle defines an angular component in a circumferential direction, which is aligned with the expected fluid flow direction to reduce momentum energy loss of fluid flow through the engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247812 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335271 | Autumn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabricated microstructure includes a plurality of protrusions. The protrusions are capable of providing substantially parallel adhesive force at a surface of between about 60 and 2000 nano-Newtons. A flexible shaft supports the protrusions, and a flexible member or beam is attached to the shaft to form a manipulator or gripper device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/039574 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335336 | Kim |
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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) | Yoonkee Kim (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for sensing a property of a plurality of analytes includes a substrate having a resonant frequency that varies based on contact with a predetermined property of an analyte. The substrate has an analyte contact surface and a non-analyte contact surface located opposed to the analyte contact surface. The analyte contact surface is configured to receive a plurality of analytes. A plurality of pairs of electrodes are operatively connected with the nonanalyte contact surface, each of the electrodes being spaced apart one from another. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868454 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335356 | Hart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Kate Hart (Frederick, Maryland); Julie Wilson (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application are described Ebola GP monoclonal antibodies, epitopes recognized by these monoclonal antibodies, and the sequences of the variable regions of some of these antibodies. Also provided are mixtures of antibodies of the present invention, as well as methods of using individual antibodies or mixtures thereof for the detection, prevention, and/or therapeutical treatment of Ebola virus infections in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/013996 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335373 | Worley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelby D. Worley (Auburn, Alabama); Yongjun Chen (Bellevue, Washington); Jie Liang (Auburn, Alabama); Rong Wu (Auburn, Alabama); Kevin Barnes (Opelika, Alabama); Royall M. Broughton (Valley, Alabama); Unchin Cho (Auburn, Alabama); Jaewoong Lee (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | N-halamine compounds which contain hindered amine and amide functional groups. Compounds include wherein X, X′, and X″ independently are H, Cl, or Br, wherein no more than two of X, X′, and X″ are H and wherein R, R′, and R″ are independently alkyl groups containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or hydrogen, and X and X′ are independently H, Cl, or Br. Compositions comprising the compounds are also described. The compounds and/or compositions can be used, for example, for the purpose of constructing biocidal coatings and materials. The biocidal activity can inactivate pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and yeasts, as well as, virus particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991358 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335477 | Ching 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) | Wei-Mei Ching (Bethesda, Maryland); Daryl J. Kelly (Newark, Ohio); Gregory A. Dasch (Stone Mountain, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A recombinant, refolded non-fusion polypeptide expressed from a truncated r56 gene of the causative agent of scrub typhus, Orientia tsutsugamushi for the Karp, Kato and Gilliam strains has been produced. The invention is useful for detecting prior exposure to scrub typhus, screening for and/or identification of at least one infectious strain-similarity (i.e. a Karp-like, Kato-like or Gilliam-like strain) based on its strength of reaction toward a truncated protein and as a component in vaccine formulations and production of immune globulins for passive prophylaxis and immunity in subjects. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/120837 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335511 | Mountford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia); National Research Council of Canada (Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn E. Mountford (East Ryde, Australia); Peter Russell (Pyme, Australia); Ian C. P. Smith (Winnipeg, Canada); Rajmund L. Somorjai (Headingly, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Robust classification methods analyze magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) data (spectra) of fine needle aspirates taken from breast tumors. The resultant data when compared with the histopathology and clinical criteria provide computerized classification-based diagnosis and prognosis with a very high degree of accuracy and reliability. Diagnostic correlation performed between the spectra and standard synoptic pathology findings contain detail regarding the pathology (malignant versus benign), vascular invasion by the primary cancer and lymph node involvement of the excised axillary lymph nodes. The classification strategy consisted of three stages: pre-processing of MR magnitude spectra to identify optimal spectral regions, cross-validated Linear Discriminant Analysis, and classification aggregation via Computerised Consensus Diagnosis. Malignant tissue was distinguished from benign lesions with an overall accuracy of 93%. From the same spectrum, lymph node involvement was predicted with an accuracy of 95% and tumor vascularisation with an overall accuracy of 92%. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/012959 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335552 | Drab et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Drab (Santa Barbara, California); Thomas K. Dougherty (Playa del Rey, California); Kathleen A. Kehle (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a conductor on a substrate including steps of depositing tantalum on a glass layer of the substrate; oxidizing the tantalum; and depositing a noble metal on the oxidized tantalum to form the conductor. The method can be used to form a ferroelectric capacitor or other thin film ferroelectric device. The device can include a substrate comprising a glass layer; and an electrode connected to the glass layer. The electrode comprising can include a noble metal connected to the glass layer by an adhesion layer comprising Ta2O5. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147093 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335717 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Morse (Santa Barbara, California); David Kisailus (Goleta, California); Kristian M. Roth (Montecito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The in vitro polymerization of silica, silicone, non-silicon metalloid-oxane and metallo-oxane polymer networks, by combining a catalyst and a substrate to polymerize the substrate to form silica, polysiloxanes, polymetalloid-oxanes polymetallo-oxanes (metal oxides), polyorganometalloid oxanes, polyorganometallo oxanes, and the polyhydrido derivatives thereof, at about neutral pH. The nanostructure-directing catalysts have a nucleophilic functionality and a hydrogen-bonding acceptor group, and include: silicateins, enzymes that work by a mechanism functionally related to that of the silicateins; self-assembling peptides related to those synthesized and demonstrated capable of acting as biomimetic substitutes for the silicateins; non-peptide-based synthetic polymers containing a nucleophilic group and a hydrogen bonding amine such that the polymer functions by a mechanism of action related to that of the silicateins; materials having such chemical functionality as a nucleophilic group and or a hydrogen bonding amine which, acting in concert with nanoconfinement and or chemical functionality of the surface or matrix to which the functionality is attached, acts catalytically by a mechanism related to that of the silicateins; and small-molecule non-polymeric biomimetic catalysts that operate by the same mechanism as silicateins. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807004 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335739 | Mello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charlene Mello (Rochester, Massachusetts); Steven Arcidiacono (Bellingham, Massachusetts); Michelle M. Butler (Auburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are described for the purification and spinning of recombinant and non-recombinant proteins. Specifically, the lysis of bacteria and purification of silk proteins occur in a single solution of organic acid. Bacterial proteins are hydrolyzed while the silk protein remains intact. Silk proteins remain soluble as they are concentrated into a aqueous-based mixture for fiber spinning. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426124 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335871 | Bauhahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Bauhahn (Fridley, Minnesota); Robert C. Becker (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); David W. Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Kelly P. Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for low power switching are provided. In one embodiment, an optical switching system is provided. The system comprises at least one optically controlled switch adapted to maintain one of an open state and a closed state based on an associated light signal; and at least one light source adapted to output the associated light signal to the at least one switch, wherein the at least one light source cycles the light signal on and off, wherein the at least one light source is cycled on for a sufficient duration of time and with a sufficient periodicity to maintain the optically controlled switch in one of an open state and a closed state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253188 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335895 | Spallas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novelx, Inc. (Lafayette, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Spallas (Alamo, California); Lawrence Muray (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electrical system, such as a lens stack for use in a scanning electron microscope, analysis tool, etc., comprises recesses and/or serrations that increase the surface path breakdown, thereby increasing reliability and enabling high voltage operations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277148 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336062 | Mitrofanov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg Mitrofanov (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes an optical resonator and a passive optical device. The optical resonator has first and second optical reflectors and an optical cavity interposed between the reflectors. The optical resonator includes an electro-optically responsive material. One of the reflectors is a distributed Bragg reflector. A passive optical device is configured to direct light through the first optical reflector. The optical resonator is configured to return a portion of the light through the first reflector. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/983864 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336105 | 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); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logic gate has a device for charging a dynamic node during a pre-charge phase of a clock. A logic tree evaluates the dynamic node with a device during an evaluate phase of the clock. The dynamic node has a keeper circuit comprising an inverter with its input coupled to the dynamic node and its output coupled to the back gate of a dual gate PFET device. The source of the dual gate PFET is coupled to the power supply and its drain is coupled to the dynamic node forming a half latch. The front gate of the dual gate PFET is coupled to a logic circuit with a mode input and a logic input coupled back to a node sensing the state of the dynamic node. The mode input may be a slow mode to preserve dynamic node state or the clock delayed that turns ON the strong keeper after evaluation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/168692 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336145 | Zelinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Charles Zelinski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elfar Adalsteinsson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Kawin Setsompop (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence L. Waid (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joerg Ulrich Fontius (Neunkirchen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Waveforms for radio-frequency (RF) excitations pulses used in magnetic resonance imaging are designed according to a Least Squares QR (LSQR) algorithm or a Conjugate Gradient Least Squares (CGLS) algorithm, to solve the linear system of equations that arises in a multi-channel RF transmit arrangement. Better management of SAR and other factors is achieved with RF pulses designed according to these algorithms, compared to the conventionally employed singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599905 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Tuners 334/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336232 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jar J. Lee (Irvine, California); Clifton Quan (Arcadia, California); Stanley W. Livingston (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-band, space fed antenna array includes a feed array with a first set of feed radiators for operation in a first frequency band of operation and a second set of feed radiators for operation in a second frequency band of operation. A primary array lens assembly is spaced from and illuminated by the feed array. The primary array lens includes a first set of radiator elements and a second set of radiator elements operable in the first frequency band of operation. The primary array lens assembly also includes a third set of radiator elements and a fourth set of radiator elements operable in the second frequency band of operation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499559 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336299 | Kostrzewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew A Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California); Sookwang Ro (Los Angeles, California); Il'ya Agurok (Long Beach, California); Mark Bennahmias (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A panoramic annular lens system (PAL), a unitary video camera and a PC-based software system that unwraps a 360° video image into a seamless, distortion free horizontal image image in real time. The PAL system of the preferred embodiment has a 360° horizontal field of view and a 90° vertical field of view in a 40 mm diameter compact package. The invention is not limited to any particular type of lens system. In fact, there are numerous lens systems for providing a 360° panoramic view. The video camera may be a CCD or CMOS based device having a pixel resolution of either 1280×1024 (high resolution) or 720×480 (NTSC). The unwrapping system is a radiometric ray tracing program carried out using a computer's graphics card capabilities to produce highly efficient regional transformation while minimizing software overhead. The result is real time, high resolution 30 fps conversion from a spherical distorted image to a flat panoramic image in Cartesian coordinates. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758829 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/207.990 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336357 | Levy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The development of a multiple-channel dual phase lock-in optical spectrometer (LIOS) is presented, which enables parallel phase-sensitive detection at the output of an optical spectrometer. The light intensity from a spectrally broad source is modulated at the reference frequency, and focused into a high-resolution imaging spectrometer. The height at which the light enters the spectrometer is controlled by an acousto-optic deflector, and the height information is preserved at the output focal plane. A two-dimensional InGaAs focal plane array collects light that has been dispersed in wavelength along the horizontal direction, and in time along the vertical direction. The data is demodulated using a high performance computer-based digital signal processor. This parallel approach greatly enhances (by more than 100×) the speed at which spectrally resolved lock-in data can be acquired. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202211 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336493 | Berkenbush et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Berkenbush (Pompton Plains, New Jersey); Donald W. Gattoni (Allendale, New Jersey); Santosh Kumar (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Edward D. O'Neill (Totowa, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus which is capable of providing efficient cooling of rack mounted electronic modules while accommodating relatively large tolerances in the mounting of the modules. A plurality of thermally conductive sliding wedge blocks are interposed between the lower surface of each module and the upper surface of the cold plate base of the rack. The mechanism for clamping a module to the rack also pulls the wedge blocks together to fill in the gap between the lower surface of the module and the upper surface of the cold plate so as to provide a complete thermal path therebetween. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/184153 |
