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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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| US 07360309 | Vaidyanathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Tucson, Arizona); Alfonso Ortega (Tucson, Arizona); Marlene Platero (Tucson, Arizona); Prathib Skandakumaran (Scottsdale, Arizona); Chad Bower (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchanger device includes an extruded body that includes one or more layers of channels for coolant flow therethrough, the channels generally having inner diameters of between about 50 microns to about 2000 microns. The device is formed of a material having a high thermal conductivity to facilitate transfer of heat from the heating components present in the subject cooling application to the coolant passing through the heat exchanger and to be compatible with materials of the heating components. The device material is selected from the group consisting of ceramic oxides, ceramic carbides, ceramic nitrides, ceramic borides, ceramic silicides, metals, and intermetallics, and combinations thereof. The heat exchanger device is formed from an extruded filament that is arranged to give the desired channel configuration. The filament includes a central, removable material and an outer material that forms the channel walls upon removal of the central material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767483 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/890.35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07360489 | Han 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) | Seungeuk Han (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Raymond Trohanowsky (Franklin, New Jersey); Andew Ponikowski (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-lethal cargo projectile comprises a projectile body; a fuze adapter attached to a front of the projectile body; a fuze attached to the fuze adapter; a boattail attached to a rear of the projectile body; a pressure tube extending from the fuze adapter to the boattail; a decelerator and drogue chute disposed aft of the fuze adapter; a flexible line that connects the pressure tube to the decelerator; a center disc disposed aft of the decelerator and drogue chute; a rear disc disposed aft of the center disc, the center disc and the rear disc defining a payload volume therebetween; a second flexible line that connects the rear disc to the boattail; at least one shearable fastener that fastens the projectile body to the fuze adapter; and at least one vent extending from the boattail to the fuze adapter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278556 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361024 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. Provided is also a method of producing the land grid array interposer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865217 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361025 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. Provided is also a method of producing the land grid array interposer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865423 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361026 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. Provided is also a method of producing the land grid array interposer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865440 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361206 | Jahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Jahn (Jasper, Indiana); Matthew Todd Griffin (Bloomington, Indiana); Norman Popkie, Jr. (Oolitic, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an apparatus and a method for continuously removing water vapor from a closed loop, re-circulated gas flow in an ion mobility spectrometer using a water permeable membrane, having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The gas flow is disposed adjacent and carried past the first side to deposit water vapor that passes through the membrane to the second side. An exhaust flow is disposed adjacent and carried passed the second side of the membrane to remove the water vapor from the system. Therefore, the water removal apparatus continuously regenerates in-situ. Heaters, heat sinks and additional treatment systems including charcoal filters can also be included in the system to enhance its performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943645 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361239 | Zahrah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Matsys, Inc. (Sterling, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony F. Zahrah (Fairfax, Virginia); Roderick Rowland (Fairfax, Virginia); Laszlo Kecskes (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a method for producing high-density composites of metallic glass alloy powders in combination with a refractory metal powder, and includes related methods for producing metallic glass alloys. The invention, in one aspect, employs a system of monitoring the temperature and hot isostatic pressing conditions during the consolidation of metallic compositions in order to produce higher densities and materials of a larger diameter, for example. In another aspect, the invention involves method whereby a third interfacial phase at a metallic glass alloy/refractory metal interface is effectively controlled to produce composites with advantageous properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946132 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361310 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Evanston, Illinois); Linette Demers (Evanston, Illinois); David S. Ginger (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of direct-write nanolithography to generate anchored, nanoscale patterns of nucleic acid on different substrates is described, including electrically conductive and insulating substrates. Modification of nucleic acid, including oligonucleotides, with reactive groups such as thiol groups provides for patterning with use of appropriate scanning probe microscopic tips under appropriate conditions. The reactive groups provide for chemisorption or covalent bonding to the substrate surface. The resulting nucleic acid features, which exhibit good stability, can be hybridized with complementary nucleic acids and probed accordingly with use of, for example, nanoparticles functionalized with nucleic acids. Patterning can be controlled by selection of tip treatment, relative humidity, and nucleic acid structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307515 |
| 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 07361427 | Dow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric G. Dow (Barrington, Rhode Island); Gary Bolstridge (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method of fabricating and discharging a pile configured battery which utilizes an electrically conductive flowing aqueous electrolyte. This is accomplished by use of a single piece hydraulic manifold plate which decouples the hydraulic performance parameters of the manifold from the electrical performance parameters. The manifold plate includes a configuration of hydraulic feed channels and distribution headers which separately account for electrical resistive effects and fluid viscous and dynamic pressure effects. Implementation of such manifold plates allow for improved energy conversion efficiency as well as utilization of multiple dissimilar fluids in a single battery cartridge cell discharge at greatly reduced complexity and cost. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/138592 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361516 | Uyeda 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) | Harry T. Uyeda (College Park, Maryland); Hedi Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); Igor L. Medintz (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a surface ligand; preparation of the ligand; colloidal nanoparticle, such as quantum dot bearing one or more of the ligand; and a bioconjugate characterized by a nanoparticle bearing one or more of the ligand conjugated to a biomolecule. The ligand is characterized by the presence of a first module containing atoms that can attach to an inorganic surface; a second module that imparts water-solubility to the ligand and to the inorganic surface that may be attached to the ligand; and a third module that contains a functional group that can, directly or indirectly, conjugate to a biomolecule. Order of the modules can be different and other modules and groups can be on the ligand. Preparation of the ligand includes the steps of reacting a compound having atoms that can attach to an inorganic surface with a water-solubilizing compound that imparts the property of water-solubility to the ligand and the inorganic surface to which it may be attached and purification thereof. Colloidal nanoparticle is characterized by an inorganic surface having attached to it one or more of the ligands, The colloidal bioconjugate is characterized by an inorganic surface having attached thereto one or more of the ligand wherein at least some of the ligand have a biomolecule conjugated thereto. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956586 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/528 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361729 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. McGrath (Blacksburg, Virginia); Michael Hickner (Blacksburg, Virginia); Feng Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Yu-Seung Kim (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Sulfonated polymers are made by the direct polymerization of a sulfonated monomer to form the sulfonated polymers. The types of sulfonated polymers may include polysulfones or polyimides. The sulfonated polymers can be formed into membranes that may be used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells or as ion exchange membranes. The membranes formed from the sulfonated polymers exhibit improved properties over that of Nafion®. A heteropoly acid may be added to the sulfonated polymer to form a nanocomposite membrane in which the heteropoly acid is highly dispersed. The addition of a heteropoly acid to the sulfonated polymer increases the thermal stability of the membrane, enhances the conductivity above 100° C., and reduces the water uptake of the membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/956256 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361930 | Trott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary R. Trott (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a multiple layer passivation film on a semiconductor device surface comprises placing a semiconductor device in a chemical vapor deposition reactor, introducing a nitrogen source into the reactor, introducing a carbon source into the reactor, depositing a layer of carbon nitrogen on the semiconductor device surface, introducing a silicon source into the reactor after the carbon source, and depositing a layer of silicon carbon nitrogen on the carbon nitrogen layer. A semiconductor device incorporating the multiple layer passivation film is also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085299 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361943 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Berger (Columbus, Ohio); Niu Jin (Champaign, Illinois); Phillip E. Thompson (Springfield, Virginia); Sung-Yong Chung (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A Si-based diode (10, 10′, 100) is formed by epitaxially depositing a Si-based diode structure on a silicon substrate. The Si-based diode structure includes a Si-based pn junction (16, 16′, 18, 18′, 30, 32, 160, 161) having a backward diode current-voltage characteristic in which the forward tunneling current is substantially smaller than the backward tunneling current at comparable voltage levels. In some embodiments, the Si-based pn junction includes at least one non-silicon or silicon alloy layer such as at least one SiGe layer (16, 16′, 160, 161). In some embodiments, at least one delta doping (30, 32) is disposed on the silicon substrate in or near the pn junction, that together with the Si-based pn junction define an electrical junction having the backward diode current-voltage characteristic. A large area detector array may include a plurality of such Si-based diodes (10, 10′, 100). