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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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| US 07377276 | Roy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad J. Roy (Keedysville, Maryland); Justin M. Hartings (Clarksburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to: conditioning an inhalent environment; exposing a first organism to the inhalent environment for a first-organism duration of time; and exposing a second organism to the inhalent environment for a second-organism duration of time. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to: conditioning an inhalent environment; exposing a first organism to the inhalent environment until a calculated first-organism delivered dosage meets or exceeds a predefined first-organism target dosage; and exposing a second organism to the inhalent environment until a calculated second-organism delivered dosage meets or exceeds a predefined second-organism target dosage. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to: detecting a first organism via a first-organism biochip device implanted in the first organism; and controlling a first-organism dosage in response to the first-organism biochip device. In addition to the foregoing, other method embodiments are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. In one or more various embodiments, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the foregoing-referenced method embodiments; the circuitry and/or programming can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-referenced method embodiments depending upon the design choices of the system designer. In one embodiment, a system includes but is not limited to: an inhalent manifold; a first independently-controllable exposure unit coupled to said inhalent manifold; a second independently-controllable exposure unit coupled to said inhalent manifold; and an exposure control system operably coupled to either or both said first independently-controllable exposure unit and said second independently-controllable exposure unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166228 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/203.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377431 | Urken |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold B. Urken (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided overcoming decision-making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices. The invention provides collective outcomes that are resilient to communication and decision making errors, and which are provided with a minimum wait time. The system comprises a user interface engine that provides a channel to the features of the present invention, an agenda manager module for creating and presenting questions, a user manager module that controls interactions with user who request questionnaires, submit response data, and request access to analytical results, and a report manager module that identifies collective outcomes that are resilient to error and/or that weight individual votes to optimize the group's performance in producing one or more correct or optimal collective choices. A common data exchange allows communication between the modules. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542022 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377690 | Diede |
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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) | Amos J. Diede (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-electrical intermetallic thermal sensor with trigger temperatures in a range of 360° F. to about 430° F., comprising, a hermetically sealed housing including at least one layer of electronegative metal disposed in the housing, wherein the electronegative metal comprises tin (Sn), and at least one layer of active lithium/magnesium alloy disposed in the housing, wherein each layer(s) of active lithium/magnesium alloy is disposed in abutting interface with each layer(s) of electronegative metal. The intermetallic thermal sensors of the present invention further include at least one diffusion barrier means for inhibiting the diffusion of the active lithium/magnesium alloy layer into the electronegative layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847685 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377742 | Shapiro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason David Shapiro (Methuen, Massachusetts); Daniel Demers (Ipswich, Massachusetts); Robert Patrick Tameo (Peabody, Massachusetts); Tyler F. Hooper (Amesbury, Massachusetts); Robert Alexander Nicoll (Beverly, Massachusetts); Douglas Patrick Probasco (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a gas turbine engine includes coupling a rotor assembly including a plurality of rotor blades about a rotatable main shaft of the gas turbine engine. The main shaft is aligned in an axial direction of the gas turbine engine. A shroud assembly is coupled to the gas turbine engine. The shroud assembly includes a plurality of shroud segments circumferentially coupled about the rotor assembly such that a shroud spacing gap is formed in the axial direction between adjacent shroud segments. A cooling fluid source is coupled to each shroud segment such that cooling fluid is channeled through each shroud segment into a corresponding shroud spacing gap to facilitate positive purge flow through the shroud spacing gap. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250660 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377743 | Flodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Allen Flodman (Rowley, Massachusetts); Jason David Shapiro (Methuen, Massachusetts); Michael Peter Kulyk (Kittery, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine nozzle includes a mid vane mounted between a pair of end vanes in outer and inner bands. The mid vane includes a first pattern of film cooling holes configured to discharge more cooling air than each of the two end vanes having respective second patterns of film cooling holes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311104 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377746 | Brassfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Robert Brassfield (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Roger Lee Doughty (Pleasant Plain, Ohio); Richard William Jendrix (Liberty Township, Ohio); Cory Michael Williams (Maineville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil is disclosed having at least first and second cast, axially-stacked internal airflow cooling circuits. Each circuit defines multiple air flow passages positioned laterally between a pressure sidewall side and a suction sidewall side of respective ones of the circuits. Each of the circuits is formed by a separate casting core. Methods of forming a axially-stacked core and an airfoil are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062001 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377748 | Mongillo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr. (West Hartford, Connecticut); Young H. Chon (Manchester, Connecticut); Eugene Kulak, legal representative (New Britain, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A component for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The component has an airfoil portion with a plurality of internal cooling passages and a non-linear trailing edge. The component further has a non-linear array of teardrop shaped assemblies which form a plurality of injection slots for injecting a coolant fluid into a fluid passing over the airfoil portion. The teardrop shaped assemblies are designed to maximize thermal performance of the component by reducing a relative diffusion angle between the injected coolant flow and the streamline direction of the fluid passing over the airfoil portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/232701 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377790 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. Provided is also a method of producing the land grid array interposer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865231 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377977 | Motakef et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cape Simulations, Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shariar Motakef (Weston, Massachusetts); Aniruddha S. Worlikar (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of growing a crystal on a substrate disposed in a reactor, that provides a reactor chamber in which the substrate is disposed, includes flowing reactive gases inside the reactor chamber toward the substrate, the reactive gases comprising components that are able to bond to each other to form the crystal, and flowing buffer gas in the reactor chamber between the reactive gases and a wall of the reactor, where the flowing buffer gas inhibits at least one of a first material at least one of in and produced by the reactive gases from reaching the reactor wall and a second material produced by the reactor wall from reaching the reactive gases in the reactor chamber before the reactive gases reach the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443895 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378040 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eikos, Inc. (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiazhong Luo (Acton, Massachusetts); David J. Arthur (Norwood, Massachusetts); Paul J. Glatkowski (Littletown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to flexible, transparent and conductive coatings and films formed using carbon nanotubes (CNT) and, in particular, single wall CNT, with polymer binders. Preferably, coatings and films are formed from CNT applied to transparent substrates forming one or multiple conductive layers at nanometer level of thickness. Polymer binders are applied to the CNT network coating having an open structure to provide protection through infiltration, and may comprise a basecoat, a topcoat, or a combination thereof, providing enhanced optical transparency, conductivity, moisture resistance, thermal resistance, abrasion resistance and interfacial adhesion. Polymers may be thermoplastics, thermosets, insulative, conductive or a combination thereof. A fluoropolymer containing binder is applied onto a CNT-based transparent conductive coating at nanometer level of thickness on a clear substrate. The fluoropolymers or blend can be either semi-crystalline or amorphous. This binder coating and the resulting products can be used for display and electronic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201275 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378097 | Glenn 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) | Gregory M. Glenn (Cabin John, Maryland); Carl R. Alving (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A transcutaneous immunization system where the topical application of an adjuvant and an antigen or nucleic acid encoding for an antigen, to intact skin induces a systemic or mucosol antibody response. The immune response so elicited can be enhanced by physical or chemical skin penetration enhancement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790715 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378131 | Anderson |
