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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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| US 07367464 | Agostini 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) | Michael J. Agostini (Newton Center, Massachusetts); J. Dexter Bird, III (Hampton, Virginia); Jeffrey P. Green (Germantown, Maryland); Frank A. Leban (Columbia, Maryland); Gordon G. Parker (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive control system, as typically embodied, includes sensing mechanisms, a computational processing unit, and an algorithm for processing inputs and generating outputs to control a rotating pedestal crane equipped with a Rider Block Tagline System (RBTS). Typical inventive embodiments uniquely feature a processing algorithm that distributes various control modes that operate not only through the crane's hoisting, luffing, and slewing mechanisms but also through the crane's RBTS; the inventive algorithm thereby effectuates motion compensation and pendulation damping with respect to the crane. This algorithmic allocation of control represents a more efficient crane anti-pendulation methodology than conventional methodologies; in particular, the inventive methodology exerts significantly greater control of the payload while exacting significantly less burden upon the hoisting, luffing, and slewing mechanisms of the crane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700973 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Traversing hoists 212/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367567 | Farah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge Farah (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Laura Newell (Newington, Connecticut); Debora Kehret (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal for an exhaust duct includes a metal mesh member sandwiched between an outer plate and an inner plate. The seal includes a plurality of flexible members defined by a plurality of slots in both the inner and outer plates. The flexible members provide for expansion and contraction along with creating flexibility in the region of contact between the seal land and the seal. The metal mesh member substantially eliminates gaps and leak paths created through the slots. The metal mesh member is composed of a plurality of interwoven wire strands impregnated with a high temperature elastomeric sealant. The impregnation of high temperature elastomeric sealant over the metal mesh member improves sealing while maintaining the desired flexibility of the seal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070453 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367898 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary F. Hawkins (Torrance, California); Ching-Yao Tang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Force diversion apparatus, methods and devices including the same result in rotational motion being imparted to an impacting object. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066114 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Games using tangible projectile 473/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368022 | Yim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haein Choi Yim (Arcadia, California); Donghua Xu (Berkeley, California); William L. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk amorphous alloys based on a ternary Ni—Nb—Sn alloy system, and the extension of this ternary system to higher order alloys by the addition of one or more alloying elements, methods of casting such alloys and articles made of such alloys are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/520320 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368023 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconisn Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Y. Austin Chang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Hongbo Cao (Madison, Wisconsin); Dong Ma (Madison, Wisconsin); Ling Ding (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ker-chang Hsieh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Zirconium-rich bulk metallic glass alloys include quinary alloys containing zirconium, aluminum, titanium, copper and nickel. The bulk metallic glass alloys may be provided as completely amorphous pieces having cross-sectional diameters of at least about 5 mm or even greater. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963413 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368086 | Naasani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Imad Naasani (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions and methods for making and using these compositions are disclosed. The compositions are fluorescent nanocrystals coated with at least one material. The coating material has chemical compounds or ligands with functional groups or moieties with conjugated electrons and moieties for imparting solubility to coated fluorescent nanocrystals in aqueous solutions. The coating material provides for functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions which are water soluble, chemically stable, and emit light with a high quantum yield and/or luminescence efficiency when excited with light. The coating material may also have chemical compounds or ligands with moieties for bonding to target molecules and cells as well as moieties for cross-linking the coating. In the presence of reagents suitable for reacting to form capping layers, the compounds in the coating may form a capping layer on the fluorescent nanocrystal with the coating compounds operably bonded to the capping layer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/261861 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368113 | Chodosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lewis A. Chodosh (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Heather Gardner (Seaside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a novel serine/threonine protein kinase, specifically to hormonally up-regulated, neu-tumor-associated kinase (HUNK); and to the nucleotide sequence encoding it. The kinase is temporally expressed during postnatal mammary development in a spatially heterogeneous manner in certain subsets of cells, and overexpressed in a subset of primary breast cancers. The invention further relates to an analysis of a correlation between carcinogenesis and postnatal development, particularly mammary development, especially associated with parity; to methods of using the kinase, or gene encoding it, as markers, prognostic tools, screening tools and therapies, in vitro and in vivo, that are based upon that correlation; and to the regulation of pregnancy-induced changes in the mammary tissue that occur in response to estrogen and progesterone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121419 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368190 | Heller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Heller (Austin, Texas); Nicholas Mano (Austin, Texas); Hyug-Han Kim (Chungnam, South Korea); Yongchao Zhang (Austin, Texas); Fei Mao (Fremont, California); Ting Chen (Austin, Texas); Scott Calabrese Barton (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell is provided with an anode and a cathode. The anode is in electrical communication with an anode enzyme and the cathode is in electrical communication with a cathode enzyme. The anode enzyme is preferably an oxidase or a dehydrogenase. The cathode enzyme is a copper-containing enzyme, such as a laccase, an ascorbate oxidase, a ceruloplasmine, or a bilirubin oxidase. Preferably, the cathode enzyme is operable under physiological conditions. Redox polymers serve to wire the anode enzyme to the anode and the cathode enzyme to the cathode. The fuel cell can be very small in size because it does not require a membrane, seal, or case. The fuel cell can be used in connection with a biological system, such as a human, as it may operate at physiological conditions. By virtue of its size and operability at physiological conditions, the fuel cell is of particular interest for applications calling for a power source implanted in a human body, such as a variety of medical applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427113 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
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| US 07368191 | Andelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biosource, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc D. Andelman (Worcester, Massachusetts); Jon Zulkiewicz (Palmer, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features an electrode array (7) in which pairs of electrodes (1) are geometrically arranged so that the broadest faces of the exposed electrodes are not directly opposing to each other. Rather, the broadest facing surfaces of the electrodes in the array are parallel, adjacent, or offset at an angle. The electrode geometry of an electrode array of the invention permits electrodes to be in close proximity, thereby lowering series resistance, while minimizing the possibility for short circuits that can cause electrical leakage. An electrode array of the invention can be used in an electrochemical cell, such as a battery, e.g., a lithium battery, a capacitor, a flow-through capacitor, or a fuel cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/484981 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/12 |
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| US 07368237 | Parrish et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Parrish (San Francisco, California); Ding Xue (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay uses apoptotic nucleases to screen for apoptosis modulators, in a method of modulating apoptosis, and in a method of aiding in a diagnosis of a disease, among other methods. materials for use in the assay include isolated or recombinant polypeptides and polynucleotides, compositions comprising those isolated or recombinant polypeptides and polynucleotides, vectors, transgenic organisms, and integrated systems among other aspects. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830828 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07368258 | Bieberich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Bieberich (Brookville, Maryland); Xiang Li (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for separating and detecting enzyme substrates using separation gels. For example, the apparatus and methods can be used to separate and detect kinase substrates for further analysis. The apparatus and methods can also be used to detect enzyme inhibitors, such as kinase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447089 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/17 |
