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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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| US 07380467 | Oh 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) | Chong T. Oh (Lexington Park, Maryland); William E. Farrell (Avenue, Maryland); William T. Jacoby (Lusby, Maryland); Bernard W. Baird (Avenue, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a bond integrity tool, which includes a shoulder housing, a collar shaft, and an end cap. The collar shaft has a neck portion and a mouth portion. The neck portion is disposed within the shoulder housing, and the mouth portion is able to grip a test piece. The end cap communicates with the neck portion, such that when the end cap is initiated the end cap applies force on the shoulder housing, which in turn applies force on the collar shaft, which grips the test piece such that the bond integrity between the test piece and a surface may be tested. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417287 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/827 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380488 | Mao 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) | David C. C. Mao (Rockaway, New Jersey); Frank Dindl (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A firing adapter for a combination gas and recoil operated weapon includes a blank firing barrel attached to the weapon; a piston having a barrel end and an anchor end, the barrel end being reciprocably disposed in the blank firing barrel and the anchor end being fixed to a non-recoil surface; and a gas port formed in the blank firing barrel wherein in a rest position of the weapon, the barrel end of the piston closes the gas port, and in a recoil position of the weapon, the barrel end of the piston opens the gas port. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/164933 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380548 | Ryan 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) | Kenneth F. Ryan (Weymouth, Massachusetts); Robert DiLalla (Worcester, Massachusetts); Anthony Cellucci (Norwood, Massachusetts); Louis Jamieson (Warwick, Rhode Island); Shubham Chandra (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A stove comprising a frame bounding an area to receive a burner, a heating cavity assembly mounted on the frame and having four side walls and a bottom wall having an opening therein, and a collar mounted in the heating cavity assembly around the opening. Front, rear, and side panels are mounted on the frame to enclose the side walls of the heating cavity assembly. A diffuser plate is mounted on the heating cavity assembly and covers an open top portion thereof, the diffuser plate being configured to receive heated gases rising from the burner and collar, and to distribute the heated gases evenly proximate an upper surface of the diffuser plate. A griddle plate is mounted above the diffuser plate and spaced therefrom, an undersurface of the griddle plate being opposed to the diffuser plate upper surface. The griddle plate provides an upper surface for cooking operations. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268416 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Stoves and furnaces 126/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380754 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy R. W. James (Wichita, Kansas); Lance A. Cutler (Maize, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Clamping devices and methods for supporting pipes that experience biaxial loading forces are provided. The clamping device transmits forces from the pipe to surrounding supporting frame structure. In one embodiment, a clamp apparatus includes a first piece having first and second staggered notches and a second piece having first and second staggered notches. The first and second pieces are placed in contact with each other with the first staggered notches of the first and second pieces contacting each other and the second staggered notches of the first and second pieces contacting each other. The clamp apparatus forms a cavity for receiving a pipe. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956001 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/135.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380756 | Enloe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Enloe (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Thomas E. McLaughlin (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Eric J. Jumper (Granger, Indiana); Thomas C. Corke (Granger, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A single dielectric barrier aerodynamic plasma actuator apparatus based on the dielectric barrier discharge phenomenon is disclosed and suggested for application to aerodynamic uses for drag reduction, stall elimination and airfoil efficiency improvement. In the plasma actuator apparatus non-uniform in time and space, partially ionized gasses are generated by one or more electrode pairs each having one electrically encapsulated electrode and one air stream exposed electrode and energization by a high-voltage alternating current waveform. The influence of electrical waveform variation, electrode polarity, electrode size and electrode shape on the achieved plasma are considered along with theoretical verification of achieved results. Light output, generated thrust, ionizing current waveform and magnitude and other variables are considered. Misconceptions prevailing in the present day plasma generation art are addressed and are believed-to-be corrected. The influence of electrostatic shielding effects of the developed plasma on the applied electric field are also considered. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/994029 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380800 | Klees |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chrysler LLC (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Klees (Oxford, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for controlling a vehicle suspension system switchable between two modes of operation, including a first mode for when the vehicle is experiencing an on-road driving condition and a second mode for when the vehicle is experiencing an off-road driving condition, includes a vehicle speed sensor for sensing a speed of the vehicle and generating a vehicle speed signal, which may be an inherent part of the vehicle required for other vehicle functions, such as ABS, speed, or other control. The system also includes a controller for detecting an off-road driving condition and comparing the vehicle speed signal to a predetermined speed threshold. The controller then controls the suspension system to switch to the second mode of operation upon detecting the off-road driving condition and the vehicle speed signal being less than the predetermined speed threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/154682 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/5.519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380938 | Chmielewski, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Adam Chmielewski, Jr. (Langhorne, Pennsylvania); James Regis Matey (Levitown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An eye tracking system employs a first line camera that is configured to track horizontal eye motion and a second line camera that is configured to track vertical eye motion. Output signals from the two line cameras are applied to a processor which identifies and tracks eye motion, using a correlation or edge detection algorithm on boundaries between the sclera, iris and pupil. The system includes multiple controlled light sources and the horizontal and vertical line cameras are configured to track eye motion in response to light stimulus provided by the light sources according to a programmed algorithm. Eye motion for an individual is collected and compared to a model in order to obtain a measure of fitness for the individual. The device may also be used to derive inputs to a computer system based on eye motion or gaze direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809471 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380994 | Giboney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Avago Technologies Fiber IP Pte Ltd (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk S. Giboney (Mountain View, California); Paul K. Rosenberg (Sunnyvale, California); Albert T. Yuen (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated packaging system that comprises an integral mechanical support, a printed circuit board and the optical communications device. The mechanical support includes a first support element and a second support element. The first support element extends at a non-zero angle from the second support element. The printed circuit board includes a first portion and a second portion in contact with the first support element and the second support element, respectively. The optical communications device is mechanically coupled to the first support element of the mechanical support and is electrically connected to the first portion of the printed circuit board. The integrated packaging system preferably provides automatic alignment between the optical communications device and one or both of an optical element and an optical fiber. In this case, the first support element includes a device alignment feature. The device alignment feature and the optical communications device have a defined positional relationship with respect to one another. Alternatively, the system may additionally comprise a cover assembly including a cover comprising a device alignment feature. The cover is mechanically coupled to the first support element in a position at which the device alignment feature and the optical communications device have a predetermined positional relationship with respect to one another. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932539 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381063 | 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 (Milan, 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 | 11/865253 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381246 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Thermal Environmental Concepts Ltd. (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Zhao (Fairfax, Virginia); John Lawler (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael Ohadi (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An oil separator for pressurized systems having flowing vapor with entrained oil particles, the separator including an electrically conducting enclosure having an inlet for the oil bearing vapor and a first outlet for the vapor and a second outlet for the separated oil, an electrically conductive screen positioned within the enclosure to receive the entire flow from said vapor inlet, said screen being electrically insulated from the inlet and enclosure, and a high voltage mono-polarity source connected between the screen and the enclosure. A needle-like electrode at the same potential as the enclosure is positioned at the vapor inlet to accentuate the electric field, thereby improving separation. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211988 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381311 | Aksenov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan I. Aksenov (Kharkov, Ukraine); Volodymyr E. Strelnytskiy (Kharkov, Ukraine); Volodymyr V. Vasylyev (Kharkov, Ukraine); Andrey A. Voevodin (Dayton, Ohio); John G. Jones (Dayton, Ohio); Jeffrey S. Zabinski (Yellow Springs, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A filtered cathodic-arc plasma source of lower plasma losses and higher output plasma current to input current efficiency is disclosed. Plasma filtering is accomplished in a right angle bend magnetic filter arranged to include the effects of at least three added magnetic coils located at the right angle bend of the filter path. These magnetic coils and other filter attributes, including an array of transverse fins and a magnetic cusp trap in the filter path, achieve desirable magnetic flux paths, lower plasma collision losses and reduced undesired particle output from the plasma filter. Multiple cathode sources, multiple plasma output ports, Larmour radius influence, equipotential magnetic flux lines and electron/ion interaction considerations are also included in the plasma source. Application of the plasma source to film coating processes is included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693482 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/192.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381368 | Miles 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) | Melvin H. Miles (Ridgecrest, California); M. Ashraf Imam (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A palladium-boron composition and methods of making and using same are provided. In one aspect, the invention comprises an alloy comprising palladium and boron, the boron being in solid solution in the palladium and the alloy having a two-phase structure, wherein each phase of the two-phase structure has the same crystal structure as the other phase and has a different set of lattice parameters from the other phase such that the palladium is greatly hardened by the presence of the smaller phase crystals within the spaces between the larger phase crystals. The composition is carefully prepared by a process wherein palladium and an amount of boron sufficient to place the boron in solid solution, but insufficient to combine with the palladium, are placed together and repeatedly are melted, cooled and turned over until sufficiently mixed. The hardened composition can be used to create thinner membranes for hydrogen purification and improved electrodes for generation of heat energy, and other electrochemical processes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922996 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys or metallic compositions 420/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381440 | Ringeisen 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) | Bradley R. Ringeisen (Alexandria, Virginia); Jason Barron (Alexandria, Virginia); Peter Wu (Ashland, Oregon); David B. Krizman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Marlene M. Darfler (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of laser forward transfer is disclosed. Photo energy is directed through a photon-transparent support and absorbed by an interlayer coated thereon. The energized interlayer causes the transfer of specific regions of a heterogeneous tissue sample coated thereon across a gap and onto a receiving substrate or into a receiving vessel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863833 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381448 | 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 solvent including terpene(s) or terpenoid(s), and at least one polymer including conducting polymers, electroactive polymers and/or conjugated polymers, wherein the polymers and non-halogenated solvent(s) are in non-aqueous form. In other embodiments, coating formulations, includes about 0.01% wt. to about 99.9% wt. of at least one non-halogenated solvent including a terpene or terpenoid, about 0.01% wt. to about 90% wt. of at least one polymer including conducting polymers, conjugated polymers, and electroactive polymers, and about 0.001% wt to about 90% wt. of at least one surfactant, wherein the polymers, solvents, and surfactants are in non-aqueous form. Also included are aqueous low VOC and/or toxicity coating formulations having at least one non-halogenated solvent including terpene(s) or terpenoid(s), and at least one conjugated, electroactive, or conductive polymer, copolymer, block polymer, and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472511 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/388.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381479 | Lamansky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Lamansky (Maplewood, Minnesota); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Vadim Adamovich (Los Angeles, California); Peter I. Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Chihaya Adachi (Hokkaido, Japan); Marc A. Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Raymond Kwong (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are described that produce improved electroluminescence, particularly in the blue region of the visible spectrum. Organic light emitting devices employing such emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are also described. Also described is an organic light emitting layer including a host material having a lowest triplet excited state having a decay rate of less than about 1 per second; a guest material dispersed in the host material, the guest material having a lowest triplet excited state having a radiative decay rate of greater than about 1×105 or about 1×106 per second and wherein the energy level of the lowest triplet excited state of the host material is lower than the energy level of the lowest triplet excited state of the guest material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122160 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381583 | Ebel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Ebel (Beavercreek, Ohio); Rebecca Cortez (Xenia, Ohio); Richard E. Strawser (Greenville, Ohio); Kevin D. Leedy (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitance coupled, transmission line-fed, radio frequency MEMS switch and its fabrication process using photoresist and other low temperature processing steps are described. The achieved switch is disposed in a low cost dielectric housing free of undesired electrical effects on the switch and on the transmission line(s) coupling the switch to an electrical circuit. The dielectric housing is provided with an array of sealable apertures useful for wet, but hydrofluoric acid-free, removal of switch fabrication employed materials and also useful during processing for controlling the operating atmosphere surrounding the switch—e.g. at a pressure above the high vacuum level for enhanced switch damping during operation. Alternative arrangements for sealing an array of dielectric housing apertures are included. Processing details including plan and profile drawing views, specific equipment and materials identifications, temperatures and times are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901315 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381711 | Escher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Escher (Redlands, California); Fengchun Li (Loma Linda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substance for preventing, delaying the onset of, or treating one or more than one autoimmune disease, the substance comprising a polynucleotide construct comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding the pro-apoptotic protein BAX and encoding one or more than one autoantigen for the autoimmune disease. A method for preventing, delaying the onset of or treating an autoimmune disease in a patient comprising selecting a patient who is susceptible to developing the autoimmune disease, who is developing the autoinimune disease or who has the autoinimune disease and administering to the patient one or more than one dose of a polynucleotide construct comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding the pro-apoptotic protein BAX and encoding one or more than one autoantigen for an autoimmune disease, or comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding the adenoviral protein E3-GP19k, or comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding ΔBCL-2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/523655 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381745 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Princeton, New Jersey); Jarda T. Wroblewski (Kensington, Maryland); Fajun Nan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds and formulations thereof which compounds are ligands, e.g., agonists or antagonists, for a metabotropic glutamate receptor or a NAALADase enzyme or both. The present invention also relates to methods of modulating the activity of a metabotropic glutamate receptor or a NAALADase enzyme or both, e.g., in a subject in need thereof, using a compound or formulation of the present invention. The present invention also relates to methods of treating a subject suffering from a chronic or acute disease, malady or condition due at least in part to an abnormality in the activity of an endogenous metabotropic glutamate receptor or a NAALADase enzyme or both, using a compound or formulation of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374765 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/533 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381766 | 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, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518744 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381849 | Chuang |
