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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 01, 2008
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| US 07350479 | Evans 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) | James A. Evans (Tallulah, Louisiana); Leandro E. Miranda (Starkville, Mississippi); James P. Kirk (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | An “implant and forget” device for interacting with biota after a pre-established time period. Preferably, the biota are fauna and more particularly fish. In select embodiments, the device comprises packaging enclosing apparatus for timing interaction via opening the packaging. In select embodiments of the present invention, the device is a sealed capsule inserted in fish. Embodiments of the present invention are implanted in triploid grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) to facilitate control of aquatic weeds in bodies of water. When the carp have been in the water for a pre-established approximate period of time, toxins in the device are dispensed via long term bioerosion of the sealed opening in the packaging. Otherwise, the carp may destroy all vegetation and harm the aquatic environment for other aquatic life. Several alternative bioerodible seal configurations are provided as embodiments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179541 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07350614 | 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 system for providing a vehicle with landmine protection for occupants of a vehicle cab via controlled articulation of the vehicle cab in response to an under-vehicle explosive event includes a cab guide pin attached to the rear of the vehicle cab, and a vehicle frame having a sub-frame. The vehicle cab is mounted on the vehicle frame. The sub-frame includes a sub-assembly slot and the cab guide pin is disposed laterally at a first end in the sub-assembly slot. The sub-assembly slot has a substantially straight first section that is longitudinally positioned and having the first end of the sub-assembly slot, and a second arcuate section that extends vertically and forward from the first section opposite of the first end of the sub-assembly slot. When the vehicle is exposed to an under-vehicle explosive event, the vehicle cab articulates such that the cab guide pin travels forward through the first substantially straight section of the sub-assembly slot and in an arcuate path through the second arcuate section of the sub-assembly slot. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217842 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351286 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Tyler Leonard (Raleigh, North Carolina); Adrian Powell (Apex, North Carolina); Stephan Georg Mueller (Durham, North Carolina); Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a high quality bulk single crystal of silicon carbide in a seeded growth system is disclosed. The method includes positioning the seed crystal in a crucible while exerting minimal torsional forces on the seed crystal to thereby prevent torsional forces from warping or bowing the seed crystal in a manner that that would otherwise encourage sublimation from the rear of the seed crystal or undesired thermal differences across the seed crystal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248998 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351303 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Kashan Shaikh (Urbana, Illinois); Kee Ryu (Urbana, Illinois); Edgar Goluch (Urbana, Illinois); Zhifang Fan (Urbana, Illinois); David Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic systems and components. A microfluidic system includes one or more functional units or microfluidic chips, configured to perform constituent steps in a process and interconnected to form the system. A multi-layer microfluidic system includes a separate dedicated fluid layer and dedicated electromechanical layer connected via through-holes. Electromechanical components are formed on the electromechanical layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683473 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351435 | Wannemacher 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) | Robert W. Wannemacher (Frederick, Maryland); John F. Hewetson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a vaccine comprising deglycosylated ricin toxin A-chain and method for making and using the composition. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/960315 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/731 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351448 | Irvin 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) | David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California); Andrew Guenthner (Ridgecrest, California); Nicholas Prokopuk (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and process for coating surfaces of metal or metallic components including providing at least one metal having a patterned outer surface exhibiting an optical reflection greater than about 40%, providing at least one anti-reflective coating material, the anti-reflective coating material(s) including effective amount of electrically conductive light scattering and/or wavelength absorbent properties, and depositing the anti-reflective coating material(s) onto the patterned outer surface(s) of each metal, wherein the anti-reflective coating material(s) conforms to the desired patterned outer surface(s) of each metal. In another embodiment, a coated metal component includes at least one metal having a patterned outer surface(s); and, a coating of at least one antireflective material deposited on the metal patterned outer surface by deposition, wherein the antireflective coating material(s) including effective amount of electrically conductive light scattering and/or wavelength absorbent properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911750 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351449 | Hunt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | n Gimat Co. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Hunt (Atlanta, Georgia); Girish N. Deshpande (Atlanta, Georgia); Tzyy-Jiuan Jan Hwang (Alpharetta, Georgia); Nii Sowa Laye (Los Angeles, California); Miodrag Oljaca (Avondale Estates, Georgia); Subramaniam Shanmugham (Duluth, Georgia); Shara S. Shoup (Woodstock, Georgia); Trifon Tomov (Duluth, Georgia); William J. Dalzell, Jr. (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Aimee Poda (Atlanta, Georgia); Michelle Hendrick (Winder, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Flame produced vapors for combustion chemical vapor deposition are redirected from the direction of the flame by differential atmospheric pressure, such as positive pressure provided by a blower or negative pressure provided by a vacuum. This allows, for example, lower surface temperatures of substrates being coated with flame-produced vapors and coating of interior surfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/748714 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351482 | Boutwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schnectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Allen Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Mark Daniel Gorman (West Chester, Ohio); Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Ramgopal Darolia (West Chester, Ohio); Robert William Bruce (Loveland, Ohio); Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Zirconia-containing ceramic compositions that are capable of providing thermal barrier coatings wherein the zirconia is stabilized in the cubic crystalline phase. These compositions comprise at least about 50 mole % zirconia and a stabilizing amount up to about 49 mole % of a stabilizer component comprising: (1) a first metal oxide selected from the group consisting of ytterbia, neodymia, mixtures of ytterbia and neodymia, mixtures of ytterbia and lanthana, mixtures of neodymia and lanthana, and mixtures of ytterbia, neodymia and lanthana in an amount of from about 5 to about 49 mole % of the composition; and (2) a second metal oxide selected from the group consisting of yttria, calcia, ceria, scandia, magnesia, india and mixtures thereof in an amount of about 4 mole % or less of the composition. The ceramic composition further comprises one or more of a third metal oxide selected from the group consisting of: (a) hafnia in an amount from about 0.5 to about 40 mole % of the composition; and (b) tantala in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 10 mole % of the composition. These compositions are useful in preparing thermal barrier coatings for an underlying substrate of articles that operate at, or are exposed to, high temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288366 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351483 | Parkin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Stephen Papwoth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic tunnel junctions are constructed from a MgO or Mg—ZnO tunnel barrier and amorphous magnetic layers in proximity with, and on respective sides of, the tunnel barrier. The amorphous magnetic layer preferably includes Co and at least one additional element selected to make the layer amorphous, such as boron. Magnetic tunnel junctions formed from the amorphous magnetic layers and the tunnel barrier have tunneling magnetoresistance values of up to 200% or more. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904449 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/811.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351588 | Poponin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vladimir Poponin (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Poponin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical sensor and method for use with a visible-light laser excitation beam and a Raman spectroscopy detector, for detecting the presence chemical groups in an analyte applied to the sensor are disclosed. The sensor includes a substrate, a plasmon resonance mirror formed on a sensor surface of the substrate, a plasmon resonance particle layer disposed over the mirror, and an optically transparent dielectric layer about 2-40 nm thick separating the mirror and particle layer. The particle layer is composed of a periodic array of plasmon resonance particles having (i) a coating effective to binding analyte molecules, (ii) substantially uniform particle sizes and shapes in a selected size range between 50-200 nm (ii) a regular periodic particle-to-particle spacing less than the wavelength of the laser excitation beam. The device is capable of detecting analyte with an amplification factor of up to 1012-1014, allowing detection of single analyte molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133632 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351601 | Scherer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical switches and logic devices comprising microstructure-doped nanocavity lasers are described. These switches and logic devices have gain and thus can be cascaded and integrated in a network or system such as for example on a chip. Exemplary switching elements switch the intensity, wavelength, or direction of the output. Exemplary logic devices include AND, OR, NAND, NOR, NOT, and XOR gates as well as flip-flops. Microfluidic sorting and delivery as well as optical tweezing and trapping may be employ to select and position a light emitter in an nanooptical cavity to form the nanolaser. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967072 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351975 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Brady (Durham, North Carolina); Bobby D. Guenther (Cary, North Carolina); Steve Feller (Durham, North Carolina); Mohan Shankar (Durham, North Carolina); Jian-Shuen Fang (Durham, North Carolina); Qi Hao (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system identifies a human being from the movement of the human being. The system includes a dual element pyroeleetric detector, a Fresnel lens array, and a processor. The dual element pyroelectric detector detects radiation from the human being as the human being moves over time. The Fresnel lens array is located between the dual element pyroelectric detector and the human being. The Fresnel lens array improves collection efficiency and spatial resolution of the dual element pyroelectric detector. The Fresnel lens array includes a mask. The mask provides at least one zone of visibility. The processor is coupled to the dual element pyroelectric detector, the processor converts the detected radiation to a spectral radiation signature. The processor compares the spectral radiation signature to at least a second spectral radiation signature to identify the human being. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/391223 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352325 | Floyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Allan Floyd (Mahopac, New York); Arun Sridhar Natarajan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved phased array techniques and architectures are provided. For example, a linear phased array includes N discrete phase shifters and N−1 variable phase shifters, wherein the N−1 variable phase shifters are respectively coupled between adjacent output nodes of the N discrete phase shifters such that the N discrete phase shifters reduce an amount of continuous phase shift provided by the N−1 variable phase shifters. Each of the N discrete phase shifters may select between two or more discrete phase shifts. The N discrete phase shifters also preferably eliminate a need for a variable termination impedance in the linear phased array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619019 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352512 | Seiden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold N. Seiden (Newbury Park, California); Lynne C. Eigler (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an optical system includes two tilted planar elements each having two surfaces for which the sign of the slopes of at least three of the four surfaces that an incident beam encounters are the same and which, when inserted into the path of the incident beam produces an output beam having no angular deviation and essentially no lateral deviation from the incident beam path. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178874 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/629 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352785 | Fork et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Richard L. Fork (Madison, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Fork (Madison, Alabama); Rustin Laycock (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state laser medium comprising at least one cooling element, i.e. cooling element, in contact with and alternating in series with at least one gain element. At least one cooling element and at least one gain element are joined at an interface having a center point, wherein the interface is physically modified at the interface such that the heat transfer coefficient at the interface decreases radially from the center point of the interface. The modified interface promotes thermal transfer from the gain element in the axial direction, in such a manner as to reduce thermal distortion affecting optical properties of the laser. Concentric radially disposed barriers to heat flow that hinder heat flow in the radial direction may be added within the gain element to further reduce thermal distortion within the laser medium. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120303 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07353056 | Hazard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Robert Hazard (Niskayuna, New York); Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Niskayuna, New York); Rayette Ann Fisher (Niskayuna, New York); Kai E. Thomenius (Clifton Park, New York); Lowell Scott Smith (Niskayuna, New York); David Martin Mills (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The reconfigurable ultrasound array disclosed herein is one that allows groups of subelements to be connected together dynamically so that the shape of the resulting element can be made to match the shape of the wave front. This can lead to improved performance and/or reduced channel count. Reconfigurability can be achieved using a switching network. A methodology and an algorithm are disclosed that allows the performance of this switching network to be improved by properly choosing the configuration of the switching network. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/978175 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07353148 | Meyers 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) | Ronald E. Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith S. Deacon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphic displays or audio sound representations of numerical solutions of physics problems modeled by complicated, computationally complex mathematics are generated by Type I and Type II quantum computers, which employs a plurality of classically interconnected nodes each consisting of relatively few qubits, or classical computers emulating Type I and Type II quantum computers. This is done by setting the boundary conditions so that conservation is maintained within a high precision and performing multi-demensional computations as a series of single dimensional computations employing pseudo-random number generators on a classical computer to simulate the stochastic nature of the quantum process. On a quantum computer randomness is supplied the quantum process direction. An operator U on a quantum wavefunction Ψ ensures that, to the limit of experimental accuracy on a real quantum computer, the Hermitian inner product |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911656 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07353157 | Wasynczuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | P. C. Krause and Associates, Inc. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleg Wasynczuk (West Lafayette, Indiana); Juri V. Jatskevich (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and apparatus select state variables for, build state equations of, and simulate time-domain operation of an electronic circuit. The circuit is modeled with three branch types (inductor, resistor, voltage source in series; capacitor, resistor, current source in parallel; and switch), including four pre-defined switch types (unidirectional unlatched, bidirectional unlatched, unidirectional latched, and bidirectional latched). Automated analyses determine efficient state variables based on the currently active circuit topology, and state equations are built and applied. Switching logic determines when switch states change, and state equations for the new topology are either drawn from a cache (if the topology has already been processed) or derived anew. The switch control signals may be combined into a single switching variable, defined as a function of the state output. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/043981 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07353342 | Nussbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Nussbaum (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mark S. Moir (Hampton, New Hampshire); Nir N. Shavit (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Guy L. Steele (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system implementing transient blocking synchronization allows a memory location leased by a first process to be read-accessible to another process. In other words, more than one thread may have read-only type leases on a given memory location at a given time. Such “shared” leases expire when respective lease periods of the shared leases elapse. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078117 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2212 | Walton 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) | Scott G. Walton (Burke, Virginia); Robert Meger (Crofton, Maryland); Richard Fernsler (Annanadale, Virginia); Darrin Leonhardt (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion-ion plasma source, that features a processing chamber containing a large concentration of halogen or halogen-based gases. A second chamber is coupled to the processing chamber and features an electron source which produces a high energy electron beam. The high energy electron beam is injected into the processing chamber where it is shaped and confined by a means for shaping and confining the high energy electron beam. The high energy electron beam produced in the second chamber when injected into the processing chamber ionizes the halogen gas creating a dense, ion-ion plasma in the processing chamber that is continuous in time. A method for creating an ion-ion plasma continuous in time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672269 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/345.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2215 | Allen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Allen (Troy, Michigan); Robert L. Ewing (Kettering, Ohio); Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An odor discrimination method and device for an electronic nose system including olfactory pattern classification based on a binary spiking neural network with the capability to handle many sensor inputs in a noise environment while recognizing a large number of potential odors. The spiking neural networks process a large number of inputs arriving from a chemical sensor array and implemented with efficient use of chip surface area. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810429 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07350280 | Wiencek |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Wiencek (Orland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of sealing a low enriched uranium (LEU) foil in a vacuum is provided. The LEU foil is inserted into a stainless steel foil pouch. Sealing components are assembled with the stainless steel foil pouch with a vacuum pump connection extending through an opening in the pouch. Then an open end of the pouch is folded over and welded to form a vacuum tight bond. A vacuum pump is attached to the connection outside the pouch and the stainless steel foil pouch is evacuated. Then the stainless steel foil pouch is folded and welded to seal the LEU foil within a welded pouch portion. The remaining pouch portion including the vacuum sealing components is cut and separated from the welded pouch portion containing the LEU foil. The method uses on inexpensive readily available equipment, eliminating the need for electron beam welding equipment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/585595 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/17.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07350357 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander G. Chen (Ellington, Connecticut); Catalin G. Fotache (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The fuel injector has a first means defining a number of flowpaths each having an inlet for receiving air and an outlet for discharging a fuel/air mixture. One or more arrays of vanes are each positioned to impart swirl to an associated one or more of the flowpaths. Second means are provided for introducing the fuel to the air. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843812 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07350428 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Savannah River Company LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis G. Jackson (Augusta, Georgia); Kurt D. Peterson (Aiken, South Carolina); Brian D. Riha (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas sampling apparatus and process is provided in which a standard crimping tool is modified by an attached collar. The collar permits operation of the crimping tool while also facilitating the introduction of a supply of gas to be introduced into a storage vial. The introduced gas supply is used to purge ambient air from a collection chamber and an interior of the sample vial. Upon completion of the purging operation, the vial is sealed using the crimping tool. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/143028 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07350450 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Shiu-Hung Chu (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey M. Lacy (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An armor structure includes first and second layers individually containing a plurality of i-beams. Individual i-beams have a pair of longitudinal flanges interconnected by a longitudinal crosspiece and defining opposing longitudinal channels between the pair of flanges. The i-beams within individual of the first and second layers run parallel. The laterally outermost faces of the flanges of adjacent i-beams face one another. One of the longitudinal channels in each of the first and second layers faces one of the longitudinal channels in the other of the first and second layers. The channels of the first layer run parallel with the channels of the second layer. The flanges of the first and second layers overlap with the crosspieces of the other of the first and second layers, and portions of said flanges are received within the facing channels of the i-beams of the other of the first and second layers. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532728 |
| ART UNIT | 4155 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07350985 | Laughlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daric Laughlin (Overland Park, Kansas); Phillip Abel (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical assembly (10) includes a rigid mount (12) with a recess (26) proximate a first side thereof, a substrate (14), and an optical die (16) flip-chip bonded to the substrate (14). The substrate (14) is secured to the first side of the mount and includes a plurality of die bonding elements (40), a plurality of optical apertures (32), and a plurality of external bonding elements (42). A plurality of traces (44) interconnect the die bonding elements (40) and the external bonding elements (42). The optical die (16) includes a plurality of optical elements, each element including an optical signal interface (48), the die being bonded to the plurality of die bonding elements (40) such that the optical signal interface (48) of each element is in registry with an optical aperture (32) of the substrate (14) and the die (16) is at least partially enclosed by the recess (26). |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690495 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351040 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamie T. Livingston (Pensacola, Florida); Arthur H. E. Burke (Gulf Breeze, Florida); Jan Willem Bakhuis (Nijverdal, Netherlands); Sjef Van Breugel (Enschede, Netherlands); Andrew Billen (Daarlerveen, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a root portion of a wind turbine blade includes, in an exemplary embodiment, providing an outer layer of reinforcing fibers including at least two woven mats of reinforcing fibers, providing an inner layer of reinforcing fibers including at least two woven mats of reinforcing fibers, and positioning at least two bands of reinforcing fibers between the inner and outer layers, with each band of reinforcing fibers including at least two woven mats of reinforcing fibers. The method further includes positioning a mat of randomly arranged reinforcing fibers between each pair of adjacent bands of reinforcing fibers, introducing a polymeric resin into the root potion of the wind turbine blade, infusing the resin through the outer layer, the inner layer, each band of reinforcing fibers, and each mat of random reinforcing fibers, and curing the resin to form the root portion of the wind turbine blade. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328625 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351380 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake Simmons (San Francisco, California); Linda Domeier (Danville, California); Noble Woo (San Gabriet, California); Timothy Shepodd (Livermore, California); Ronald F. Renzi (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Injection molding is used to form microfluidic devices with integrated functional components. One or more functional components are placed in a mold cavity which is then closed. Molten thermoplastic resin is injected into the mold and then cooled, thereby forming a solid substrate including the functional component(s). The solid substrate including the functional component(s) is then bonded to a second substrate which may include microchannels or other features. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754286 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351395 | Pez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guido Peter Pez (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Aaron Raymond Scott (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Alan Charles Cooper (Macungie, Pennsylvania); Hansong Cheng (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Frederick Carl Wilhelm (Zionsville, Pennsylvania); Atteye Houssein Abdourazak (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes are provided for the storage and release of hydrogen by means of a substantially reversible catalytic hydrogenation of extended pi-conjugated substrates which include large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with nitrogen heteroatoms, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with oxygen heteroatoms, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with alkyl, alkoxy, nitrile, ketone, ether or polyether substituents, pi-conjugated molecules comprising 5 membered rings, pi-conjugated molecules comprising six and five membered rings with nitrogen or oxygen hetero atoms, and extended pi-conjugated organic polymers. The hydrogen, contained in the at least partially hydrogenated form of the extended pi-conjugated system, can be facilely released for use by a catalytic dehydrogenation of the latter in the presence of a dehydrogenation catalyst which can be effected by lowering the hydrogen gas pressure, generally to pressures greater than 0.1 bar or raising the temperature to less than 250° C. or less, or by a combination of these two process parameters. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266803 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351408 | Bertozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn C. Bertozzi (Albany, California); Kevin J. Yarema (Albany, California); Lara K. Mahal (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making the functionalized glycoconjugates include (a) contacting a cell with a first monosaccharide, and (b) incubating the cell under conditions whereby the cell (i) internalizes the first monosaccharide, (ii) biochemically processes the first monosaccharide into a second saccharide, (iii) conjugates the saccharide to a carrier to form a glycoconjugate, and (iv) extracellularly expresses the glycoconjugate to form an extracellular glycoconjugate comprising a selectively reactive functional group. Methods for forming products at a cell further comprise contacting the functional group of the extracellularly expressed glycoconjugate with an agent which selectively reacts with the functional group to form a product. Subject compositions include cyto-compatible monosaccharides comprising a nitrogen or ether linked functional group selectively reactive at a cell surface and compositions and cells comprising such saccharides. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/188587 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351488 | Visco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Craig P. Jacobson (El Cerrito, California); Lutgard C. DeJonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous substrates and associated structures for solid-state electrochemical devices, such as solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), are low-cost, mechanically strong and highly electronically conductive. Some preferred structures have a thin layer of an electrocatalytically active material (e.g., Ni—YSZ) coating a porous high-strength alloy support (e.g., SS-430) to form a porous SOFC fuel electrode. Electrode/electrolyte structures can be formed by co-firing or constrained sintering processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471774 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351491 | Sprenkle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington); Nathan L. Canfield (Kennewick, Washington); Kerry Meinhardt (Kennewick, Washington); Jeffry W. Stevenson (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode supported electrolyte membrane includes an electrode layer 630 facing an electrolyte layer 620. The opposing side of the electrode layer 630 includes a backing layer 640 of a material with a thermal expansion coefficient approximately equal to the thermal expansion coefficient of the electrolyte layer 620. The backing layer 640 is in a two dimensional pattern that covers only a portion of the electrolyte layer 630. An electrochemical cell such as a SOFC is formed by providing a cathode layer 610 on an opposing side of the electrolyte layer 620. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425857 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351568 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl6, and the corresponding EGVI amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVI, recombinant EGVI proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329439 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351573 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl3, and the corresponding BGL3 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL3, recombinant BGL3 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046300 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351837 | McElhanon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. McElhanon (Manteca, California); Gregory M. Jamison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Timothy M. Long (Evanston, Illinois); Douglas A. Loy (Tucson, Arizona); Kamyar Rahimian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Chad L. Staiger (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas Zifer (Manteca, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes surfactants of formula (I), wherein R, RN, and m are defined herein, processes for their preparation, and methods for their decomposition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387542 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351964 | Tolmachev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksey V. Tolmachev (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved ion funnel design is disclosed that decreases the axial RF (parasite) fields at the ion funnel exit. This is achieved by addition of one or more compensation electrodes after the conductance limit electrode. Various RF voltage profiles may be applied to the various electrodes minimizing the parasite axial potential wells. The smallest RF aperture that serves as the conductance limiting electrode is further reduced over standard designs. Overall, the ion funnel improves transmission ranges of both low m/z and high m/z ions, reducing RF activation of ions and decreasing the gas load to subsequent differential pumping stages. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251528 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Constellation Technology Corporation (Largo, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Austin (Largo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting impurities in a noble gas includes a detection chamber and a source of pulsed ultraviolet light. The pulse of the ultraviolet light is transferred into the detection chamber and onto a photocathode, thereby emitting a cloud of free electrons into the noble gas within the detection chamber. The cloud of electrons is attracted to the opposite end of the detection chamber by a high positive voltage potential at that end and focused onto a sensing anode. If there are impurities in the noble gas, some or all of the electrons within the cloud will bond with the impurity molecules and not reach the sensing anode. Therefore, measuring a lower signal at the sensing anode indicates a higher level of impurities while sensing a higher signal indicates fewer impurities. Impurities in the range of one part per billion can be measured by this device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350240 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351982 | Hofstetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington Savannah River Company LLP (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J Hofstetter (Aiken, South Carolina); Charles K Fulghum (Aiken, South Carolina); Lawrence J Harpring (North Augusta, South Carolina); Russell K Huffman (Augusta, Georgia); Donald L Varble (Evans, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, hand held, multi-sensor radiation detector is disclosed. The detection apparatus has a plurality of spaced sensor locations which are contained within a flexible housing. The detection apparatus, when suspended from an elevation, will readily assume a substantially straight, vertical orientation and may be used to monitor radiation levels from shipping containers. The flexible detection array can also assume a variety of other orientations to facilitate any unique container shapes or to conform to various physical requirements with respect to deployment of the detection array. The output of each sensor within the array is processed by at least one CPU which provides information in a usable form to a user interface. The user interface is used to provide the power requirements and operating instructions to the operational components within the detection array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135801 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352176 | Roach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Roach (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Phil Walkington (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kirk A. Rackow (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ed Hohman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotating concave eddy current probe for detecting fatigue cracks hidden from view underneath the head of a raised head fastener, such as a buttonhead-type rivet, used to join together structural skins, such as aluminum aircraft skins. The probe has a recessed concave dimple in its bottom surface that closely conforms to the shape of the raised head. The concave dimple holds the probe in good alignment on top of the rivet while the probe is rotated around the rivet's centerline. One or more magnetic coils are rigidly embedded within the probe's cylindrical body, which is made of a non-conducting material. This design overcomes the inspection impediment associated with widely varying conductivity in fastened joints. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/502085 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a microfabricated device for the rapid detection of DNA, proteins or other molecules associated with a particular disease. The devices and methods of the invention can be used for the simultaneous diagnosis of multiple diseases by detecting molecules (e.g. amounts of molecules), such as polynucleotides (e.g., DNA) or proteins (e.g., antibodies), by measuring the signal of a detectable reporter associated with hybridized polynucleotides or antigen/antibody complex. In the microfabricated device according to the invention, detection of the presence of molecules (i.e., polynucleotides, proteins, or antigen/antibody complexes) are correlated to a hybridization signal from an optically-detectable (e.g. fluorescent) reporter associated with the bound molecules. These hybridization signals can be detected by any suitable means, for example optical, and can be stored for example in a computer as a representation of the presence of a particular gene Hybridization probes can be immobilized on a substrate that forms part of or is exposed to a channel or channels of the device that form a closed loop, for circulation of sample to actively contact complementary probes. Universal chips according to the invention can be fabricated not only with DNA but also with other molecules such as RNA, proteins, peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and polyamide molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/724548 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351402 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Griffin (Newton, Massachusetts); Kan-Nian Hu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We describe polarizing agents for use in enhancing NMR and MRI signals via dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP). The polarizing agents include two or more paramagnetic centers, preferably two paramagnetic centers. In a preferred embodiment, the polarizing agent comprises two nitroxide radicals tethered by a polyethylene glycol chain of variable length. Signal enhancements of up to 175 have been achieved in comparison with factors of ˜45 at similar concentrations of monomeric radical such as TEMPO. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920900 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerold Bepler (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for detection of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at human chromosome segment 11p15.5 in a tumor sample from a patient with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and a method for prognosis of the patient's disease progression. The prognosis is useful for determining the course of treatment following surgical resection of tumor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/326483 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351537 | Piston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Piston (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark Rizzo (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provide optimized cyan fluorescent protein (oCFP) variants. In particular, the variants exhibit increase quantum yield of fluorescence and a single component fluorescence lifetime. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/948846 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351580 | Shears et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, N.I.H. (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Shears (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Paul R. Reynolds (Mars, Pennsylvania); James N. Petitte (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated animal cell comprising an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a mutated phytase, wherein the cell produces phytase and secretes the phytase from the cell. The present invention also provides an animal having a phenotype not naturally occurring, characterized by secretion of phytase into the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract of the animal, the phenotype being conferred by a transgene contained in the cells of the animal, the transgene comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding phytase and methods of making said animal. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343339 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351688 | Balasubramanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathyamangalam V. Balasubramanian (Amherst, New York); Robert M. Straubinger (Amherst, New York); Vivek S. Purohit (Fort Erie, Canada); Karthik Ramani (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and composition are described for low immunogenic protein, polypeptide or peptide formulations. The method comprises forming complexes of the protein, polypeptide or peptide with a binding agent which can be a serine containing compound or other phosphatidyl compounds or phospholipids. The complexes formed include simple complexes, micelles, cochleate structures, liposomes, non-bilayer and novel lipidic structures. The antigenicity and imminogenicity of the protein, polypeptides or peptides is reduced upon formation of such complexes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/049134 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351724 | Boger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain oxadiazole ketone compounds are useful as FAAH inhibitors. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity. Thus, the compounds may be administered to treat anxiety, pain, inflammation, sleep disorders, eating disorders, or movement disorders (such as MS). |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251317 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/340 |