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| US 07368275 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Steven William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254161 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 07368292 | Hummel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rolf E. Hummel (Gainesville, Florida); Ann Marie Fuller (Gainesville, Florida); Claus Schollhorn (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for identifying explosive or other target materials includes the steps of irradiating a first location and a second location spaced apart from the first location from a sample suspected of including explosives with ultraviolet, visible or infrared light, measuring reflected light emanated from the first sample location (R1) and reflected light emanated from the second sample location (R2), and calculating a normalized difference in reflectivity (ΔR/ |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401791 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368299 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany); International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gill Yong Lee (Boissise-le-Roi, France); Eugene O'Sullivan (Nyack, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of patterning magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ's) of magnetic memory devices, wherein the second magnetic layer or free layer of a magnetic stack may be patterned using a wet etch technique. A cap layer is formed over the free layer after the free layer is patterned. The cap layer is formed using lift-off techniques. To form the cap layer, resist layers are deposited and patterned, and material layers are deposited over the resist layers. Portions of the material layers are removed when the resist is stripped. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890767 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368305 | van der Weide et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. van der Weide (Madison, Wisconsin); Yaqiang Wang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating high aspect ratio micromechanical tips is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, forming an etchant protective island on a surface of a silicon substrate with the silicon substrate exposed around the island; isotropically etching the silicon substrate by reactive ion etching around the protective island to partially undercut the silicon substrate beneath the protective island; anisotropically etching, by deep reactive ion etching, the silicon surrounding the island to a desired depth to define a tip shaft of the desired height supported at a base by the substrate; removing the protective island from the tip; and sharpening the top of the tip shaft to an apex. Using the method, micromechanical tips having heights greater than at least 30 μm have been obtained while maintaining the vertical sidewall necessary for both AFM and scanning near-field microwave microscopy (SNMM) profiling applications. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150856 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368312 | Kranz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morgan Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Kranz (Madison, Alabama); Robert Faye Elliott (Madison, Alabama); Michael Ray Whitley (Madison, Alabama); Marty Ray Williams (Huntsville, Alabama); Philip John Reiner (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The MEMS Sensor Suite on a Chip provides the capability, monolithically integrated onto one MEMS chip, to sense temperature, humidity, and two axes of acceleration. The device incorporates a MEMS accelerometer, a MEMS humidity sensor, and a MEMS temperature sensor on one chip. These individual devices incorporate proof masses, suspensions, humidity sensitive capacitors, and temperature sensitive resistors (thermistors) all fabricated in a common fabrication process that allows them to be integrated onto one micromachined chip. The device can be fabricated in a simple micromachining process that allows its size to be miniaturized for embedded and portable applications. During operation, the sensor suite chip monitors temperature levels, humidity levels, and acceleration levels in two axes. External circuitry allows sensor readout, range selection, and signal processing. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251740 |
| ART UNIT | 4176 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368370 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of self-assembling nanoparticles on specific sites of a substrate. The method generally includes introducing a p-type dopant species to at least a portion of an n-type substrate or introducing an n-type dopant species to at least a portion of a p-type substrate, wherein the dopant species creates a surface charge opposite in polarity to that of the substrate surface prior to the introducing; contacting the nanoparticles with the surface of the substrate; and self-assembling a layer of the nanoparticles on p-type regions of the substrate. The methods described herein may be used in the formation of sub-22 nanometer channels, which find use in field-effect transistors, electronic chips, nanoscale biosensors, photonic band gap devices, lasers in optoelectronics and photonics chips, as well as nano-electro-mechanical devices (NEMS). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454963 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/514 |
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| US 07368430 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat B. Aggarwal (Houston, Texas); Sujay Singh (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cell permeable NF-κB inhibitors consist of a polypeptide derived from the p65 subunit of NF-κB and a protein transduction domain derived from antennapedia third helix sequence. The inhibitor suppressed NF-κB activation induced by TNF, LPS, IL-1, okadaic acid, PMA, H2O2 and cigarette smoke condensate. NF-κB-regulated reporter gene expression induced by TNF, TNFR1, TRADD, TRAF2, NIK, IKK and p65 was suppressed by the inhibitor. The inhibitor enhanced TNF- and chemotherapeutic agent-induced apoptosis. Overall these results demonstrate a NF-κB inhibitor that can selectively inhibit NF-κB activation induced by various inflammatory stimuli, downregulate NF-κB mediated gene expression and upregulate apoptosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/981082 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
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| US 07368505 | Mayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne M. Mayes (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jane Y. Park (Redwood City, California); Metin H. Acar (Istanbul, Turkey); Ariya Akthakul (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods of making graft copolymers, and articles having such graft copolymers. The methods may provide better control than in radicalization or photoinitiated polymerization techniques. For example, a graft copolymer can be prepared by reacting an alkoxide ion with a polymer. The alkoxide, in turn, can be provided by any suitable technique, for example, by reacting an alcohol with a base. In some embodiments of the invention, the graft copolymers may be a normally hydrophobic polymer, such as a polysulfone, that has been made more hydrophilic due to the attachment of hydrophilic side groups such as polyethylene glycol or polypropylene glycol. The copolymers of the invention have many uses, for example, in films or porous membranes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030576 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/118 |
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| US 07368570 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Drew Murphy (San Diego, California); Matthias Selke (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of organometallic complexes and the singlet oxygen sensitization properties of these complexes are provided. Complexes with acetylacetonate ligands give singlet oxygen quantum yields near unity, whether exciting the ligand-based state or the lowest energy excited state (MLCT+3LC). The singlet oxygen quenching rates for these β-diketonate complexes are small, roughly three orders of magnitude slower than the corresponding phosphorescence quenching rate. Similar complexes were prepared with glycine or pyridine tethered to the Ir(III) center (i.e. (bsn)2Ir(gly) and (bt)2Ir(py)Cl, where gly=glycine, and py=pyridine). The glycine and pyridine derivatives give high singlet oxygen yields. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913931 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/2 |
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| US 07368719 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Homeland Protection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York); Steven Jude Duclos (Clifton Park, New York); Holly Ann Comanzo (Niskayuna, New York); Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro (Saratoga Springs, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are scintillating materials, methods for their manufacture, and method for their use. In one embodiment, a scintillator comprises the formula A2LnBX6, wherein A comprises thallium (Tl), a Group IA element, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing, Ln comprises cerium, B comprises a Group IA element, and X comprises iodine (I) or an iodine compound, wherein the iodine compound comprises iodine (I) and an element selected from the group consisting of fluoride (F), chloride (Cl), bromide (Br), and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing. Also disclosed are radiation detectors and methods for their use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427191 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