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/407120 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362032 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy David Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Scott E. Stanford (Palo Alto, California); Qibing Pei (Fremont, California); Richard Heydt (Palo Alto, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California); Jonathan R. Heim (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes devices for performing thermodynamic work on a fluid, such as pumps, compressors and fans. The thermodynamic work may be used to provide a driving force for moving the fluid. Work performed on the fluid may be transmitted to other devices, such as a piston in a hydraulic actuation device. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contact with a fluid where the deflection of the electroactive polymer may be used to perform thermodynamic work on the fluid. The devices may be designed to efficiently operate at a plurality of operating conditions, such as operating conditions that produce an acoustic signal above or below the human hearing range. The devices may be used in thermal control systems, such as refrigeration system, cooling systems and heating systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375930 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362096 | Oberdier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry M. Oberdier (Royal Oak, Michigan); Thaddeus Schroeder (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Robert J. Disser (Dayton, Ohio); Tina M. Dewar (Dayton, Ohio); Thomas A. Baudendistel (Farmersville, Ohio); Bruno Lequesne (Troy, Michigan); Donald T. Morelli (White Lake, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus (10) is set forth for measuring a return signal of a magnetostrictive sensor (20) that detects a force, torque, or pressure. The return signal includes noise, a DC resistance (44), an AC resistance and an inductance and the inductance is shifted ninety degrees from the AC resistance. The apparatus (10) includes a sensor filter (22) to remove the noise from the return signal. A sensor filter (22) shifts the return signal and more specifically, the inductance by an additional angle and the sum of the additional angle and the ninety degrees phase shift is defined as the final detection angle. To detect the inductance at the final detection angle, a wave filter (16) and a reference filter (28) shifts a reference signal by the final detection angle to trigger a first demodulator (26) to detect the inductance at the final detection angle. The inductance detected by the first demodulator (26) varies due to temperature. To remove the temperature from the measured inductance, the apparatus includes a DC detection circuit (42) to detect the DC resistance which is proportional to the temperature across the sensor (20). The DC resistance and the measure inductance are inserted into a correction equation to produce a corrected inductance which is independent of temperature. Instead of inductance, an AC resistance may be used in the equation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256483 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362257 | Bruzzone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radix Technology, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Bruzzone (San Jose, California); Robert E. Shanafelt (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is provided for detecting and characterizing pulsed threat radar emitters through heavy in-band interference. System includes an advanced digital signal processing method provides spatial and temporal interference cancellation, super-resolution direction-finding, and high resolution spectrum analysis techniques. The system receives the digitized output of a discriminator bank and produces highly accurate threat pulse radio frequency estimates. The invention further provides a two-channel configuration for a DF subsystem, to perform adjacent-beam direction-finding through severe interference environments. The invention provides increased sensitivity, increased frequency accuracy, and up to 40 dB of increased interference look-through capability in ES system but remains transparent to ES system functioning and to ES system operators. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/318071 |
| 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 342/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362424 | van den Engh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerrit J. van den Engh (Seattle, Washington); Peter I. Nelson (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an apparatus and method for determining the position of a radiation beam. The apparatus includes (a) a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, the reflective surfaces being placed to form the reflective exterior of a wedge; (b) a first detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the first reflective surface, and (c) a second detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the second reflective surface. The method includes the steps of (a) directing a radiation beam to the reflective exterior of a wedge formed by a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface; (b) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the first reflective surface; (c) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the second reflective surface; and (d) determining the position of the radiation beam based on the difference in the amount of radiation detected from each surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/132659 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362606 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jae-Joon Kim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for asymmetrical SRAM cells which can be improved, for example, by providing one or more of improved read stability and improved write performance and margin. A first inverter and a second inverter are cross-coupled and configured for selective coupling to true and complementary bit lines under control of read and write word lines. The first inverter is formed by a first, n-type, FET (NFET) and a second, p-type, FET (PFET). Process and/or technology approaches can be employed to adjust the relative strength of the FETS to obtain, for example, read margin, write margin, and/or write performance improvements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/392071 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362653 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Benthos, Inc. (North Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurice D. Green (North Falmouth, Massachusetts); Kenneth F. Scussel (East Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for determining the geophysical position of an autonomous underwater system utilizing underwater acoustic modems that exchange broadband underwater acoustic signals. The method of the invention includes the steps of initiating an exchange of broadband acoustic signals between the autonomous system of unknown geophysical position and a base system of known geophysical position wherein the depths of both systems is known. A bearing calculation is made on one of the signals transmitted between the systems, preferably through the use of an array of hydrophones placed closely together at predetermined locations on either the autonomous or base system. Also, the range between the two systems is determined by measuring the time of travel of at least one signal. By the acoustic transmission and sharing of information, as needed, about the known depths of the systems, the known geophysical position of the base system, and the range between the systems, sufficient data is gathered at one or both systems and used to determine the geophysical position of the autonomous system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400709 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362655 | Hester |
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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) | Samuel G. Hester (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | This is an underwater acoustic ranging system for determining a range to a target object. An acoustic receiver is provided for detecting acoustic energy and determining an angle of arrival of said acoustic energy in at least one plane. An acoustic transmitter transmits an acoustic energy pulse. A receiver clock joined to the receiver, and a transmitter clock is joined to the transmitter. Acoustic energy is transmitted at a synchronized time. Range can be calculated based on the transmit time, the receive time and the reception angle. The system can also include a means for synchronizing the clocks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340818 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362657 | Donahoe 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) | Patrick Donahoe (San Diego, California); Dana Cottrell (El Cajon, California); David Keir (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a receive line array that generates one or more receive line array signals, a processor operatively connected to the receive line array to process the receive line array signals and to generate detonation signals based upon the processed receive line array signal, and a modem operatively connected to the processor that transmits the detonation signals to one or more explosive line arrays, the explosive line arrays having at least one explosive charge coupled thereto that is detonated upon receipt of the detonation signals. The receive line array may include multiple sensors and multiple hydrophones. The sensors may be magnetic field, electric field, or electromagnetic sensors. The explosive line arrays may be detection line arrays or disruption line arrays. The modem may be configured to receive and transmit one or more user-initiated detonation signals to the disruption line arrays to detonate the disruption line arrays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725714 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362843 | Basu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samit Kumar Basu (Niskayuna, New York); Bruno Kristiaan Bernard Deman (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconstructing image data from acquired tomographic projection data measurements is provided. The projection data measurements comprise one or more missing data measurements. The method comprises generating a coarse-resolution projection data set from the acquired projection data measurements and performing an iterative reconstruction on the coarse-resolution projection data set to generate a coarse-resolution reconstructed data set. Then, the method comprises reprojecting the coarse-resolution reconstructed data set to obtain one or more estimates for the one or more missing data measurements. The one or more estimated missing data measurements are then recombined with the acquired projection data measurements, to generate a recombined data set. Then, a direct reconstruction algorithm is applied to the recombined data set to generate the reconstructed image data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/948663 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
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| US 07363018 | Tyrrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Tyrrell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Robert Reich (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are a method and a device for high speed transmission of a data signal across an electrical interconnect in an integrated circuit. An optical carrier is modulated with a local oscillator signal at a modulation frequency substantially greater than the data signal to generate an optical local oscillator signal. Phototransducers at the ends of the interconnect illuminated by the optical local oscillator signal generate electrical local oscillator signals. At the transmit end of the interconnect, the data signal is mixed with an electrical local oscillator signal to generate an upconverted data signal. After transmission across the interconnect to the receive end, the upconverted data signal is mixed with the electrical local oscillator signal to retrieve the original data signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037287 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363094 | Kumar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditya Kumar (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for dynamically controlling a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system having multiple input and output constraints, the method comprising. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes configuring a MIMO tracking controller to implement closed loop tracking of multiple control reference inputs of the system, in the absence of input and output constraints, and configuring a MIMO constraint controller to enforce the input and output constraints of the MIMO system by generating a reference modification applied to the multiple control reference inputs. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327963 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363124 | Duarte |