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| US 07351797 | Hahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klaus M. Hahn (San Diego, California); Steven J. Bark (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides intermediates and methods that allow for site-specific modification of peptides after synthesis. Accordingly, functional molecules can be selectively linked to a peptide to provide a peptide conjugate having altered biological, chemical, or physical properties. For example, functional molecules (e.g. biophysical probes, peptides, polynucleotides, and therapeutic agents) can be linked to a peptide to provide a peptide conjugate having differing and useful properties. The invention also provides a compound of formula (III): wherein: R6 is a peptide; X is a direct bond or a linking group; R7 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, an amino protecting group, or a radical comprising one or more aminooxy groups; Y is a direct bond or a linking group; and D is a functional molecule. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/381903 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351811 | Kasid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usha Kasid (Rockville, Maryland); Deepak Kumar (Arlington, Virginia); Imran Ahmad (Wadsworth, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A gene that is a modulator of tumor growth and metastasis in certain cancer types is provided. SCC-112 (about 150 kDa) and/or a mutant form of SCC-112 (about 65 kDa) is a tumor suppressor molecule. This gene and corresponding polypeptide have diagnostic and therapeutic application for detecting and treating cancers that involve expression of SCC-112 such as breast and kidney cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679580 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351813 | Miao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol H. Miao (Seattle, Washington); Mark A. Kay (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides nucleic acid expression cassettes that are predominantly expressed in the mammalian liver. The present invention also provides vectors comprising a nucleic acid expression cassette that is predominantly expressed in the mammalian liver. The present invention also provides methods of ameliorating the symptoms of a disease, the methods including the steps of introducing into the liver of a mammalian subject a vector comprising a nucleic acid expression cassette that encodes a polypeptide, and expressing a therapeutic amount of the polypeptide in the liver. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/884901 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351830 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective phosphorylation of phenpanstatin (3a) with tetrabutylammonium dihydrogen phosphate and dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide in pyridine followed by cation exchange chromatographic procedures was found to provide an efficient mute to a new series (3b-3d) of promising 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate prodrugs designated phenpanstatin phosphates. Application of analogous reaction conditions to pancratistatin (1a) led to a mixture of monophosphate derivatives where sodium paancratistatin 4-O-phosphate (4a) was isolated and the structure confirmed by x-ray craxtallography. Modification of the reaction conditions allowed direct phosphorylation of pancratistatin followed by cation exchange chromatography to afford sodium pancratistatin 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate (5b) which was selected for preclinical development. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561338 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351874 | Cravatt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin F. Cravatt (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an animal model for studying behavior related to fatty acid amide and hydrolysis of fatty acid amide. The invention provides transgenic animals in which the protein fatty acid amide hydrolase is not expressed, and methods of using such animals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209002 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352458 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Feruz Ganikhanov (Annandale, New Jersey); Conor Evans (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for detecting a nonlinear coherent field induced in a sample. The system includes optics, a modulation system, and a detector system. The optics are for directing a first electromagnetic field at a first frequency ω1 and a second electromagnetic field at a second frequency ω2 toward a focal volume such that a difference frequency ω1–ω2 is resonant with a vibrational frequency of a sample in the focal volume. The modulation system is for modulating the difference frequency ω1–ω2 such that the difference frequency ω1–ω2 is tuned in and out of the vibrational frequency of the sample of at a modulation frequency. The detector system is for detecting an optical field that is generated through non-linear interaction of ω1 and ω2 and the sample responsive to the modulation frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376396 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352467 | Chinowsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Chinowsky (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface plasmon resonance imaging system (40) and method is provided. The system (40) includes a light source (42) comprising a light-emitting diode (LED) array that is positioned at the focal point of a collimating lens (44). The light source (42) and collimating lens (44) are used to illuminate the substrate surface (50) at a range of angles dependent upon which one or more LEDs are lit. The substrate surface (50) receives light from the collimated lens (44) at a selected incident angle, which can be varied by selective illumination of one or more of the LEDs in the LED array. The system (40) further includes a detector (60) that is positioned such that it is capable of detecting an image reflected from the substrate surface (50). |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973928 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352840 | Nagarkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek V. Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts); Sameer V. Tipnis (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides internal gain charge coupled devices (CCD) and CT scanners that incorporate an internal gain CCD. A combined positron emission tomography and CT scanner is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158918 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07353117 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chun Yuan (Bellevue, Washington); Chao Han (ChengDu, China PRC); Thomas S. Hatsukami (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automatic vessel wall thickness measurement at any point along the perimeter of either luminal or outer vessel wall boundaries. The method employs both Delaunay triangulation and multiresolution tiling. The MaxMin angle property of the Delaunay triangulation is used to define the minimum energy function to calculate thickness. Multiresolution tiling is employed to enable the MaxMin angle lemma to be determined. The triangulation MaxMin angle lemma enables a minimal energy function to be defined based on triangulation angles, providing a stable and consistent geometrical computation. Additional morphological indexes can be assessed to achieve comprehensive quantification of vascular morphology. For example, based on the wall thickness, a set of vascular shape descriptors can be developed to distinguish different types of plaque morphology at different parts of a vessel wall. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804460 |