| ART UNIT | 2809 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/711 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336858 | Moore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Airforce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald T. Moore (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An in-fiber optical isolator for high-power operation using two kinds of fiber, not including the active fiber where laser gain occurs. A hi-birefringence passive fiber with a tilted Bragg grating is connected to the active fiber at one end with the connection region stripped and potted to remove pump and s-polarized signals. The other end of the hi-bi fiber is fusion spliced to a low-birefringence fiber and oriented so that the birefringent axes are parallel. The low-bi fiber then passes straight through a gap in a linear magnetic array calculated to cause a 45 degree Faraday rotation. The far end of the low-bi fiber is connected to another hi-birefringence passive fiber with a tilted Bragg grating but with the birefringent axes of the hi-bi rotated by 45 degrees with respect to those of the low-bi fiber. Backward light transmitted by the second Bragg grating will then be removed by the first Bragg grating. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626095 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/11 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming-Chiang Wu (Orinda, California); Jui-Che Tsai (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 1×N2 wavelength selective switch (WSS) configuration in which switch elements are configured in a way that enables the input or output fibers to be arranged in a two-dimensional (2D) array. By employing 2D arrays of input/output channels, the channel count is increased from N to N2 for wavelength selective switches. In one embodiment, in which the components are arranged as a 2- ƒ imaging system, a one-dimensional (1D) array of mirrors is configured such that each mirror has a dual scanning axis (i.e., each mirror can be scanned in X and Y directions). In another embodiment, in which the components are arranged as a 4- ƒ imaging system, two 1D arrays of mirrors are configured with orthogonal scanning directions. In both embodiments, the number of ports is increased from N to N2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444146 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/18 |
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| US 07336882 | Ptasinski 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) | Joanna N Ptasinski (San Diego, California); John Scott Rodgers (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Metal Nanoparticle Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI (NC#97882). The device includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer; a photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the substrate, adapted to receive and output amplified light along a predetermined path; a metal nanoparticle structure, operatively coupled to the photonic bandgap structure and the substrate, adapted to receive and amplify light rays and output amplified light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653740 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
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| US 07336981 | Tauber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Tauber (Elberon, New Jersey); Robert D. Finnegan (West Long Branch, New Jersey); William D. Wilber (Neptune, New Jersey); Steven C. Tidrow (Silver Springs, Maryland); Donald W. Eckart (Wall, New Jersey); William C. Drach (West Long Branch, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Rare earth metal containing compounds of the formula Sr2YbSbO6 have been prepared with high critical temperature thin film superconductor structures, and can be fabricated into a superconductor insulator superconductor step edge Josephson junction, as well as being used in other ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, and hybrid device structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783293 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/190 |
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| US 07337115 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dabien Liu (Belmont, Massachusetts); Francis G. Kubala (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A speech recognition system receives an audio signal and detects various features of the audio signal. For example, the system classifies the audio signal into speech and non-speech portions, genders of speakers corresponding to the speech portions, and channel bandwidths used by the speakers. The system detects speaker turns based on changes in the speakers and assigns labels to the speaker turns. The system verifies the genders of the speakers and the channel bandwidths used by the speakers and identifies one or more languages associated with the audio signal. The system recognizes the speech portions of the audio signal based on the various features of the audio signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611106 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07337265 | Humphrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EM Photonics, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Humphrey (Hockessin, Delaware); James P. Durbano (Bear, Delaware); Fernando E. Ortiz (Newark, Delaware); Dennis W. Prather (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is an organization of cache memory for hardware acceleration of the FDTD method. The organization of cache memory for hardware acceleration of the FDTD method provides a substantial speedup to the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm when implemented in a piece of digital hardware. The organization of cache memory for hardware acceleration of the FDTD method utilizes a very high bandwidth dual-port on-chip memory in a particular way. By creating many small banks of internal memory and arranging them carefully, all data dependencies can be statically wired. This allows for a many-fold speedup over SRAM-based solutions and removes the burden of data dependence calculation that streaming SDRAM-based solutions must perform. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808895 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique Saldivar (Santee, California); Jennifer Orje (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for measuring blood platelet contractility, hereinafter called a “retractometer” is disclosed. Also disclosed is a system apparatus and method for automatically measuring platelet contractility in a plurality of samples, having an array of retractometer units and an electronic solenoid valve controller to fully automate screening in clinical and research situations and save costs in labor. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632532 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/73 |
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| US 07335345 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Hui Li (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Melissa Colleen Schillo (Broadview Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An economic, direct synthetic method for producing water soluble QDs that are ready for bioconjugation is provided. The method can produce aqueous QDs with emission wavelengths varying from 400 nm to 700 nm. Highly luminescent metal sulfide (MS) QDs are produced via an aqueous synthesis route. MS QDs are capped with thiol-containing charged molecules in a single step. The resultant MS QDs exhibit the distinctive excitonic photoluminescence desired of QDs and can be fabricated to avoid undesirable broadband emissions at higher wavelengths. This provides a significant improvement over the present complex and expensive commercial processes for the production of QDs. The aqueous QDs are stable in biological fluids over a long period of time. In addition, nontoxic ZnS QDs have been produced with good photoluminescence properties by refluxing the ZnS QD suspensions over a period of time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136653 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/561.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335357 | Klagsbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Klagsbrun (Newton, Massachusetts); Shay Soker (Brookline, Massachusetts); Hua-Quan Miao (Brookline, Massachusetts); Seiji Takashima (Osaka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antagonists of neuropilin receptor function and use thereof in the treatment of cancer, particularly metastatic cancer, and angiogenic diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488364 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07335363 | Hernandez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Racquel Hernandez (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dennis T. Brown (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to genetically engineered, membrane-enveloped viruses with deletion mutations in the protein transmembrane domains. Also provided are viral vaccines based on the engineered viruses, methods of producing and using such vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/318727 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07335365 | Soll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Soll (Iowa City, Iowa); Damon Shutt (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The combination of HIV proteins Tat and Nef is chemotactic for CD4+ cells. Utilizing the capacity of Tat and Nef to modulate CD4+ cell trafficking and infiltration, the invention provides various treatment modes for individuals infected with HIV. The invention further provides treatment modes for other localized diseases by controlling CD4+ cell trafficking and infiltration. In particular, the invention provides methodology for promoting CD4+ cell chemotaxis to a localized site of infection as a means of augmenting the efficacy of extant chemotherapeutic methods. The invention further provides methodology for diverting CD4+ cell infiltration from a localized site where the presence of CD4+ cells is detrimental to the clinical outcome, by providing a composition comprising Tat and Nef at a distinct site, such as blood, within the individual where the accumulation of CD4+ cells is less detrimental. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078729 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/208.100 |
