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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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| US 07347038 | Kendall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald H. Kendall (Chassell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A debris cutting system for attachment to a vehicle. The system includes a nose shaped projection that extends horizontally in the forward direction from the forward moving end of the vehicle. The projection includes at least one front blade mount subsystem, at least one rear blade mount subsystem, and at least one blade. The blade has a blade front mounted to the front blade mount subsystem, a blade rear mounted to the rear blade mount subsystem, and teeth. The blade is positioned substantially diagonal to forward movement of the vehicle. The front blade mount subsystem provides longitudinal movement at the blade front, and the rear blade mount subsystem provides arcuate movement at the blade rear such that cutting of debris is enhanced and damage to the blade is reduced as the vehicle moves forward. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499984 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Harvesters 056/14.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347083 | Beiderman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan R. Beiderman (Holmes, Pennsylvania); Patrick J. Rexing (Morton, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for detecting a leak in a hydraulic fluid system having a reservoir and a conduit operatively connected to the reservoir. The fluid may reside in the reservoir, the conduit, or both. A current level of the fluid in the reservoir is sensed. A determination is made as to whether the current level is less than a leak detection level. When it is determined that the current level is greater than the leak detection level, a current temperature of the fluid is sensed and the leak detection level is updated based on the current temperature of the fluid so that thermal expansion of the fluid in the system is considered in detecting and isolating a leak. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197217 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/49.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347090 | Childers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G Childers (Long Beach, California); Ashwani K Chaudhary (Cypress, California); Viet H Nguyen (Cerritos, California); David Poladian (Carlsbad, California); Hoi T Tran (Tustin, California); Vincent L Wong (Irvine, California); Michael J Zyss (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for calculating atmospheric vehicle air data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of calculating air data includes acquiring one or more pressure measurements at locations on an outer surface of the aircraft; acquiring one or more measurements using an alternate navigation device; computing an indicated air data solution using the one or more measurements obtained using the alternate navigation device and an atmospheric model; computing corrections to the indicated air data solution using one or more other measured parameters, wherein the one or more other measured parameters include at least one of the one or more pressure measurements and the one or more measurements obtained using the alternate navigation device; determining a corrected air data solution using the indicated air data solution and the corrections; and providing the corrected air data solution for use in controlling the aircraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532027 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347146 | Gieseke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A supercavitating projectile is disclosed and includes a combustion chamber, a forward-directed jet nozzle and a comparatively larger gas duct/rear-directed jet nozzle. The combustion chamber is filled with a propellant having a hollowed core. The core serves as a pathway to fluidly allow combustion gases to the jet nozzles. In operation, the propellant combusts to form gasses forced forward through the forward-directed nozzle to generate a virtual cavitator in the form of a ventilation gas bubble. Combusted gasses are also forced out the rear-directed nozzle forming a propulsion jet. The projectile therefore uses the rear-directed jet to maintain a cruise velocity approximate to the launch velocity and employs a source of ventilation gas using the forward-directed jet for supercavitating of the projectile. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116170 |
| ART UNIT | 3621 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347241 | Gardetto |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Gardetto (Colleyville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A run-flat support system and method for installing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the run-flat support system includes a torque assembly removably coupled to a split wheel rim of a pneumatic tired wheel. A plurality of support segments are adapted for attachment to the torque assembly in order to support the pneumatic tired wheel in a flat condition such as an under-inflated condition or deflated condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100300 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Resilient tires and wheels 152/396 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347768 | Drew |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher P. Drew (Dracut, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method to test the abrasion resistance of materials. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a conduit network, a primary air stream generating device to generate a primary air stream in the conduit network, a secondary air stream generating device to produce a secondary air stream in the conduit network, and a particulate handling device to deposit particulate into the conduit network so that the particulate enters the secondary air stream. The conduit network merges the secondary air stream into the primary air stream to allow the particulate to enter the primary air stream, and allow the primary air stream to blow the particulate at a test sample positioned within the conduit network. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499981 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347885 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Syed B. Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of making metal nanoparticles comprising the steps of: providing a precursor composition comprising at least one metallic compound and at least one organic compound; wherein the organic compound is selected from the group consisting of an ethynyl compound, a metal-ethynyl complex, and combinations thereof; wherein the precursor composition is a liquid or solid at room temperature; and heating the precursor composition under conditions effective to produce metal nanoparticles. A metal nanoparticle composition comprising metal nanoparticles dispersed homogenously in a matrix selected from the group consisting of ethynyl polymer, crosslinked ethynyl polymer, amorphous carbon, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanoparticles, graphite, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875807 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347906 | Guirguis |
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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) | Raafat H. Guirguis (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention, as embodied herein, comprises a variable yield warhead comprising an inner core of cylindrically-shaped, explosive material surrounded by an outer annulus of a different explosive material. The inner core explosive material has a heat of combustion comprising about 16 kcal/cc or higher and the outer annulus of explosive material has a heat of detonation comprising about 2.1 kcal/cc or higher. A warhead casing surrounds the outer annulus of material. The warhead has a dual initiation system. The first initiation system comprises a detonation cord that extends substantially through the inner core of explosive material and has an initiator at the tope side. The second initiation system comprises a booster explosive that contacts the bottom side of the outer annulus of explosive material and an initiator proximate to the booster. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975123 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347970 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun Mi Kim (Gainesville, Florida); Ronald H. Baney (Gainesville, Florida); Anthony B. Brennan (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of destroying target microorganisms comprises the step of contacting at least one target microorganism with at least one low molecular weight silanol end group containing molecule. The silanol containing molecule is selected from silanols (R1R2R3SiOH), siloxanediols HO(R1R2SiO)nH or siloxanols HO(R1R2SiO)nSiR1R2R3, where R1, R2 and R3 are selected from 1 to 4 carbon alkyl or fluoroalkyl moieties, or vinyl, or aryl groups and n is <6 . The silanol end group containing molecule can be triethylsilanol, diphenylmethylsilanol, t-butyldimethylsilanol, n-butyldimethylsilanol, n-propyldimethylsilanol, ethyldimethylsilanol, vinylphenylmethylsilanol, phenyldimethylsilanol, 3,3,3 trifluoro propyldimethylsilanol, benzyldimethylsilanol and phenethyldimethylsilanol, or mixtures thereof. A composition of matter includes a silanol end group containing molecule according to the invention blended with a polymer or dissolved in aqueous solution along with an ether-based cosolvent. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057611 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347974 | Snow 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) | Arthur W. Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Henry Wohltjen (Bowling Green, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for investigating a target environment to determine whether or in what amount a chemical species may be present therein, which comprises: (a) exposing to said environment an article of manufacture comprising a multiplicity of particles in close-packed orientation, said particles having a core of conductive metal or conductive metal alloy and deposited thereon a ligand which is capable of interacting with said species such that a property of said multiplicity of particles is altered; (b) subjecting said multiplicity of particles to conditions sufficient for said property to be exhibited; and (c) monitoring said property to determine whether there is, or the amount of, any change as an indication of whether, or in what amount, said species is present; a multiplicity of particles suitable for use in such method; and equipment suitable for implementing the method. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544344 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348169 | Singh 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) | Alok Singh (Springfield, Virginia); Yongwoo Lee (Alexandria, Virginia); Evan Stanish (Alexandria, Virginia); Eddie Chang (Silver Spring, Maryland); Walter J. Dressick (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioactive catalytic material is disclosed for providing protection from chemical exposure. The material is composed of enzymes immobilized within polyelectrolyte multilayers and a polymerizable end-capping layer to render stability to enzymes. Also disclosed is the related method for making a bioactive catalytic material and their deposition on substrates of varying size, shape and flexibility for providing active protection from chemical exposure. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434579 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348181 | Walt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Walt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Todd A. Dickinson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsphere-based analytic chemistry system is disclosed in which self-encoding microspheres having distinct characteristic optical response signatures to specific target analytes may be mixed together while the ability is retained to identify the sensor type and location of each sensor in a random dispersion of large numbers of such sensors in a sensor array using an optically interrogatable encoding scheme. An optical fiber bundle sensor is also disclosed in which individual microsphere sensors are disposed in microwells at a distal end of the fiber bundle and are optically coupled to discrete fibers or groups of fibers within the bundle. The identities of the individual sensors in the array are self-encoded by exposing the array to a reference analyte while illuminating the array with excitation light energy. A single sensor array may carry thousands of discrete sensing elements whose combined signal provides for substantial improvements in sensor detection limits, response times and signal-to-noise ratios. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/287573 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348201 | Wraback 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) | Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland); Mitra Dutta (Wilmette, Illinois); Paul Hongen Shen (North Potomic, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for creating an anisotropic strain in a semiconductor quantum well structure to induce anisotropy thereof are disclosed herein. Initially, a substrate is provided, and a quantum well structure formed upon the substrate. A first crystalline layer (e.g., a GaAs layer) having a first crystalline phase can then be deposited upon the quantum well structure. Thereafter, a second crystalline layer (e.g., a GaN layer) having a second crystalline phase and a thickness thereof can be formed upon the first crystalline layer to thereby induce an anisotropic strain in the quantum well structure to produce a quantum well device thereof. Additionally, the second crystalline layer (e.g., GaN) can be formed from a transparent material and utilized as an anti-reflection layer. By properly choosing the thickness of the second crystalline layer (e.g., a GaN layer), a desired anisotropic strain as well as a desired anti-reflection wavelength can be achieved. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/051270 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348206 | Bocian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Werner G. Kuhr (Oak Hills, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Rajeeve Balkrishna Dabke (Columbus, Ohio); Zhiming Liu (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a new method of forming a self-assembling monolayer (SAM) of alcohol-terminated or thiol-terminated organic molecules (e.g. ferrocenes, porphyrins, etc.) on a silicon or other group IV element surface. The assembly is based on the formation of an E-O— or an E-S— bond where E is the group IV element (e.g. Si, Ge, etc.). The procedure has been successfully used on both P- and n-type group IV element surfaces. The assemblies are stable under ambient conditions and can be exposed to repeated electrochemical cycling. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/040059 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348285 | Dhawan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anuj Dhawan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Tushar K. Ghosh (Cary, North Carolina); Abdelfattah M. Seyam (Cary, North Carolina); John Muth (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Coaxial and twisted pair conductive yarn structures reduce signal crosstalk between adjacent lines in woven electrical networks. A coaxial conductive yarn structure includes an inner conductive yarn having a plurality of conductive strands twisted together. An outer conductive yarn is wrapped around the inner conductive yarn. An insulating layer separates the inner and outer yarns. A twisted pair conductive yarn structure includes first and second conductive yarns, each including a plurality of conductive strands being twisted together. The first and second conductive yarns are twisted together to form a helical structure. In a woven electrical network, at least one conductor of adjacent conductive yarn structures is connected to ground to reduce signal crosstalk. Coaxial and twisted pair yarn structures may also be formed simultaneously with weaving or knitting the threads that make up the structures into a fabric. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609074 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348395 | Keller 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) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A cyanate ester system is disclosed. An aryl ether oligomer may be made from a dihydroxyaromatic compound and a dihaloaromatic compound in the presence of a base. The oligomer is then reacted with a cyanide compound in the presence of a base to form the cyanate ester shown below. The cyanate ester may then be cross-linked to a thermoset having triazine ring cross-links. HO—Ar2 |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/425834 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348403 | Landry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shi-Xian Deng (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and peptides for the inactivation of organophosphorus-based insecticides and chemical warfare agents. The instant methods include peptide screening methods, peptides and peptide libraries, related compositions of matter, articles of manufacture, and methods for prophylaxis, treatment, decontamination and detection. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/538310 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348560 | Harris, Jr. 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) | William S. Harris, Jr. (Madison, Alabama); James T. Flournoy (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoluminescent reader module having a hardened, durable construction has a casing which houses a filter, a ball lens and detection module. After a thermoluminscent material is heated by a laser diode, the ball lens collects the hemispherical photon emissions. The filter is positioned at the front of the casing to ensure the ball lens receives a predetermined transmittance value of the photons emitted from the thermoluminescent material within a predetermined range of wavelength. The ball lens sends the collected photons via a fiber-optic connection to the detection module. The detection module is connected to a CPU for purposes of processing the detected information. The filter, ball lens and detection module are securely attached and mounted within the interior of the casing. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017542 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348570 | Allred, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B Allred, Jr. (Seattle, Washington); Daniel T Schwartz (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Unsupported, electron transparent film useful in supporting a sample for imaging and analysis by transmission electron microscopy; methods for making and using the unsupported, electron transparent film; and an integrally formed combination of an unsupported, electron transparent film and substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/304305 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/440.