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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) | Chun-Hua Chuang (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the compositions and processes for preparing 2,3,3′,4′-tetramethylbenzophenone and asymmetrical dianhydrides such as 2,3,3′,4′ benzophenone dianhydride (a-BTDA), and 3,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene)diphthalic anhydride (a-6FDA). a-BTDA is prepared by Suzuki coupling with catalysts from a mixed anhydride of 3,4-dimethylbenzoic acid and 2,3-dimethylbenzoic acid with a respective 2,3-dimethylphenylboronic acid and 3,4-dimethyl phenylboronic acid to form 2,3,3′,4′-tetramethylbenzophenone which is oxidized to 2,3,3′,4′-benzophenonetetracarboxylic acid followed by cyclodehydration to obtain a-BTDA. The a-6FDA was prepared by nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of 2,3,3′,4′-tetramethylbenzophenone with trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane to form 3,4′-(trifluoromethylmethanol) bis(o-xylene) which is converted to 3,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene-bis(o-xylene). The 3,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene)-bis(o-xylene) is oxidized to the corresponding tetraacid followed by cyclodehydration to yield a-6FDA. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890104 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381937 | Ashley 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) | Paul R. Ashley (Toney, Alabama); William C. Pittman (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An image analysis and enhancement system is provided with an image processor, imaging metrics, an image storage depository, and a reconfigurable sensor device that can be present at the same location. A remote reconfigurable sensor device is connected to the image processor via a communication link. Both the reconfigurable sensor device and the remote reconfigurable sensor device are equipped with selectable optical elements and imaging elements that are selected in a desired combination and orientation to capture desired image frames from a target scene or object. The selectable optical and imaging elements are provided with actuating devices to move and translate the selected optical and imaging elements into a desired orientation with one another, so that a desired imaging technique can be employed to obtain an enhanced image. The system is applicable to industrial, medical and military use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225405 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381945 | Cotter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins Univeristy (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Cotter (Baltimore, Maryland); Benjamin D Gardner (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-of-flight mass spectrometer has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, a third electrode arranged between the first and second electrodes. The third electrode reserves a space for ions to travel between the first and second electrodes. The time-of-flight mass spectrometer further includes a sample probe disposed proximate the first electrode and adapted to hold a sample, and a detector disposed proximate the second electrode. The first electrode is adapted to be connected to a voltage source to cause a difference in voltage between the first and second electrodes to provide an electric field therebetween that changes non-linearly along an ion path between the sample probe and the detector for accelerating ions to be detected. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/516255 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reliance Electric Technologies, LLC (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Umans (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for testing an electrical characteristic of a rotor. In one embodiment, the method may include applying current to the rotor, measuring voltage drop between first and second positions on the rotor, and evaluating the electrical characteristic of the rotor based at least on the voltage drop and the current. In another embodiment, the method may include coupling a first set of leads to a first end portion of the rotor at a first set of angular positions about an axis of the rotor. The method also may include coupling a second set of leads to a second end portion of the rotor at a second set of angular positions about the axis of the rotor. In addition, the method may include coupling the first and second sets of leads to a current source to provide a current flow through the rotor from the first end portion to the second end portion. Furthermore, the method may include engaging a first probe to the first end portion and a second probe to the second end portion to measure voltage drop. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540191 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/545 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382162 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng-Hsueh Chiang (Yilan, Taiwan); Ching-Te Kent Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for employing multi-gate field effect transistors (FETS) in logic circuits formed from logic gates are provided. Double-gate transistors that conduct only when both transistor gates are active can be used to reduce the number of devices hitherto required in series or “stacked” portions of logic gates. Circuit area can be reduced and performance can be enhanced. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181954 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382312 | Hintz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Hintz (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a Syntactic Landmine Detector. The syntactic landmine detector processes a received signal from a ground penetrating RADAR which contains at least one spatial sequence, the spatial sequence containing relative spatial information locating impedance discontinuities. The spatial sequence is then associated with at least one physical characteristic of a landmine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247329 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/90 |
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| US 07382370 | Layne 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) | Geary J. Layne (Slidell, Louisiana); Marlin L. Gendron (Pass Christian, Mississippi); Maura C. Lohrenz (Pearl River, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented process for smoothing and compression of data having an ordered list of points including a first point, a second point and a third point, each of the points being on the perimeter of a polygon. The method includes determining whether the triangle defined by line segments joining the first, second, and third points has a point of significance in its interior; and if no point of significance is present in the region, removing the second point of the ordered list of points. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177651 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382535 | Hulsey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Hulsey (Florissant, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved wave plate and associated method are provided. The wave plate includes a plurality of layers of uniaxial crystal including at least one layer of positive uniaxial crystal and at least one layer of negative uniaxial crystal. The thicknesses of the layers are configured to achieve both a desired retardance and an insensitivity to angle of incidence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243393 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382780 | Moretti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Moretti (Wakefield, Rhode Island); John A. Fitzgerald (Bristol, Rhode Island); Daniel Dufresne (Somerset, Massachusetts); Ramon A. Garcia (Saunderstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of transmitting data includes synchronizing a system clock with a real time clock. Digital data is collected from multiple sources at a system clock time. A sample counter provides a count for each system clock time. The digital data for each source is associated with the count. A data cell is composed from the digital data associated with at least one count and a source identifier. A data frame is created from the data cells from every source. A cell frame is created from a plurality of data frames, and a time frame is composed from a plurality of cell frames. A heads-up cell including the count is transmitted before the time frame. A time/count cell including the count and the real time is transmitted with the associated time frame. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101115 |
| ART UNIT | 4134 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382846 | Zange et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Zange (Robins, Iowa); Michael N. Newhouse (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Robert J. Frank (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of correlating a signal to a synchronization pattern is disclosed. The signal has a waveform with frequency and phase angle components that may be varied, at each repeated signal pulse, to communicate a change in a bit pattern of the signal. A synchronization pattern is generated using knowledge of phase rotation direction due to two consecutive bits in a synchronization key. The signal is compared with the synchronization pattern. It is determined whether the comparison of the signal and the synchronization pattern indicate a correlation between the signal and the synchronization pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953224 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382933 | Dorai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chitra Dorai (Chappaqua, New York); Ying Li (Mohegan Lake, New York); Youngja Park (Edgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit relates to a theme or a topic, comprises dividing a video into a plurality of homogeneous segments, analyzing audio and visual content of the video, extracting a plurality of keywords from the speech content of each of the plurality of homogeneous segments of the video, and detecting and merging a plurality of groups of semantically related and temporally adjacent homogeneous segments into a series of semantic units in accordance with the results of both the audio and visual analysis and the keyword extraction. The present invention can be applied to generate important table-of-contents as well as index tables for videos to facilitate efficient video topic searching and browsing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/210305 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383019 | Thorsted 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) | Steve Thorsted (Freeport, Florida); Eural Chestang (Panama City, Florida); Scott Chandler (Panama City Beach, Florida); Dave Silnutzer (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A field data collection and relay station is equipped to receive sensor data from locations in a region. The station has directional antennas that are focused to transmit and receive energy in and from unique directions. The station establishes a wireless network in which the sensor data is formatted and distributed to one or more of the directional antennas. As a result, the sensor data is wirelessly transmitted in at least one unique direction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965015 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/11.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383071 | Russell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Paul R. de la Houssaye (San Diego, California); Jamie K. Pugh (San Diego, California); William Pugh (San Diego, California); Dennis E. Amundson (San Diego, California); Howard W. Walker (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment is a microprobe. An example of the microprobe comprises a housing having an aperture. This example of the microprobe also comprises an ISFET attached to the housing. The ISFET may have a gate located proximate the aperture. This example of the microprobe further comprises a reference electrode attached to the housing proximate the aperture. Another embodiment is a microsensor system. Another embodiment is a method for measuring a characteristic of tissue. Yet another condition embodiment is a method for monitoring tissue pH. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762133 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383136 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Howard Griffin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Drew M. Feiner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A reduced order model called the Fundamental Mistuning Model (FMM) accurately predicts vibratory response of a bladed disk system. The FMM software may describe the normal modes and natural frequencies of a mistuned bladed disk using only its tuned system frequencies and the frequency mistuning of each blade/disk sector (i.e., the sector frequencies). The FMM system identification methods—basic and advanced FMM ID methods—use the normal (i.e., mistuned) modes and natural frequencies of the mistuned bladed disk to determine sector frequencies as well as tuned system frequencies. FMM may predict how much the bladed disk will vibrate under the operating (rotating) conditions. Field calibration and testing of the blades may be performed using traveling wave analysis and FMM ID methods. The FMM model can be generated completely from experimental data. Because of FMM's simplicity, no special interfaces are required for FMM to be compatible with a finite element model. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445971 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383160 | Cranford, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hayden C. Cranford, Jr. (Cary, North Carolina); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method a low cost and production-integrable technique for providing a signal diagram. The data signal is edge-detected and asynchronously sampled (or alternatively a clock signal is latched). The data signal or a second signal is compared to a settable threshold voltage and sampled. The edge and comparison data are folded according to a swept timebase to find a minimum jitter period. The crossing of the signal diagram edges is determined from a peak of a histogram of the folded edge data. A histogram of ratios of the sample values versus displacement from the position of the crossing location is generated for each threshold voltage. The technique is repeated over a range of settable threshold voltages. Then, the ratio counts are differentiated across the histograms with respect to threshold voltage, from which a signal diagram is populated. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427860 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan-Willem Maessen (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system including a memory, a first processor operatively connected to a first cache, a second processor operatively connected to a second cache, a directory implemented in hardware operatively connected to the first cache, the second cache, and the memory, wherein the directory comprises at least one location, and wherein the at least one location is configured to store a first entry and a second entry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968736 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Ferenc Horkay (Rockville, Maryland); Peter Basser (Washington, District of Columbia); Adam Berman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A measurement system including a staging unit including a substrate having piezoelectric properties and a conductive electrode formed on the substrate, the conductive electrode including an area adapted to receive a sample, and an oscillator coupled to the conductive electrode. A method including in a tissue sample having a mass of less than about one microgram and that exerts a high osmotic pressure, calculating an osmotic pressure value for the tissue sample from a plurality of measurements of changes in the mass due to swelling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567105 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/865 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381163 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Gordon (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bjorn Svendesen (Stevensville, Michigan); Susan J. Harkema (Culver City, California); Sam El-Alami (Wichita, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A body weight support system that monitors and controls the level of support force within a stepcycle to result in normative center of mass movement and ground reaction forces. The system comprises a harness connected to a lift line which in turn is connected to a means for advancing and retracting the lift line. A control system is configured to monitor load on the cable and to regulate lift line advancement and retraction in response to load information. The support system can be combined with a treadmill for locomotor training of a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/278490 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381401 | Gajewski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Gajewski (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | T cell anergy has been correlated with defective Ras signaling. However, neither a causal relationship nor the mechanism of Ras hypoactivation have been established. Using adenoviral transduction of CAR Tg T cells to enable genetic manipulation in nonproliferating cells, we show that Ras61L restores IL-2 production and MAP kinase signaling in T cells anergized in vitro or in vivo. A gene array screen revealed upregulated diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) in the anergic state, which was confirmed by RT-PCR and Western blot analysis. A DGK inhibitor significantly restored IL-2 production by anergic cells. Our data support a causal role for DGK and defective Ras signaling in T cell anergy. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032516 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381405 | Liu 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) | Ke Liu (Rockville, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of preparing autologous T-lymphocytes for re-introduction into a patient having cancer, which method comprises obtaining peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from a patient immunized with an antigen of the cancer, stimulating the PBMCs with the antigen of the cancer in vitro, transducing the PBMCs with a retroviral vector, which (a) comprises and expresses a human interleukin-2 (IL-2) coding sequence operably linked to a retroviral promoter, (b) does not comprise an exogenously introduced gene that enables phenotypic selection, and (c) comprises a viral envelope that efficiently transduces CD8+ T-lymphocytes; compositions comprising cells obtained in accordance with such methods; and methods of treating a patient having cancer by administering to the patient cells obtained in accordance with such methods or compositions comprising same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/531145 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07381413 | Newell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha Karen Newell (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves methods of regulating cell growth and division to control disease processes by manipulating mitochondrial metabolism and the expression of cell surface immune proteins. The invention also involves related compositions and screening assays. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 27, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/277575 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
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| US 07381531 | Stojanovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milan N. Stojanovic (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Complex of an anti-cocaine aptamer and the dye diethylthiotricarbocyanine behaves as a calorimetric sensor with attenuation in absorbance at 760 nm for cocaine in the concentration range of 2-5000 μM. Mechanistic studies indicate an intermolecular displacement of the dye as the mechanism of action of the sensor. As the dye is insoluble in buffer, cocaine binding can be detected as displaced dye precipitates and supernatant decolorizes. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123648 |
| 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 |
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| US 07381542 | Bunzow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Bunzow (Portland, Oregon); David K. Grandy (Portland, Oregon); Mark Sonders (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel mammalian biogenic amine receptor proteins and genes that encode such proteins. The invention is directed toward the isolation and characterization of mammalian trace amine receptor proteins. The invention specifically provides isolated complementary DNA copies of mRNA corresponding to rat and human homologues of a mammalian trace amine receptor gene. Also provided are recombinant expression constructs capable of expressing the mammalian trace amine receptor genes of the invention in cultures of transformed prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, as well as such cultures of transformed cells that synthesize the mammalian trace amine receptor proteins encoded therein. The invention also provides methods for screening compounds in vitro that are capable of binding to the mammalian trace amine receptor proteins of the invention, and further characterizing the binding properties of such compounds and functional consequences thereof in comparison with known trace amine receptor agonists and antagonists. Improved methods of pharmacological screening are provided thereby. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/380614 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07381557 | Mecsas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan Mecsas (Needham, Massachusetts); Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat (Malden, Massachusetts); Ralph Isberg (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Attenuated strains of Gram negative bacteria carrying a mutation in one or more ysc genes or homologs are provided, as are methods of use for immunization against infection with a pathogenic strain and for delivery of a therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/818071 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 07381572 | Ebright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Yon W. Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A detectable complex and methods for use thereof are provided herein. The detectable complex includes: at least one target material; a first peptide tag bound to the at least one target material; and a second peptide tag bound to the at least one target material. The complex further includes a first conjugate having a detectable group and two pendant phenylarsine moieties comprising a first tag binding group; wherein the first conjugate preferentially associates with the first peptide tag; and a second conjugate having a detectable group and two pendant phenylarsine moieties comprising a second tag binding group; wherein the second conjugate preferentially associates with the second peptide tag. The mean distance and/or mean angle between the pendant phenylarsine moieties in the first conjugate is different from the mean distance and/or mean angle between the pendant phenylarsine moieties in the second conjugate. Further provided herein are useful peptide tag combinations, target materials or sets of target materials including these peptide tag combinations, and nucleic acids or nucleic acid sets encoding these compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256900 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