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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) | Christiane N. Duarte (Fall River, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for conducting a search of an area for targets by a number of vehicles. First each of the vehicles randomly disperses from the other vehicles. Then during an aggregate phase, each vehicle responds in a predesignated way to an encounter with one of the other vehicles. A number of specific search strategies may be followed which tend to direct the search in a particular designated direction or allow a successful searching vehicle to set the direction of the search. This method results in improved performance in conducting searches by robots or other vehicles. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/226623 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363172 | Nichols et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Nichols (Crofton, Maryland); Mark Seaver (Burtonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method including providing time series structural response data from a structure. A plurality of linear surrogate data series is generated from the time series structural response data. A first generalized correlation function is estimated for each linear surrogate data series of the plurality of linear surrogate data series to generate a confidence interval. The same correlation function is estimated for the time series structural response data. The output of the generalized correlation function applied to the structural response data is compared to the confidence interval. A damage-induced nonlinearity in the structure is indicated when the output of the generalized correlation function applied to the structural response data is outside of the confidence interval. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620177 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363177 | Intrator et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Intrator (Providence, Rhode Island); Ki-o Kim (Providence, Rhode Island); Nicola Neretti (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Leon N. Cooper (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for increasing the accuracy of time delay estimates of signals propagating through an environment. The system includes one or more sensors for receiving a plurality of signals, and a time delay estimator for measuring time delays between multiple pairs of signals. At least some of the multiple pairs of signals are received and measured at different points in time. The system further includes a data analyzer for analyzing time delay estimation data, for generating a statistical distribution of time delay estimates from the data, and for calculating a statistical estimate of time delay from the distribution. By increasing the number of signals employed by the system, the accuracy of the time delay estimation is increased. Further, by calculating the median or the mode of the statistical distribution, noise tolerance is improved. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/567887 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363283 | Vengerov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that assigns jobs to a system containing a number of central processing units (CPUs). During operation, the system captures a current state of the system, which describes available resources on the system, characteristics of jobs currently being processed, and characteristics of new jobs waiting to be assigned. The system then uses the system state to estimate a long-term benefit to the system of not oversubscribing the system. If the benefit from oversubscribing the system with a new job exceeds the benefit from not oversubscribing the system, the system oversubscribes the system with the new job. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045560 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiffany M. Frazier (Arlington, Virginia); O. Patrick Kreidl (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for controlling at least a part of a microprocessor system, that include, based at least in part on objectives of at least one electronic attack, using a partially observable Markov decision process (PO-MDP) to provide a model of at least part of the microprocessor system, the PO-MDP including a controller, the controller including an estimation policy to recursively generate a state estimate at stage k based on a state estimate at stage k−1, a control at stage k−1, and an observation at stage k, and, a response policy to select a control at stage k based on the state estimate at stage k, and cause the selected control to be provided to at least a part of the microprocessor system. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/638818 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363581 | Parks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Accenture Global Services GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Parks (Norwood, Massachusetts); Steven B. Petchon (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructions for indicating the data sources and how the data sources should be queried. The processing instructions may also indicate how the data is to be grouped across various slides, pages, sections, etc. The generator may build the presentation based on the template, its tags, and its processing instructions. The resulting presentation may be accessed by a user-friendly application, such as a word processor, slide program, spreadsheet, report viewer, or other application. The user may update part or all of the presentation using information on the queries and data sources embedded in the presentation itself. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915082 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Evanston, Illinois); Linette Demers (Evanston, Illinois); David S. Ginger (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of direct-write nanolithography to generate anchored, nanoscale patterns of nucleic acid on different substrates is described, including electrically conductive and insulating substrates. Modification of nucleic acid, including oligonucleotides, with reactive groups such as thiol groups provides for patterning with use of appropriate scanning probe microscopic tips under appropriate conditions. The reactive groups provide for chemisorption or covalent bonding to the substrate surface. The resulting nucleic acid features, which exhibit good stability, can be hybridized with complementary nucleic acids and probed accordingly with use of, for example, nanoparticles functionalized with nucleic acids. Patterning can be controlled by selection of tip treatment, relative humidity, and nucleic acid structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307515 |
| 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 07361335 | Franano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proteon Therapeutics, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Nicholas Franano (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating an obstructed biological conduit that include administering to the conduit an agent that can degrade extracellular matrix of obstructing tissue. Particular methods include delivery of an enzyme or a mixture of several enzymes to the area or region of obstruction wherein the enzyme(s) have the capability to degrade extracellular matrix components within the obstruction thereby restoring the normal flow of transported fluid through the conduit. The invention also includes prophylactically dilating a section of conduit to minimize the risk of obstruction formation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454405 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361344 | Bednar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin M. Bednar (South Burlington, Vermont); Linda Gross, legal representative (Williston, Vermont); G. Roger Thomas (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for improving clinical outcome in focal ischemic stroke in a mammal by increasing cerebral blood flow and/or reducing infarct size is described which involves administering an effective amount of an anti-CD18 antibody to the mammal, in the absence of removal of the arterial obstruction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025712 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361356 | Lowy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washingon, District of Columbia); Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, The German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Lowy (Washington, District of Columbia); John T. Schiller (Silver Spring, Maryland); Reinhard Kirnbauer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant papillomavirus capsid proteins that are capable of self assembly into capsomer structures and viral capsids that comprise conformational antigenic epitopes are provided. The capsomer structures and viral capsids, consisting of the capsid proteins that are expression products of a bovine, monkey or human papillomavirus L1 conformational coding sequence proteins, can be prepared as vaccines to induce a high titer neutralizing antibody response in vertebrate animals. The self assembling capsid proteins can also be used as elements of diagnostic immunoassay procedures for papillomavirus infection. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/450729 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361459 | Summers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Summers (Ellicott City, Maryland); Chun Tang (Baltimore, Maryland); Mingjun Huang (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for evaluating the antiviral activity of test compounds are provided. Further aspects of the methods involve the retroviral capsid protein of HIV-1. In another aspect, methods of reducing mortality associated with AIDS with a compound that binds to the apical cleft near the C-terminal end of the N-terminal domain of the HIV-1 capsid protein are provided. Derivatives of CAP-1, CAP-2, CAP-3, CAP-4, CAP-5, CAP-6 and CAP-7 are described that bind to the apical cleft of the N-terminal domain of the HIV-1 capsid protein and inhibit proper assembly of the core particle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420438 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361466 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid, i.e. the activity of a nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme on the template nucleic acid molecule to be sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing complementary strand of the target nucleic acid by the catalytic activity of the nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme at each step in the sequence of base additions. A polymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex is provided in a position suitable to move along the target nucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primer at an active site. A plurality of labelled types of nucleotide analogs are provided proximate to the active site, with each distinguishable type of nucleotide analog being complementary to a different nucleotide in the target nucleic acid sequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotide analog being added is complementary to the nucleotide of the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The steps of providing labelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growing nucleic acid strand, and identifying the added nucleotide analog are repeated so that the nucleic acid strand is further extended and the sequence of the target nucleic acid is determined. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089871 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361470 | Kelley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shana O. Kelley (Boston, Massachusetts); Melissa Lapierre-Devlin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Meaghan O'Keefe (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The detection of specific DNA sequences using electrochemical readout would permit the rapid and inexpensive detection and identification of bacterial pathogens and the analysis of human genes. A new assay developed for this purpose is described that harnesses an electrocatalytic process to monitor DNA hybridization. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/270983 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07361483 | Kuzuyama et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California); Toudai TLO, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomohisa Kuzuyama (Tokyo, Japan); Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Stephane P. Richard (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, a novel aromatic prenyltransferase, Orf2 from Streptomyces sp. strain CL190, involved in naphterpin biosynthesis has been identified and the structure thereof elucidated. This prenyltransferase catalyzes the formation of a C—C bond between a prenyl group and a compound containing an aromatic nucleus, and also displays C—O bond formation activity. Numerous crystallographic structures of the prenyltransferase have been solved and refined, e.g., (1) prenyltransferase complexed with a buffer molecule (TAPS), (2) prenyltransferase as a binary complex with geranyl diphosphate (GPP) and Mg2+, and prenyltransferase as ternary complexes with a non-hydrolyzable substrate analogue, geranyl S-thiolodiphosphate (GSPP) and either (3) 1,6-dihydroxynaphthalene (1,6-DHN), or (4) flaviolin (i.e., 2,5,7-trihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, which is the oxidized product of 1,3,6,8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene (THN)). These structures have been solved and refined to 1.5 Å, 2.25 Å, 1.95 Å and 2.02 Å, respectively. This first structure of an aromatic prenyltransferase displays an unexpected and non-canonical (β/α)-barrel architecture. The complexes with both aromatic substrates and prenyl containing substrates and analogs delineate the active site and are consistent with a proposed electrophilic mechanism of prenyl group transfer. These structures also provide a mechanistic basis for understanding prenyl chain length determination and aromatic co-substrate recognition in this structurally unique family of aromatic prenyltransferases. This structural information is useful for predicting the aromatic prenyltransferase activity of proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342328 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julie Dumonceaux (Paris, France); Emmanuel G. Cormier (Bronx, New York); Jason P. Gardner (Ardsley, New York); Tatjana Dragic (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns a modified nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence coding for a full length hepatitis C virus (HCV) glycoprotein selected from the group consisting of E1 glycoprotein and E1/E2 glycoprotein heterodimer, this molecule having at least one nucleotide alteration, wherein, due to this alteration, at least one RNA splice site selected from the group consisting of RNA splice acceptor and RNA splice donor sites is eliminated from the coding sequence. The invention is also directed to methods for expressing on the surface of a cell and a pseudovirion an HCV glycoprotein, wherein the majority of the glycoprotein is full length. The invention further provides a cell and a pseudovirion expressing such glycoprotein. The invention still further provides a method for determining whether an agent inhibits HCV fusion with and entry into a target cell. The invention also provides an agent that inhibits HCV fusion with and entry into a target cell. The invention further provides methods for treating a subject afflicted with an HCV-associated disorder, for preventing an HCV infection in a subject, and for inhibiting in a subject the onset of an HCV-associated disorder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985205 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07361517 | Ahearn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Ahearn (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Susan M. Manzi (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the diagnosis and/or monitoring of patients with inflammatory diseases or conditions, including systemic lupus erythematosus, particularly for diagnosis of the acute stage of the disease, including methods and kits for carrying out this activity. This disclosure presents the surprising discovery that levels of complement pathway components on reticulocytes can be used to diagnose, monitor, or predict the occurrence of acute episodes of chronic inflammatory diseases or conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101898 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/811 |
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| US 07361640 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leaf Huang (Durham, North Carolina); Xiang Gao (Nashville, Tennessee); Frank L. Sorgi (Sonoma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel stable, concentrated, biologically active and ready-to-use lipid-comprising drug delivery complexes and methods for their production are described. The biological activity of the complexes produced are comparable to the formulations prepared according to the prior art admixture method and upon purification, the complexes produced by the method of this invention are 50 to 500 fold more concentrated than the complexes formed by admixture. The method described herein provides for the large scale production of lipid-comprising drug delivery systems useful for gene therapy and other applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426220 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele Pamela Calos (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of site-specifically integrating a polynucleotide sequence of interest in a genome of a eucaryotic cell, as well as, enzymes, polypeptides, and a variety of vector constructs useful therefore. In the method, a targeting construct comprises, for example, (i) a first recombination site and a polynucleotide sequence of interest, and (ii) a site-specific recombinase, which are introduced into the cell. The genome of the cell comprises a second recombination site. Recombination between the first and second recombination sites is facilitated by the site-specific recombinase. The invention describes compositions, vectors, and methods of use thereof, for the generation of transgenic cells, tissues, plants, and animals. The compositions, vectors, and methods of the present invention are also useful in gene therapy techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/636290 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julianna Barsony (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of formula: wherein X is a C2-10 spacer, and R is a substituted or unsubstituted C6-30 aryl, a substituted or unsubstituted C5-30 heteroaryl, or Where R′ and R″ are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, wherein said compound is a vitamin D receptor (VDR) antagonist, a compound comprising same, and a method of treating a patient for a disease that can be treated prophylactically or therapeutically by administration of a VDR antagonist, which method comprises administering an effective amount of aforementioned compound or composition, whereupon the patient is treated prophylactically or therapeutically for the disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/481052 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/267 |
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| US 07361680 | Carson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Carson (La Jolla, California); Howard B. Cottam (Escondido, California); Lorenzo M. Leoni (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel indole derivatives useful to inhibit cancer or sensitize cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents, radiation or other anti-cancer treatments. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/467472 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361684 | Krieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monty Krieger (Needham, Massachusetts); Anne Braun (Strasbourg, France); Helena E. Miettinen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic animals that do not express functional SR-BI and ApoE develop severe atherosclerosis, by age four weeks in transgenic mice. Moreover, these animals exhibit progressive heart dysfunction by as early as age four weeks, and die by age nine weeks. This animal model has now been demonstrated to be useful as a screen for compounds which alleviate the symptoms of atherosclerosis and heart disease. Animals (Apo E−/− SR-BI+/−) were fed PROBUCOL beginning at the time of mating. Offspring are weaned at three weeks and fed PROBUCOL. In contrast to animals (Apo E−/− SR-BI−/−) not fed PROBUCOL, 50% of whom are dead at six weeks, all animals (Apo E−/− SR-BI−/−) on PROBUCOL have a normal phenotype (MRI of heart function, ECG, echocardiogram, histology) at six weeks. At seven to eight months, there is evidence of atherosclerosis and some myocardial infarction. This demonstrates that the compound has a preventative action. Animals who are taken off of the PROBUCOL all die within ten to twelve weeks. In another study, the majority of animals whose parents were not fed PROBUCOL, but who received the PROBUCOL beginning at about five weeks of age, survived for a few months, demonstrating that the compound also has a therapeutic benefit. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147651 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361724 | Guire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SurModics, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick E. Guire (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Kristin S. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface coating composition for providing a self-assembling monolayer, in stable form, on a material surface or at a suitable interface, as well as a method of preparing such a composition and a method of using such a composition to coat a surface, such as the surface of an implantable medical device, in order to provide the surface with desirable properties. The method provides the covalent attachment of a SAM to a surface in a manner that substantially retains or improves the characteristics and/or performance of both the SAM and the surface itself. Covalent attachment is accomplished by the use of one or more latent reactive groups, e.g., provided by either the surface and/or by the SAM-forming molecules themselves. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759853 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362500 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Yong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning microscope having a laser outputting an excitation laser beam and a fiber member having a first core and a second core. The second core is generally disposed within the first core and is operable to receive the excitation laser beam from the laser and transmit the excitation laser beam to a sample to be tested. A moveable stage supports an end of the fiber member and/or a sample to be tested and is operable to move the end of the fiber member and the sample to be tested relative to each other. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/556620 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362845 | Ning |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruola Ning (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Raw cone beam tomography projection image data are taken from an object and are denoised by a wavelet domain denoising technique and at least one other denoising technique such as a digital reconstruction filter. The denoised projection image data are then reconstructed into the final tomography image using a cone beam reconstruction algorithm, such as Feldkamp's algorithm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410288 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363169 | Dougherty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward R. Dougherty (College Station, Texas); Yoganand Balagurunathan (College Station, Texas); Yidong Chen (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Simulating a microarray includes defining a number of parameters. A microarray is generated according to the parameters using an imaging procedure. The microarray is compared to a known value, and the imaging procedure is evaluated in response to the comparison. A simulated microarray image can be generated based on parameters. The simulated microarray can be associated with known values. An imaging procedure is applied to the simulated microarray image to generate observed values. The known values (e.g., intensities) can be compared to the observed values to evaluate the imaging procedure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/501848 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07360310 | Bagepalli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli (Niskayuna, New York); Patrick Lee Jansen (Scotia, New York); Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind generator having removable change-out bearings includes a rotor and a stator, locking bolts configured to lock the rotor and stator, a removable bearing sub-assembly having at least one shrunk-on bearing installed, and removable mounting bolts configured to engage the bearing sub-assembly and to allow the removable bearing sub-assembly to be removed when the removable mounting bolts are removed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243531 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/898.