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348592 | Santiago 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) | Francisco Santiago (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Victor H. Gehman, Jr. (Dahlgren, Virginia); Karen J. Long (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Kevin A. Boulais (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube apparatus, and methods of carbon nanotube modification, include carbon nanotubes having locally modified properties with the positioning of the modifications being controlled. More specifically, the positioning of nanotubes on a substrate with a deposited substance, and partially vaporizing part of the deposited substance etches the nanotubes. The modifications of the carbon nanotubes determine the electrical properties of the apparatus and applications such as a transistor or Shockley diode. Other applications of the above mentioned apparatus include a nanolaboratory that assists in study of merged quantum states between nanosystems and a macroscopic host system. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251001 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348606 | Khan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhammad Asif Khan (Irmo, South Carolina); Remigijus Gaska (Latham, New York); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Jinwei Yang (Lexington, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing nitride based heterostructure devices by using a quaternary layer comprised of AlInGaN. The quaternary layer may be used in conjunction with a ternary layer in varying thicknesses and compositions that independently adjust polarization charges and band offsets for device structure optimization by using strain compensation profiles. The profiles can be adjusted by altering profiles of molar fractions of In and Al. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768944 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348771 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukemik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensor condition verification may be performed on electromagnetic sensors and sensor arrays mounted to a material surface. The sensors typically have a periodic winding or electrode structure that creates a periodic sensing field when driven by an electrical signal. The sensors can be thin and flexible so that they conform to the surface of the test material. Monitoring the conductivity changes of a test material, with changes in temperature, may provide a mechanism for testing the integrity of the sensor. Changes in the conductivity, due to changes in temperature, without significant lift-off changes may verify the calibration of the sensor and that the sensor elements themselves are intact. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522628 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348843 | Qiu 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) | Joe X Qiu (Silver Spring, Maryland); David K Abe (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A predistortion linearizer for predistorting a radiofrequency (RF) signal includes a first third-order predistortion linearizer having an input for receiving the RF signal, and a second third-order predistortion linearizer connected in cascade with the first linearizer, whereby fifth order nonlinearities are introduced into a cascaded, predistorted RF output signal. Cascading additional third-order linearizers similarly provides higher-order linearizers. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416512 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348864 | Choudhury et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debabani Choudhury (Thousand Oaks, California); Adele E. Schmitz (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit module comprising integrated coupling transmission structures protruding from the main body of the integrated circuit with extra substrate material removed around and/or under the coupling transmission structures. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856106 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/24.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348866 | Shiau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming-Jong Shiau (Cerritos, California); Phu H. Tran (Huntington Beach, California); Alex T. Chau (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Mark Kintis (Manhattan Beach, California); George W. Schreyer (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An LC filter structure and method for its fabrication, in which multiple shunt capacitors, multiple shunt inductors and multiple coupling inductors are printed on a metal layer formed on a thin dielectric substrate. The capacitors have first electrodes that are formed as spatially separated regions of the metal layer, and a common second electrode formed by a ground plane on the substrate. The shunt inductors are formed as spiral traces connected to the separated regions and to the ground plane, through conductive vias. The coupling inductors are similarly formed as spiral traces in the gaps between the separated regions, the ends of each coupling inductor being connected to respective adjacent regions of the metal layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268413 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348997 | Croft |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan L. Croft (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An object selection of 3D objects in a computer-generated 3D environment method and system. The method includes defining a 3D space in a computer-generated environment. The method further includes identifying a plurality of 3D objects within the 3D space. Then, determining a line of selection though the 3D space. Further, determining a closet object of the plurality of 3D objects via comparative measurements between the plurality of 3D objects and the line of selection. In addition, enabling the closest object to be selected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895675 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/629 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349087 | Gerhart 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) | Grant R. Gerhart (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Roy M. Matchko (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining polarization profiles of points in a scene from video frames using Stokes parameters. The method includes emitting scene light rays from points in a region in a scene, and emitting a correlator light ray from a correlator. The correlator includes a uniform light source, a second linear polarizer, and a fixed retarder. The method further includes substantially simultaneously transmitting the scene light rays and the correlator light ray through a color filter and a Stokes filter that includes a rotating retarder having angular positions Ω, and a first linear polarizer having a transmission axis to a video camera having a video frame, projecting onto respective pixels in the video frame and recording as two-dimensional (2-D) arrays images corresponding to the scene light rays and the correlator light ray, and downloading the images into the computer system and storing the images into a memory in the computer system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821476 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349271 | Kuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Jerry C. Kao (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hung Cai Ngo (Austin, Texas); Kevin J. Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascaded test circuit with inter-bitline drive devices for evaluating memory cell performance provides for circuit delay and performance measurements in an actual memory circuit environment. A row in a memory array is enabled along with a set of drive devices that couple each bitline pair to the next in complement fashion to form a cascade of memory cells. The drive devices can be inverters and the inverters can be sized to simulate the bitline read pre-charge device and the write state-forcing device so that the cascade operates under the same loading/drive conditions as the operational with memory cell read/write circuits. The last and first bitline in the row can be cascaded, providing a ring oscillator or the delay of the cascade can be measured in response to a transition introduced at the head of the cascade. Weak read and/or weak write conditions can be measured by selective loading. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250061 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349292 | Ruffa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A sonar dome having an acoustic array housed therein. A plurality of bubbles are generated within the fluid inside the sonar dome. The generated bubbles are of an amount and size to reduce the speed of sound within the sonar dome fluid. Reduction of the speed of sound within the sonar dome fluid effectively increases the aperture of the acoustic array. The bubbles can be generated from a gas source or electrolytically. Typically, each individual bubble is less than 0.01 mm in diameter to reduce bubble velocity in the fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217838 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349381 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Clark (Marion, Iowa); Terry J. Golubiewski (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Scott J. F. Zogg (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of obtaining coarse synchronization in a frequency hopped/direct sequence spread spectrum (FH/DSS) time division multiple access (TDMA) data link network includes tuning the receiver to a first frequency used in the data link network. Then, signal strength of signals received on the first frequency during a sample time period is observed to obtain a sample energy pattern. An expected energy pattern during a time uncertainty window is determined based upon a known hopping pattern. Then, the sample energy pattern is compared to a first portion of the expected energy pattern, with the first portion of the expected energy pattern corresponding to a first time period within the time uncertainty window. A determination is then made as to whether the first time period is a coarse synchronization candidate based upon the comparison. If it is determined that the time period is a coarse synchronization candidate, one or more additional comparisons on different frequencies can be used to verify the hypothesis. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/560381 |