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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) | Nicole Marie Anderson (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-VOC (volatile organic compound) and/or low-toxicity coating formulation, including at least one non-halogenated organic solvent including any terpene or terpenoid, and at least one conducting polymer, electroactive polymer and/or conjugated polymer. In another embodiment, the present invention includes a low-VOC (volatile organic compound) and/or low-toxicity coating formulation, including about 0.001% wt. to about 99.9% wt. of at least one non-halogenated organic solvent including a terpene or terpenoid, about 0.01% wt. to about 90% wt. of at least one conducting polymer, and about 0.001% wt to about 90% wt. of at least one surfactant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472510 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/388.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378257 | Ulrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Ulrich (Frederick, Maryland); Mark A. Olson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sina Bavari (Dillsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to genetically attenuated superantigen toxin vaccines altered such that superantigen attributes are absent, however the superantigen is effectively recognized and an appropriate immune response is produced. The attenuated superantigen toxins are shown to protect animals against challenge with wild type toxin. Methods of producing and using the altered superantigen toxins are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767687 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378281 | Morris 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) | Robert E Morris (Silver Spring, Maryland); Qin Lu (Alexandria, Virginia); Gregory E Collins (Huntingtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring the concentration of metal ions in a sample comprising the steps of: providing a sample comprising a nonpolar, liquid hydrocarbon, suspected of containing a metal ion; adding a dye such as a spirobenzopyran dye or bathocuproine and a reducing agent to the sample; wherein the dye forms a complex with the metal ion; wherein the complex has a spectral shift in light absorbance relative to the dye; observing the spectral shift; and calculating the concentration of the metal ion in the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/354990 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378457 | Kovar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Kovar (Wrentham, Massachusetts); Nese Orbey (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides radiation curable resin compositions having enhanced low temperature flexibility and to methods of using these compositions. The radiation curable resin compositions contain no or essentially no volatile organic components (VOCs), and find particular use as coating compositions. In particular, the radiation curable resin compositions of this invention comprise a vinyl dioxolane end-capped oligomer blended with a photoinitiator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077189 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378520 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); ZettaCore, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert S. Loewe (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Porphyrin compounds having a surface attachment group coupled thereto at the 5 position are described. The surface attachment group has the formula: wherein R is —CHCH2 or —CCH and Ar is an aromatic group. Methods and intermediates useful for making such compounds are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886816 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378684 | Linthicum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Linthicum (Angier, North Carolina); Thomas Gehrke (Carrboro, North Carolina); Darren B. Thomson (Cary, North Carolina); Eric P. Carlson (Raleigh, North Carolina); Pradeep Rajagopal (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert F. Davis (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An underlying gallium nitride layer on a silicon carbide substrate is masked with a mask that includes an array of openings therein, and the underlying gallium nitride layer is etched through the array of openings to define posts in the underlying gallium nitride layer and trenches therebetween. The posts each include a sidewall and a top having the mask thereon. The sidewalls of the posts are laterally grown into the trenches to thereby form a gallium nitride semiconductor layer. During this lateral growth, the mask prevents nucleation and vertical growth from the tops of the posts. Accordingly, growth proceeds laterally into the trenches, suspended from the sidewalls of the posts. The sidewalls of the posts may be laterally grown into the trenches until the laterally grown sidewalls coalesce in the trenches to thereby form a gallium nitride semiconductor layer. The lateral growth from the sidewalls of the posts may be continued so that the gallium nitride layer grows vertically through the openings in the mask and laterally overgrows onto the mask on the tops of the posts, to thereby form a gallium nitride semiconductor layer. The lateral overgrowth can be continued until the grown sidewalls coalesce on the mask to thereby form a continuous gallium nitride semiconductor layer. Microelectronic devices may be formed in the continuous gallium nitride semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/193823 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379191 | Brooks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence D. Brooks (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination interferometer (ifo) inspection device is provided which includes a Twyman-Green (T-G) ifo optically coupled to a Mach-Zehnder (M-Z) ifo. MEMS and MOEMS versions permit substantial reduction in size and weight to permit permanently embedding an inspection device into an optical system which permits remote and automated inspection and/or adjustment of the optical system. The inspection device permits use of different coherence length light sources and receipt of an output signal from an optical system. The addition of the T-G ifo to the M-Z ifo aids pinhole alignment and general alignment to the optical system under test, as well as inspection with long coherence sources, while the addition of the M-Z ifo permits measurement with long or short coherence sources, allows measurement of the output beam, and permits the system to operate in a receive-only mode with an external source. The inspection device provides versatile functionality and redundancy for using a single inspection device in a variety of situations and manners in the same application. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133592 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/515 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379237 | Di Teodoro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aculight Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabio Di Teodoro (Everett, Washington); Christopher D. Brooks (Kenmore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420746 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379329 | Prinz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Prinz (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic memory storage device with at least one magnetic storage element comprising electrical addressing leads to inject electrical current directly through a single magnetic memory storage element. The number of electrical addressing leads is at least one more than the number of magnetic memory storage elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/979854 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379392 | Benjamin |
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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) | Kim C. Benjamin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A cymbal array for underwater vehicle applications includes piezoelectric discs disposed in a line, a first flex circuit comprising first annular members each affixed to a first side of one of the discs, a first series of cymbal caps each mounted on one of the first annular members, a second flex circuit comprising second annular members each fixed to a second side of one of the discs, and a second series of cymbal caps each mounted on one of the second annular members. The flex circuits each comprise an electrically conductive layer disposed between two electrically insulative layers. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254120 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379486 | Lust et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa M. Lust (Plymouth, Minnesota); Douglas R. Carlson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Daniel W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for optically pumping alkali-metal atoms using Coherence Population Trapping (CPT) resonances are disclosed. An illustrative push-pull optical pumping system for inducing CPT resonances in a resonance cell containing an admixture of alkali-metal atoms and one or more buffer gasses may include a laser assembly adapted to produce alternating orthogonally polarized light, and at least one DC current source adapted to output a constant-intensity carrier current signal for inducing laser emission from the laser assembly at a carrier wavelength of the alkali-metal atoms. An RF modulated signal outputted from an RF modulation source can be rectified, split, and phase-shifted for inducing a time-dependent polarization of the laser light that can be used to enhance CPT resonances. The alternating orthogonally polarized light from the laser assembly can then be used to optically pump the alkali-metal atoms within the vapor cavity, producing a dark state that can be detected with a photodetector or the like. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161094 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379592 | Miller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Miller (Salinas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new processing capability for dust enhancement over land or water using image data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been developed for Naval meteorology/oceanography (MetOc) operations support. The data are captured via direct broadcast high-resolution picture transmission (HRPT) at Navy Regional Centers in Rota, Bahrain, and Yokosuka, and processed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey. The raw data are calibrated, corrected for missing lines and clutter, corrected for molecular scatter contamination, and enhanced through multispectral combination to yield value added products. The processing has been automated completely such that products, generated upon receipt of data, are hosted upon a password protected website typically 60 to 90 minutes from time of initial capture. This invention summarizes the SeaWiFS instrument capabilities, the protocol followed for automated near real-time processing, a physical basis for the NRL enhancements, and specific examples of the products with extension to over-land dust enhancement as enabled by MODIS. It closes with a glimpse of the potential utility of these products from the perspective of the warfighter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/885526 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