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| US 07381699 | Brophy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colleen Brophy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Padmini Komalavilas (Tempe, Arizona); Alyssa Panitch (Higley, Arizona); Brandon Seal (Mesa, Arizona); Lokesh Joshi (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel polypeptides comprising heat shock protein 20(HSP20)-derived polypeptides to treat or inhibit smooth muscle vasospasm, as well to treat and inhibit smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078256 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07381701 | Chakrabarty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Borad of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ananda Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois); Tapas Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Tohru Yamada (Oak Park, Illinois); Anita Chaudhari (Clifton Park, New York); Arsenio Fialho (Lisbon, Portugal); Yonghua Zhu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods of use of cupredoxins, and variants, derivatives and structural equivalents of cupredoxins that interfere with the ephrin signaling system in mammalian cells. Specifically, the invention relates to compositions and methods that use cupredoxins, such as azurin, rusticyanin and plastocyanin, and variants, derivatives and structural equivalents thereof, to treat cancer in mammals. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/436592 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381713 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sioan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Martin (Pound Ridge, New York); Joseph R. Bertino (Branford, Connecticut); Jason Koutcher (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for treating a cancer subject comprising administering to the subject a combination of ATP-depleting agents at concentrations which deplete the ATP level to at least 15% of normal in cancer cells, a pyrimidine antagonist, and an anticancer agent to which the treated cancer is sensitive. This invention also provides a composition comprising a combination of ATP-depleting agents at concentrations which deplete the ATP level to at least 15% of normal in cancer cells, a pyrimidine antagonist, and an anticancer agent to which the treated cancer is sensitive. Finally this invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the above composition or a combination thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/172346 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07381744 — Method of treating osteoporosis comprising vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase-inhibiting compounds
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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) | Michael R. Boyd (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase-inhibiting compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using them to treat or prevent a condition treatable by the inhibition of a vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase. The composition of the present invention comprises a compound of the present invention and a carrier. The method of the present invention includes administering a vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase inhibiting-effective amount of a compound of the present invention. The compound of the present invention has formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are H, saturated or unsaturated alkyl, aryl, R6CH2—, R6CO—, or R6SO2—, wherein R6 is H, saturated or unsaturated alkyl, or aryl; R3 is H, alkyl, aryl, an oxime, or an oxime methyl ether; the aromatic ring is unsubstituted or substituted; and Z is a contiguous linker comprising a chain of 0-10 atoms which, together with the five atoms beginning with the carbon of the aromatic ring in meta-relationship with OR1 and ending with the carbon directly attached to the alkyl oxygen of the lactone, integrally form a 5-17 membered ring; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, an ester, or a prodrug thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/914708 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381745 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Princeton, New Jersey); Jarda T. Wroblewski (Kensington, Maryland); Fajun Nan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds and formulations thereof which compounds are ligands, e.g., agonists or antagonists, for a metabotropic glutamate receptor or a NAALADase enzyme or both. The present invention also relates to methods of modulating the activity of a metabotropic glutamate receptor or a NAALADase enzyme or both, e.g., in a subject in need thereof, using a compound or formulation of the present invention. The present invention also relates to methods of treating a subject suffering from a chronic or acute disease, malady or condition due at least in part to an abnormality in the activity of an endogenous metabotropic glutamate receptor or a NAALADase enzyme or both, using a compound or formulation of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374765 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/533 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381748 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Northbrook, Illinois); Yue Pan (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | (1S, 3S)-3-Amino-4-difluoromethylene-1-cyclopentanoic acid illustrates a novel class of compounds as potent irreversible inhibitors of γ-aminobutyric acid aminotransferase (GABA-AT). The corresponding monofluoro-substituted compounds also are potent time-dependent inhibitors of GABA-AT. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946578 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/573 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381790 | Strominger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Strominger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Masha Fridkis-Hareli (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Random three- and four-amino acid copolymers having lengths of 14-, 35- and 50-amino acid residues are provided. Fifty-mers of FEAK were effective inhibitors of MBP 85-99- or proteolipid protein (PLP) 40-60-specific HLA-DR-2-restricted T cell clones. These copolymers efficiently suppressed the mouse disease EAE, which was induced in a susceptible SJL/J (H-2S) strain of mice with either whole spinal cord homogenate (WSCH) or with the encephalitogenic epitope PLP 139-151 (SEQ ID NO:4). YFAK 50-mer having a molar ratio of about Y 0.8:F 0.2 inhibited binding of biotinylated MBP 85-99 epitope to HLA-DR-2 molecules more efficiently than either unlabeled MBP 85-99 or Copaxone®. YFAK and FAK copolymers efficiently suppressed EAE induced in SJL/J (H-2S) mice with the encephalitogenic epitope PLP 139-151. Copolymers YFAK, VYAK and tryptophan-containing VWAK were efficacious in alleviating severity and duration of symptoms of EAE induced by MBP 85-99 (SEQ ID NO:2), in a humanized mouse model expressing genes for both an HLA-DR-2 linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans and for a T cell receptor from an MS patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406783 |
| 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 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381793 | Patti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inhibitex, Inc. (Alpharetta, Georgia); BioResearch Ireland (Dublin, Ireland); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Patti (Cumming, Georgia); Timothy J. Foster (Dublin, Ireland); Elisabet Josefsson (Gothenburg, Sweden); Deidre Ni Eidhin (Dublin, Ireland); Magnus A. O. Hook (Houston, Texas); Samuel E. Perkins (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated extracellular matrix-binding proteins, designated ClfB, SdrC, SdrD and SdrE, and their corresponding amino acid and nucleic acid sequences and motifs are described. The proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are useful for the prevention, inhibition, treatment and diagnosis of S. aureus infection and as scientific research tools. Further, antibodies or antibody fragments to the proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are also useful for the prevention, inhibition, treatment and diagnosis of S. aureus infection. In particular, the proteins or antibodies thereof may be administered to wounds or used to coat biomaterials to act as blocking agents to prevent or inhibit the binding of S. aureus to wounds or biomaterials. ClfB is a cell-wall associated protein having a predicted molecular weight of approximately 88 kDa and an apparent molecular weight of approximately 124 kDa, which binds both soluble and immobilized fibrinogen. ClfB binds both the alpha and beta chains of fibrinogen and acts as a clumping factor. SdrC, SdrD and SdrE are cell-wall associated proteins that exhibit cation-dependent ligand binding to the extracellular matrix. It has been discovered that in the A region of SdrC, SdrD, SdrE, ClfA and ClfB, there is a highly conserved amino acid sequence that can be used to derive a consensus motif of TYTFTDYVD. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/744672 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381799 | Papathanassiu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ergon Pharmaceuticals LLC (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adonia E. Papathanassiu (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a treatment for mammalian diseases characterized by pathological angiogenesis. The treatment consists of administering therapeutically active dosages of peptides containing specific amino acid sequences or antibodies that bind to cell membrane antigens on the surface of rapidly dividing endothelial cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806419 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 07381945 | Cotter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins Univeristy (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Cotter (Baltimore, Maryland); Benjamin D Gardner (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-of-flight mass spectrometer has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, a third electrode arranged between the first and second electrodes. The third electrode reserves a space for ions to travel between the first and second electrodes. The time-of-flight mass spectrometer further includes a sample probe disposed proximate the first electrode and adapted to hold a sample, and a detector disposed proximate the second electrode. The first electrode is adapted to be connected to a voltage source to cause a difference in voltage between the first and second electrodes to provide an electric field therebetween that changes non-linearly along an ion path between the sample probe and the detector for accelerating ions to be detected. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/516255 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381958 | Karp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel S. Karp (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Suleman Surti (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A Lanthanum Halide scintillator (for example LaCl3 and LaBr3) with fast decay time and good timing resolution, as well as high light output and good energy resolution, is used in the design of a PET scanner. The PET scanner includes a cavity for accepting a patient and a plurality of PET detector modules arranged in an approximately cylindrical configuration about the cavity. Each PET detector includes a Lanthanum Halide scintillator having a plurality of Lanthanum Halide crystals, a light guide, and a plurality of photomultiplier tubes arranged respectively peripherally around the cavity. The good timing resolution enables a time-of-flight (TOF) PET scanner to be developed that exhibits a reduction in noise propagation during image reconstruction and a gain in the signal-to-noise ratio. Such a PET scanner includes a time stamp circuit that records the time of receipt of gamma rays by respective PET detectors and provides timing data outputs that are provided to a processor that, in turn, calculates time-of-flight (TOF) of gamma rays through a patient in the cavity and uses the TOF of gamma rays in the reconstruction of images of the patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706799 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382267 | Brendley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artis LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith W. Brendley (McLean, Virginia); Jed Marti (Salt Lake City, Utah); William Virnig (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | “Smartmat” (Smartmat Area Activity Monitor and Personnel Identification System) monitors and identifies people, animals and other objects that pass through a control volume. Among other attributes, the exemplary system implementation can count, classify and identify objects, such as pedestrians, animals, bicycles, wheelchairs, vehicles, rollerbladers and other objects, either singly or in groups. Exemplary Smartmat implementations differentiate objects based on weight, footprint and floor/wall pressure patterns such as footfall patterns of pedestrians and other patterns. The system may be applied to security monitoring, physical activity monitoring, market traffic surveys and other traffic surveys, security checkpoint/gate monitoring, traffic light activation and other device activation such as security cameras, and other monitoring applications. Smartmat may be portable or permanently installed. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045579 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382449 | Peterman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alces Technology (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Peterman (Jackson, Wyoming); David M. Bloom (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-point confocal microscopy, bright field microscope imaging, computer-controlled positioning stages, and an algorithm for automated leveling are the basis for a powerful but simple tool for aligning stamps used in precise pattern transfer to substrates. The system is relatively inexpensive and brings a capability similar to that of a photolithographic mask aligner to the world of elastomeric-stamp-based lithography. Alignment of the stamp and substrate is possible without contact between the two before printing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/905210 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/139.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07380540 | Duffy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Duffy (Metamora, Illinois); Parag Mehresh (Peoria, Illinois); David Schuh (Peoria, Illinois); Andrew J. Kieser (Morton, Illinois); Carl-Anders Hergart (Peoria, Illinois); William L. Hardy (Peoria, Illinois); Anthony Rodman (Chillicothe, Illinois); Michael P. Liechty (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A homogenous charge compression ignition engine is operated by compressing a charge mixture of air, exhaust and fuel in a combustion chamber to an autoignition condition of the fuel. The engine may facilitate a transition from a first combination of speed and load to a second combination of speed and load by changing the charge mixture and compression ratio. This may be accomplished in a consecutive engine cycle by adjusting both a fuel injector control signal and a variable valve control signal away from a nominal variable valve control signal. Thereafter in one or more subsequent engine cycles, more sluggish adjustments are made to at least one of a geometric compression ratio control signal and an exhaust gas recirculation control signal to allow the variable valve control signal to be readjusted back toward its nominal variable valve control signal setting. By readjusting the variable valve control signal back toward its nominal setting, the engine will be ready for another transition to a new combination of engine speed and load. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699522 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07380962 | Chaves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (Altadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julio C. Chaves (Santa Ana, California); Waqidi Falicoff (Newport Beach, California); Juan C. Minano (Madrid, Spain); Pablo Benitez (Madrid, Spain); William A. Parkyn, Jr. (Lomita, California); Roberto Alvarez (Glendale, California); Oliver Dross (Madrid, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical manifold for efficiently combining a plurality of blue LED outputs to illuminate a phosphor for a single, substantially homogeneous output, in a small, cost-effective package. Embodiments are disclosed that use a single or multiple LEDs and a remote phosphor, and an intermediate wavelength-selective filter arranged so that backscattered photoluminescence is recycled to boost the luminance and flux of the output aperture. A further aperture mask is used to boost phosphor luminance with only modest loss of luminosity. Alternative non-recycling embodiments provide blue and yellow light in collimated beams, either separately or combined into white. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329294 |
| ART UNIT | 2885 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381010 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worth Wind, Inc. (Assignee of the interest of Grams, Crass, and Riess) (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Alexander (Richland, Washington); Dennis Crass (Kennewick, Washington); William Grams (Kennewick, Washington); Steven J. Phillips (Sunnyside, Washington); Mark Riess (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a system and method for removal of buried objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a crane with a vibrator casing driver is used to lift and suspend a large diameter steel casing over the buried object. Then the casing is driven into the ground by the vibratory driver until the casing surrounds the buried object. Then the open bottom of the casing is sealed shut by injecting grout into the ground within the casing near its bottom. When the seal has cured and hardened, the top of the casing is lifted to retrieve the casing, with the buried object inside, from the ground. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512745 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381029 | Moroz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emilian Mieczyslaw Moroz (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multisection blade for a wind turbine includes a hub extender having a pitch bearing at one end, a skirt or fairing having a hole therethrough and configured to mount over the hub extender, and an outboard section configured to couple to the pitch bearing. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955452 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/132.B00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381694 | Davenhall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leisa B. Davenhall (Santa Fe, New Mexico); James B. Rubin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Craig M. V. Taylor (Jemez Springs, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Composition and method for removing photoresist materials from electronic components. The composition is a mixture of at least one dense phase fluid and at least one dense phase fluid modifier. The method includes exposing a substrate to at least one pulse of the composition in a supercritical state to remove photoresist materials from the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/034519 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381958 | Karp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel S. Karp (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Suleman Surti (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A Lanthanum Halide scintillator (for example LaCl3 and LaBr3) with fast decay time and good timing resolution, as well as high light output and good energy resolution, is used in the design of a PET scanner. The PET scanner includes a cavity for accepting a patient and a plurality of PET detector modules arranged in an approximately cylindrical configuration about the cavity. Each PET detector includes a Lanthanum Halide scintillator having a plurality of Lanthanum Halide crystals, a light guide, and a plurality of photomultiplier tubes arranged respectively peripherally around the cavity. The good timing resolution enables a time-of-flight (TOF) PET scanner to be developed that exhibits a reduction in noise propagation during image reconstruction and a gain in the signal-to-noise ratio. Such a PET scanner includes a time stamp circuit that records the time of receipt of gamma rays by respective PET detectors and provides timing data outputs that are provided to a processor that, in turn, calculates time-of-flight (TOF) of gamma rays through a patient in the cavity and uses the TOF of gamma rays in the reconstruction of images of the patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706799 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382856 | Radley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc. (East Greenbush, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Radley (Glenmont, New York); Thomas J. Bievenue (Delmar, New York); John H. Burdett (Charlton, New York); Brian W. Gallagher (Guilderland, New York); Stuart M. Shakshober (Hudson, New York); Zewu Chen (Schenectady, New York); Michael D. Moore (Alplaus, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray source assembly and method of operation are provided having enhanced output stability. The assembly includes an anode having a source spot upon which electrons impinge and a control system for controlling position of the anode source spot relative to an output structure. The control system can maintain the anode source spot location relative to the output structure notwithstanding a change in one or more operating conditions of the x-ray source assembly. One aspect of the disclosed invention is most amenable to the analysis of sulfur in petroleum-based fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672666 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383030 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Dewayne Brown (Grain Valley, Missouri); David Dunson (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed data transmitter (DTXR) which is an adaptive data communication microwave transmitter having a distributable architecture of modular components, and which incorporates both digital and microwave technology to provide substantial improvements in physical and operational flexibility. The DTXR has application in, for example, remote data acquisition involving the transmission of telemetry data across a wireless link, wherein the DTXR is integrated into and utilizes available space within a system (e.g., a flight vehicle). In a preferred embodiment, the DTXR broadly comprises a plurality of input interfaces; a data modulator; a power amplifier; and a power converter, all of which are modularly separate and distinct so as to be substantially independently physically distributable and positionable throughout the system wherever sufficient space is available. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372164 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383053 | Kent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia A. Kent (Pleasanton, California); Farid Dowla (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a system and method using wireless communication interfaces coupled with statistical processing of time-of-flight data to locate by position estimation unknown wireless receivers. Such an invention can be applied in sensor network applications, such as environmental monitoring of water in the soil or chemicals in the air where the position of the network nodes is deemed critical. Moreover, the present invention can be arranged to operate in areas where a Global Positioning System (GPS) is not available, such as inside buildings, caves, and tunnels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/834706 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/456.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383490 | Almasi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe Almasi (Ardsley, New York); Matthias Augustin Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton-On-Hudson, New York); Paul Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Dirk I. Hoenicke (Ossining, New York); Sarabjeet Singh (Mississauga, Canada); Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow (Wernau, Germany); Todd Takken (Brewster, New York); Pavlos Vranas (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus perform fault isolation in multiple node computing systems using commutative error detection values for—example, checksums—to identify and to isolate faulty nodes. When information associated with a reproducible portion of a computer program is injected into a network by a node, a commutative error detection value is calculated. At intervals, node fault detection apparatus associated with the multiple node computer system retrieve commutative error detection values associated with the node and stores them in memory. When the computer program is executed again by the multiple node computer system, new commutative error detection values are created and stored in memory. The node fault detection apparatus identifies faulty nodes by comparing commutative error detection values associated with reproducible portions of the application program generated by a particular node from different runs of the application program. Differences in values indicate a possible faulty node. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106069 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07381186 | Ueno 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) | Toshiaki Ueno (San Diego, California); Alan R. Hargens (San Diego, California); William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for measuring pressure buildup in a body compartment that encases muscular tissue. The method includes assessing the body compartment configuration and identifying the effect of pulsatile components on at least one compartment dimension. This process is used in preventing tissue necrosis, and in decisions of whether to perform surgery on the body compartment for prevention of Compartment Syndrome. An apparatus is used for measuring excess pressure in the body compartment having components for imparting ultrasonic waves such as a transducer, placing the transducer to impart the ultrasonic waves, capturing the reflected imparted ultrasonic waves, and converting them to electrical signals, a pulsed phase-locked loop device for assessing a body compartment configuration and producing an output signal, and means for mathematically manipulating the output signal to thereby categorize pressure build-up in the body compartment from the mathematical manipulations. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911755 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381459 | Stewart 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 (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Stewart (Santa Cruz, California); Daniel B. Leiser (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite thermal protection structure, for applications such as atmospheric re-entry vehicles, that can withstand temperatures as high as 3600° F. The structure includes an exposed surface cap having a specially formulated coating, an insulator base adjacent to the cap with another specially formulated coating, and one or more pins that extend from the cap through the insulator base to tie the cap and base together, through ceramic bonding and mechanical attachment. The cap and insulator base have corresponding depressions and projections that mate and allow for differences in thermal expansion of the cap and base. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779504 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382944 | Banks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administration of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Banks (Olmstead Township, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of producing cones and pillars on polymethylmethacralate (PMMA) optical fibers for glucose monitoring. The method, in one embodiment, consists of using electron beam evaporation to deposit a non-contiguous thin film of aluminum on the distal ends of the PMMA fibers. The partial coverage of aluminum on the fibers is randomly, but rather uniformly distributed across the end of the optical fibers. After the aluminum deposition, the ends of the fibers are then exposed to hyperthermal atomic oxygen, which oxidizes the areas that are not protected by aluminum. The resulting PMMA fibers have a greatly increased surface area and the cones or pillars are sufficiently close together that the cellular components in blood are excluded from passing into the valleys between the cones and pillars. The optical fibers are then coated with appropriated surface chemistry so that they can optically sense the glucose level in the blood sample than that with conventional glucose monitoring. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489813 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383238 | Iverson |
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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) | David L. Iverson (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an Inductive Monitoring System (IMS), its software implementations, hardware embodiments and applications. Training data is received, typically nominal system data acquired from sensors in normally operating systems or from detailed system simulations. The training data is formed into vectors that are used to generate a knowledge database having clusters of nominal operating regions therein. IMS monitors a system's performance or health by comparing cluster parameters in the knowledge database with incoming sensor data from a monitored-system formed into vectors. Nominal performance is concluded when a monitored-system vector is determined to lie within a nominal operating region cluster or lies sufficiently close to a such a cluster as determined by a threshold value and a distance metric. Some embodiments of IMS include cluster indexing and retrieval methods that increase the execution speed of IMS. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789029 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07380453 | Van Every et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Design Consulting USA, Inc (Lansing, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Van Every (Lansing, New York); Eric A Johnson (Greene, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An undersea logging device has a pressure sensor and at least one environmental parameter sensor. The data measured by the sensors is logged and is wirelessly transmitted when a preset value of pressure is detected by the pressure sensor. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532518 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381338 | van Leeuwen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nutech 03, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes van Leeuwen (County of Story, Iowa); Michael D. Jennings (Ellicott City, Maryland); Richard A. Mueller (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Jack H. Robinson (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system treat ballast-water with ozone without release of detrimental off-gas into the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246235 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381850 | Godschalx et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technologies Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Godschalx (Midland, Michigan); Robert E. Hefner, Jr. (Lake Jackson, Texas); Q. Jason Niu (Excelsior, Minnesota); H. Craig Silvis (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A monomer suitable for use in forming low dielectric constant films in semiconductor devices comprising i) two dienophile groups (A-functional groups) attached to a single aromatic ring and ii) a second ring structure comprising two conjugated carbon-to-carbon double bonds and a leaving group L (B-functional group), characterized in that said single aromatic ring is directly covalently attached to one of the double bonded carbons of the B functional group or to a fused aromatic ring containing two such double bonded carbons of the B-functional group, and one A-functional group of one monomer is capable of reaction under cycloaddition reaction conditions with the B-functional group of a second monomer to thereby form a polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/549382 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07381246 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Thermal Environmental Concepts Ltd. (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Zhao (Fairfax, Virginia); John Lawler (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael Ohadi (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An oil separator for pressurized systems having flowing vapor with entrained oil particles, the separator including an electrically conducting enclosure having an inlet for the oil bearing vapor and a first outlet for the vapor and a second outlet for the separated oil, an electrically conductive screen positioned within the enclosure to receive the entire flow from said vapor inlet, said screen being electrically insulated from the inlet and enclosure, and a high voltage mono-polarity source connected between the screen and the enclosure. A needle-like electrode at the same potential as the enclosure is positioned at the vapor inlet to accentuate the electric field, thereby improving separation. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211988 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381799 | Papathanassiu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ergon Pharmaceuticals LLC (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adonia E. Papathanassiu (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a treatment for mammalian diseases characterized by pathological angiogenesis. The treatment consists of administering therapeutically active dosages of peptides containing specific amino acid sequences or antibodies that bind to cell membrane antigens on the surface of rapidly dividing endothelial cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806419 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 07382449 | Peterman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alces Technology (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Peterman (Jackson, Wyoming); David M. Bloom (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-point confocal microscopy, bright field microscope imaging, computer-controlled positioning stages, and an algorithm for automated leveling are the basis for a powerful but simple tool for aligning stamps used in precise pattern transfer to substrates. The system is relatively inexpensive and brings a capability similar to that of a photolithographic mask aligner to the world of elastomeric-stamp-based lithography. Alignment of the stamp and substrate is possible without contact between the two before printing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/905210 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/139.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07381305 | Zhu 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) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Freya Tan (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland Gleisner (Jefferson, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are presented for determining the quantity of liquid and solid content in a removal stream of a froth created from a suspension that is generated during a froth flotation operation. Specifically, electrodes are immersed in the froth generated from a suspension having a known quantity of fiber particles, and the conductance of the froth is measured to establish a relationship between the measured conductance and the quantity of fiber particles. The electrodes are then submerged in a froth generated from a suspension having an unknown quantity of fiber particles, and the froth conductance is measured. The quantity of fiber particles in the froth can then be determined from the pre-established relationship between conductance and solid particle content. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090537 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07381862 | St. Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven St. Martin (Columbus, Ohio); Anne Dorrance (Wooster, Ohio); Kara Burnham (Portland, Oregon); Ron Fioritto (Wooster, Ohio); David Francis (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides soybean plants having a novel determinant, Rps8, for resistance to Phytophthora sojae. The invention also provides methods for identifying germplasms that are either heterozygous or homozygous for Rps8 using marker assisted selection. Genetic and enzymatic markers with known chromosomal loci that are associated with the Rps8 locus are used to confirm Rps8-derived Phytophthora sojae resistance in germplasms. Marker assisted selection also used when introgressing Rps8-derived soybean Phytophthora sojae resistance into non-resistant soybean germplasm or less resistant soybean germplasms. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/436376 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07381400 | Woltering |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene A. Woltering (Kenner, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A one-step procedure for sentinel lymph node identification and biopsy using a single compound, a radiolabeled, low molecular weight dye (e.g., 125I-labeled methylene blue). This radiolabled dye is mixed with an unlabeled, similar molecular weight dye (e.g., isosulfan or methylene blue). The mixture is injected at the time of surgery, and rapidly migrates to reach the lymph nodes in less than 20 min, more preferably in less than 15 min and most preferably in less than 10 min. Using rabbits, rapid transit of 125I-methylene blue to regional lymph nodes with limited systemic biodistribution has been confirmed. By admixing small amounts of radiolabeled dye with a large amount of unlabeled dye, the sentinel lymph node identification was similar to that for the prior two-step dual mapping process, but with enhanced SLN localization because of the lower energy gamma emission of 125I as compared with 99mTc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890420 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383107 | Fehr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Fehr (Berwyn, Illinois); Steven B. Skaar (Granger, Indiana); Guillermo Del Castillo (Mishawaka, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A wheelchair navigation system for a motorized wheelchair includes dual cameras, proximity sensors, microphones, and rotation sensors for the wheels. Small markers are placed on the walls of a location or room. The navigation system uses the proximity sensors, rotation sensors and cameras in conjunction with the specialized software to determine where objects or impediments are located in the room and thereby redirect the path of the wheelchair so as to avoid such objects. The wheelchair is walked through the marked location thereby ‘teaching’ various paths which are recorded in the computer and recalled later when the wheelchair is in use. The proximity sensor perform sensing operations during performance of the teaching functions for thereby permitting avoidance of wheelchair collision with obstacles during navigation of the wheelchair through a taught trajectory and allowing for close approach of the wheelchair to solid bodies present during performance of the teaching functions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890411 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07381391 | Spencer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Spencer (Ithaca, New York); Francis J. DiSalvo (Ithaca, New York); Huaqiang Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and a novel high-yielding process for preparing high purity Group III nitrides. The process involves heating a Group III metal and a catalytic amount of a metal wetting agent in the presence of a nitrogen source. Group III metals can be stoichiometrically converted into high purity Group III nitride powders in a short period of time. The process can provide multi-gram quantities of high purity Group III nitrides in relatively short reaction times. Detailed characterizations of GaN powder were preformed and are reported herein, including morphology and structure by SEM and XRD, optical properties by cathodoluminescence (CL), and Raman spectra to determine the quality of the GaN particles. The purity of GaN powder was found to be greater than 99.9% pure, as analyzed by Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS). Green, yellow, and red light emission can be obtained from doped GaN powders. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/650569 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07382132 | Mathew et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Texas A and M University System, A Texas State Agency (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Mathew (College Station, Texas); Eddy Benjamin Boskamp (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin); Leroy Blawat (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); John E Lorbiecki (Hubertus, Wisconsin); Bernice E Hoppel (Delafield, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for acquiring high resolution MR images of a carotid artery. A six-channel RF coil array has three RF coils placed in an overlapping pattern and positioned adjacent to a first region-of-interest (ROI) of an imaging patient. The six-channel RF coil also has three RF coils placed in an overlapping pattern and positioned adjacent to a second ROI of an imaging patient. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908176 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07383026 | Detch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Nation Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lewis Detch (Severna Park, Maryland); Hugh Warren Schwartz (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel single wideband retroreflector is disclosed that eliminates the need for a local oscillator and a local transmitter. The wideband retroreflector of the present invention comprises an antenna, a circulator, and a mixer. An externally produced continuous wave radio wave transmission within the microwave-millimeter wave frequency band is modulated with a wideband signal with a minimum operating instantaneous bandwidth of 5 KHz-500 MHz and retransmitted as a modulated waveform by the antenna. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254119 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07383128 | Chandler |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Larry S. Chandler (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Representations of data inversions are generated by alternate forms of maximum likelihood estimating and associated least-squares and regression analysis which are rendered in correspondence with either single component residual deviations or projections between data samples and inversion-conforming data sets. Deficiencies in representing likelihood as related to errors-in-variables data and heterogeneous precision are compensated by composite weighting of likelihood elements. Composite weight factors employ both normalization to establish non-skewed homogeneous likelihood elements and fundamental weighting to compensate for associated non-linearly and establish common units for combining orthogonal coordinate-oriented data-point projections. Respective weight factors are related to alternately considered fundamental variables. Variance or alternate representation, as related to statistically independent sampling, is utilized as assumed applicable or replaced by composite variability representing single coordinate variations as affected by orthogonal coordinate sampling dispersions. Statistical rendition is generated as a replacement for unquantifiable dependent variable representation. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266224 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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