| ART UNIT | 2661 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349521 | Al-Khalidy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdulrahman Abdallah Al-Khalidy (Latham, New York); Ajay Kapur (New York, New York); Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard (Albany, New York); Henri Souchay (Versailles, France); Philip Alexander Shoemaker (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a compression paddle comprising a paddle base 12; and a paddle wall 20 comprising a first side-wall 22; and a second side-wall 24; wherein the first side-wall 22 and/or the second side-wall 24 are disposed upon the paddle base 12 and inclined with respect to the paddle base 12 at an angle that is effective to permit an x-ray beam uninterrupted access to an object of interest located on an opposing side of the paddle base 12 from an x-ray source when an angle between a central axis of the x-ray beam and a vertical taken at an inner surface of the first side-wall 22 and/or the inner surface of the second side-wall 24 is about 15 degrees to about 75 degrees. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257837 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349602 | Panotopoulos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Panotopoulos (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention involve separating the collimating function and tilting function into two separate optical elements. The separation increases tolerance to misalignment and simplifies the fabrication of the MUXes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/961961 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349806 | Gallegos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonia C Gallegos (Slidell, Louisiana); Juanita C Sandidge (Diamondhead, Mississippi); Xiaogang Chen (Slidell, Louisiana); Cynthia D Daniels (Gulfport, Mississippi); Chiu-Fu Cheng (Picayune, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting water clarity at a plurality of water depths for a location including providing training data to a neural network, the training data representative of water measurements at the location, thereafter receiving inputs including temperature, salinity, tidal information, water depth, and sediment data, and generating values for optical attenuation at a wavelength at a plurality of depths. In one embodiment, a default cloudy day algorithm operates at all times and a clear sky algorithm operates only when clear satellite images are available. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229435 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349915 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reagan W. Moore (San Diego, California); Arcot Rajasekar (Del Mar, California); Chaitanya K. Baru (San Diego, California); Bertram Ludaescher (San Diego, California); Amarnath Gupta (San Diego, California); Richard J. Marciano (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of a logical structure for the collection and a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of the data objects. The archive is persistent in that it may be instantiated at an indefinite point in time in the future regardless of the state of technology at that time. A knowledge-based persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises the foregoing two elements but also a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of knowledge relevant to the collection. Another embodiment of a knowledge-based persistent archive comprises at least one representation of a collection or the data objects, at least one self-describing, infrastructure-independent, or executable specification of one or more transformations relevant to the collection, and at least one self-describing, infrastructure-independent, or executable specification of one or more rules relevant to the collection. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010202 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07350132 | Kuekes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Kuekes (Menlo Park, California); J. Warren Robinett (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Gadiel Seroussi (Cupertino, California); R. Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a demultiplexer implemented as a nanowire crossbar or a hybrid nanowire/microscale-signal-line crossbar with resistor-like nanowire junctions. The demultiplexer of one embodiment provides demultiplexing of signals input on k microscale address lines to 2k or fewer nanowires, employing supplemental, internal address lines to map 2k nanowire addresses to a larger, internal, n-bit address space, where n>k. A second demultiplexer embodiment of the present invention provides demultiplexing of signals input on n microscale address lines to 2k nanowires, with n>k, using 2k, well-distributed, n-bit external addresses to access the 2k nanowires. Additional embodiments of the present invention include a method for evaluating different mappings of nanowire addresses to internal address-spaces of different sizes, or to evaluate mappings of nanowires to external address-spaces of different sizes, metrics for evaluating address mapping and demultiplexer designs, and demultiplexer design methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115887 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D564831 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APG West, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight David Roberts (Scottsdale, Arizona); Michael Romley (Phoenix, Arizona) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 29/285170 |
| ART UNIT | 2915 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for preparing or serving food or drink not elsewhere specified D7/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Huang (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Ou Tan (Cleveland, Ohio); Yan Li (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for measuring a retinal sublayer characteristic of an eye. A plurality of axial scans are performed over an area of the retina of the eye. Reflections are measured during the axial scans to determine a plurality of sets of reflection intensity values. A given set of reflection intensity values is associated with one of the plurality of axial scans. A progressive refinement boundary detection algorithm is performed using the plurality of sets of reflection intensity values to determine at least one boundary location associated with the retinal sublayer for each of the plurality of sets of reflection intensity values. The retinal sublayer characteristic is determined in response to the determined boundary locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833524 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347822 | Brockway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transoma Medical, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian P. Brockway (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Perry Alton Mills (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Mel Murray Moench (Howard Lake, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device measures pressures in animals and humans and includes a pressure transmission catheter (PTC) filled with a pressure transmitting medium and implantable in an area in having a physiological pressure. A transducer communicates with the pressure transmitting medium to provide a pressure signal representing variations in the physiologic pressure on electrical wires. A connecting catheter carries the electrical wires to signal processing and telemetry circuitry, which transmits a telemetry signal representing the pressure signal to a receiver external to the animal or human. A housing holds the signal processing and telemetry circuitry, but the transducer is remote from the housing. The device is particularly useful in measuring venous pressure, pulmonary pressure, bladder pressure, or intracranial pressure without significant head pressure artifact and with a sufficient dynamic response. One embodiment of the PTC includes a multi-durometer stem. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/304452 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347825 | Vaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Vaughan (Charlottesville, Virginia); John F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Virginia); Benjamin M. Gaston (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Device and method for non-invasively monitoring asthma and other respiratory diseases, as well as non-respiratory diseases. The method includes collecting condensate from a subject's breath, testing the condensate to determine its acetic acid/acetate level or concentration, and evaluating these properties to determine the presence, absence or status of a respiratory or non-respiratory disease in the subject. The method may also include, prior to the testing step, standardizing the volatile substances that may be present within the condensate in a degassing or gas standardizing step. The device includes a mouthpiece apparatus configured to receive breath from a subject, a condensation apparatus to condense the subject's breath and produce a condensate, and a collection apparatus having a collection chamber containing means for testing the condensate to determine the acetic acid and/or acetate concentration. The device may also include a system for removing or standardizing the volatile substances that may be present with the condensate. The device and method may be utilized without condensing a subject's breath and collecting the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474979 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348002 | Cosgrove |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominic Cosgrove (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the identification and use of agents, particularly peptides and monoclonal antibodies that disrupt the interaction between Collagen XIII and α1β1 integrin. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/698121 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348005 | Wilkes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Research and Technology Institute (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Wilkes (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of collagen and MHC-like compounds to down regulate immune responses. Methods for administration of such compounds that induce immune tolerance are described. The invention is important in the context of allograft rejection, transplantation, graft rejection, pleural disease and immunotolerance. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243797 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348134 | Lingappa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaisri R. Lingappa (San Francisco, California); Vishwanath R. Lingappa (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell-free method for translation and assembly of retroviral, particularly HIV, capsid and capsid intermediates is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel HIV capsid assembly intermediates and novel host proteins which bind to such assembly intermediates. The invention also includes a screening method for compounds that alter retrovirus capsid assembly, and a method of treating HIV using compounds which inhibit the HIV capsid assembly pathway. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346654 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348139 | Herman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Herman (Lutherville, Maryland); Hirohide Yoshikawa (Tokyo, Japan); Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for identifying a cell exhibiting unregulated growth associated with methylation-silenced transcription of a suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS)/cytokine-inducible SH2 protein (CIS) family member (SOCS/CIS) gene such as the SOCS-1 gene. In addition, methods of treating a cancer patient, wherein cancer cells in the patient exhibit methylation-silenced transcription of SOCS/CIS gene such as a SOCS-1 gene, are provided, as are reagents for practicing such methods. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/123882 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07348161 | Gay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn Gay (Atlanta, Georgia); David S. Stephens (Stone Mountain, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Macrolide resistance associated with macrolide efflux (mef) in Streptococcus pneumoniae has been defined with respect to the genetic structure and dissemination of a novel mefE-containing chromosomal insertion element. The mefE gene is found on the 5′-end of a 5.5 kb or 5.4 kb insertion designated mega (macrolide efflux genetic assembly) found in at least four distinct sites of the pneumococcal genome. The element is transformable and confers macrolide resistance to susceptible S. pneumoniae. The first two open reading frames (ORFs) of the element form an operon composed of mefE and a predicted ATP-binding cassette homologous to msrA. Convergent to this efflux operon are three ORFs with homology to stress response genes of Tn5252. Mega is related to mefA-containing element Tn1207.1. Macrolide resistance due to mega has been rapidly increased by clonal expansion of bacteria containing it and horizontally by transformation of previously sensitive bacteria. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472801 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348171 | Pierce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Pierce (Athens, Georgia); Maria Kamar (Athens, Georgia); Jin-Kyu Lee (Snellville, Georgia); Mika Kaneko (Yamagata, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A previously unknown mammalian UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:α-6-D-mannoside β-1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyl-transferase (termed GlcNAc T-Vb herein) coding sequence, protein, recombinant host cells and antibodies which specifically bind GlcNAc T-Vb are described. GlcNAc T-Vb is encoded on human chromosome 17, whereas the prior GlcNAc T-V is encoded on human chromosome 2. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/972053 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07348173 | Gilula et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norton B. Gilula (La Jolla, California); Benjamin F. Cravatt (San Diego, California); Richrd A. Lerner (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The soporific activity of cis-9,10-octadecenoamide and other soporific fatty acid primary amides is neutralized by hydrolysis in the presence of fatty-acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). Hydrolysis of cis-9,10-octadecenoamide by FAAH leads to the formation of oleic acid, a compound without soporific activity. FAAH has be isolated and the gene encoding FAAH has been cloned, sequenced, and used to express recombinant FAAH. Inhibitors of FAAH are disclosed to block the hydrolase activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788992 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348309 | Thorson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides combinatorial methods for rapidly generating a diverse library of glycorandomized structures, comprising incubating one or more aglycons and a pool of NDP-sugars in the presence of a glycosyltransferase. The glycosyltransferase may be one that is associated with or involved in production of natural secondary metabolites, or one which is putatively associated with or involved in production of natural secondary metabolites. The glycosyltransferase may show significant flexibility with respect to its NDP-sugar donors and/or its aglycons. NDP-sugar donors may be commercially available, or may be produced by utilizing mutant or wild type nucleotidyltransferases significant flexibility with respect to their substrates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/670073 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
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| US 07348315 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce T Liang (Marion Station, Pennsylvania); Kenneth A Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of using an adenosine analog or derivative for treating heart failure, increasing cardiac muscle contractility, increasing cardiac diastolic relaxation, and increasing vasodilation. Exemplary adenosine analogs/derivatives include compounds of the following formula wherein L is CH or O, wherein when L is CH, t is 1 and when L is O, t is 0; R1 is halogen or —R6—(R7)p—R8; R2 is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, alkylthio, aminoalkylthio, halogen, or —R6—(R7)p—R8; R3 is H, halogen or —R6—(R7)p—R8; R4 is —OH or —SH; R5 is —OH or —R6—(R7)p—R8; R6is NH or S; R7is CH2; R8 is H, NH2, halogen, CN, CCH, cycloallkyl, having 3 to about 10 carbon atoms or aryl having 3 to about 20 carbon atoms; R9 is OH or acetamido; R10 and R11 are independently hydrogen or halogen; X, Y, and Z are independently N or CH; m is 0, 1, or 2; n is 0 or 1; q is 0 or 1 if L is CH, or if L is O, R3 is halogen or —R6—(R7)p—R8; q is 1 if L is O, R3 is H, halogen, or —R6—(R7)p—R8; provided that at least one of m, n, and q is 1; and p is 0 to 10. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396200 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348319 | Hrabie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A Hrabie (Frederick, Maryland); Larry K Keefer (Bethesda, Maryland); Ernst V Arnold (Hagerstown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nitric oxide-releasing amidine diazeniundiolates, compositions comprising same, methods of using same, and a method for preparing same from imidate diazeniumdiolates and primary or secondary amines. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208313 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348412 | Parhami-Seren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behnaz Parhami-Seren (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael N. Margolies (Weston, Massachusetts); Garner T. Haupert, Jr. (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a monoclonal antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof having binding specificity for ouabain, wherein the antibody or antigen binding fragment does not crossreact with digoxin. Preferably the anti-ouabain monoclonal antibody can bind ouabain with an affinity of at least about 10−7M, preferably 10−8M, and more preferably 10−9M. The invention also relates to diagnostic and therapeutic uses of the monoclonal antibodies described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/412268 |