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| US 07379598 | Maurer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Maurer (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and systems for performing a matching function between a first pattern and a second pattern. This technique involves creating a set of all distance measurements between pairs of points in the first pattern and all distance measurements between pairs of points in the second pattern. This set is then partitioned into subsets of nearly equal distance elements. Those subsets containing at least one element derived from each pattern determine possible line segment matches which are then analyzed mathematically to determine the partial transform that maps the associated points of the first pattern into the points of the second pattern. The resulting set of partial transforms is then reviewed to determine matched line segments between the two patterns. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928286 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379612 | Milanfar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, California); Sina Farsiu (Santa Cruz, California); Michael Elad (Haifa, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided of solving the dynamic super-resolution (SR) problem of reconstructing a high-quality set of monochromatic or color superresolved images from low-quality monochromatic, color, or mosaiced frames. The invention includes a joint method for simultaneous SR, deblurring, and demosaicing, this way taking into account practical color measurements encountered in video sequences. For the case of translational motion and common space-invariant blur, the proposed invention is based on a very fast and memory efficient approximation of the Kalman filter (KF). Experimental results on both simulated and real data are supplied, demonstrating the invention algorithms, and their strength. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584400 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379630 | Lagakos 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) | Nicholas Lagakos (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joseph A Bucaro (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiplexed fiber optic sensor system including a first optical fiber having a first end arranged to receive light from a light souce, at least two optical fibers having diameters smaller than the first optical fiber, and at least two fiber optic sensors, each of the at least two smaller diameter optical fibers arranged between the first optical fiber and one of the sensors for transmitting light from the first optical fiber to that sensor. The sensors can be static or dynamic pressure sensors, strain sensors, temperature sensors or other environmental sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250709 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
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| US 07379633 | Ashley 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) | Paul R. Ashley (Toney, Alabama); Michael D. Bramson (Ridgecrest, California); Geoffrey A. Lindsay (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for fabricating interferometric fiber optic transceivers having integrated components in which a polymer-on-silicon and beam splitter module replaces the conventional LiNbO3 crystal. The polymer-on-silicon waveguides permit the hybridization of the transceiver and its semi-automated production by semi-conductor processing equipment. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590993 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379648 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aculight Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Brooks (Kenmore, Washington); Fabio Di Teodoro (Everett, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420752 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379652 | Cole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary Cole (Bozeman, Montana); Randy R. Reibel (Bozeman, Montana); Krishna Mohan Rupavatharam (Bozeman, Montana); William R. Babbitt (Bozeman, Montana); Kristian D. Merkel (Bozeman, Montana); Tiejun Chang (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for detecting optical spectral properties of a target are described. The technique includes providing an optical carrier which has an optical frequency bandwidth which is narrow compared to the width of the narrowest spectral feature of the target to be determined. This optical carrier is then electro-optically modulated with an RF frequency chirp, creating an optical chirp probe beam with a frequency chirped optical spectrum having upper and lower frequency chirped sidebands that have amplitudes sufficient to be detected at a detector. The sidebands are frequency bands arranged symmetrically around the optical carrier frequency. The attributes of a sideband include a start frequency, bandwidth and chirp rate. A probe beam is generated with the sidebands and directed onto a target having a physical property with optical frequency dependence. An optical response signal resulting from an interaction between the probe beam and the target is detected. The optical frequency dependence of the physical property of the target is determined based on the optical response signal and the attributes of the sidebands. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404549 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379868 | Reynolds |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Reynolds (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential compression technique is disclosed for compression individual speaker models, such as Gaussian mixture models, by computing a delta model from the difference between an individual speaker model and a baseline model. Further compression may be applied to the delta model to reduce the large storage requirements generally attributed to speaker models. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336653 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379939 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Ossining, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for classifying data from a test data stream is provided. A stream of training data having class labels is received. One or more class-specific clusters of the training data are determined and stored. At least one test instance of the test data stream is classified using the one or more class-specific clusters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/881036 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379993 | Valdes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfonso De Jesus Valdes (San Carlos, California); Martin Wayne Fong (San Francisco, California); Phillip Andrew Porras (Cupcatino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention uses Bayesian techniques to prioritize alerts or alert groups generated by intrusion detection systems and other information security devices, such as network analyzers, network monitors, firewalls, antivirus software, authentication services, host and application security services, etc. In a preferred embodiment, alerts are examined for the presence of one or more relevant features, such as the type of an attack, the target of an attack, the outcome of an attack, etc. At least a subset of the features is then provided to a real-time Bayes network, which assigns relevance scores to the received alerts or alert groups. In another embodiment, a network manager (a person) can disagree with the relevance score assigned by the Bayes network, and give an alert or alert group a different relevance score. The Bayes network is then modified so that similar future alerts or alert groups will be assigned a relevance score that more closely matches the score given by the network manager. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/952080 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380068 | Shafi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing unit, method, and computer-usable medium for contention-based cache performance optimization. Two or more processing cores are coupled by an interconnect. Coupled to the interconnect is a memory hierarchy that includes a collection of caches. Resource utilization over a time interval is detected over the interconnect. Responsive to detecting a threshold of resource utilization of the interconnect, a functional mode of a cache from the collection of caches is selectively enabled. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260555 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380244 | Bussiere 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) | Gregory A. Bussiere (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Rother V. Hodges (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Robert J. Pallack, Jr. (Westport, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a distributed computing environment utilizing Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), a software status display tool that provides a graphical representation of the current operational status of all of the data sources in a computer network. The display tool accesses the CORBA Name Server and obtains all available references for object implementations and their CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) interface. The references and interfaces map directly to all of the data suppliers and servers and their respective interfaces. The display tool then interfaces with each and every supplier and server as if it were a corresponding client or consumer and based upon the data it is able to obtain it makes a determination of the state of that particular supplier or server. The display tool then logs the results of its determinations and presents a fundamental color-coded system-wide display of its determinations on a video device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847020 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Ross (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Alnawaz Rehemtulla (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for non-invasive imaging of enzyme (e.g., protease) activity in cells, tissues and organs and entire bodies in vitro, in vivo and in situ. The invention provides a chimeric polypeptide having a bioluminescent or chemiluminescent polypeptide, or a heterologous kinase, and at least one silencing moiety, and a protease cleavage motif positioned between the first and second domains. The imaging can be by computer assisted tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), or bioluminescence imaging (BLI). |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/452184 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378090 | Yin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry C. P. Yin (Huntington, New York); Eric A. Drier (Huntington, New York); Todd C. Sacktor (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods have been developed for alleviating memory problems or psychiatric dysfunctions that have a memory formation component. These methods are based on the finding that a truncated form of an aPKCζ protein is intimately involved in memory formation in animals. This finding is also central to methods for determining drugs that will have an effect on memory formation or the memory formation component of psychiatric dysfunctions. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/135183 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378093 | Dimitrov 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); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Maxime Moulard (Auriol, France); Xiadong Xiao (Frederick, Maryland); Yuuei Shu (Rockville, Maryland); Sanjay K. Phogat (Frederick, Maryland); Mei-Yun Zhang (Frederick, Maryland); Dennis Burton (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features antibodies and antibody fragments that specifically bind a CD4-inducible HIV gp120 epitope that is enhanced by binding a co-receptor for HIV, such as CCR5 or CXCR4, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies or antibody fragments. The invention also features nucleic acids encoding the antibodies or antibody fragments, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the nucleic acids encoding the antibodies or antibody fragments, vectors comprising the nucleic acids, and cells comprising the vectors. The invention further features methods of identifying antibodies or antibody fragments with broadly neutralizing activity against HIV. The invention also features methods of inhibiting HIV entry into cells and methods of inhibiting replication of HIV in mammals, using the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748992 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378094 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald P. Taylor (Charlottesville, Virginia); Margaret A. Lindorfer (Charlottesville, Virginia); William M. Sutherland (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an immune complex composition, and a method of using that complex to enhance an in viva immune response against a preselected target antigen. The immune complexes of the present invention comprise a monoclonal antibody specific for binding to complement receptor (CR2) site on B lymphocytes linked to a target antigen. As shown in FIG. SA-SD immune complexes bound to monkey B cells are removed in concert with loss of CR2. FIGS. SA and SB demonstrate the % A1488 HB135 and % APhCy CD21 positive cells, out of the doubly positive FE CD20/PerCF CD45 population over time, after injection of A1488 labeled HB135 (an anti-CR2 antibody, administration indicated by first arrow) followed by injection of rabbit anti-mouse IgG (administration indicated by the second arrow). FIGS. SC and SD are plots of the molecules of equivalent soluble fluorochome (MESF) values for these populations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/489564 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378096 | Subjeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Subjeck (Williamsville, New York); Robert A. Henderson (Seattle, Washington); Elizabeth A. Repasky (Williamsville, New York); Latif Kazim (Amherst, New York); Xiang-Yang Wang (Buffalo, New York); Masoud H. Manjili (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a stress protein complex and related molecules encoding or cells presenting such a complex are provided. The stress protein complex comprises an hsp110 or grp170 polypeptide complexed with an immunogenic polypeptide. The immunogenic polypeptide of the stress protein complex can be associated with a cancer or an infectious disease. Preferred immunogenic polypeptides include gp100, her2/neu ECD-PD, ICD and M. tuberculosis antigens. The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention can be used for the treatment or prevention of cancer or infectious disease. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161028 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378111 | Phiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Phiel (Royersford, Pennsylvania); Christina A. Wilson (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania); Virginia M-Y. Lee (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Peter S. Klein (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a novel use of therapeutic concentrations of an inhibitor of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3), including lithium or any other GSK-3 inhibitor, to block, reduce or inhibit processing of amyloid precursor proteins to beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides, which are now believed to be the principal cause of Alzheimer's disease, thereby providing methods useful for the prevention, inhibition or reversal of the disease. Also provided are methods of using agents that specifically target the α isoform of GSK-3, which is responsible for APP processing, making such selective GSK-3α-specific inhibitors especially useful in the treatment, prevention, and possible reversal of Alzheimer's disease. Further provided are kits and screening methods associated with the present methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368769 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/677 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378236 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick O. Brown (Stanford, California); Tidhar Dari Shalon (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for detecting or monitoring the treatment status of a selected physiological state or disease condition. The device has a subarray of genes which show a statistically significant change in gene expression level when compared with the control expression levels for that gene. The method involves applying a reporter-labeled messenger nucleic acid fraction to the array in the device, and comparing the pattern of gene expression on the array with that produced by labeled messenger nucleic acid from control cells. Also disclosed is a method of constructing the array. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/514875 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07378246 | Giaccia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amato J. Giaccia (Stanford, California); Zhong Yun (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the disclosure hypoxia-mediated adipogenic inhibition involves the repression of PPARγ2 expression and its activity is a common mechanism for adipogenic inhibition by a variety of stimuli. The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for regulating adipogenesis. The disclosure provides compositions comprising one or more DEC1/Stra13 fragments of capable of inhibiting PPARγ2 promoter activity. These fragments, e.g. the basic helix loop helix domain or amino acids 1-141, have substantially the same PPARγ2 promoter repressing activity as the full length polypeptide. The present disclosure provides methods of inhibiting adipogenesis comprising contacting a cell with a fragment of DEC1/Stra13. The invention further relates to methods and compositions of inhibiting angiogenesis in a tumor comprising contacting a tumor or tumor cell with a DEC1/Stra13 agonist. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/524919 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378263 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Sarah R. Hanson (San Diego, California); Ran Xu (Houston, Texas); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Chi-Heuy Wong (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid having a N-acetylgalactosamine moiety into a protein; optionally, the N-acetylgalactosamine-containing unnatural amino acid can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255601 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378272 | Meruelo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York); Christine Pampeno (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to packaging cell lines useful for the production of viral vectors, particularly packaging cell lines for continuous production of Sindbis viral vectors at high efficiency. The packaging cell line comprises an insect cell having DNA that encodes alphavirus structural proteins, replicase and a replicon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/473482 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378276 | Ettinger 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) | Catherine Rachel Ettinger (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter E. Lipsky (Rockville, Maryland); Warren J. Leonard (Bethesda, Maryland); Rosanne Spolski (Ellicott City, Maryland); Herbert C. Morse, III (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed herein for inducing differentiation of a B cell progenitor into a memory B cells and/or a plasma cell. The method includes contacting a population of cells including a mature B cell or a B cell progenitor with an effective amount of IL-21, and isolating memory B cells or plasma cells. In one embodiment, the B cell progenitor is an immature B cell. A method is also disclosed for enhancing an immune response. The method includes contacting a population of cells including a B cell progenitor with an effective amount of IL-21, and isolating memory B cells or plasma cells. The memory B cells and/or the plasma cell are then introduced into the subject to enhance the immune response. A method is also disclosed for treating a subject with a condition comprising a specific deficiency of at least one of memory B cells and plasma cells. A method is disclosed for identifying an agent with a physiological effect on one or more of a memory B cell and a plasma cell differentiation. A method is also disclosed for identifying agents that inhibit an activity of IL-21. Methods are also disclosed for inducing apoptosis of a B cell and for decreasing the number of B cells. A method is also described for producing a B cell hybridoma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197221 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378277 | Hwu 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) | Patrick Hwu (Rockville, Maryland); Mark Reeves (Grand Terrace, California); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant dendritic cells are made by transforming a stem cell and differentiating the stem cell into a dendritic cell. The resulting dendritic cell is an antigen presenting cell which activates T cells against MHC class I-antigen targets. Kits, assays and therapeutics are based upon the activation of T cells by the recombinant dendritic cell. Cancer, viral infections and parasitic infections are all ameliorated by the recombinant dendritic cells, or corresponding activated T cells. Therapeutic compositions and pharmaceutical compositions are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/607327 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378280 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Sunnyvale, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microfluidic devices and methods for using the same. In particular, microfluidic devices of the present invention are useful in conducting a variety of assays and high throughput screening. Microfluidic devices of the present invention include elastomeric components and comprise a main flow channel; a plurality of branch flow channels; a plurality of control channels; and a plurality of valves. Preferably, each of the valves comprises one of the control channels and an elastomeric segment that is deflectable into or retractable from the main or branch flow channel upon which the valve operates in response to an actuation force applied to the control channel. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/416418 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/63 |