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| US 07335382 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xian-Zhong Ding (Wilmette, Illinois); Thomas E. Adrian (Chicago, Illinois); Peter D. Collin (Sunset, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new classes of anti-cancer agents. In particular, the present invention provides materials derived from natural sources as anti-cancer agents, alone, or in combination with other anti-cancer agents or therapies. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066802 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/574 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335383 | Meyerhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Meyerhoff (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Melissa M. Reynolds (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bong K. Oh (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A material includes a surface and a reactive agent that is located at the surface of the material, covalently attached to a backbone of the material, and/or located within the material. The reactive agent has nitrite reductase activity, nitrate reductase activity, and/or nitrosothiol reductase activity. The reactive agent also converts at least one of nitrites, nitrates and nitrosothiols to nitric oxide when in contact with blood. A reproducible nitrosothiol sensor is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794878 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/630 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi Huang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a PFM/SET polypeptide. Also provided is an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a functional fragment of a PFM/SET polypeptide that contains a PR, SET, PRAZ or PKZL domain of a PFM/SET polypeptide of the invention. Further provided by the invention are PFM/SET polypeptides, and functional fragments thereof that contain a PR, SET, PRAZ or PKZL domain of a PFM/SET polypeptide. The invention also provides PFM/SET antibodies, PFM/SET modulatory compounds, and related methods. The molecules of the invention can be used in methods of screening for a compound that modulates PFM/SET polypeptide histone methyltransferase activity and to modulate cell proliferation to prevent or treat proliferative disorders, including cancer. Additionally, the molecules and methods of the invention can be used to diagnose and prognose proliferative disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121438 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention identifies nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of a sensory cell specific G-protein alpha subunit that are specifically expressed in sensory cells, e.g., taste cells, antibodies to such G-protein alpha subunits, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and subunits, and methods of screening for modulators of a sensory cell specific G-protein alpha subunit. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084627 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335509 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leaf Huang (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Xiang Gao (Nashville, Tennessee); Frank L. Sorgi (Sonoma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel stable, concentrated, biologically active and ready-to-use lipid-comprising drug delivery complexes and methods for their production are described. The biological activity of the complexes produced are comparable to the formulations prepared according to the prior art admixture method and upon purification, the complexes produced by the method of this invention are 50 to 500 fold more concentrated than the complexes formed by admixture. The method described herein provides for the large scale production of lipid-comprising drug delivery systems useful for gene therapy and other applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014528 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335632 | Ghosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CoMentis, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun K. Ghosh (West LaFayette, Indiana); Hui Lei (Edmond, Oklahoma); Thippeswamy Devasamudram (Edmond, Oklahoma); Chunfeng Liu (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Jordan J. N. Tang (Edmond, Oklahoma); Geoffrey Bilcer (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel beta-secretase inhibitors and methods for their use, including methods of treating of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944117 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07335635 | Fu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haian Fu (Atlanta, Georgia); Shane C. Masters (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for enhancing the death of a neaplastic cell comprising the administration of a therapeutically effective concentration of a 14-3-3 antagonist and at least one antineoplastic therapeutic agent. The methods of the invention find use in improving the clinical outcome of a mammal having a neoplastic disorder and comprises administration to a mammal in need thereof at least one antineoplastic therapeutic agent in combination with a 14-3-3 antagonist. Further provided are pharmaceutical compositions having a therapeutically effective amount of a 14-3-3 antagonist and an antineoplastic therapeutic agent. Also provided are methods for identifying agents that selectively inhibit an interaction between a 14-3-3 polypeptide and a 14-3-3 ligand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468310 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07335636 | Strittmatter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Strittmatter (Guilford, Connecticut); Iris E. Bonilla (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polynucleotides, polypeptides, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for modulation of nerve growth and regeneration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/681398 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07335637 | Fallon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University Research Foundation (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin R. Fallon (Harvard, Massachusetts); Beth McKechnie (Franklin, Massachusetts); Michael Rafii (Riverside, Rhode Island); Hilliary Creely (Providence, Rhode Island); Mark A. Bowe (Derwood, Maryland); Raymond Ferri (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. Examples of diseases include muscular dystrophies, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, Becker's Muscular Dystrophy, neuromuscular disorders and neurological disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868247 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07335640 | Siegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome M. Siegel (Northridge, California); Joshi John (Northridge, California); Ming-Fung Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treatment of sleep disorders. Such methods entail administering to the patient a therapeutically effective dosage regime of an agonist of a hypocretin 1 (Hcrt-1) receptor to a peripheral tissue of the patient, and monitoring the condition of the patient responsive to the treatment, wherein the monitoring indicates a reduction in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and an improvement in nighttime sleep consolidation and architecture. The methods are particularly useful for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of one or more sleep disorders in a patient. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/461044 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07335662 | Hurley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); Montigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence H. Hurley (Tucson, Arizona); Daruka Mahadevan (Tucson, Arizona); David J. Bearss (Cedar Hills, Utah); Hariprasad Vankayalapati (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sridevi Bashyam (Tucson, Arizona); Steven L. Warner (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Protein kinase inhibitors are disclosed having utility in the treatment of protein kinase-mediated diseases and conditions, such as cancer. The compounds of this invention have the following structure: including steroisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein A is a ring moiety selected from: and wherein R1, R2, R3, X, Z, L1, Cycl1, L2 and Cycl2 are as defined herein. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention, as well as methods relating to the use thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092863 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/267 |