| 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 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348437 | Cravatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin F. Cravatt (La Jolla, California); Alan Saghatelian (San Diego, California); Nadim Jessani (Los Altos, California); Arul Joseph (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Activity-based compositions for analyzing metalloproteases are disclosed, where the compositions include a chemical compound including a hydroxamate moiety and a benzophenone moiety. Methods for synthesizing these compounds are also disclosed, as well as methods of using them for determining the bioactivity of a compositions comprising active compounds toward a metalloproteases and for determining the potency of an inhibitor against a metalloprotease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/143009 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348776 | Aksoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Aksoy (Stanford, California); Chunlei Liu (Fremont, California); Rexford Newbould (Menlo Park, California); Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of correcting for motion in magnetic resonance images of an object detected by a plurality of signal receiver coils comprising the steps of acquiring a plurality of image signals with the plurality of receiver coils, determining motion between sequential image signals relative to a reference, applying rotation and translation to image signals to align image signals with the reference, determining altered coil sensitivities due to object movement during image signal acquisition, and employing parallel imaging reconstruction of the rotated and translated image signals using the altered coil sensitivities in order to compensate for undersampling in k-space. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/469617 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349098 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingde Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for achieving dynamic focus tracking during real-time optical coherence tomography (OCT) by simultaneously implementing geometric focus tracking (GFT) and coherence gate tracking (CGT). GFT tracking involves changing a position of the focal point of the OCT probe in the sample during scanning. Preferably, the focal point is moved relative to the sample without disrupting the Gaussian beam profile of the scanner. CGT involves determining a change in the optical path length of the sample arm due to the GFT, and calculating the change in the optical path length in the reference arm required to maintain an equivalent optical path length in both the sample arm and the reference arm. The reference arm is then translated by the required amount, to maximize the OCT signal. A lateral priority scanning technique is employed, and this technique can be implemented using a single optical fiber suitable for endoscopic use. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332780 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349521 | Al-Khalidy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdulrahman Abdallah Al-Khalidy (Latham, New York); Ajay Kapur (New York, New York); Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard (Albany, New York); Henri Souchay (Versailles, France); Philip Alexander Shoemaker (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a compression paddle comprising a paddle base 12; and a paddle wall 20 comprising a first side-wall 22; and a second side-wall 24; wherein the first side-wall 22 and/or the second side-wall 24 are disposed upon the paddle base 12 and inclined with respect to the paddle base 12 at an angle that is effective to permit an x-ray beam uninterrupted access to an object of interest located on an opposing side of the paddle base 12 from an x-ray source when an angle between a central axis of the x-ray beam and a vertical taken at an inner surface of the first side-wall 22 and/or the inner surface of the second side-wall 24 is about 15 degrees to about 75 degrees. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257837 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349729 | Reeder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott B. Reeder (Menlo Park, California); Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-point chemical species (e.g., water, fat) separation process which is compatible with rapid gradient echo imaging such as SSFP uses an iterative least squares method that decomposes water and fat images from source images acquired at short echo time increments. The single coil algorithm extends to multi-coil reconstruction with minimal additional complexity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690230 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349731 | Jiang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huabei Jiang (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a means to produce reconstructed refractive index spatial maps that reveal and allow visual separation of normal soft tissue and certain types of tumors. Detector fiber optic bundles positioned on the surface of a soft tissue organ receive and transmit scattered light data, from light in the near-infrared portion of the spectrum delivered to the surface of the organ by separate fiber optic bundles to a computer. Based on an established grid and certain assumed values, the data are analyzed by means of a complex algorithm to produce calculated refractive index values. Through iteration, the values are recalculated to minimize the difference between the observed scattering and calculated values to yield a stable map indicating spatial variation in refractive index and such variation in the form of displayed images indicates the presence of tumors in normal soft tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/447872 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349834 | Schneider 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) | Thomas D. Schneider (Frederick, Maryland); Ilya Gennadiyevich Lyakhov (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecular motor in which multiple concentric cylinders (or nested cones) rotate around a common longitudinal axis. Opposing complementary surfaces of the cylinders or cones are coated with complementary motor protein pairs (such as actin and myosin). The actin and myosin interact with one another in the presence of ATP to rotate the cylinders or cones relative to one another, and this rotational energy is harnessed to produce work. The concentration of ATP and the number of nested cylinders or cones can be used to control the rotational speed of the motor. The length of the cylinders can also be used to control the power generated by the motor. In another embodiment, the molecular motor includes at least two annular substrates wherein one annular substrate is coated with a first motor protein and the other annular substrate is coated with a second motor protein. The first and second motor proteins interact with each other to move the second annular relative to the first annular substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/061377 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Corlies Murdoch (Clemson, South Carolina); Todd Alan Schweisinger (Seneca, South Carolina); Cecil O. Huey, Jr. (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A device to measure minute displacement in rocks, including anchor deployment means, anchor registration means, and frame release means. Further including anchor units comprising a fixed anchor point, a reversible anchor actuator and a deployable anchor face capable of being deployed with a force of up to 2000 lbs. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787177 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/787 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347920 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Banqiu Wu (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Ramana G. Reddy (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Robin D. Rogers (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Lightweight and reactive metals can be produced from ore, refined from alloy, and recycled from metal matrix composites using electrolysis in electrolytes including an ionic liquid containing a metal chloride at or near room temperature. Low electric energy consumption and pollutant emission, easy operation and low production costs are achieved. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888586 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/243.