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| US 07368860 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University od California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Wood (Berkeley, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Cerrito, California); Jacoby L. Hickerson (Coulterville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high performance piezoelectric actuator. The actuator includes a piezoelectric material exhibiting a selectively tapered width sufficient to enhance actuator fracture load capabilities. A passive material is disposed on or integrated with the piezoelectric material. A drive system is connected to the piezoelectric material. The drive system is capable of selectively applying an electric field to the piezoelectric material. In specific embodiment, the piezoelectric material includes a curved piezoelectric layer exhibits a default state of compression along a surface of the piezoelectric layer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056974 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/367 |
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| US 07368862 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Boulder, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Pablo E. Garcia (Redwood City, California); Joseph Stephen Eckerle (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention also relates to devices including an electroactive polymer to convert between electrical and mechanical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that conform to the shape of a polymer included in a transducer. The present invention provides methods for fabricating electromechanical devices including one or more electroactive polymers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339078 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/800 |
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| US 07369204 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wing Kit Choi (Taipei, Taiwan); Shin-Tson Wu (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel nematic liquid crystal (LC) mode is based on the Fringing-Field-Switching of Vertically-Aligned liquid crystals. The VA-FFS mode is capable of generating very fast optical modulation without the use of very thin cell gap. IA major feature of this LC mode is that it has unusual fast relaxation time compared with the conventional nematic LC modes that require a thin cell gap. This fast relaxation occurs even at very low applied voltages and the operation is very stable. The fast-response mechanism of this LC mode involves the confinement of liquid crystal molecular switching within self-imposed thin LC layers. The present invention provides a novel approach to overcome the fundamental problem of the long relaxation time of the conventional nematic liquid crystal modes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490729 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/141 |
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| US 07369246 | Kaliszek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Bnternational Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew W. Kaliszek (Phoenix, Arizona); Matthew A. Olson (Glendale, Arizona); Clarence E. Laskoskie (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensing coil is provided for optically guiding counter-propagating light beams in a fiber optic gyroscope. The sensing coil comprises a plurality of layers of an optical fiber having a winding direction. The plurality of layers comprises inner layers, middle layers, and outer layers. The middle layers comprise first and second input ends configured to receive the counter-propagating light beams. At least one of the inner layers, middle layers, and outer layers is coupled with a different one of the inner layers, middle layers, and outer layers while maintaining the winding direction. A method is provided for winding an optical fiber, having first and second connecting ends, to form a sensing coil for a fiber optic gyroscope having a winding direction. The method comprises excluding first and second segments from a middle layer of the sensing coil to produce first and second inputs and third and fourth connecting ends respectively adjacent to the first and second inputs, and coupling each of the connecting ends with a different one of the connecting ends while maintaining the winding direction. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139818 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369512 | Shurbanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Alexandrov Shurbanov (Malden, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system provides packet flooding in a network (200) that includes multiple nodes (210). The system may receive a flood packet, select one or more of the nodes (210) as a like number of one or more relays (210), and attach a header to the flood packet. The header may instruct the one or more relays (210) to which of the nodes (210) to send the flood packet. The system may send the flood packet with the attached header to the one or more relays (210). The one or more relays (210) may retransmit the packet such that each of the nodes (210) in the network (200) receives a single copy of the flood packet. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/702308 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin H. Kwakernaak (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical amplifier including: a photonic gain clement; and, a transistor electromagnetically coupled to the gain element to inject current into the gain element responsively to the internal optical intensity of the gain element. The coupling of the transistor and the photonic gain element is such that as the optical intensity within the photonic gain element increases, the current injected by the transistor increases, thereby preventing filamentation in the photonic gain element. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/154354 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/29.11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369726 | Drost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Mountain View, California); William S. Coates (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that communicates between a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die through optical signaling. During operation, the system converts an electrical signal into an optical signal using an electrical-to-optical transducer located on a face of the first semiconductor die, wherein the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die are oriented face-to-face so that the optical signal generated on the first semiconductor die shines on the second semiconductor die. Upon receiving the optical signal on a face of the second semiconductor die, the system converts the optical signal into a corresponding electrical signal using an optical-to-electrical transducer located on the face of the second semiconductor die. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816762 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369766 | Bannister et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Bannister (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Joseph D. Touch (Manhattan Beach, California); Purushotham Kamath (San Jose, California); Aatash Patel (Iselin, New Jersey); John E. McGeehan (Washington, District of Columbia); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques to optically boost a router. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving an optical signal defining a packet of data, initiating electronic routing of the optical packet, and initiating optical routing of the optical packet. The optical routing involves determining forwarding information based on a routing field in the optical packet, and if optical forwarding is available, terminating the electronic routing of the packet before completion of the electronic routing, and forwarding the optical signal, which defines the packet, based on the determined forwarding information. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/298236 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369954 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Eliot Levine (Austin, Texas); Milena Milenkovic (Madison, Alabama); Robert J. Urquhart (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a trace event, a determination is made as to whether identifiers for the trace event match recorded identifiers for a record in a set of previously recorded trace events. Location information for the record is placed in the trace data if a match between identifiers for the trace event and recorded identifiers for the record in the set of previously recorded trace events. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/083228 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369961 | Castelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Michail Vlachos (Elmsford, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrangements and methods for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between different time series via employing the structural features is determined. The different time series may be partitioned into clusters based on the at least one distance, and/or the k closest matches to a given time series query based on the at least one distance may be returned. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096485 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369998 | Sarich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Voxtec International, Inc. (Annaplois, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ace J. Sarich (Annapolis, Maryland); John T. Hall (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes devices and methods for providing phrase-based translation. Devices of the invention have translation modules containing a set of phrases and their translations wherein the set of phrases is selected based on their suitability in the context in which the translation device is used. The methods of the invention determine the context in which a translation device is used and provide sets of phrases and their translations that are suitable in the context. The invention further includes devices containing software for executing the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/640572 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07370155 | Rajamony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Derek Edward Williams (Austin, Texas); Kenneth Lee Wright (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and data processing system for sequentially coupling successive, homogenous processor requests for a cache line in a chain before the data is received in the cache of a first processor within the chain. Chained intermediate coherency states are assigned to track the chain of processor requests and subsequent access permission provided, prior to receipt of the data at the first processor starting the chain. The chained intermediate coherency state assigned identifies the processor operation and a directional identifier identifies the processor to which the cache line is to be forwarded. When the data is received at the cache of the first processor within the chain, the first processor completes its operation on (or with) the data and then forwards the data to the next processor in the chain. The chain is immediately stopped when a non-homogenous operation is snooped by the last-in-chain processor. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245313 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07370184 | Sandbote |
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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) | Sam B. Sandbote (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for shifting data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a shifter, a register, and a shift post processor. The shifter shifts an operand according to an offset parameter, thereby generating a shifted operand. The register is coupled to the shift post processor to transfer a shift carry operand stored in the register to the shift post processor, and coupled to the shifter to store the shifted operand after any transfer of the shift carry operand. The shift post processor is coupled to the shifter and the register to process the shifted operand to generate an output based on at least a control signal and a mask field. The shift post processor comprises a decoder to decode the offset parameter into the mask field, the mask field having a plurality of mask bits, each of the mask bits corresponding to a bit position of the shifted operand. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/933786 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D568437 | McBurney 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) | Leonard G. McBurney (Pinckney, Michigan); James C. Douglas (Livonia, Michigan) |
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| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 29/286101 |
| ART UNIT | 2916 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Arms, pyrotechnics, hunting and fishing equipment D22/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzung K. Hsiai (Santa Monica, California); Gopkrishnani Soundararajan (Los Angeles, California); E. S. Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Hongyu Yu (Los Angeles, California); Mahsa Rouhanizadeh (Los Angeles, California); Tiantian Lin (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromachined sensor for measuring vascular parameters, such as fluid shear stress, includes a substrate having a front-side surface, and a backside surface opposite the front-side surface. The sensor includes a diaphragm overlying a cavity etched within the substrate, and a heat sensing element disposed on the front-side surface of the substrate and on top of the cavity and the diaphragm. The heat sensing element is electrically couplable to electrode leads formed on the backside surface of the substrate. The sensor includes an electronic system connected to the backside surface and configured to measure a change in heat convection from the sensing element to surrounding fluid when the sensing element is heated by applying an electric current thereto, and further configured to derive from the change in heat convection vascular parameters such as the shear stress of fluid flowing past the sensing element. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196849 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/841 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367948 | O'Donnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew O'Donnell (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jing Yong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan); James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lajos P. Balogh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Susanne M. Milas (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stanislav Y. Emelianov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyle W. Hollman (Fenton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic monitoring method and system in laser-induced optical breakdown (LIOB) provides information which characterize material which is broken down, microbubbles in the material, and/or the microenvironment of the microbubbles. In one embodiment of the invention, femtosecond laser pulses are focused just inside the surface of a volume of aqueous solution which may include dendrimer nanocomposite (DNC) particles. A tightly focused, high frequency, single-element ultrasonic transducer is positioned such that its focus coincides axially and laterally with this laser focus. When optical breakdown occurs, a microbubble forms and a shock or pressure wave is emitted (i.e., acoustic emission). In addition to this acoustic signal, the microbubble may be actively probed with pulse-echo measurements from the same transducer. After the microbubble forms, received pulse-echo signals have an extra pulse, describing the microbubble location and providing a measure of axial microbubble size. Wavefield plots of successive recordings illustrate the generation, growth, and collapse of microbubbles due to optical breakdown. These same plots can also be used to quantify LIOB thresholds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643659 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367955 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiezhi Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin); Harald Keller (Madison, Wisconsin); Bhudatt R. Paliwal (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved non-invasive respiration monitor combines signals from a spirometer and laser chest displacement sensor to reduce signal error. The improved respirations signal can be used for position correction in radiation therapy and imaging applications and can be displayed to a user in breath control techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/715986 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367974 | Haemmerich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dieter Haemmerich (Madison, Wisconsin); David M. Mahvi (Middleton, Wisconsin); John G. Webster (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Schutt (Marinette, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode array allows for rapid ablation of a strip of tissue in an organ providing a barrier to blood loss during resection operations. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945380 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368084 | Sklar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick W. Kuckuck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means for introducing a separation gas between each of the plurality of samples in the fluid flow stream; and means for selectively analyzing each of the plurality of samples for the particles. The present invention also provides a flow cytometry method employing such an apparatus. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066843 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368100 | Brechbiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin W. Brechbiel (Annadale, Virginia); Hyun-Soon Chong (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Backbone-substituted 1,4,7,10-tetraaza cyclododecane-N,N′,N″,N′″-tetraacetic acid compounds, metal complexes thereof, compositions thereof, conjugates thereof, and methods of use in diagnostic imaging and treatment of a cellular disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525673 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.363 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368106 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Murphy (Reno, Nevada); Robert Wiltrout (Woodsboro, Maryland); Bruce Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Susan Wilson (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating or preventing a pathologic state in a mammal. The method comprises administering to the mammal a promoter of T-cell expansion and an inducer of CD40 stimulation, wherein CD40 is stimulated on cells of the immune system. The promoter of T-cell expansion and inducer of CD40 stimulation are administered in synergistically effective amounts to treat or prevent the pathologic state in the mammal. The invention also provides a method of assessing the effectiveness of treatment of a pathologic state in a mammal, wherein the mammal has been administered a promoter of T-cell expansion and an inducer of CD40 stimulation, wherein CD40 is stimulated on cells of the immune system. The method comprises measuring the level of at least one antibody in a test sample obtained from the mammal, which at least one antibody is specific for an antigen that is known to be associated with the pathologic state, and wherein the level of the at least one antibody is indicative of the effectiveness of treatment of the pathologic state in the mammal. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/608873 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368110 | Pastan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Partha S. Chowdhury (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Mesothelin ins a differentiation antigen present on the surface of ovarian cancers, mesotheliomas and several other types of human cancers. Because among normal tissues, mesothelin is only present on mesothelial cells, it represents a good target for antibody mediated delivery of cytotoxic agents. The present invention is directed to anti-mesothelin antibodies, including Fv molecules with particularly high affinity for mesothelin, and immunoconjugates employing them. Also described are diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the antibodies. The anti-mesothelin antibodies are well-suited for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the ovary, stomach, squamous cells, mesotheliomas and other malignant cells expressing mesothelin. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/973718 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