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| US 07335679 | Powis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth Powis (Houston, Texas); Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel Wortmannin analogs and their use in inhibiting inhibiting PI-3-kinase activity in mammals as well as tumor formation in a subject are described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279000 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/422 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Shayman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel prodrugs of amino ceramide-like compounds are provided which inhibit glucosyl ceramide (GlcCer) formation by inhibiting the enzyme GlcCer synthase, thereby lowering the level of glycosphingolipids. The compounds of the present invention have improved GlcCer synthase inhibition activity and are therefore highly useful in therapeutic methods for treating various conditions and diseases associated with altered glycosphingolipid levels. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522063 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/428 |
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| US 07335735 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Adams (Los Angeles, California); Hong Chen (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a novel intracellular estradiol binding protein (“IEBP”), as well as a polynucleotide encoding this protein and various cells and cell lines producing and/or overexpressing it. IEBP is believed to play a role in the modulation of estrogen signaling and in the physiological resistance to the same. Abnormally elevated or decreased levels of IEBP may thus be a component of the etiology of diseases generally correlated with estrogen signaling, such as, by way of example, breast cancer and osteoporosis. Various embodiments of the present invention are believed to provide important tools for developing treatments for these conditions, such as, for example, by providing means for screening therapeutic compounds and identifying a genetic target for therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840038 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07335736 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United State of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsi Liu (Tucker, Georgia); Bret M. Steiner (Chamblee, Georgia); Berta Rodes (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the specific and highly sensitive detection of Treponema pallidum infection comprising the use of specific antigenic proteins and peptides unique to Treponema pallidum are provided. In particular, detection assays based on recognition of acidic repeat protein are provided. The methods of the present invention are useful for detection of primary syphilis at early stages of infection. In addition, the methods and compositions disclosed herein are directed to the differential detection of specific Treponema infections enabling the identification of causative agents for specific Treponema disease states: syphilis (Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum), yaws (Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue CDC-1 or CDC-2 strain), and bejel (Treponema pallidum subspecies endemicum). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221263 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335744 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the California University (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Liu (Hercules, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel prostate cancer specific internalizing human antibodies. The antibodies are useful by themselves to prevent growth and/or proliferation of prostate cancer cells. The antibodies can also be formulated as chimeric molecules to direct an effector (e.g. a cytotoxin, an imaging reagent, a drug, etc.) to a prostate tumor site. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/021438 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335749 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland); Makoto Nagashima (Kiryu, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of novel human tumor suppressors, antibodies to such tumor suppressors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and proteins, methods of screening for modulators of tumor suppressors, and methods of diagnosing and treating tumors with such nucleic acids and proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/203532 |
| 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 530/388.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335768 | Isaacs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Isaacs (Bethesda, Maryland); Jason Alan Lagona (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Cucurbit[n]uril compounds each containing phthalhydrazide units in a macrocycle wall thereof, which compound is selected from the group consisting of CB[5], CB[6], CB[7] and CB[8] compounds, the compounds having an internal cavity which may be used to contain a guest compound. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933538 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336145 | Zelinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Charles Zelinski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elfar Adalsteinsson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Kawin Setsompop (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence L. Waid (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joerg Ulrich Fontius (Neunkirchen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Waveforms for radio-frequency (RF) excitations pulses used in magnetic resonance imaging are designed according to a Least Squares QR (LSQR) algorithm or a Conjugate Gradient Least Squares (CGLS) algorithm, to solve the linear system of equations that arises in a multi-channel RF transmit arrangement. Better management of SAR and other factors is achieved with RF pulses designed according to these algorithms, compared to the conventionally employed singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599905 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Tuners 334/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336366 | Choma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Choma (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Anjul Davis (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A complex conjugate ambiguity can be resolved in an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) interferogram. A reference light signal is propagated along a reference path. A sample light signal is impinged on a sample reflector. The reference light signal is frequency shifted with respect to the sample light signal to thereby separate a positive and a negative displacement of a complex conjugate component of the OCT interferogram. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336652 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336984 | Gough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Gough (Cardiff, California); Joseph Y. Lucisano (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is the design of a biological measuring device for the determination of the concentration of biomolecules (e.g. glucose) in an environment which is designed for implantation into an individual or for use in the context of an external apparatus. The device contains a composite membrane that is essentially entirely permeable to oxygen and permeable to larger biomolecules only in discrete hydrophilic regions. The membrane diffusionally limits the access of biomolecules to an enzyme, present in the hydrophilic region that catalyzes the oxidation of the biomolecule to produce hydrogen peroxide. A sensor in communication with the hydrophilic region is used to determine the amount of product produced or the amount of excess oxygen present allowing for the concentration of the biomolecule to be determined. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719541 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07334485 | Weseman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew T. Weseman (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David T. Rohrbaugh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer product for detecting the location of a deformation of a structure includes baselining a defined energy transmitting characteristic for each of the plurality of laterally adjacent conductors attached to the structure. Each of the plurality of conductors includes a plurality of segments coupled in series and having an associated unit value representative of the defined energy transmitting characteristic. The plurality of laterally adjacent conductors includes a plurality of identity groups with each identity group including at least one of the plurality of segments from each of the plurality of conductors. Each of the plurality of conductors are monitored for a difference in the defined energy transmitting characteristic when compared with a baseline energy transmitting characteristic for each of the plurality of conductors. When the difference exceeds a threshold value, a location of the deformation along the structure is calculated. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139426 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334990 | Lawlor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramgen Power Systems, Inc. (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P. Lawlor (Bellevue, Washington); Mark A. Novaresi (San Diego, California); Charles C. Cornelius (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas compressor based on the use of a driven rotor having an axially oriented compression ramp traveling at a local supersonic inlet velocity (based on the combination of inlet gas velocity and tangential speed of the ramp) which forms a supersonic shockwave axially, between adjacent strakes. In using this method to compress inlet gas, the supersonic compressor efficiently achieves high compression ratios while utilizing a compact, stabilized gasdynamic flow path. Operated at supersonic speeds, the inlet stabilizes an oblique/normal shock system in the gasdyanamic flow path formed between the gas compression ramp on a strake, the shock capture lip on the adjacent strake, and captures the resultant pressure within the stationary external housing while providing a diffuser downstream of the compression ramp. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091680 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/20.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335247 | Stein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | VanEric Edward Stein (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Christopher M. Chen (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Phillip Andrew Armstrong (Orefield, Pennsylvania); Harold W. Wahle (North Canton, Ohio); Theodore R. Ohrn (Alliance, Ohio); Kurt E. Kneidel (Alliance, Ohio); Keith Gerard Rackers (Louisville, Ohio); James Erik Blake (Uniontown, Ohio); Shankar Nataraj (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Rene Hendrik Elias van Doorn (Obersulm-Willsbach, Germany); Merrill Anderson Wilson (West Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion transport membrane system comprising (a) a pressure vessel having an interior, an exterior, an inlet, and an outlet; (b) a plurality of planar ion transport membrane modules disposed in the interior of the pressure vessel and arranged in series, each membrane module comprising mixed metal oxide ceramic material and having an interior region and an exterior region, wherein any inlet and any outlet of the pressure vessel are in flow communication with exterior regions of the membrane modules; and (c) one or more gas manifolds in flow communication with interior regions of the membrane modules and with the exterior of the pressure vessel. The ion transport membrane system may be utilized in a gas separation device to recover oxygen from an oxygen-containing gas or as an oxidation reactor to oxidize compounds in a feed gas stream by oxygen permeated through the mixed metal oxide ceramic material of the membrane modules. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699145 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335344 | Height et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murray J. Height (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jack B. Howard (Winchester, Massachusetts); John B. Vandersande (Newbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for producing filamentary structures. The structures include single-walled nanotubes. The method includes combusting hydrocarbon fuel and oxygen to establish a non-sooting flame and providing an unsupported catalyst to synthesize the filamentary structure in a post-flame region of the flame. Residence time is selected to favor filamentary structure growth. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/389002 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07335878 — Method and apparatus for efficient photodetachment and purification of negative ion beams
| US 07335878 | Beene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Beene (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Yuan Liu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Charles C. Havener (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for efficient photodetachment and purification of negative ion beams. A method of purifying an ion beam includes: inputting the ion beam into a gas-filled multipole ion guide, the ion beam including a plurality of ions; increasing a laser-ion interaction time by collisional cooling the plurality of ions using the gas-filled multipole ion guide, the plurality of ions including at least one contaminant; and suppressing the at least one contaminant by selectively removing the at least one contaminant from the ion beam by electron photodetaching at least a portion of the at least one contaminant using a laser beam. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251710 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335882 | Brown, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Malcolm Brown, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Zack Barnes (Austin, Texas); Chie Sawatari (Shizuoka, Japan); Tetsuo Kondo (Kukuoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method, apparatus and system for nanofabrication in which one or more target molecules are identified for manipulation with an electron beam and the one or more target molecules are manipulated with the electron beam to produce new useful materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082239 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335972 | Chanchani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajen Chanchani (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsystem-on-a-chip comprises a bottom wafer of normal thickness and a series of thinned wafers can be stacked on the bottom wafer, glued and electrically interconnected. The interconnection layer comprises a compliant dielectric material, an interconnect structure, and can include embedded passives. The stacked wafer technology provides a heterogeneously integrated, ultra-miniaturized, higher performing, robust and cost-effective microsystem package. The highly integrated microsystem package, comprising electronics, sensors, optics, and MEMS, can be miniaturized both in volume and footprint to the size of a bottle-cap or less. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/713374 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336198 | Daily |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Daily (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing communication of information by modulating a magnetostatic field with a magnetostatic transmitter that modulates said magnetostatic field to contain the information and detecting the information in the modulated field at a distance with a magnetostatic detector that detects the modulated magnetic field containing the information. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203559 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/850 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336351 | Sweatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John D. Williams (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser remote sensing apparatus comprises a laser to provide collimated excitation light at a wavelength; a sensing optic, comprising at least one optical element having a front receiving surface to focus the received excitation light onto a back surface comprising a target sample and wherein the target sample emits a return light signal that is recollimated by the front receiving surface; a telescope for collecting the recollimated return light signal from the sensing optic; and a detector for detecting and spectrally resolving the return light signal. The back surface further can comprise a substrate that absorbs the target sample from an environment. For example the substrate can be a SERS substrate comprising a roughened metal surface. The return light signal can be a surface-enhanced Raman signal or laser-induced fluorescence signal. For fluorescence applications, the return signal can be enhanced by about 105, solely due to recollimation of the fluorescence return signal. For SERS applications, the return signal can be enhanced by 109 or more, due both to recollimation and to structuring of the SERS substrate so that the incident laser and Raman scattered fields are in resonance with the surface plasmons of the SERS substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348938 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336855 | Vawter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Allen