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347981 | Crespi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); The Mitre Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent H. Crespi (State College, Pennsylvania); Aleksey N. Kolmogorov (State College, Pennsylvania); James C. Ellenbogen (McLean, Virginia); Monika H. Schleier-Smith (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for bulk separation of single-walled tubular fullerenes (100) based on helicity is provided wherein a solution or suspension of the single-walled tubular fullerenes (100) is flowed onto a crystalline or highly oriented substrate (30). The single-walled tubular fullerenes (100) that flow onto the substrate (30) have a respective longitudinal axis that is aligned with the flow direction (105). The direction of flow (105) is oriented at a predetermined angle with respect to a lattice axis (24) of the substrate (30) for energetically favoring adsorption of a respective plurality of single-walled fullerenes (100) having a tubular contour and a selected helicity. Subsequently, the adsorbed single-walled tubular fullerenes (100) of the selected chirality are removed from the substrate (30). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/669337 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348569 | Feurer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Feurer (Bern, Switzerland); Darius H. Torchinsky (Boston, Massachusetts); Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for accelerating charged particles are disclosed, wherein the method comprises using at least a transverse component of a temporally and spatially shaped electromagnetic field to accelerate one or more charged particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155011 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349098 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingde Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for achieving dynamic focus tracking during real-time optical coherence tomography (OCT) by simultaneously implementing geometric focus tracking (GFT) and coherence gate tracking (CGT). GFT tracking involves changing a position of the focal point of the OCT probe in the sample during scanning. Preferably, the focal point is moved relative to the sample without disrupting the Gaussian beam profile of the scanner. CGT involves determining a change in the optical path length of the sample arm due to the GFT, and calculating the change in the optical path length in the reference arm required to maintain an equivalent optical path length in both the sample arm and the reference arm. The reference arm is then translated by the required amount, to maximize the OCT signal. A lateral priority scanning technique is employed, and this technique can be implemented using a single optical fiber suitable for endoscopic use. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332780 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07349863 | Peña-Mora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feniosky Peña-Mora (Champaign, Illinois); Moonseo Park (Seoul, South Korea); SangHyun Lee (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael Li (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Margaret Fulenwider (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic planning method (DPM) generates a DPM project planning model. The DPM project planning model provides an activity pre-structured process model for activities of a DPM project plan. The DPM project planning model also provides a relationship pre-structured model for activity time precedence relationships of the DPM project plan. The DPM project planning model is dynamically adjusted to generate a DPM project plan, whereby reliability buffers are associated with one or more activities of the plan. Time precedence relationships are associated with the reliability buffers and with the activities. A variety of DPM simulation outputs are also generated. The DPM simulation outputs provide a comparison of the DPM project plan with conventional project plans generated by conventional project planning models. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/068119 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE40176 | Peshkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois); Julio J. Santos-Munne (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method is provided for coordinating two fluoroscope images, which permits accurate computer-based planning of the insertion point and angle of approach of a needle, drill, screw, nail, wire or other surgical instrumentation into the body of a patient, and subsequently guides the surgeon in performing the insertion in accordance with the plan. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384179 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07347923 | Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California); Gregory J. Fiechtner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and devices for manipulating particles using dielectrophoresis. Insulating ridges and valleys are used to generate a spatially non-uniform electrical field. Particles may be concentrated, separated, or captured during bulk fluid flow in a channel having insulating ridges and valleys. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678603 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348298 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ashland Licensing and Intellectual Property, LLC (Dublin, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiqiang Zhang (Lexington, Kentucky); Frances E. Lockwood (Georgetown, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid media such as oil or water, and a selected effective amount of carbon nanomaterials necessary to enhance the thermal conductivity of the fluid. One of the preferred carbon nanomaterials is a high thermal conductivity graphite, exceeding that of the neat fluid to be dispersed therein in thermal conductivity, and ground, milled, or naturally prepared with mean particle size less than 500 nm, and preferably less than 200 nm, and most preferably less than 100 nm. The graphite is dispersed in the fluid by one or more of various methods, including ultrasonication, milling, and chemical dispersion. Carbon nanotubes with graphitic structure is another preferred source of carbon nanomaterial, although other carbon nanomaterials are acceptable. To confer long term stability, the use of one or more chemical dispersants is preferred. The thermal conductivity enhancement, compared to the fluid without carbon nanomaterial, is proportional to the amount of carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and/or graphite) added. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730762 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348568 | Elmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore Natonal Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Todd A. Palmer (Livermore, California); Alan T. Teruya (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for characterizing high power electron beams at power levels of 10 kW and above is described. This system is comprised of a slit disk assembly having a multitude of radial slits, a conducting disk with the same number of radial slits located below the slit disk assembly, a Faraday cup assembly located below the conducting disk, and a start-stop target located proximate the slit disk assembly. In order to keep the system from over-heating during use, a heat sink is placed in close proximity to the components discussed above, and an active cooling system, using water, for example, can be integrated into the heat sink. During use, the high power beam is initially directed onto a start-stop target and after reaching its full power is translated around the slit disk assembly, wherein the beam enters the radial slits and the conducting disk radial slits and is detected at the Faraday cup assembly. A trigger probe assembly can also be integrated into the system in order to aid in the determination of the proper orientation of the beam during reconstruction. After passing over each of the slits, the beam is then rapidly translated back to the start-stop target to minimize the amount of time that the high power beam comes in contact with the slit disk assembly. The data obtained by the system is then transferred into a computer system, where a computer tomography algorithm is used to reconstruct the power density distribution of the beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/159978 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348688 | Stamps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Frederick Stamps (Livermore, California); Robert Ward Crocker (Fremont, California); Daniel Dadwa Yee (Dublin, California); David Wright Dils (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A low voltage control circuit is provided for individually controlling high voltage power provided over bus lines to a multitude of interconnected loads. An example of a load is a drive for capillary channels in a microfluidic system. Control is distributed from a central high voltage circuit, rather than using a number of large expensive central high voltage circuits to enable reducing circuit size and cost. Voltage is distributed to each individual load and controlled using a number of high voltage controller channel switches connected to high voltage bus lines. The channel switches each include complementary pull up and pull down photo isolator relays with photo isolator switching controlled from the central high voltage circuit to provide a desired bus line voltage. Switching of the photo isolator relays is further controlled in each channel switch using feedback from a resistor divider circuit to maintain the bus voltage swing within desired limits. Current sensing is provided using a switched resistive load in each channel switch, with switching of the resistive loads controlled from the central high voltage circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330269 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348738 | Foust et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Franklin Foust (Scotia, New York); Anil Raj Duggal (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); William Francis Nealon (Gloversville, New York); Jacob Charles Bortscheller (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an area illumination light source comprising a plurality of individual OLED panels. The individual OLED panels are configured in a physically modular fashion. Each OLED panel comprising a plurality of OLED devices. Each OLED panel comprises a first electrode and a second electrode such that the power being supplied to each individual OLED panel may be varied independently. A power supply unit capable of delivering varying levels of voltage simultaneously to the first and second electrodes of each of the individual OLED panels is also provided. The area illumination light source also comprises a mount within which the OLED panels are arrayed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934015 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07349100 — Recording multiple spatially-heterodyned direct to digital holograms in one digital image