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07360657 | Oder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exportech Company, Inc. (New Kensington, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin R. Oder (Export, Pennsylvania); Russell E. Jamison (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous magnetic separator and process for separating a slurry comprising magnetic particles into a clarified stream and a thickened stream. The separator has a container with a slurry inlet, an overflow outlet for the discharge of the clarified slurry stream, and an underflow outlet for the discharge of a thickened slurry stream. Magnetic particles in the slurry are attracted to, and slide down, magnetic rods within the container. The slurry is thus separated into magnetic concentrate and clarified slurry. Flow control means can be used to control the ratio of the rate of magnetic concentrate to the rate of clarified slurry. Feed control means can be used to control the rate of slurry feed to the slurry inlet. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/502861 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/223.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07360703 | McIntyre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy James McIntyre (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lonnie Curtis Maxey (Powell, Tennessee); Peter John Chiaro, Jr. (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser scanner is located in a fixed position to have line-of-sight access to key features of monitored objects. The scanner rapidly scans pre-programmed points corresponding to the positions of retroreflecting targets affixed to the key features of the objects. The scanner is capable of making highly detailed scans of any portion of the field of view, permitting the exact location and identity of targets to be confirmed. The security of an object is verified by determining that the cooperative target is still present and that its position has not changed. The retroreflecting targets also modulate the reflected light for purposes of returning additional information back to the location of the scanner. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947951 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361213 | Narula et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitanya K. Narula (Knoxville, Tennessee); J. Michael Simonson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Leon Maya (Knoxville, Tennessee); Robert T. Paine (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid hydrogen storage composition includes a first phase and a second phase adsorbed on the first phase, the first phase including BN for storing hydrogen by physisorption and the second phase including a borazane-borazine system for storing hydrogen in combined form as a hydride. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208816 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361327 | Tumas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Tumas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kevin C. Ott (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Matthew Z. Yates (Penfield, New York); Eva R. Birnbaum (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel zeolites are produced by combining a polar solute, a silicon or phosphorous source, and a structure directing agent. Surfactants and a hydrophobic solvent are added to the previously mixed three species and shaken to disperse the surfactants. The reverse microemulsion is stirred overnight, at about room temperature and then iced for five to ten minutes. A metal source is added vigorously shaken for about two minutes. The mixture is then aged for about two hours at about room temperature. A mineralizer is added and the resultant mixture aged for about two hours at about room temperature. The mixture is heated to about 180° C., for a suitable time period. The final novel product is then isolated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206330 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361377 | Wiesmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold Wiesmann (Stony Brook, New York); Vyacheslav Solovyov (Rocky Point, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of making a fluorinated precursor of a superconducting ceramic. The method comprises providing a solution comprising a rare earth salt, an alkaline earth metal salt and a copper salt; spraying the solution onto a substrate to provide a film-covered substrate; and heating the film-covered substrate in an atmosphere containing fluorinated gas to provide the fluorinated precursor. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/622843 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361406 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Qi Wang (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qi Wang (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination of a thin-film μc-Si and a-Si:H containing diode structure characterized by an ultra-high current density that exceeds 1000 A/cm2, comprising: a substrate; a bottom metal layer disposed on the substrate; an n-layer of μc-Si deposited the bottom metal layer; an i-layer of μc-Si deposited on the n-layer; a buffer layer of a-Si:H deposited on the i-layer, a p-layer of μc-Si deposited on the buffer layer; and a top metal layer deposited on the p-layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/488902 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361424 | Jankowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan F. Jankowski (Livermore, California); Jeffrey D. Morse (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) based thin-film fuel cells for electrical power applications. The MEMS-based fuel cell may be of a solid oxide type (SOFC), a solid polymer type (SPFC), or a proton exchange membrane type (PEMFC), and each fuel cell basically consists of an anode and a cathode separated by an electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer can consist of either a solid oxide or solid polymer material, or proton exchange membrane electrolyte materials may be used. Additionally catalyst layers can also separate the electrodes (cathode and anode) from the electrolyte. Gas manifolds are utilized to transport the fuel and oxidant to each cell and provide a path for exhaust gases. The electrical current generated from each cell is drawn away with an interconnect and support structure integrated with the gas manifold. The fuel cells utilize integrated resistive heaters for efficient heating of the materials. By combining MEMS technology with thin-film deposition technology, thin-film fuel cells having microflow channels and full-integrated circuitry can be produced that will lower the operating temperature an will yield an order of magnitude greater power density than the currently known fuel cells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/637915 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361430 | Gennett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Gennett (Denver, Colorado); Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Michael J. Heben (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a carbon nanotube (SWNT)-polymer composite actuator and method to make such actuator. A series of uniform composites was prepared by dispersing purified single wall nanotubes with varying weight percents into a polymer matrix, followed by solution casting. The resulting nanotube-polymer composite was then successfully used to form a nanotube polymer actuator. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828534 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361466 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid, i.e. the activity of a nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme on the template nucleic acid molecule to be sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing complementary strand of the target nucleic acid by the catalytic activity of the nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme at each step in the sequence of base additions. A polymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex is provided in a position suitable to move along the target nucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primer at an active site. A plurality of labelled types of nucleotide analogs are provided proximate to the active site, with each distinguishable type of nucleotide analog being complementary to a different nucleotide in the target nucleic acid sequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotide analog being added is complementary to the nucleotide of the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The steps of providing labelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growing nucleic acid strand, and identifying the added nucleotide analog are repeated so that the nucleic acid strand is further extended and the sequence of the target nucleic acid is determined. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089871 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361495 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly Brown (Elk Grove, California); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Elizabeth Zaretsky (Reno, Nevada); Edward Re (Davis, California); Elena Vlasenko (Davis, California); Keith McFarland (Davis, California); Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046124 |
| 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 07361891 | Gard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Gard (San Francisco, California); Vincent Riot (Oakland, California); Keith Coffee (Diablo Grande, California); Bruce Woods (Livermore, California); Herbert Tobias (Kensington, California); Jim Birch (Albany, California); Todd Weisgraber (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure-flow reducer, and an aerosol focusing system incorporating such a pressure-flow reducer, for performing high-flow, atmosphere-pressure sampling while delivering a tightly focused particle beam in vacuum via an aerodynamic focusing lens stack. The pressure-flow reducer has an inlet nozzle for adjusting the sampling flow rate, a pressure-flow reduction region with a skimmer and pumping ports for reducing the pressure and flow to enable interfacing with low pressure, low flow aerosol focusing devices, and a relaxation chamber for slowing or stopping aerosol particles. In this manner, the pressure-flow reducer decouples pressure from flow, and enables aerosol sampling at atmospheric pressure and at rates greater than 1 liter per minute. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471093 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361893 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | An-Ping Li (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jianxing Ma (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jian Shen (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tip treatment device for use in an ultrahigh vacuum in situ scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The device provides spin polarization functionality to new or existing variable temperature STM systems. The tip treatment device readily converts a conventional STM to a spin-polarized tip, and thereby converts a standard STM system into a spin-polarized STM system. The tip treatment device also has functions of tip cleaning and tip flashing a STM tip to high temperature (>2000° C.) in an extremely localized fashion. Tip coating functions can also be carried out, providing the tip sharp end with monolayers of coating materials including magnetic films. The device is also fully compatible with ultrahigh vacuum sample transfer setups. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/240261 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362235 | Normann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandria Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy A. Normann (Edgewood, New Mexico); Arthur J. Mansure (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A downhole telemetry system that uses inductance or capacitance as a mode through which signal is communicated across joints between assembled lengths of pipe wherein efficiency of signal propagation through a drill string, for example, over multiple successive pipe segments is enhanced through matching impedances associated with the various telemetry system components. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438999 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362424 | van den Engh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerrit J. van den Engh (Seattle, Washington); Peter I. Nelson (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an apparatus and method for determining the position of a radiation beam. The apparatus includes (a) a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, the reflective surfaces being placed to form the reflective exterior of a wedge; (b) a first detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the first reflective surface, and (c) a second detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the second reflective surface. The method includes the steps of (a) directing a radiation beam to the reflective exterior of a wedge formed by a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface; (b) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the first reflective surface; (c) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the second reflective surface; and (d) determining the position of the radiation beam based on the difference in the amount of radiation detected from each surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/132659 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362842 | Leung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cylindrical neutron generator is formed with a coaxial RF-driven plasma ion source and target. A deuterium (or deuterium and tritium) plasma is produced by RF excitation in a cylindrical plasma ion generator using an RF antenna. A cylindrical neutron generating target is coaxial with the ion generator, separated by plasma and extraction electrodes which contain many slots. The plasma generator emanates ions radially over 360° and the cylindrical target is thus irradiated by ions over its entire circumference. The plasma generator and target may be as long as desired. The plasma generator may be in the center and the neutron target on the outside, or the plasma generator may be on the outside and the target on the inside. In a nested configuration, several concentric targets and plasma generating regions are nested to increase the neutron flux. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110310 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362859 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Alb, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Robertson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward L. Witzke (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing throughput of a pipelined encryption/decryption engine for an encryption/decryption process has a predetermined number of stages and provides feedback around the stages (and of such an encryption/decryption engine) by receiving a source datablock for a given stage and encryption/decryption context identifier; indexing according to the encryption/decryption context identifier into a bank of initial variables to retrieve an initial variable for the source datablock; and generating an output datablock from the source datablock and its corresponding initial variable. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/970912 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murti V. Salapaka (Ames, Iowa); Abu Sebastian (Adliswil, Switzerland); Deepak Ranjan Sahoo (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach to determine cantilever movement is presented. An observer based state estimation and statistical signal detection and estimation techniques are applied to Atomic Force Microscopes. A first mode approximation model of the cantilever is considered and an observer is designed to estimate the dynamic states. The cantilever-sample interaction is modeled as an impulsive force applied to the cantilever in order to detect the presence of sample. A generalized likelihood ratio test is performed to obtain the decision rule and the maximum likelihood estimation of the unknown arrival time of the sample profile and unknown magnitude of it. The use of the transient data results in sample detection at least ten times faster than using the steady state characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421352 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361261 | Switzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Switzer (Rolla, Missouri); Hiten M. Kothari (Rolla, Missouri); Shuji Nakanishi (Rolla, Missouri); Eric W. Bohannan (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid substrate comprising a surface comprising an achiral array of atoms having thereupon a chiral metal oxide surface. The chiral metal oxide surface is prepared by electrodeposition of a chiral metal oxide array from a solution of a chiral salt of the metal. In one embodiment, chiral CuO is grown on achiral Au(001) by epitaxial electrodeposition. The handedness of the film is determined by the specific enantiomer of tartrate ion in the deposition solution. (R,R)-tartrate produces an S—CuO(1 |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884868 |
| ART UNIT | 1753 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/206 |
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| US 07361310 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Evanston, Illinois); Linette Demers (Evanston, Illinois); David S. Ginger (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of direct-write nanolithography to generate anchored, nanoscale patterns of nucleic acid on different substrates is described, including electrically conductive and insulating substrates. Modification of nucleic acid, including oligonucleotides, with reactive groups such as thiol groups provides for patterning with use of appropriate scanning probe microscopic tips under appropriate conditions. The reactive groups provide for chemisorption or covalent bonding to the substrate surface. The resulting nucleic acid features, which exhibit good stability, can be hybridized with complementary nucleic acids and probed accordingly with use of, for example, nanoparticles functionalized with nucleic acids. Patterning can be controlled by selection of tip treatment, relative humidity, and nucleic acid structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307515 |
| 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 |
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| US 07361412 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiaping Wang (Vienna, Virginia); Etienne Besnoin (Baltimore, Maryland); Omar Knio (Timonium, Maryland); Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-propagating formation reactions in nanostructured multilayer foils provide rapid bursts of heat at room temperature and therefore can act as local heat sources to melt solder or braze layers and join materials. This reactive joining method provides very localized heating to the components and rapid cooling across the joint. The rapid cooling results in a very fine microstructure of the solder or braze material. The scale of the fine microstructure of the solder or braze material is dependant on cooling rate of the reactive joints which varies with geometries and properties of the foils and components. The microstructure of the solder or braze layer of the joints formed by melting solder in a furnace is much coarser due to the slow cooling rate. Reactive joints with finer solder or braze microstructure show higher shear strength compared with those made by conventional furnace joining with much coarser solder or braze microstructure. It is expected that the reactive joints may also have better fatigue properties compared with conventional furnace joints. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844816 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/686 |
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| US 07361466 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid, i.e. the activity of a nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme on the template nucleic acid molecule to be sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing complementary strand of the target nucleic acid by the catalytic activity of the nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme at each step in the sequence of base additions. A polymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex is provided in a position suitable to move along the target nucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primer at an active site. A plurality of labelled types of nucleotide analogs are provided proximate to the active site, with each distinguishable type of nucleotide analog being complementary to a different nucleotide in the target nucleic acid sequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotide analog being added is complementary to the nucleotide of the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The steps of providing labelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growing nucleic acid strand, and identifying the added nucleotide analog are repeated so that the nucleic acid strand is further extended and the sequence of the target nucleic acid is determined. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089871 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361724 | Guire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SurModics, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick E. Guire (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Kristin S. Taton (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface coating composition for providing a self-assembling monolayer, in stable form, on a material surface or at a suitable interface, as well as a method of preparing such a composition and a method of using such a composition to coat a surface, such as the surface of an implantable medical device, in order to provide the surface with desirable properties. The method provides the covalent attachment of a SAM to a surface in a manner that substantially retains or improves the characteristics and/or performance of both the SAM and the surface itself. Covalent attachment is accomplished by the use of one or more latent reactive groups, e.g., provided by either the surface and/or by the SAM-forming molecules themselves. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759853 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361728 | Elliott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Elliott (Superior, Colorado); William W. Ellis (Louisville, Colorado); Silvia D. Luebben (Golden, Colorado); Shawn A. Sapp (Westminster, Colorado); Chieh-Hui Chang (Golden, Colorado); Raechelle A. D'Sa (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a class of conducting oligomers and polymers and to a method for the preparation of the same. The conducting oligomers and polymers contain an end-capping group, which is non-electrically conductive and contains at least one branch point. The branched end-capping groups are made by a method that first substitutes the branched group on the heteroaromatic monomer, particularly at the “2” position on these monomers. In a second step, the end-capping intermediate is co-polymerized with one or more additional heteroaromatic monomers to form capped conducting oligomers and polymers. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957325 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361729 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. McGrath (Blacksburg, Virginia); Michael Hickner (Blacksburg, Virginia); Feng Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Yu-Seung Kim (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Sulfonated polymers are made by the direct polymerization of a sulfonated monomer to form the sulfonated polymers. The types of sulfonated polymers may include polysulfones or polyimides. The sulfonated polymers can be formed into membranes that may be used in proton exchange membrane fuel cells or as ion exchange membranes. The membranes formed from the sulfonated polymers exhibit improved properties over that of Nafion®. A heteropoly acid may be added to the sulfonated polymer to form a nanocomposite membrane in which the heteropoly acid is highly dispersed. The addition of a heteropoly acid to the sulfonated polymer increases the thermal stability of the membrane, enhances the conductivity above 100° C., and reduces the water uptake of the membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/956256 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/391 |