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| US 07368113 | Chodosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lewis A. Chodosh (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Heather Gardner (Seaside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a novel serine/threonine protein kinase, specifically to hormonally up-regulated, neu-tumor-associated kinase (HUNK); and to the nucleotide sequence encoding it. The kinase is temporally expressed during postnatal mammary development in a spatially heterogeneous manner in certain subsets of cells, and overexpressed in a subset of primary breast cancers. The invention further relates to an analysis of a correlation between carcinogenesis and postnatal development, particularly mammary development, especially associated with parity; to methods of using the kinase, or gene encoding it, as markers, prognostic tools, screening tools and therapies, in vitro and in vivo, that are based upon that correlation; and to the regulation of pregnancy-induced changes in the mammary tissue that occur in response to estrogen and progesterone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121419 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368114 | Arthos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Arthos (Rockville, Maryland); Claudia Cicala (Bethesda, Maryland); Anthony S. Fauci (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel recombinant polypeptides are disclosed herein that include a CD4 polypeptide ligated at its C-terminus with a portion of an immunoglobulin comprising a hinge region and a constant domain of a mammalian immunoglobulin heavy chain. The portion or the IgG is fused at its C-terminus with a polypeptide comprising a tailpiece from the C-terminus of the heavy chain of an IgA antibody ara tailpiece from a C-terminus of the heavy chain of an IgM antibody. Also disclosed herein are methods for using these CD4 fusion proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/493676 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368116 | Schlom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Judith Kantor (Rockville, Maryland); James W. Hodge (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a composition of recombinant virus which has incorporated into its genome or portion thereof a gene encoding an antigen to a disease causing agent and a recombinant virus which has incorporated into its genome or portion thereof a gene encoding an immunostimulatory molecule(s) for the purpose of stimulating an immune response against the disease causing agent. Methods of treatment of diseases such as cancer and diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms is provide using the composition. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090686 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis V. Chisari (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides are used to define epitopes that stimulate HLA-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity against hepatitis B virus antigens. The peptides are derived from regions of HBV envelope, and are particularly useful in treating or preventing HBV infection, including methods for stimulating the immune response of chronically infected individuals to respond to HBV antigens. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068710 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/227.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368119 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Hamilton, Montana); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Austria); Martin A. Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540317 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368232 | Davey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Davey (Galveston, Texas); Andrey Kolokoltsov (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a rapid virus entry/binding detection assay. An enzyme such as luciferase was incorporated at the C-terminal end of viral envelope proteins of the HIV Nef protein that would specifically associate with cell membranes to deliver the enzyme into viral particles upon viral assembly. Virus entry/binding can then be assayed by determining the enzymatic activities in infected cells. The assay allows high-throughput non-radioactive detection of virus entry within 30 minutes after virus-cell contact. This assay provides high signal to noise ratio and is useful for screening compounds that affect virus-cell binding and entry. The design also permits packaging of potential therapeutic proteins into functional virus particles and delivering them to specific cellular targets. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/036568 |
| 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 07368237 | Parrish et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Parrish (San Francisco, California); Ding Xue (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay uses apoptotic nucleases to screen for apoptosis modulators, in a method of modulating apoptosis, and in a method of aiding in a diagnosis of a disease, among other methods. materials for use in the assay include isolated or recombinant polypeptides and polynucleotides, compositions comprising those isolated or recombinant polypeptides and polynucleotides, vectors, transgenic organisms, and integrated systems among other aspects. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830828 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368256 | Schmechel 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Detlef Schmechel (Morgantown, West Virginia); Daniel M. Lewis (Kingwood, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies to various fungal antigens are disclosed, including monoclonal antibody 9B4 that selectively binds an antigen of Stachybotrys chartarum spores not found in Stachybotrys chartarum mycelium. The antibodies may be used in a variety of methods, such as detecting the presence of fungal antigens in the environment or within a sample obtained from an animal or plant, or testing the effectiveness of an agent in binding an antigen. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/483921 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368275 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Steven William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254161 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368279 | Bitar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil N. Bitar (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Louise Hecker (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Keith Baar (Dundee, United Kingdom); Sita Somara (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a three dimensional bioengineered sphincter such as a bioengineered internal anal sphincter (IAS) and three-dimensional physiological models of smooth muscle cells. The invention also related to methods for generating a bioengineered sphincter and smooth muscle rings in culture. In addition, the invention provides for methods of using a bioengineered sphincter or bioengineered smooth muscle ring to identify agents that modify contractile force and relaxation in smooth muscle cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/286544 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/284.100 |
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| US 07368420 | Walsh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Walsh (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of apoptotic cell-death. In particular the invention relates to Akt molecules and their use in inhibiting apoptotic cell-death in cardiomyocytes, skeletal myocytes and/or vascular endothelial cells. In view of these discoveries, Akt molecules can be used to inhibit apoptotic cell-death of any of the foregoing cells, and in particular, to treat conditions (e.g., myocardial infarction) that result in increased apoptotic cell-death of cardiomyocytes, skeletal myocytes and/or vascular endothelial cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/408905 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368430 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat B. Aggarwal (Houston, Texas); Sujay Singh (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cell permeable NF-κB inhibitors consist of a polypeptide derived from the p65 subunit of NF-κB and a protein transduction domain derived from antennapedia third helix sequence. The inhibitor suppressed NF-κB activation induced by TNF, LPS, IL-1, okadaic acid, PMA, H2O2 and cigarette smoke condensate. NF-κB-regulated reporter gene expression induced by TNF, TNFR1, TRADD, TRAF2, NIK, IKK and p65 was suppressed by the inhibitor. The inhibitor enhanced TNF- and chemotherapeutic agent-induced apoptosis. Overall these results demonstrate a NF-κB inhibitor that can selectively inhibit NF-κB activation induced by various inflammatory stimuli, downregulate NF-κB mediated gene expression and upregulate apoptosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/981082 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368432 | McIntosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xenome, Ltd. (Queensland, Australia); Cognetix, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Lourdes J. Cruz (Sta. Mesa, Philippines); Gloria P. Corpuz (Miliani, Hawaii); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah); James E. Garrett (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short conotoxin peptides, about 10-20 residues in length as described herein, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. These conotoxin peptides have analgesic activity and are thus useful for treating or preventing pain. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/893300 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368433 | Haskell-Luevano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carrie Haskell-Luevano (Archer, Florida); Jerry Ryan Holder (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides novel peptides for use in treating mammals to control appetite and obesity. Disclosed is a peptide derivative having the formula: X1-Z-Q-arg-trp-NH2 wherein: X1 is an acyl group, Z is amino-2-naphthyl-carboxylic acid or histidine, Q is (D)phenylalanine or p-iodo-(D)phenylalanine, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt, complex or derivative thereof, the peptide derivative having melanocortin-4 receptor agonist activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268926 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368478 | Boger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California); David A. Cheresh (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Angiogenesis, tumor growth, and metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) interaction with integrin-αvβ3 are inhibited by an inhibitor compound of formula: wherein G1 and G2 are each independently —NH—C(O)—O—(CH2)v—(C6H4)—X3 ; Y1 and Y2 are each independently —OH or C1-C4 alkoxy; X1 and X2 are each independently halo or C1-C4 alkoxy; X3 is fluoro, nitro, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, or C1-C4 perfluoroalkyl; Z is —C≡C—, —C6H4—, cis-CH═CH—, trans-CH═CH—, cis-CH2—CH═CH—CH2—, trans-CH2—CH═CH—CH2—, 1,4-naphthyl, cis-1,3-cyclohexyl, trans-1,3-cyclohexyl, cis-1,4-cyclohexyl, or trans-1,4-cyclohexyl; A is H or a covalent bond; m and n are each 1; t is an integer having a value of 0 or 1; p and r are each 2, and v is 1; with the proviso that when A is H, t is 0, and when A is a covalent bond, t is 1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439918 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368533 | El Shami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Said El Shami (Camarillo, California); Surendra Nath Menon (Culver City, California); Cynthia K. French (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a polynucleotide encoding Repro-EN-1.0 and IB1, polypeptides associated with endometriosis. Auto-antibodies against Repro-EN-1.0 and IB1 have been found in subjects diagnosed with endometriosis. This invention also provides methods of using this polynucleotide and polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172573 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368570 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Drew Murphy (San Diego, California); Matthias Selke (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of organometallic complexes and the singlet oxygen sensitization properties of these complexes are provided. Complexes with acetylacetonate ligands give singlet oxygen quantum yields near unity, whether exciting the ligand-based state or the lowest energy excited state (MLCT+3LC). The singlet oxygen quenching rates for these β-diketonate complexes are small, roughly three orders of magnitude slower than the corresponding phosphorescence quenching rate. Similar complexes were prepared with glycine or pyridine tethered to the Ir(III) center (i.e. (bsn)2Ir(gly) and (bt)2Ir(py)Cl, where gly=glycine, and py=pyridine). The glycine and pyridine derivatives give high singlet oxygen yields. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913931 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07368585 — Synthetic techniques and intermediates for polyhydroxy dienyl lactones and mimics thereof
| US 07368585 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); Thomas J. Beauchamp (Fishers, Indiana); Matthew J. LaMarche (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic methods and intermediates useful in the preparation of lactone containing compounds such as discodermolide and compounds which mimic the chemical or biological activity of discodermolide are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486344 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368910 | Bammer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California); Michael Mosley (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Measurements of functional, hemographic, and blood flow parameters use a multiple echo or spin echo gradient pulse sequence whereby an early echo is acquired near the beginning of the pulse sequence which avoids saturation effects and a later echo near the end of the pulse sequence which can provide information with more sensitivity to a contrast agent for a susceptibility weighted image. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944084 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369888 | Alsop |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Alsop (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method for multi-slice CBF imaging using continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) with an amplitude modulated control which is both highly effective at controlling for off resonance effects, and efficient at doubly inverting inflow spins, thus retaining the signal advantages of CASL versus pulsed ASL techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198581 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reed L. Hoskinson (Rigby, Idaho); John M. Svoboda (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William F. Bauer (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Gracy Elias (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is provided for monitoring a flow path having plurality of different solid components flowing therethrough. For example, in the harvesting of a plant material, many factors surrounding the threshing, separating or cleaning of the plant material and may lead to the inadvertent inclusion of the component being selectively harvested with residual plant materials being discharged or otherwise processed. In accordance with the present invention the detection of the selectively harvested component within residual materials may include the monitoring of a flow path of such residual materials by, for example, directing an excitation signal toward of flow path of material and then detecting a signal initiated by the presence of the selectively harvested component responsive to the excitation signal. The detected signal may be used to determine the presence or absence of a selected plant component within the flow path of residual materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888815 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Crop threshing or separating 460/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367948 | O'Donnell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew O'Donnell (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jing Yong Ye (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore B. Norris (Dexter, Michigan); James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lajos P. Balogh (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Susanne M. Milas (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stanislav Y. Emelianov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyle W. Hollman (Fenton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic monitoring method and system in laser-induced optical breakdown (LIOB) provides information which characterize material which is broken down, microbubbles in the material, and/or the microenvironment of the microbubbles. In one embodiment of the invention, femtosecond laser pulses are focused just inside the surface of a volume of aqueous solution which may include dendrimer nanocomposite (DNC) particles. A tightly focused, high frequency, single-element ultrasonic transducer is positioned such that its focus coincides axially and laterally with this laser focus. When optical breakdown occurs, a microbubble forms and a shock or pressure wave is emitted (i.e., acoustic emission). In addition to this acoustic signal, the microbubble may be actively probed with pulse-echo measurements from the same transducer. After the microbubble forms, received pulse-echo signals have an extra pulse, describing the microbubble location and providing a measure of axial microbubble size. Wavefield plots of successive recordings illustrate the generation, growth, and collapse of microbubbles due to optical breakdown. These same plots can also be used to quantify LIOB thresholds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643659 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368275 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Steven William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254161 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368288 | Morozov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Morozov (Manassas, Virginia); Charles L. Bailey (Cross Junction, Virginia); Nikolai N. Vsevolodov (Kensington, Maryland); Adam Elliott (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention contemplates a method for recognition of proteins and other biological molecules by imaging morphology, size and distribution of crystalline and amorphous dry residues in droplets (further referred to as “crystallization pattern”) containing predetermined amount of certain crystal-forming organic compounds (reporters) to which protein to be analyzed is added. It has been shown that changes in the crystallization patterns of a number of amino-acids can be used as a “signature” of a