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee); Philip R. Bingham (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for recording multiple spatially-heterodyned direct to digital holograms in one digital image. A method includes digitally recording, at a first reference beam-object beam angle, a first spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis; Fourier analyzing the recorded first spatially-heterodyned hologram by shifting a first original origin of the recorded first spatially-heterodyned hologram to sit on top of a first spatial-heterodyne carrier frequency defined by the first reference beam-object beam angle; digitally recording, at a second reference beam-object beam angle, a second spatially-heterodyned hologram including spatial heterodyne fringes for Fourier analysis; Fourier analyzing the recorded second spatially-heterodyned hologram by shifting a second original origin of the recorded second spatially-heterodyned hologram to sit on top of a second spatial-heterodyne carrier frequency defined by the second reference beam-object beam angle; applying a first digital filter to cut off signals around the first original origin and define a first result; performing a first inverse Fourier transform on the first result; applying a second digital filter to cut off signals around the second original origin and define a second result; and performing a second inverse Fourier transform on the second result, wherein the first reference beam-object beam angle is not equal to the second reference beam-object beam angle and a single digital image includes both the first spatially-heterodyned hologram and the second spatially-heterodyned hologram. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607824 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn Gay (Atlanta, Georgia); David S. Stephens (Stone Mountain, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Macrolide resistance associated with macrolide efflux (mef) in Streptococcus pneumoniae has been defined with respect to the genetic structure and dissemination of a novel mefE-containing chromosomal insertion element. The mefE gene is found on the 5′-end of a 5.5 kb or 5.4 kb insertion designated mega (macrolide efflux genetic assembly) found in at least four distinct sites of the pneumococcal genome. The element is transformable and confers macrolide resistance to susceptible S. pneumoniae. The first two open reading frames (ORFs) of the element form an operon composed of mefE and a predicted ATP-binding cassette homologous to msrA. Convergent to this efflux operon are three ORFs with homology to stress response genes of Tn5252. Mega is related to mefA-containing element Tn1207.1. Macrolide resistance due to mega has been rapidly increased by clonal expansion of bacteria containing it and horizontally by transformation of previously sensitive bacteria. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472801 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07348305 | Kem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Kem (Edmond, Oklahoma); Eugene Patterson (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preventing sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia following myocardial ischemia, decreasing infarct size and/or decreasing the incidence and/or maximum intrinsic rate of very rapid ventricular triplets following myocardial ischemia is disclosed. The methods involve administering an effective amount of a composition that inhibits substantial loss of beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (β-ARK) activity and/or β-ARK expression. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/927616 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07347089 | Kelley 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) | Anthony R. Kelley (Madison, Alabama); Paul D. Van Buskirk (Humble, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the volume of an incompressible gas in a system including incompressible substances in a zero-gravity environment. The method includes inducing a volumetric displacement within a container and measuring the resulting pressure change. From this data, the liquid level can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215749 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07347095 | Shcheglov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirill V. Shcheglov (Los Angeles, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Ken J. Hayworth (Northridge, California); Dean V. Wiberg (La Crescenta, California); Karl Y. Yee (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses an inertial sensor having an integral resonator. A typical sensor comprises a planar mechanical resonator for sensing motion of the inertial sensor and a case for housing the resonator. The resonator and a wall of the case are defined through an etching process. A typical method of producing the resonator includes etching a baseplate, bonding a wafer to the etched baseplate, through etching the wafer to form a planar mechanical resonator and the wall of the case and bonding an end cap wafer to the wall to complete the case. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199004 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07348771 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Karen E. Walrath (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukemik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensor condition verification may be performed on electromagnetic sensors and sensor arrays mounted to a material surface. The sensors typically have a periodic winding or electrode structure that creates a periodic sensing field when driven by an electrical signal. The sensors can be thin and flexible so that they conform to the surface of the test material. Monitoring the conductivity changes of a test material, with changes in temperature, may provide a mechanism for testing the integrity of the sensor. Changes in the conductivity, due to changes in temperature, without significant lift-off changes may verify the calibration of the sensor and that the sensor elements themselves are intact. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522628 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07349915 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reagan W. Moore (San Diego, California); Arcot Rajasekar (Del Mar, California); Chaitanya K. Baru (San Diego, California); Bertram Ludaescher (San Diego, California); Amarnath Gupta (San Diego, California); Richard J. Marciano (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of a logical structure for the collection and a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of the data objects. The archive is persistent in that it may be instantiated at an indefinite point in time in the future regardless of the state of technology at that time. A knowledge-based persistent archive of a collection of data objects comprises the foregoing two elements but also a self-describing, infrastructure-independent representation of knowledge relevant to the collection. Another embodiment of a knowledge-based persistent archive comprises at least one representation of a collection or the data objects, at least one self-describing, infrastructure-independent, or executable specification of one or more transformations relevant to the collection, and at least one self-describing, infrastructure-independent, or executable specification of one or more rules relevant to the collection. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010202 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07348427 | Bürli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genesoft Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland W. Bürli (Pasadena, California); Jacob Kaizerman (South San Francisco, California); Peter Jones (Bridgenorth, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Antipathogenic benzamide compounds having the formula wherein at least one of the R1 groups is F, Cl, CN or CF3 and R2, R3, Y, Z, m, and n are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/004615 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
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, March 25, 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.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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