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| US 07361943 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Berger (Columbus, Ohio); Niu Jin (Champaign, Illinois); Phillip E. Thompson (Springfield, Virginia); Sung-Yong Chung (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A Si-based diode (10, 10′, 100) is formed by epitaxially depositing a Si-based diode structure on a silicon substrate. The Si-based diode structure includes a Si-based pn junction (16, 16′, 18, 18′, 30, 32, 160, 161) having a backward diode current-voltage characteristic in which the forward tunneling current is substantially smaller than the backward tunneling current at comparable voltage levels. In some embodiments, the Si-based pn junction includes at least one non-silicon or silicon alloy layer such as at least one SiGe layer (16, 16′, 160, 161). In some embodiments, at least one delta doping (30, 32) is disposed on the silicon substrate in or near the pn junction, that together with the Si-based pn junction define an electrical junction having the backward diode current-voltage characteristic. A large area detector array may include a plurality of such Si-based diodes (10, 10′, 100). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/407120 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/106 |
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| US 07362440 | Smolyaninov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Maryland (Riverdale, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Smolyaninov (Columbia, Maryland); Christopher C. Davis (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A far-field optical microscope capable of reaching nanometer-scale resolution using the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritons is presented. The microscope utilizes a microscopy technique based on the optical properties of a metal-dielectric interface that may, in principle, provide extremely large values of the effective refractive index neff up to 102-103 as seen by the surface plasmons. Thus, the theoretical diffraction limit on resolution becomes λ/2neff, and falls into the nanometer-scale range. The experimental realization of the microscope has demonstrated the optical resolution better than 50 nm for 502 nm illumination wavelength. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256853 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362442 | Smolyaninov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Maryland (Riverdale, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Smolyaninov (Columbia, Maryland); Christopher C. Davis (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A far-field optical microscope capable of reaching nanometer-scale resolution using the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritons is presented. The microscope utilizes a microscopy technique based on the optical properties of a metal-dielectric interface that may, in principle, provide extremely large values of the effective refractive index neff up to 102-103 as seen by the surface plasmons. Thus, the theoretical diffraction limit on resolution becomes λ/2neff, and falls into the nanometer-scale range. The experimental realization of the microscope has demonstrated the optical resolution better than 50 nm for 502 nm illumination wavelength. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/061837 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362444 | Izatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Izatt (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Andrew M. Rollins (Bedford, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An interferometer system includes an optical radiation source, an optical circulator connected between the optical radiation source and a sample location for transmitting optical radiation from the optical radiation source to the sample location, an output of the optical circulator connected to direct optical radiation to an optical detector. Various embodiments of such a system are possible. A method of performing OCDR or OCT imaging of a sample which involves the steps of: (a) producing low coherence optical radiation; (b) directing at least some of the low coherence optical radiation through an optical circulator to the sample; (c) reflecting at least some of the low coherence optical radiation off of the sample; and (d) detecting at least some of the reflected low coherence optical radiation and producing an electrical signal corresponding thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/470079 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363299 | Dalvi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nilesh Dalvi (Seattle, Washington); Dan Suciu (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that supports arbitrarily complex SQL queries with “uncertain” predicates. The query semantics are based on a probabilistic model and the results are ranked, much like in Information Retrieval, based upon their probability. An optimization algorithm is employed that can efficiently compute most queries. The algorithm attempts to determine whether a proposed plan is a safe plan that can be used for correctly evaluating the query. Operators such as the project operator in the proposed plan are evaluated to determine if they are safe. If so, the proposed plan is safe and will produce correct answers in a result. Due to the data complexity of some queries, a safe plan may not exist for a query. For these queries, either a “least unsafe plan,” or a Monte-Carlo simulation algorithm can be employed to produce a result with answers that have an acceptable error. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/281983 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
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| US 07363346 | Groner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Appistry, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Groner (Chesterfield, Missouri); Roberto Raul Lozano (Creve Coeur, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are mechanisms for reliably storing information across multiple computers networked together, where each of these computers may or may not be a hive node of a hive. This information includes multiple information units. At least one protection unit is generated based on the information units such that the information can be recreated using less than all of these information units and at least one protection unit. A data unit is defined as one or more information units, one or more protection units, or a combination of information and protection units, with each information unit being included in at least one of the data units and each protection unit being included in at least one of the data units. A operation is initiated to store on each of the computers at least one data unit, such that each data unit is stored in at least one of the computers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241152 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363398 | Scott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil G. Scott (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for interfacing a user with an electronic device. An accessor device provides a user interface matched to the needs, abilities and intentions of the user and translates the user input commands and data into commands for the electronic device. An intelligent access port translates commands from the accessor into an input format required by the electronic device. A communication link connects the accessor device with the intelligent access port to send the translated user input commands and data from the accessor to the intelligent access port. The accessor device contains an intelligent access module and an interactive display. The intelligent access module contains a driver device for routing message packets, an interaction processor for processing incoming message packets and generating a message packet for the electronic device, and a communications channel. Communications between system components take place over a universal serial bus or over a wireless fidelity or ZigBee device. The interactive display can include a touch screen, browser, wireless transceiver and flash storage. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/642022 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07361477 | Cary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Cary (Lewes, Delaware); Alison R. Sipe McDonald (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Shipworms are important destroyers of wood in the marine environment. Wood users have long sought methods for preventing or limiting their attack. The invention is directed to compositions and methods for preventing or limiting cellulolytic degradation by inhibiting cellulolytic organisms, in particular symbiont organisms. The invention discloses methods and compositions to inhibit the growth of a shipworm symbiont responsible for wood degradation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474621 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| US 07361529 | Chabinyc et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Chabinyc (Burlingame, California); Ana C. Arias (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor is formed by applying modifier coatings to source and drain contacts and/or to the channel region between those contacts. The modifier coatings are selected to adjust the surface energy pattern in the source/drain/channel region such that semiconductor printing fluid is not drawn away from the channel region. For example, the modifier coatings for the contacts can be selected to have substantially the same surface energy as the modifier coating for the channel region. Semiconductor printing fluid deposited on the channel region therefore settles in place (due to the lack of a surface energy differential) and forms a relatively thick active semiconductor region between the contacts. Alternatively, the modifier coatings can be selected to have lower surface energies than the modifier coating in the channel region, which actually causes semiconductor printing fluid to be drawn towards the channel region. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332577 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07361474 | Siegler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine Meyer Siegler (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for detecting, diagnosing or prognosticating prostate cancer by measuring the levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in the serum of an individual. The assay for MIF can be an immunoassay, such as ELISA, or a nucleic assay, such as Nouthern blot. Genetic changes within MIF gene can predict patients that express high levels of MIF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644797 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361493 | Hammond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy G. Hammond (New Orleans, Louisiana); Patricia L. Allen (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a method for the production of human urokinase are disclosed. Also disclosed are embodiments of a cell culture well-suited for use with the disclosed method. The method involves culturing urokinase-producing cells, such as immortalized human renal cells, in a cell culture. The cell culture comprises microcarrier structures and a tissue culture medium. The urokinase production is allowed to occur while the cell culture remains relatively static, i.e., the cell culture is not substantially mixed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139102 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07362273 | Sarehraz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Sarehraz (Tampa, Florida); Kenneth A. Buckle (Tampa, Florida); Elias Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida); Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); D. Yogi Goswami (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna apparatus and method for the interception of randomly polarized electromagnetic waves utilizing a dual polarized antenna which is excited through a cross-slot aperture using two well-isolated orthogonal feeds. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534781 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362889 | Dubowsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Dubowsky (Boston, Massachusetts); Moustapha Hafez (Paris, France); Ferenc A. Jolesz (Brookline, Massachusetts); Daniel F. Kacher (Allston, Massachusetts); Matthew Lichter (Somerville, Massachusetts); Peter Weiss (Eichenau, Germany); Andreas Wingert (Baindt, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to devices and systems used in magnetic imaging environments that include an actuator device having an elastomeric dielectric film with at least two electrodes, and a frame attached to the actuator device. The frame can have a plurality of configurations including, such as, for example, at least two members that can be, but not limited to, curved beams, rods, plates, or parallel beams. These rigid members can be coupled to flexible members such as, for example, links wherein the frame provides an elastic restoring force. The frame preferably provides a linear actuation force characteristic over a displacement range. The linear actuation force characteristic is defined as ±20% and preferably 10% over a displacement range. The actuator further includes a passive element disposed between the flexible members to tune a stiffness characteristic of the actuator. The passive element can be a bi-stable element. The preferred embodiment actuator includes one or more layers of the elastomeric film integrated into the frame. The elastomeric film can be made of many elastomeric materials such as, for example, but not limited to, acrylic, silicone and latex. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/291866 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07361351 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Wang (Hyattsville, Maryland); Dante S. Zarlenga (Ellicott City, Maryland); Max J. Paape (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Studies in mice and humans indicate that membrane CD14 (mCD14) on the cell surface of monocytes, macrophages, and PMN mediates the activation of these cells by LPS. The soluble CD14 (sCD14) present in the circulation also binds to LPS and blocks LPS binding to mCD14. To determine the role of a recombinant bovine soluble CD14 polypeptide in cellular activation by LPS, a recombinant bovine soluble CD14 polypeptide, rbosCD14, was cloned and expressed in a baculovirus expression system. Results indicated that rbosCD14 inhibited the LPS-induced increase in CD18 expression and TNFα mRNA in vitro and reduced mortality in mice injected with LPS. Further, rbosCD14 sensitized mammary epithelial cells to low concentrations of LPS resulting in recruitment of white blood cells and prevention of LPS-induced infection. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144744 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07363018 | Tyrrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Tyrrell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Robert Reich (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are a method and a device for high speed transmission of a data signal across an electrical interconnect in an integrated circuit. An optical carrier is modulated with a local oscillator signal at a modulation frequency substantially greater than the data signal to generate an optical local oscillator signal. Phototransducers at the ends of the interconnect illuminated by the optical local oscillator signal generate electrical local oscillator signals. At the transmit end of the interconnect, the data signal is mixed with an electrical local oscillator signal to generate an upconverted data signal. After transmission across the interconnect to the receive end, the upconverted data signal is mixed with the electrical local oscillator signal to retrieve the original data signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037287 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07362420 | Zaugg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Zaugg (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a distance to an object is presented. A first photon and a second photon are simultaneously generated. The first photon is reflected off an object. The second photon is directed to an optical cavity. An arrival of the first photon is correlated with an arrival of the second photon, and the distance to the object is at least partially determined using the correlation. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088205 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07362653 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Benthos, Inc. (North Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurice D. Green (North Falmouth, Massachusetts); Kenneth F. Scussel (East Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for determining the geophysical position of an autonomous underwater system utilizing underwater acoustic modems that exchange broadband underwater acoustic signals. The method of the invention includes the steps of initiating an exchange of broadband acoustic signals between the autonomous system of unknown geophysical position and a base system of known geophysical position wherein the depths of both systems is known. A bearing calculation is made on one of the signals transmitted between the systems, preferably through the use of an array of hydrophones placed closely together at predetermined locations on either the autonomous or base system. Also, the range between the two systems is determined by measuring the time of travel of at least one signal. By the acoustic transmission and sharing of information, as needed, about the known depths of the systems, the known geophysical position of the base system, and the range between the systems, sufficient data is gathered at one or both systems and used to determine the geophysical position of the autonomous system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400709 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07361279 | Hernandez et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Hernandez (Boulder, Colorado); Muna Ahmed Abu-Dalo (Potsdam, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Removing metals from metal containing acidic solutions, such as contaminated waters and industrial wastewaters, is described. An amphipathic, heterocyclic, metal-coordinating compound (an extraordinaiy ligand) and a sorbent are added to a solution, such that the addition, at a specific acidic pH of the solution, causes at least some of the metal-coordinating compound to bind with some of the metal cations and at least some of the metal-coordinating compound sorbs to the sorbent, along with any metal cations bound therewith. The compound and the sorbent may be added to the solution, either together or independently, so that the compound may bind the metal. The metal binding compound may be a benzotriazole, a benzothiazole, or another compound to bind a metal. The sorbent is selected to interact with the metal-coordinating compound in sequestering the metal from solution as part of a complexation. Thereafter, the ligand-metal complex may be removed from the solution. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627947 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/668 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361499 | Abbas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculute (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamed K. Abbas (Greenville, Mississippi); Robert M. Zablotowicz (Cleveland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | The ability of two Aspergillus flavus Link isolates (CT3 and K49) to reduce aflatoxin contamination of corn was assessed in a four-year field study (2001 to 2004). Soil was treated with six wheat inoculant treatments: toxigenic isolate F3W4; the non-toxigenic isolate K49; the non-aflatoxigenic isolate CT3, two mixtures of CT3 or K49 with F3W4; and an autoclaved wheat control, applied at 20 kg/ha. In 2001, inoculation with the toxigenic isolate increased corn grain aflatoxin levels by 167% compared to the non-inoculated control, while CT3 and K49 inoculation reduced aflatoxin levels in corn grain by 86% & 60%, respectively. In 2002, inoculation of CT3 and K49 reduced aflatoxin levels by 61% and 76% compared to non-inoculated controls, respectively. In 2001 mixtures of toxigenic and non-toxigenic isolates had little effect on aflatoxin levels, but in 2002 inoculation with mixtures of K49 and CT3 reduced aflatoxin levels 68 and 37% compared to non-inoculated controls, respectively. In 2003 and 2004, a low level of natural aflatoxin contamination was observed (8 ng/g). However, inoculation with mixtures of K49+F3W4 and CT3+F3W4, reduced levels of aflatoxin 65 to 94% compared to the toxigenic strain alone. Compared to the non-sclerotia producing CT3, strain K49 produces large sclerotia, has more rapid in vitro radial growth, and a greater ability to colonize corn when artificially inoculated, perhaps indicating greater ecological competence. Results indicate that non-toxigenic, indigenous A. flavus isolates, such as strain K49, have potential use for biocontrol of aflatoxin contamination in southern U.S. corn. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/033352 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/256.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07361735 | Amar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salomon Amar (Brookline, Massachusetts); Xiaoren Tang (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides molecules containing nucleic acid sequences for fragments of LPS-induced TNF-α factor (LITAF) and vectors containing these sequences. Also provided are molecules that contain the peptide sequence SQTWREPGAAGSPFHL, or homologs thereof. Such molecules may be useful in the treatment of diseases that relate to the expression of TNF-α, where treatment involves the modulation of this expression. The invention also provides methods for identifying compounds that inhibit or enhance the transcription of TNF-α. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796947 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07362182 | Barabash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Security, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonid S. Barabash (Poway, California); Christopher W. Crowley (San Diego, California); Peter J. Turner (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency power amplifier including control electronics for providing control signals for timing of the power amplifier. A first group of the drivers are coupled to the control electronics and a second group of drivers are coupled to the control electronics. The first group of drivers operate in response to the control signals to generate first drive signals and the second group of drivers operate in response to the control signals to generate second drive signals with a phase difference of 180° relative to the first drive signals. A first group of switches energize a first group of primary windings in response to the first drive signals and a second group of switches energize a second group of primary windings in response to the second drive signals. An output summing transformer has a plurality of ferrite cores, the first group of primary windings and the second group of primary windings passing through the ferrite cores. A secondary output winding for connection with a load passes through the ferrite cores of the output summing transformer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216923 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07363157 | Hanna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Hanna (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Bing-Bing Chai (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Stephen Hsu (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for performing wide area terrain mapping. The system comprises a digital elevation map (DEM) and mosaic generation engine that processes images that are simultaneously captured by an electro-optical camera (RGB camera) and a LIDAR sensor. The image data collected by both the camera and the LIDAR sensor are processed to create a geometrically accurate three-dimensional view of objects viewed from an aerial platform. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/352434 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/5 |
| 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 22, 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?
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
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)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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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)
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