protein added. It was also found that both the character of changer in the crystallization patter and the fact of such changes can be used as recognition elements in analysis of protein molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397908 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368290 | Kruppa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Kruppa (San Francisco, California); Joseph S. Schoeniger (Oakland, California); Malin M. Young (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel methods of determining the sequence and structure of proteins. Specifically, the present invention allows for the analysis of intact proteins within a mass spectrometer. Therefore, preparatory separations need not be performed prior to introducing a protein sample into the mass spectrometer. Also disclosed herein are new instrumental developments for enhancing the signal from the desired modified proteins, methods for producing controlled protein fragments in the mass spectrometer, eliminating complex microseparations, and protein preparatory chemical steps necessary for cross-linking based protein structure determination. Additionally, the preferred method of the present invention involves the determination of protein structures utilizing a top-down analysis of protein structures to search for covalent modifications. In the preferred method, intact proteins are ionized and fragmented within the mass spectrometer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437268 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07368412 | Tranter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy J. Tranter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); R. Scott Herbst (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Nicholas R. Mann (Blackfoot, Idaho); Terry A. Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an adsorption medium to remove at least one constituent from a feed stream. The method comprises dissolving at least one metal compound in a solvent to form a metal solution, dissolving polyacrylonitrile into the metal solution to form a PAN-metal solution, and depositing the PAN-metal solution into a quenching bath to produce the adsorption medium. The at least one constituent, such as arsenic, selenium, or antimony, is removed from the feed stream by passing the feed stream through the adsorption medium. An adsorption medium having an increased metal loading and increased capacity for arresting the at least one constituent to be removed is also disclosed. The adsorption medium includes a polyacrylonitrile matrix and at least one metal hydroxide incorporated into the polyacrylonitrile matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656028 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/406 |
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| US 07368658 | Gruen |
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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) | Dieter M. Gruen (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device and method of making same. A layer of p-doped microcrystalline diamond is deposited on a layer of n-doped ultrananocrystalline diamond such as by providing a substrate in a chamber, providing a first atmosphere containing about 1% by volume CH4 and about 99% by volume H2 with dopant quantities of a boron compound, subjecting the atmosphere to microwave energy to deposit a p-doped microcrystalline diamond layer on the substrate, providing a second atmosphere of about 1% by volume CH4 and about 89% by volume Ar and about 10% by volume N2, subjecting the second atmosphere to microwave energy to deposit a n-doped ultrananocrystalline diamond layer on the p-doped microcrystalline diamond layer. Electrodes and leads are added to conduct electrical energy when the layers are irradiated. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/697048 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/258 |
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| US 07368659 | Heller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Maria Anton Heller (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound electrode for organic electronic devices comprises a thin first layer of a first electrically conducting material and a second electrically conducting material disposed on the first layer. In one embodiment, the second electrically conducting material is formed into a plurality of elongated members. In another embodiment, the second material is formed into a second layer. The elongated members or the second layer has a thickness greater than that of the first layer. The second layer is separated from the first layer by a conducting material having conductivity less than at least the material of the first layer. The compound electrode is capable of mitigating adverse effects of defects, such as short circuits, in the construction of the organic electronic devices, and can be included in light-emitting or photovoltaic devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/065850 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07370023 | Forsythe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Chris Forsythe (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Ann E. Speed (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sabina E. Jordan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick G. Xavier (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for computer emulation of human decision making defines a plurality of concepts related to a domain and a plurality of situations related to the domain, where each situation is a combination of at least two of the concepts. Each concept and situation is represented in the computer as an oscillator output, and each situation and concept oscillator output is distinguishable from all other oscillator outputs. Information is input to the computer representative of detected concepts, and the computer compares the detected concepts with the stored situations to determine if a situation has occurred. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426105 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE40299 | Bruinsma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Bruinsma (San Diego, California); Suresh Baskaran (Kennewick, Washington); Jagannadha R. Bontha (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to surfactant-templated nanometer-scale porosity of a silica precursor solution and forming a mesoporous material by first forming the silica precursor solution into a preform having a high surface area to volume ratio, then rapid drying or evaporating a solvent from the silica precursor solution. The mesoporous material may be in any geometric form, but is preferably in the form of a film, fiber, powder or combinations thereof. The rapid drying or evaporation of solvent from the solution is accomplished by layer thinning, for example spin casting, liquid drawing, and liquid spraying respectively. Production of a film is by layer thinning, wherein a layer of the silica precursor solution is formed on a surface followed by removal of an amount of the silica precursor solution and leaving a geometrically thinner layer of the silica precursor solution from which the solvent quickly escapes via evaporation. Layer thinning may be by any method including but not limited to squeegeeing and/or spin casting. In powder formation by spray drying, the same conditions of fast drying exists as in spin-casting (as well as in fiber spinning) because of the high surface-area to volume ratio of the product. When a powder is produced by liquid spraying, the particles or micro-bubbles within the powder are hollow spheres with walls composed of mesoporous silica. Mesoporous fiber formation starts with a similar silica precursor solution but with an added pre-polymer making a pituitous mixture that is drawn into a thin strand from which solvent is evaporated leaving the mesoporous fiber(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/481988 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07367218 | Zornberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge G. Zornberg (Austin, Texas); John S. McCartney (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, method and centrifuge permeameter system that includes a hydraulic permeameter adapted for use in a centrifuge; and an automated data acquisition system, wherein the centrifuge permeameter non-destructively determines one or more soil characteristics from a sample of granular material such as soil, rock, and concrete when centrifuged. |
| FILED | Friday, November 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/563052 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07367781 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shamus P. McNamara (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of micromachined devices including a micromachined pump for on-chip vacuum is provided. For example, a single-chip micromachined implementation of a Knudsen pump having one or more stages and which uses the principle of thermal transpiration with no moving parts is provided. A six-mask microfabrication process to fabricate the pump using a glass substrate and silicon wafer is shown. The Knudsen pump and two integrated pressure sensors occupy an area of 1.5 mm×2 mm. Measurements show that while operating in standard laboratory conditions, this device can evacuate a cavity to 0.46 atm using 80 mW input power. High thermal isolation is obtained between a polysilicon heater of the pump and the rest of the device. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/751695 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368370 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of self-assembling nanoparticles on specific sites of a substrate. The method generally includes introducing a p-type dopant species to at least a portion of an n-type substrate or introducing an n-type dopant species to at least a portion of a p-type substrate, wherein the dopant species creates a surface charge opposite in polarity to that of the substrate surface prior to the introducing; contacting the nanoparticles with the surface of the substrate; and self-assembling a layer of the nanoparticles on p-type regions of the substrate. The methods described herein may be used in the formation of sub-22 nanometer channels, which find use in field-effect transistors, electronic chips, nanoscale biosensors, photonic band gap devices, lasers in optoelectronics and photonics chips, as well as nano-electro-mechanical devices (NEMS). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454963 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/514 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368512 | Newkome et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Newkome (Temple Terrance, Florida); Charles N. Moorefield (Tampa, Florida); Claus Weis (Pfeffingen, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting unreacted termini within a dendritic structure is achieved by exposing a dendrimer to a single generating compound capable of bonding to and tagging a deprotected but uncoupled termini. A signal generated by the signal generating compound to an otherwise uncoupled termini provides detection of the unreacted termini. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/752290 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368794 | Caruso et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony N. Caruso (Horace, North Dakota); Peter A. Dowben (Lincoln, Nebraska); Jennifer I. Brand (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Boron carbide heteroisomer semiconductor devices are used as particle detectors. The boron carbide semiconductor devices produce electric current in response to incident particles, such as alpha particles, neutrons, or photons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/195407 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369053 | Rasmussen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Martin Rasmussen (Boulder, Colorado); Frank W. Hage (Boulder, Colorado); Rondal K. Moore (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A de-icing information system processes weather data indicating precipitation rate and temperature to determine a check time for a de-icing fluid. The de-icing fluid remains effective if applied after the check time, and the de-icing fluid may not remain effective if applied before the check time. The de-icing information system transfers the de-icing information indicating the check time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518328 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/580 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07369714 | Gan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fuwan Gan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Franz X. Kaertner (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An opto-electronic modulator includes a Mach-Zehnder structure that comprises p+in+-diodes in both arms of the Mach-Zehnder structure. The Mach-Zehnder structure is formed by waveguides so as to confine an optical mode in the opto-electronic modulator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120769 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07370183 | John et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lizy K. John (Austin, Texas); Tao Li (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to predict a branch within a first operating context, such as a user context, using a first strategy; and to predict a branch within a second operating context, such as an operating system context, using a second strategy. In some embodiments, apparatus and systems may comprise one or more first storage locations to store branch history information associated with a first operating context, and one ore more second storage locations to store branch history information associated with a second operating context. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822553 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07368249 | Sutovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri); Slaon-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Sutovsky (Columbia, Missouri); Klaus van Leyen (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions and methods for regulating or determining fertility in humans and animals. In various embodiments of the invention, LOX and other related enzymes can be used as fertility markers, contraceptive agents, or means of treating infertility. LOX may be detected in accordance with the invention in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898141 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07368547 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Lawrence (Starkville, Mississippi); Dongyou Liu (Starkville, Mississippi); A. Jerald Ainsworth (Starkville, Mississippi); Frank W. Austin (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying virulent strains of L. monocytogenes that includes the use of primers or probes in a PCR assay or hybridization technique that employs primers or probes, which are specific for virulence-specific genes of L. monocytogenes. Also provided is a method of control of L. monocytogenes strains that have been identified using the method of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767441 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07368119 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Hamilton, Montana); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Austria); Martin A. Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540317 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07368533 | El Shami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Said El Shami (Camarillo, California); Surendra Nath Menon (Culver City, California); Cynthia K. French (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a polynucleotide encoding Repro-EN-1.0 and IB1, polypeptides associated with endometriosis. Auto-antibodies against Repro-EN-1.0 and IB1 have been found in subjects diagnosed with endometriosis. This invention also provides methods of using this polynucleotide and polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172573 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07368483 | Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); Dow Global Technologies, Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Connor (Los Gatos, California); James P. Godschalx (Midland, Michigan); Craig J. Hawker (Los Gatos, California); James L. Hedrick (Pleasanton, California); Victor Yee-Way Lee (San Jose, California); Teddie P. Magbitang (San Jose, California); Robert D. Miller (San Jose, California); Q. Jason Niu (Midland, Michigan); Willi Volksen (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-k organic dielectric material having stable nano-sized porous is provided as well as a method of fabricating the same. The porous low-k organic dielectric material is made from a composition of matter having a vitrification temperature (Tv-comp) which includes a b-staged thermosetting resin having a vitrification temperate (Tv-resin), a pore generating material, and a reactive additive. The reactive additive lowers Tv-comp below Tv-resin. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/827694 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07368719 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Homeland Protection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York); Steven Jude Duclos (Clifton Park, New York); Holly Ann Comanzo (Niskayuna, New York); Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro (Saratoga Springs, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are scintillating materials, methods for their manufacture, and method for their use. In one embodiment, a scintillator comprises the formula A2LnBX6, wherein A comprises thallium (Tl), a Group IA element, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing, Ln comprises cerium, B comprises a Group IA element, and X comprises iodine (I) or an iodine compound, wherein the iodine compound comprises iodine (I) and an element selected from the group consisting of fluoride (F), chloride (Cl), bromide (Br), and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing. Also disclosed are radiation detectors and methods for their use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427191 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07369053 | Rasmussen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Martin Rasmussen (Boulder, Colorado); Frank W. Hage (Boulder, Colorado); Rondal K. Moore (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A de-icing information system processes weather data indicating precipitation rate and temperature to determine a check time for a de-icing fluid. The de-icing fluid remains effective if applied after the check time, and the de-icing fluid may not remain effective if applied before the check time. The de-icing information system transfers the de-icing information indicating the check time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518328 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/580 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07369166 | Fossum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric R. Fossum (La Crescenta, California); Robert Nixon (Shadow Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Single substrate device is formed to have an image acquisition device and a controller. The controller on the substrate controls the system operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/414871 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07369961 | Castelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Michail Vlachos (Elmsford, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrangements and methods for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between different time series via employing the structural features is determined. The different time series may be partitioned into clusters based on the at least one distance, and/or the k closest matches to a given time series query based on the at least one distance may be returned. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096485 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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