Vawter (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-electrooptic effect device (“SEED”) is integrated with waveguide interconnects through the use of vertical directional couplers. Light initially propagating in the interconnect waveguide is vertically coupled to the active waveguide layer of the SEED and, if the SEED is in the transparent state, the light is coupled back to the interconnect waveguide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/300557 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07337012 | Maghribi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); James Courtney Davidson (Livermore, California); Thomas S. Wilson (Castro Valley, California); Julie K. Hamilton (Tracy, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Armando R. Tovar (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A stretchable electronic circuit or electronic device and a polymer-based process to produce a circuit or electronic device containing a stretchable conducting circuit. The stretchable electronic apparatus has a central longitudinal axis and the apparatus is stretchable in a longitudinal direction generally aligned with the central longitudinal axis. The apparatus comprises a stretchable polymer body and at least one circuit line operatively connected to the stretchable polymer body. The circuit line extends in the longitudinal direction and has a longitudinal component that extends in the longitudinal direction and has an offset component that is at an angle to the longitudinal direction. The longitudinal component and the offset component allow the apparatus to stretch in the longitudinal direction while maintaining the integrity of the circuit line. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825787 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07334394 | Samimy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Samimy (Worthington, Ohio); Igor Adamovich (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for controlling fluid flow. The device includes an arc generator coupled to electrodes. The electrodes are placed adjacent a fluid flowpath such that upon being energized by the arc generator, an arc filament plasma adjacent the electrodes is formed. In turn, this plasma forms a localized high temperature, high pressure perturbation in the adjacent fluid flowpath. The perturbations can be arranged to produce vortices, such as streamwise vortices, in the flowing fluid to control mixing and noise in such flows. The electrodes can further be arranged within a conduit configured to contain the flowing fluid such that when energized in a particular frequency and sequence, can excite flow instabilities in the flowing fluid. The placement of the electrodes is such that they are unobtrusive relative to the fluid flowpath being controlled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932325 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334844 | Barackman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor J. Barackman (Chula Vista, California); John K. Pulley (Huntington Beach, California); Xavier D. Simon (Huntington Beach, California); Sandra D. McKee (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-part seat (10) providing full body support that is specific for each crew member (30) on an individual basis. The two-part construction for the seat (10) can accommodate many sizes and shapes for crewmembers (30) because it is reconfigurable and therefore reusable for subsequent flights. The first component of the two-part seat construction is a composite shell (12) that surrounds the crewmember's entire body and is generically fitted to their general size in height and weight. The second component of the two-part seat (10) is a cushion (20) that conforms exactly to the specific crewmember's entire body and gives total body support in more complex environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/905483 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Chairs and seats 297/452.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07334998 | Jones et al. |
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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) | Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Tony L. Parrott (Williamsburg, Virginia); Laurence J. Heidelberg (Lakewood, Ohio); Edmane Envia (Brunswick, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-noise fan exit guide vanes are disclosed. According to the present invention a fan exit guide vane has an outer shell substantially shaped as an airfoil and defining an interior cavity. A porous portion of the outer shell allows communication between the fluctuations in the air passing over the guide vane and the interior cavity. At least one acoustically resonant chamber is located within the interior cavity. The resonant chamber is in communication with the porous portion of the outer perimeter. The resonant chamber is configured to reduce the noise generated at a predetermined frequency. In various preferred embodiments, there is a plurality of acoustically resonant chambers located within the interior cavity. The resonant chambers can be separated by one or more partitions within the interior cavity. In these embodiments, the resonant chambers can be configured to reduce the noise generated over a range of predetermined frequencies. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005624 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/227.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335871 | Bauhahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Bauhahn (Fridley, Minnesota); Robert C. Becker (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); David W. Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Kelly P. Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for low power switching are provided. In one embodiment, an optical switching system is provided. The system comprises at least one optically controlled switch adapted to maintain one of an open state and a closed state based on an associated light signal; and at least one light source adapted to output the associated light signal to the at least one switch, wherein the at least one light source cycles the light signal on and off, wherein the at least one light source is cycled on for a sufficient duration of time and with a sufficient periodicity to maintain the optically controlled switch in one of an open state and a closed state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253188 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336370 | Olczak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Olczak (Pittsford, New York); John J. Hannon (Rochester, New York); Thomas W. Dey (Springwater, New York); Arthur E. Jensen (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical nulling apparatus for testing an optical surface includes an aspheric mirror having a reflecting surface for imaging light near or onto the optical surface under test, where the aspheric mirror is configured to reduce spherical aberration of the optical surface under test. The apparatus includes a light source for emitting light toward the aspheric mirror, the light source longitudinally aligned with the aspheric mirror and the optical surface under test. The aspheric mirror is disposed between the light source and the optical surface under test, and the emitted light is reflected off the reflecting surface of the aspheric mirror and imaged near or onto the optical surface under test. An optical measuring device is disposed between the light source and the aspheric mirror, where light reflected from the optical surface under test enters the optical measuring device. An imaging mirror is disposed longitudinally between the light source and the aspheric mirror, and the imaging mirror is configured to again reflect light, which is first reflected from the reflecting surface of the aspheric mirror, onto the optical surface under test. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268014 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brian A. Korgel (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobias Hanrath (Austin, Texas); Xianmao Lu (Austin, Texas); Keith Johnston (Austin, Texas); Brian Korgel (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nanowires which are substantially straight and substantially free of nanoparticles and methods for making the same The nanowires can be made by seeded approaches, wherein nanocrystals bound to a substrate are used to promote growth of the nanowire. Nanocrystals in solution may also be used to make the nanowires of the present invention. Supercritical fluid reaction conditions can be used in a continuous or semi-batch process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/883966 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07335352 — Method of identifying agents that inhibit quorum sensing activity of gamma-proteobacteria