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| US 07378385 | Seeley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy John Seeley (Hamilton, Ohio); David A. D'Alessio (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kimberley P. Kinzig (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | GLP-1 and GLP-1 receptor antagonists have been found to have a sedative or anxiolytic effect on the mammalian central nervous system. Conversely, GLP-1 and GLP-1 receptor agonists increase nervous system activity and the stress response. The invention relates, in one aspect, to the use of GLP-1 agonists and antagonists to modulate the stress response in a mammal. In an aspect GLP-1 and GLP-1 receptor antagonists are used to treat stress-related disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/635230 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07378388 | Seifer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Seifer (Holmdel, New Jersey); Robert Shelden (Kendall Park, New Jersey); Bo Feng (Edison, New Jersey); Cheryl Dreyfus (Short Hills, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for manipulating and predicting the reproductive capacity of a female subject. The presence of endogenous neurotrophins and addition of exogenous neurotrophins, particularly BDNF, NT-4/5, and NGF, increase the reproductive capacity of a female patient by binding to receptors on the oocytes and stimulating maturation of the oocytes. Administration of antagonists act as a contraceptive because the antagonists prevent the neurotrophins from binding to oocyte receptors. Neurotrophins may also be used to stimulate the maturation of oocyte in vitro. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243619 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07378396 | Hazen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Marc S. Penn (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and agents for treating subjects who have or are at risk of developing or having cardiovascular disease. Such agents inhibit binding of myeloperoxidase (MPO) to a molecule comprising the MPO binding site of apolipoprotein A-1 (apoA-1) and include a peptide fragment of apoA-1 comprising at least 4 contiguous amino acids in SEQ ID. NO: 2, a modified form of the apo-1 fragment comprising one or more D amino acids, a retro-inverso form of the apoA-1 peptide fragment, an organo-mimetic of the apoA-1 peptide fragment, a peptide-mimetic of the apoA1 peptide fragment, or a nucleic acid encoding the apo A-1 peptide fragment. The present invention also provides methods of identifying or screening test agents for treating subjects having or at risk of having or developing CVD. The method comprises incubating one or more test agents and MPO with a molecule comprising the MPO binding site of apoA-1 under conditions which permit binding of MPO to the MPO binding site and determining whether one or more of the agents inhibit such binding. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198005 |
| 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 07378400 | Rieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Donald L. Kimpel (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a therapeutic method for treating an inflammatory response caused by autoimmune stimulation, comprising the administration to a patient in need thereof of an antiinflammatory amount amount of an A2A adenosine receptor agonist. The autoimmune stimulation can be caused by arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis. Optionally, the method includes administration of a type IV PDE inhibitor. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222664 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
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| US 07378403 | Kozikowski 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); Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Phillip Dennis (Ellicott City, Maryland); Haiying Sun (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John Brognard (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are inhibitors of the serine/threonine kinase Akt, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such inhibitors, and a method of preventing or treating a disease or condition in an animal by the use of such inhibitors. The Akt inhibitors have the formula (I) wherein X and Y are independently selected from the group consisting of O, CF2, CH2, and CHF; wherein A is independently selected from the group consisting of P(O)OH, CH2000H, and CH(COOH)2; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, isosteres of OH, C1-C25 alkyloxy, C6-C10 aryloxy, C3-C8 cycloalkyloxy, C3-C8 cycloalkyl C1-C6 alkoxy, C2-C22 alkenyloxy, C3-C8 cycloalkenyloxy, C7-C32 aralkyloxy, C7-C32 alkylaryloxy, C9-C32 aralkenyloxy, and C9-C32 alkenylaryloxy; R3-R6 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, OH, isosteres of OH; and R1 and R7 are independently selected from the group consisting of C1-C25 alkyl, C6-C10 aryl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C2-C22 alkenyl, C3-C8 cycloalkenyl, C7-C32 aralkyl, C7-C32 alkylaryl, C9-C32 aralkenyl, and C9-C32 alkenylaryl; with the provisos that (i) when X is O, Y is O or CH2, and R3 is H, at least one of R2 and R4-R6 is not OH; (ii) when A is CH2COOH or CH(COOH)2, X and Y cannot be simultaneously O; and (iii) all of R2-R6 are not simultaneously H. The inhibitors can be in the form of a salt also |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/526851 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/129 |
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| US 07378496 | Chandy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. George Chandy (Laguna Beach, California); J. Jay Gargus (Irvine, California); George Gutman (Costa Mesa, California); Emmanuelle Fantino (Tustin, California); Katarin Kalman (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based on the discovery and cloning of the human small conductance calcium activated potassium channel type 3 (hKCa3/KCNN3) gene, which is expressed in neuronal cells, skeletal muscle, heart, and lymphocytes. Alterations in the hKCa3/KCNN3 gene or its protein product may enhance susceptibility to schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder. hKCa3/KCNN3 may be involved in neuropsychiatric, neurological, neuromuscular, and immunological disorders. Substantially purified hKCa3/KCNN3 polypeptides and polynucleotides are provided. Antibodies which bind to hKCa3/KCNN3 polypeptides are also disclosed. A method for identifying a compound which affects hKCa3/KCNN3 polynucleotide or polypeptide is provided. A method for diagnosis and determining the prognosis and treatment regimen of a subject having or at risk of having a hKCa3/KCNN3-associated disorder is also provided. A method of treating a subject having or at risk of having an hKCa3/KCNN3-associated disorder by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a polynucleotide encoding SEQ ID NO:2 is also provided. A formulation for administration of hKCa3/KCNN3 to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of hKCa3/KCNN3 polypeptide is provided. Kits useful for detecting the presence of hKCa3/KCNN3 polypeptide or polynucleotide in a sample from a subject having a hKCa3/KCNN3-associated disorder are provided. Transgenic nonhuman animals having a transgene encoding hKCa3/KCNN3 are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722189 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07378498 | Worley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Worley (Baltimore, Maryland); Jian Cheng Tu (Baltimore, Maryland); Bo Xiao (Ellicott City, Maryland); Daniel Leahy (Baltimore, Maryland); Jutta Beneken (Baltimore, Maryland); Anthony A. Lanahan (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul R. Brakeman (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for identifying a compound that modulates a cellualr response associated with Homer and mediated by a cell-surface or an intracellular receptor. A method is further provided for identifying a compound that modulates receptor activated calcium mobilization associated with Homer. A method is provided for identifying a compound that inhibits Homer protein activity based on the crystal structure coordinates of Homer protein binding domain. A method is also provided for identifying a compound that affects the formation of cell surface receptors into clusters. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding Homer proteins as well as Homer proteins, and Homer interacting proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008889 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthologic Corp. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of promoting healing of a chronic dermal skin ulcer, such as a diabetic ulcer, on a subject. The method comprises the step of contacting the chronic dermal skin ulcer with an effective amount of an agonist of the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397310 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378505 | Lowery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BellBrook Labs LLC (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Lowery (Belleville, Wisconsin); Karen Kleman-Leyer (Madison, Wisconsin); Matt Staeben (Belleville, Wisconsin); Thane Westermeyer (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for detecting, quantifying and high throughput screening of donor-products and the catalytic activities generating the donor-products in group-transfer reactions catalyzed by adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) or guanine triphosphatase (GTPase). The invention further provides immunoassays, antibodies and kits that may be used to practice the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353500 |