| 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: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07351064 | Johnson et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Benny G. Johnson (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Dale A. Holder (Russell Springs, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A question generation means is developed for intelligent tutors wherein a question menu having dynamic questions is capable of being displayed after each step of a problem. The generated question set contains both elementary and advanced questions and changes after each step is performed, thereby enhancing the potential that a student using the tutorial understands every aspect of a problem. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/241896 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351283 | Headrick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Headrick (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A crystalline thin structure (104, 204, 404) is grown on a surface (108, 228) of a substrate (112, 208, 400) by depositing molecules (136, 220) from a molecular precursor to a lateral growth front (144, 224) of the structure using a crystal grower (116, 200). In one embodiment, the crystal grower comprises a solution (124) containing the molecular precursor in a solvent (140). Molecules are added to the lateral growth front by moving one or both of the free surface (120, 120′) of the solution and deposition surface relative to the other at a predetermined rate. In another embodiment, the crystal grower comprises a mask (212) that includes at least one opening (216). Precursor molecules are vacuum deposited via a molecular beam (236) at the growth front (228) of the crystalline thin structure (204) as one or both of the opening and surface are moved relative to the other at a predetermined rate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078544 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351303 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Kashan Shaikh (Urbana, Illinois); Kee Ryu (Urbana, Illinois); Edgar Goluch (Urbana, Illinois); Zhifang Fan (Urbana, Illinois); David Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic systems and components. A microfluidic system includes one or more functional units or microfluidic chips, configured to perform constituent steps in a process and interconnected to form the system. A multi-layer microfluidic system includes a separate dedicated fluid layer and dedicated electromechanical layer connected via through-holes. Electromechanical components are formed on the electromechanical layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/683473 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351449 | Hunt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | n Gimat Co. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Hunt (Atlanta, Georgia); Girish N. Deshpande (Atlanta, Georgia); Tzyy-Jiuan Jan Hwang (Alpharetta, Georgia); Nii Sowa Laye (Los Angeles, California); Miodrag Oljaca (Avondale Estates, Georgia); Subramaniam Shanmugham (Duluth, Georgia); Shara S. Shoup (Woodstock, Georgia); Trifon Tomov (Duluth, Georgia); William J. Dalzell, Jr. (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Aimee Poda (Atlanta, Georgia); Michelle Hendrick (Winder, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Flame produced vapors for combustion chemical vapor deposition are redirected from the direction of the flame by differential atmospheric pressure, such as positive pressure provided by a blower or negative pressure provided by a vacuum. This allows, for example, lower surface temperatures of substrates being coated with flame-produced vapors and coating of interior surfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/748714 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351607 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Christopher J. Summers (Dunwoody, Georgia); Xudong Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Elton D. Graugnard (Atlanta, Georgia); Jeffrey King (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making nanostructures using a self-assembled monolayer of organic spheres is disclosed. The nanostructures include bowl-shaped structures and patterned elongated nanostructures. A bowl-shaped nanostructure with a nanorod grown from a conductive substrate through the bowl-shaped nanostructure may be configured as a field emitter or a vertical field effect transistor. A method of separating nanoparticles of a desired size employs an array of bowl-shaped structures. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010178 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351797 | Hahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klaus M. Hahn (San Diego, California); Steven J. Bark (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides intermediates and methods that allow for site-specific modification of peptides after synthesis. Accordingly, functional molecules can be selectively linked to a peptide to provide a peptide conjugate having altered biological, chemical, or physical properties. For example, functional molecules (e.g. biophysical probes, peptides, polynucleotides, and therapeutic agents) can be linked to a peptide to provide a peptide conjugate having differing and useful properties. The invention also provides a compound of formula (III): wherein: R6 is a peptide; X is a direct bond or a linking group; R7 is hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, an amino protecting group, or a radical comprising one or more aminooxy groups; Y is a direct bond or a linking group; and D is a functional molecule. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/381903 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351827 | Howell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy R. Howell (Tolland, Connecticut); Rosa C. Taboada (Hamden, Connecticut); Stewart K. Richardson (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Oxetane-containing nucleosides, particularly non-reducing psiconucleoside oxetanes are described herein. Therapeutic application of these oxetane compounds toward the treatment of nucleoside analog related disorders such as disorders involving cellular proliferation and infection are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992805 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352464 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shin-Juh Chen (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for monitoring oxygen concentrations in fuel tank ullage comprising providing a sensor head comprising an optical cavity, exposing the optical cavity to an ambient gaseous environment of a fuel tank or air separation module, via a laser light source emitting wavelength modulated light through the cavity, and receiving the wavelength modulated light with a detector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029436 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07352608 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert L. Badzey (Brookline, Massachusetts); Alexei Gaidarzhy (Allston, Massachusetts); Guiti Zolfagharkhani (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory device includes a mechanical element that exhibits distinct bistable states under amplitude modulation. The states are dynamically bistable or multi-stable with the application of a drive signal of a given frequency. The natural resonance of the element in conjunction with a hysteretic effect produces distinct states over a specific frequency range. Devices with multiple elements that respond to different frequency ranges provided on a common contact are formed with improved density. The devices may be excited and read with magnetomotive, capacitive, piezoelectric and/or optical methods. The devices may be planar oriented or out of plane oriented to permit three dimensional memory structures. DC biases may be used to shift frequency responses to permit an alternate method for differentiating states of the element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/597150 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07351403 | Harry-O'kuru |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rogers E. Harry-O'kuru (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A class of UVA- and UVB-absorbing esters has been derived from milkweed oil by modification with a variety of cinnamic acids. These agents have the advantage of being synthesized from natural materials, while providing a value-added use for the oil. They are readily formulated into standard UV-absorbing daily-wear cosmetic, hair and skin care, and sunscreen formulations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/463491 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351416 | Briggs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Briggs (Boone, Iowa); Fred M. Tatum (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Acapsular hyaE deletion mutants of P. multocida can be administered to mammals, particularly ungulates, or birds to provide protective immunity against wild-type P. multocida, e.g., to prevent or reduce the severity of hemorrhagic septicemia or pneumonia in mammals, particularly livestock, ungulates, and companion animals, or fowl cholera in birds, particularly poultry. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/882666 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/255.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351744 | Henderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg Henderson (St. Gabriel, Louisiana); Sanaa A. Ibrahim (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Rosemary Patton (Lake Charles, Louisiana); Roger A. Laine (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Betty C. R. Zhu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Feng Chen (Central, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Several derivatives of naphthalene, including 1′-acetonaphthone, 2′-acetpnaphthone, 1-methoxynaphthalene, and 2-methoxynaphthalene, were discovered to be effective toxicants and repellents of termites, and resulted in significant reduction in termite feeding activity. For example, 2′-acetonaphthone was found to be an effective repellent and feeding deterrent of termites. Termites exposed to concentrations as low as 8 mg/kg sand exhibited a significant reduction in tunneling and feeding activity. Moreover, some of the dead termites had symptoms indicative of a failure to molt. At concentrations ≧20 μg/cm2, 2′-acetonaphthone was a strong repellent. Interestingly, at 160-fold lower concentration (0.125 μg/cm2), 2′-acetonaphthone stimulated termite feeding activity. As a sand barrier, 2′-acetonaphthone significantly inhibited tunneling and feeding activity in concentrations from 8.33 to 35.0 mg/kg. Molting problems were also identified in termites exposed to 2′-acetonaphthone. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/641315 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/682 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351879 | Fischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Fischer (El Cerrito, California); Tetsu Kinoshita (Shizuoka, Japan); Ramin Yadegari (Tucson, Arizona); Mary Gehring (Berkeley, California); Jack Okamuro (Oak Park, California); Van-Dinh Dang (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating plant development by modulating the expression or activity of plant polycomb genes including FIE and MEA. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/051456 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07350689 | Campbell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Richard Campbell (Crownsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A reusable tamper-evident envelope includes a first substrate, a second substrate superimposed on the first substrate, at least one auxiliary substrate superimposed on and joined along one edge to the second substrate, and at least one seal along all but one edge joining the first substrate to the second substrate. Each auxiliary substrate is spaced a user-defined distance from the top edge of the first substrate. A perforation line, extending from the left side to the right side of both the first substrate and second substrates facilitate removal of a portion of the respective substrates. After an item is placed into the envelope, the user-activated seal along the remaining edge joins the first substrate to the second substrate. Subsequent uses are possible by removing portions of the first substrate and second substrate along the perforation lines and activating the auxiliary user-activated seal along the auxiliary substrate joining the first substrate to the second substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017541 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes 229/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07351608 | Mountain |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Jerome Mountain (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of aligning components on a flexible integrated circuit. First a rigid substrate is selected. Next a flexible interconnect is deposited on the substrate, the interconnect preferably consisting of alternating polyimide and metal layers. After depositing the interconnect on the substrate, solder bumps are applied to the interconnect. Next, attach electronic components to the interconnect. A second substrate is then attached to the electronic components. Then, remove the first substrate to expose the interconnect. Last, the second substrate is removed to release the integrated circuit module. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923612 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07351606 | Arias |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ana C. Arias (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method of forming a semiconducting polymer layer protected by an insulating polymer layer is described. In the method, a material for forming a semiconducting polymer and an insulating polymer are dissolved in a solvent. The blended solution is deposited on a substrate where the semiconducting polymer and insulating polymer segregate. Upon evaporation of the solvent, the semiconducting material forms the active region of a TFT and the insulating polymer minimizes the exposure of the semiconducting polymer to air. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/876229 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07352785 | Fork et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Richard L. Fork (Madison, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Fork (Madison, Alabama); Rustin Laycock (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state laser medium comprising at least one cooling element, i.e. cooling element, in contact with and alternating in series with at least one gain element. At least one cooling element and at least one gain element are joined at an interface having a center point, wherein the interface is physically modified at the interface such that the heat transfer coefficient at the interface decreases radially from the center point of the interface. The modified interface promotes thermal transfer from the gain element in the axial direction, in such a manner as to reduce thermal distortion affecting optical properties of the laser. Concentric radially disposed barriers to heat flow that hinder heat flow in the radial direction may be added within the gain element to further reduce thermal distortion within the laser medium. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120303 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07351064 | Johnson et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Benny G. Johnson (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Dale A. Holder (Russell Springs, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A question generation means is developed for intelligent tutors wherein a question menu having dynamic questions is capable of being displayed after each step of a problem. The generated question set contains both elementary and advanced questions and changes after each step is performed, thereby enhancing the potential that a student using the tutorial understands every aspect of a problem. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/241896 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07351830 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective phosphorylation of phenpanstatin (3a) with tetrabutylammonium dihydrogen phosphate and dicyclohexyl-carbodiimide in pyridine followed by cation exchange chromatographic procedures was found to provide an efficient mute to a new series (3b-3d) of promising 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate prodrugs designated phenpanstatin phosphates. Application of analogous reaction conditions to pancratistatin (1a) led to a mixture of monophosphate derivatives where sodium paancratistatin 4-O-phosphate (4a) was isolated and the structure confirmed by x-ray craxtallography. Modification of the reaction conditions allowed direct phosphorylation of pancratistatin followed by cation exchange chromatography to afford sodium pancratistatin 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate (5b) which was selected for preclinical development. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561338 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07350690 | Fitzgibbons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Fitzgibbons (Owego, New York); John Hoover (Owego, New York); Glenn L. Kehley (Owego, New York); John T. Swider (Owego, New York); Mary B. Wilcoxen (Owego, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mail box configured to contain and reduce exposure to hazardous particulates, which includes a container having a deposit port at an upper end and a collection chamber at a lower end. There is at least one door at the upper end for mail to be placed into the deposit port. A normally open sealable bag is located in the collection chamber for receiving mail and for being sealed when the mail is to be removed from the container. There is a bag holder constructed and arranged to hold a bag in place and normally open so that in a first position, mail placed into the deposit port falls downwardly through the bag holder and into a bag in the collection chamber and which bag may be preliminarily sealed while in this position, and in a second position, the bag may be more securely sealed and removed from the bag holder. The bag holder is movable from its first position in which the bag is within the collection chamber to the second position in which the bag is outside of the collection chamber and includes two open frames hinged together for removably holding the top of a bag. The bag holder has an upper frame and a lower frame which are arranged so that the top of an open bag may be clamped between the upper and lower frames to hold an open bag in place in the collection chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/673103 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Deposit and collection receptacles 232/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 01, 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
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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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