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jared Leadbetter (Altadena, California); Jean J. Huang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays that allow for the identification of agents that increase acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) acylase expression and/or AHL acylase activity in γ-proteobacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Such agents are useful, for example, for inhibiting quorum sensing activity of such bacteria by increasing degradation of long chain, but not short chain, AHLs and, therefore, can be useful for treating infections by such bacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861224 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335717 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Morse (Santa Barbara, California); David Kisailus (Goleta, California); Kristian M. Roth (Montecito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The in vitro polymerization of silica, silicone, non-silicon metalloid-oxane and metallo-oxane polymer networks, by combining a catalyst and a substrate to polymerize the substrate to form silica, polysiloxanes, polymetalloid-oxanes polymetallo-oxanes (metal oxides), polyorganometalloid oxanes, polyorganometallo oxanes, and the polyhydrido derivatives thereof, at about neutral pH. The nanostructure-directing catalysts have a nucleophilic functionality and a hydrogen-bonding acceptor group, and include: silicateins, enzymes that work by a mechanism functionally related to that of the silicateins; self-assembling peptides related to those synthesized and demonstrated capable of acting as biomimetic substitutes for the silicateins; non-peptide-based synthetic polymers containing a nucleophilic group and a hydrogen bonding amine such that the polymer functions by a mechanism of action related to that of the silicateins; materials having such chemical functionality as a nucleophilic group and or a hydrogen bonding amine which, acting in concert with nanoconfinement and or chemical functionality of the surface or matrix to which the functionality is attached, acts catalytically by a mechanism related to that of the silicateins; and small-molecule non-polymeric biomimetic catalysts that operate by the same mechanism as silicateins. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807004 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07336359 | Simpson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth J. Simpson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ryan M. Plocinik (Lafayette, Indiana); Mark Polizzi (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nonlinear optical null ellipsometry is disclosed as a method to evaluate second-order nonlinearities on and off resonance in thin surface films and bulk materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120350 |
| ART UNIT | 2809 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07337107 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Rose (Ojai, California); Liang Gu (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Pitch estimation and classification into voiced, unvoiced and transitional speech were performed by a spectro-temporal auto-correlation technique. A peak picking formula was then employed. A weighting function was then applied to the power spectrum. The harmonics weighted power spectrum underwent mel-scaled band-pass filtering, and the log-energy of the filter's output was discrete cosine transformed to produce cepstral coefficients. A within-filter cubic-root amplitude compression was applied to reduce amplitude variation without compromise of the gain invariance properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/363523 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07335717 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Morse (Santa Barbara, California); David Kisailus (Goleta, California); Kristian M. Roth (Montecito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The in vitro polymerization of silica, silicone, non-silicon metalloid-oxane and metallo-oxane polymer networks, by combining a catalyst and a substrate to polymerize the substrate to form silica, polysiloxanes, polymetalloid-oxanes polymetallo-oxanes (metal oxides), polyorganometalloid oxanes, polyorganometallo oxanes, and the polyhydrido derivatives thereof, at about neutral pH. The nanostructure-directing catalysts have a nucleophilic functionality and a hydrogen-bonding acceptor group, and include: silicateins, enzymes that work by a mechanism functionally related to that of the silicateins; self-assembling peptides related to those synthesized and demonstrated capable of acting as biomimetic substitutes for the silicateins; non-peptide-based synthetic polymers containing a nucleophilic group and a hydrogen bonding amine such that the polymer functions by a mechanism of action related to that of the silicateins; materials having such chemical functionality as a nucleophilic group and or a hydrogen bonding amine which, acting in concert with nanoconfinement and or chemical functionality of the surface or matrix to which the functionality is attached, acts catalytically by a mechanism related to that of the silicateins; and small-molecule non-polymeric biomimetic catalysts that operate by the same mechanism as silicateins. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807004 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07335761 | Harvey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AviGenics, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia); Markley C. Leavitt (Watkinsville, Georgia); Youliang Wang (Monroe, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes avian ovomucoid gene expression controlling regions which may be operably linked to one or more useful amino acid coding sequences. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/047184 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07335177 | Reynolds et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ronan Reynolds (Longbeach, California); Guillermo Gustavo Weber (Brownsville, Texas); Roger Weber (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronan Reynolds (Long Beach, California); Guillermo Gustavo Weber (Brownsville, Texas); Roger Weber (Pasadena, California); Samuel Landsberger (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ankle-foot orthosis for aiding or enhancing a user's foot and ankle movement, wherein the orthosis comprises at least one strut member, a calf shell, a foot shell, and a plurality of segments. Gaps formed between adjacent segments, an uppermost segment and the calf shell, and a lowermost segment and the foot shell have gap widths, wherein gaps at a higher location have larger gap widths than those at a lower location. Therefore, in dorsiflexion, the gaps close in series from bottom to top, gradually increasing the orthosis stiffness, creating a progressive dorsiflexion stop, and decreasing the magnitude of loads transferred into the user. In plantar flexion, the gaps similarly decrease in series from bottom to top, gradually increasing the orthosis stiffness, creating a progressive plantar flexion stop, and decreasing the magnitude of loads transferred into the user. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/111963 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07335640 | Siegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome M. Siegel (Northridge, California); Joshi John (Northridge, California); Ming-Fung Wu (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treatment of sleep disorders. Such methods entail administering to the patient a therapeutically effective dosage regime of an agonist of a hypocretin 1 (Hcrt-1) receptor to a peripheral tissue of the patient, and monitoring the condition of the patient responsive to the treatment, wherein the monitoring indicates a reduction in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and an improvement in nighttime sleep consolidation and architecture. The methods are particularly useful for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of one or more sleep disorders in a patient. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/461044 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07336364 | Greening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Greening (Peoria, Arizona); Sven H. Khatri (Baltimore, Maryland); Matthew P. Newlin (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for reducing the sensitivity of the rotation rate measurement to the frequency dependence of the feedback modulator. Specifically, the system and method uses a minimal bias switching technique to reduce rate errors associated with the low frequency 2π resets in a closed loop fiber optic gyroscope with a phase modulator with a different phase shift associated to low and high frequencies. In general, the minimal bias switching technique reduces the low frequency components of the feedback modulation drive by increasing the frequency of the 2π resets. As a consequence, the system and method reduces the low frequency component of the feedback modulator drive to avoid errors that occur with the low frequency 2π resets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/290311 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, February 26, 2008.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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