| 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 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378510 | Barbas, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Syngenta Participations AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos F. Barbas, III (Solana Beach, California); Justin T. Stege (San Diego, California); Xueni Guan (San Diego, California); Bipin Dalmia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to nucleic acids encoding synthetic zinc finger proteins for gene regulation in plants. The invention also relates to methods of producing synthetic zinc finger protein in host cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639706 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379000 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongqing Dai (Castaic, California); James S. Little (Saugus, California); Kea-Tiong Tang (Temple City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a DAC constructed from a series of floating gate devices which are programmable to a series of predetermined values. Addressing one or more of the programmed floating gate devices will select from a wide variety of analog outputs. Reprogramming the floating gate devices, can provide a different variety of analog outputs. For example, the floating gate devices can be preprogrammed to a different range of outputs matching a range of perceptible signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786480 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379053 | Schaefer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vortant Technologies, LLC (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for enabling a user to navigate a graphical user interface by touching pads on a touch surface. The arrangement of the pads on the touch surface is static, but the functions associated with each pad dynamically change in correspondence with functions in the graphical user interface. The functions are automatically and dynamically extracted from the software that creates the window display. Certain pads are regularly used for certain user options found in windows. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280581 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379574 | Raman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raghav Raman (Cupertino, California); Bhargav Raman (San Jose, California); Sandy A. Napel (Menlo Park, California); Geoffrey D. Rubin (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to quantify the vascular irregularity of aortoiliac arteries is provided. Inner wall and/or outer wall outlines of a vessel of interest are determined. The cross sectional area is determined for the area outlined by each outline. Using this cross sectional area a shape is selected that has substantially the same area as the outline. Subsequently, the shape is fitted to the outline. In one aspect, the irregularity index is calculated as the ratio of the outline and the outline of the fitted shape. In another aspect, the irregularity index is calculated as the ratio of at least a part of the outline and the outline of the fitted shape that corresponds to the same part of the outline. The irregularity index is visualized using a color scheme, a range of numbers, or a set of labels. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/004630 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 07379601 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kairos-Scientific Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Mei-Iing Yang (San Diego, California); Edward J. Bylina (San Diego, California); William Joseph Coleman (San Diego, California); Michael Robert Dilworth (Santa Cruz, California); Steven J. Robles (San Jose, California); Douglas Charles Youvan (Frontenac, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Complex multidimensional datasets generated by digital imaging spectroscopy can be organized and analyzed by applying software and computer-based methods comprising sorting algorithms. Combinations of these algorithms to images and graphical data, allow pixels or features to be rapidly and efficiently classified into meaningful groups according to defined criteria. Multiple rounds of pixel or feature selection may be performed based on independent sorting criteria. In one embodiment sorting by spectral criteria (e.g., intensity at a given wavelength) is combined with sorting by temporal criteria (e.g., absorbance at a given time) to identify microcolonies of recombinant organisms harboring mutated genes encoding enzymes having desirable kinetic attributes and substrate specificity. Restriction of the set of pixels analyzed in a subsequent sort based on criteria applied in an earlier sort (“sort and lock” analyses) minimize computational and storage resources. User-defined criteria can also be incorporated into the sorting process by means of a graphical user interface that comprises a visualization tools including a contour plot, a sorting bar and a grouping bar, an image window, and a plot window that allow run-time interactive identification of pixels or features meeting one or more criteria, and display of their associated spectral or kinetic data. These methods are useful for extracting information from imaging data in applications ranging from biology and medicine to remote sensing. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/750107 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl-Anders Hergart (Peoria, Illinois); William L. Hardy (Peoria, Illinois); Kevin P. Duffy (Metamora, Illinois); Michael P. Liechty (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An HCCI engine has the ability to operate over a large load range by utilizing a lower cetane distillate diesel fuel to increase ignition delay. This permits more stable operation at high loads by avoidance of premature combustion before top dead center. During low load conditions, a portion of the engines cylinders are deactivated so that the remaining cylinders can operate at a pseudo higher load while the overall engine exhibits behavior typical of a relatively low load. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498001 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/198.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377270 | Duffy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Duffy (Metamora, Illinois); Andrew J. Kieser (Morton, Illinois); Anthony Rodman (Chillicothe, Illinois); Michael P. Liechty (Chillicothe, Illinois); Carl-Anders Hergart (Peoria, Illinois); William L. Hardy (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A homogeneous charge compression ignition engine operates by injecting liquid fuel directly in a combustion chamber, and mixing the fuel with recirculated exhaust and fresh air through an auto ignition condition of the fuel. The engine includes at least one turbocharger for extracting energy from the engine exhaust and using that energy to boost intake pressure of recirculated exhaust gas and fresh air. Elevated proportions of exhaust gas recirculated to the engine are attained by throttling the fresh air inlet supply. These elevated exhaust gas recirculation rates allow the HCCI engine to be operated at higher speeds and loads rendering the HCCI engine a more viable alternative to a conventional diesel engine. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584889 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/568.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377339 | Wassell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APS Technology, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ellsworth Wassell (Kingwood, Texas); William Evans Turner (Durham, Connecticut); Daniel E. Burgess (Middletown, Connecticut); Carl Allison Perry (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for damping vibration in a drill string can include a valve assembly having a supply of a fluid, a first member, and a second member capable of moving in relation to first member in response to vibration of the drill bit. The first and second members define a first and a second chamber for holding the fluid. Fluid can flow between the first and second chambers in response to the movement of the second member in relation to the first member. The valve assembly can also include a coil or a valve for varying a resistance of the fluid to flow between the first and second chambers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/737400 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377419 | Howard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley R. Howard (Windsor, South Carolina); Paul S. Korinko (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a heat exchanger includes brush electroplating plated layers for a brazing alloy onto a stainless steel tube in thin layers, over a nickel strike having a 1.3 μm thickness. The resultant Au-18 In composition may be applied as a first layer of indium, 1.47 μm thick, and a second layer of gold, 2.54 μm thick. The order of plating helps control brazing erosion. Excessive amounts of brazing material are avoided by controlling the electroplating process. The reticulated copper foam rings are interference fit to the stainless steel tube, and in contact with the plated layers. The copper foam rings, the plated layers for brazing alloy, and the stainless steel tube are heated and cooled in a vacuum furnace at controlled rates, forming a bond of the copper foam rings to the stainless steel tube that improves heat transfer between the tube and the copper foam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017544 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07377750 | Costin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Power Systems, Inc. (Waitsfield, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel P. Costin (Chelsea, Vermont); Jeffrey K. Petter (Williston, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In a wind turbine (104, 500, 704) having a plurality of blades (132, 404, 516, 744) and a blade rotor hub (120, 712), a lightning protection system (100, 504, 700) for conducting lightning strikes to any one of the blades and the region surrounding the blade hub along a path around the blade hub and critical components of the wind turbine, such as the generator (112, 716), gearbox (708) and main turbine bearings (176, 724). |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085748 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/146.R00 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3-Tex, Inc. (Cary, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mansour H. Mohamed (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind blade spar cap for strengthening a wind blade including an integral, unitary three-dimensional woven material having a first end and a second end, corresponding to a root end of the blade and a tip end of the blade, wherein the material tapers in width from the first to the second end while maintaining a constant thickness and decreasing weight therebetween, the cap being capable of being affixed to the blade for providing increased strength with controlled variation in weight from the root end to the tip end based upon the tapered width of the material thereof. The present inventions also include the method of making the wind blade spar cap and a wind blade including the wind blade spar cap. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522736 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378042 | Ebbers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Ebbers (Pleasanton, California); Kathleen I. Schaffers (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A material for harmonic generation has been made by substitutional changes to the crystal LaCa4 (BO3)3 also known as LaCOB in the form Re1xRe2yRe3zCa4(B03)3O where Re1 and Re2, (rare earth ion 1 and rare earth ion 2) are selected from the group consisting of Sc, Yttrium, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Th, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu; Re3 is Lanthanum; and x+y+z=1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/652442 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378069 | Ott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. Ott (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) catalyst was prepared by slurry coating ZSM-5 zeolite onto a cordierite monolith, then subliming an iron salt onto the zeolite, calcining the monolith, and then dipping the monolith either into an aqueous solution of manganese nitrate and cerium nitrate and then calcining, or by similar treatment with separate solutions of manganese nitrate and cerium nitrate. The supported catalyst containing iron, manganese, and cerium showed 80 percent conversion at 113 degrees Celsius of a feed gas containing nitrogen oxides having 4 parts NO to one part NO2, about one equivalent ammonia, and excess oxygen; conversion improved to 94 percent at 147 degrees Celsius. N2O was not detected (detection limit: 0.6 percent N2O). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/899749 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/239.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378533 | McElhanon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. McElhanon (Manteca, California); Gregory M. Jamison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Timothy M. Long (Evanston, Illinois); Douglas A. Loy (Tucson, Arizona); Kamyar Rahimian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Chad L. Staiger (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas Zifer (Manteca, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes surfactants of formula (I), wherein R, RN, and m are defined herein, processes for their preparation, and methods for their decomposition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387540 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378637 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul O'Connor (Bellport, New York); Gianluigi DeGeronimo (Nesconset, New York); Joseph Grosholz (Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing pulses arriving randomly in time on at least one channel using multiple peak detectors includes asynchronously selecting a non-busy peak detector (PD) in response to a pulse-generated trigger signal, connecting the channel to the selected PD in response to the trigger signal, and detecting a pulse peak amplitude. Amplitude and time of arrival data are output in first-in first-out (FIFO) sequence. An apparatus includes trigger comparators to generate the trigger signal for the pulse-receiving channel, PDs, a switch for connecting the channel to the selected PD, and logic circuitry which maintains the write pointer. Also included, time-to-amplitude converters (TACs) convert time of arrival to analog voltage and an analog multiplexer provides FIFO output. A multi-element sensor system for spectroscopy includes detector elements, channels, trigger comparators, PDs, a switch, and a logic circuit with asynchronous write pointer. The system includes TACs, a multiplexer and analog-to-digital converter. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835092 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378705 | Riekels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Riekels (New Hope, Minnesota); Thomas B. Lucking (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Bradley J. Larsen (Mound, Minnesota); Gary R. Gardner (Golden Valley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM) memory cell and a method of operation are disclosed for creating an EEPROM memory cell in a standard CMOS process. A single polysilicon layer is used in combination with lightly doped MOS capacitors. The lightly doped capacitors employed in the EEPROM memory cell can be asymmetrical in design. Asymmetrical capacitors reduce area. Further capacitance variation caused by inversion can also be reduced by using multiple control capacitors. In addition, the use of multiple tunneling capacitors provides the benefit of customized tunneling paths. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217829 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378830 | Teruya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Teruya (Livermore, California); John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Todd A. Palmer (Livermore, California); Chris C. Walton (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro beam Faraday cup assembly includes a refractory metal layer with an odd number of thin, radially positioned traces in this refractory metal layer. Some of the radially positioned traces are located at the edge of the micro modified Faraday cup body and some of the radially positioned traces are located in the central portion of the micro modified Faraday cup body. Each set of traces is connected to a separate data acquisition channel to form multiple independent diagnostic networks. The data obtained from the two diagnostic networks are combined and inputted into a computed tomography algorithm to reconstruct the beam shape, size, and power density distribution. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/166716 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379509 | Pao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsueh-Yuan Pao (Livermore, California); Binh-Nien Tran (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The digital Intermediate Frequency (IF) modulator applies to various modulation types and offers a simple and low cost method to implement a high-speed digital IF modulator using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The architecture eliminates multipliers and sequential processing by storing the pre-computed modulated cosine and sine carriers in ROM look-up-tables (LUTs). The high-speed input data stream is parallel processed using the corresponding LUTs, which reduces the main processing speed, allowing the use of low cost FPGAs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644561 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07378573 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of University of Arizona (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Kang Zhu (Riverside, California); Manu Agarwal (Riverside, California); Avnish Kapoor (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a protein (Snow1), mutants thereof, and nucleic acids encoding said protein, that interacts with Ice1 and which activates CBF3 promoter activity thus regulating freezing tolerance in plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/958411 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07378655 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Matthieu Liger (Pasadena, California); Ming C. Wu (Orinda, California); Jui-che Tsai (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a sensing device, such as a bolometer device or other devices. The method includes providing a substrate, e.g., silicon wafer. The method includes forming a first reflection layer overlying the substrate and forming a first electrode layer overlying the substrate. The method includes forming a sacrificial layer overlying a portion of the first reflection layer and a portion of the first electrode layer. The sacrificial layer is patterned using photolithography techniques. The patterned sacrificial layer corresponds to a cavity region. The method also forms a second electrode layer overlying the sacrificial layer and forms an elastic layer overlying the patterned sacrificial layer. The elastic layer encloses the cavity region corresponding to the patterned sacrificial layer. The method releases the sacrificial layer to form an opening in the cavity region. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/821790 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379241 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polychromix Corporation (Wilmington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malcolm C. Smith (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for processing electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus comprises a dielectric reflector, a plurality of ridges disposed on the dielectric reflector and a plurality of grooves disposed intermediate adjacent ridges to form a diffraction grating. Each of the ridges comprises a first dielectric material disposed on the dielectric reflector having a first index of refraction and a second dielectric material, having a second index of refraction different than the first index of refraction, disposed on the first dielectric material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296890 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379612 | Milanfar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, California); Sina Farsiu (Santa Cruz, California); Michael Elad (Haifa, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided of solving the dynamic super-resolution (SR) problem of reconstructing a high-quality set of monochromatic or color superresolved images from low-quality monochromatic, color, or mosaiced frames. The invention includes a joint method for simultaneous SR, deblurring, and demosaicing, this way taking into account practical color measurements encountered in video sequences. For the case of translational motion and common space-invariant blur, the proposed invention is based on a very fast and memory efficient approximation of the Kalman filter (KF). Experimental results on both simulated and real data are supplied, demonstrating the invention algorithms, and their strength. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584400 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380108 | Uht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Govenors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustus K. Uht (Cumberland, Rhode Island); David Morano (Malden, Massachusetts); David Kaeli (Medway, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computing device that provides hardware conversion of flow control predicates associated with program instructions executable within the computing device, detects the beginning and the end of a branch domain of the program instructions, and realizes the beginning and the end of the branch domain at execution time, for selectively enabling and disabling instructions within said branch domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515220 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07379857 | Piesco |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert L. Piesco (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for simulating computer networks and computer network components to test computer network security is disclosed. A user specifies a desired configuration of a simulated computer network by using a configuration manager. The user also defines all the network components within the simulated computer network by specifying whether a component should be provided in hardware or should be simulated via software. Upon receiving the above-mentioned information from the user, the configuration manager acquires the required hardware resources from a hardware inventory. The configuration manager utilizes an interface switch that connects the hardware in the hardware inventory to produce the desired network layout. Next, the specified configuration for each of the network components is pushed into the acquired hardware resources. Computer network components to be simulated with software are subsequently initialized by the configuration manager. At this point, the user can use the simulated computer network for real-time testing of network security. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/143390 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379939 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Ossining, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for classifying data from a test data stream is provided. A stream of training data having class labels is received. One or more class-specific clusters of the training data are determined and stored. At least one test instance of the test data stream is classified using the one or more class-specific clusters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/881036 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379955 | Kuehnel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Kuehnel (Stuttgart, Germany); Yuke Wang (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for and method of generating an uncorrelated pseudo-random bit sequence by first selecting a user-definable value K. Next, factoring K+1 into m prime factors q1, q2, . . . , qm, where q1, q2, . . . , qm are ordered from smallest value q1 to largest value qm. Next, generating m pseudo-random sequences r1, r2, . . . , rm, where each pseudo-random bit sequence ri is uniformly distributed over a range (0, . . . , qi−1), and where i=1, 2, . . . , m. Finally, generating the uncorrelated pseudo-random sequence as R=r1+q1r2+q1q2r3+ . . . +q1q2 . . . qm−1rm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808709 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380224 | Franco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Franco (Cincinnati, Ohio); W. Mark VanFleet (Glen Burnie, Maryland); John Schlipf (Cincinnati, Ohio); Michael R. Dransfield (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computerized method and system for solving non-linear Boolean equations is disclosed comprising at least partially solving a Boolean function; developing at least one inference regarding said Boolean function and saving said inference to a state machine; and accessing said inference from said state machine to develop at least one heuristic for determining whether said Boolean function is satisfiable. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090647 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07378557 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aijun Zhang (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Carroll (Beltsville, Maryland); Shifa Wang (Nanjing, China PRC); Jerome A. Klun (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making isolongifolenone involving reaction (−)-isolongifolene with chromium hexacarbonyl and t-butyl hydroperoxide. Also the use of isolongifolenone to repel arthropods by treating an object or area with an arthropod repelling effective amount of isolongifolenone (and optionally a carrier or carrier material). |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777795 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP18845 | Freyre |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Hampshire (Durhan, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rosanna Freyre (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultiva of Anagallis plant named ‘Wildcat Mandarin,’ characterized by its vigorous and outwardly spreading plant habit; freely branching growth habit; numerous single flowers that are bright orange in color with a pink center; and good garden performance. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437314 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07379053 | Schaefer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vortant Technologies, LLC (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for enabling a user to navigate a graphical user interface by touching pads on a touch surface. The arrangement of the pads on the touch surface is static, but the functions associated with each pad dynamically change in correspondence with functions in the graphical user interface. The functions are automatically and dynamically extracted from the software that creates the window display. Certain pads are regularly used for certain user options found in windows. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/280581 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07379241 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polychromix Corporation (Wilmington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malcolm C. Smith (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for processing electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus comprises a dielectric reflector, a plurality of ridges disposed on the dielectric reflector and a plurality of grooves disposed intermediate adjacent ridges to form a diffraction grating. Each of the ridges comprises a first dielectric material disposed on the dielectric reflector having a first index of refraction and a second dielectric material, having a second index of refraction different than the first index of refraction, disposed on the first dielectric material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296890 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07379529 | Lang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imaging Therapeutics, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to network enabled analysis of x-ray images. Also described are devices comprising calibration phantoms; methods of using these devices; methods of formulating databases containing information regarding x-ray images; the databases themselves; and methods of manipulating the information and databases. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751406 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07379483 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew P. Joseph (Johnstown, Ohio); John S. Phillips (Powell, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Dublin, Ohio); Michael N. Patena (Pataskala, Ohio); Tim Burnham (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Paul Coleman (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus processes a surface of an inhabitable structure. The apparatus includes a laser base unit which irradiates an interaction region with laser light, the laser light removing material from the structure. The laser base unit includes a laser generator and a laser head coupled to the laser generator. The laser head includes a containment plenum which confines and removes material from the interaction region. The containment plenum includes a rubber seal which contacts the structure and which substantially surrounds the interaction region, thereby facilitating confinement and removal of material from the interaction region, and providing reduced disruption to activities within the structure. The apparatus further includes an anchoring mechanism releasably coupled to the structure and releasably coupled to the laser head. The apparatus further includes a controller electrically coupled to the laser base unit. The controller transmits control signals to the laser base unit in response to user input. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205290 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/38.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07379868 | Reynolds |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Reynolds (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential compression technique is disclosed for compression individual speaker models, such as Gaussian mixture models, by computing a delta model from the difference between an individual speaker model and a baseline model. Further compression may be applied to the delta model to reduce the large storage requirements generally attributed to speaker models. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336653 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07378849 | Weatherall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRA International, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Weatherall (Linwood, New Jersey); Joseph A. Gatto (Deptford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for obtaining spatial information about an object, and for measuring the dielectric constant of an object. They include placing the object in a cavity and interacting electromagnetic radiation at a plurality of frequencies with the object to obtain a corresponding plurality of measured resonant transverse magnetic modes. They also include using the plurality of measured resonant transverse magnetic modes to obtain the spatial information for the object, and/or using the plurality of measured resonant transverse magnetic modes to obtain the dielectric constant for the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/681032 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07379231 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); James R. Elliott, Jr. (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A light control device is formed by ferroelectric material and N electrodes positioned adjacent thereto to define an N-sided regular polygonal region or circular region therebetween where N is a multiple of four. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/470771 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07379868 | Reynolds |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Reynolds (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential compression technique is disclosed for compression individual speaker models, such as Gaussian mixture models, by computing a delta model from the difference between an individual speaker model and a baseline model. Further compression may be applied to the delta model to reduce the large storage requirements generally attributed to speaker models. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336653 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07378245 | Liu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guowen Liu (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods for detecting and localizing DNA mutations by DNA microarray. In various embodiments, the described methods include use of restriction endonuclease(s) and/or mismatch-recognition nuclease(s) to detect and/or localize mutations. In one representative method, reference and target DNA are digested using one or more restriction endonucleases, resultant DNA strands are labeled (e.g., using a DNA polymerase), and the labeled mixture of DNAs is hybridized to a microarray. In another representative method, reference and target DNA are denatured and annealed to form a mixture containing heteroduplex DNA, one or more mismatch-recognition nuclease(s) are used to nick or cleave at least a portion of the heteroduplex DNA, resultant DNA strands are labeled (e.g., using a DNA polymerase) and the labeled mixture of DNAs is hybridized to a microarray. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/605826 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07379493 | Howard |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Manassas, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Howard (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal analyzer system comprises a differential operator configured to receive at least one input signal, and to determine at least one locus based on instantaneous differences in a relative rate of change between the at least one input signal and the at least one input signal's at least one nth-order derivative, wherein n represents at least one selected order of differentiation. A distortion identifier is configured to compare at least one amplitude of the at least one determined locus against at least one selected reference locus, and to identify at least one distortion in the signal when the comparison indicates at least one selected exception condition. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862738 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 27, 2008.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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