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| US 07392707 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioTechPlex Corporation (San Marcos, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lid B. Wong (San Diego, California); Hua Mao (San Diego, California); Donovan B. Yeates (Chicago, Illinois); Kim SangKyung (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter Hesketh (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for monitoring low dynamic pressures in confined spaces, such system comprising a catheter, a multilayered corrugated membrane of diameter less than 2 mm with a reflective inner layer mounted within said catheter; a set of optical fibers comprising one or more illuminating fibers and two or more detecting fibers which are contained within said catheter and whose ends are set at differing distances from the membrane; an illuminating system coupled to said illuminating fibers; and a detection system coupled to said illuminating fibers. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/546966 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
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| US 07393525 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Powell (Baltimore, Maryland); George K. Lewis (Baltimore, Maryland); David M. Hone (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells is disclosed comprising infecting said the animal cells with live invasive bacteria, wherein bacteria contain a eukaryotic expression cassette encoding said gene. The gene may encode, e.g., a vaccine antigen, an therapeutic agent, an immunoregulatory agent or a anti-sense RNA or a catalytic RNA. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/369519 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07393533 | Crotty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Crotty (San Diego, California); Philip L Felgner (Rancho Santa Fe, California); David Huw Davies (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to, among other things, methods of protecting against poxvirus infection or pathogenesis and including pox viruses such as small pox (variola major and variola minor), cowpox, monkey pox vaccinia virus, and Molluscum Contagiosum using compositions such as human, humanized and chimeric antibodies that specifically bind to H3L protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269054 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/147.100 |
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| US 07393634 | Ahuja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Texas System, Board of Regents (Austin, Texas); The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Ahuja (San Antonio, Texas); Enrique Gonzales (San Antonio, Texas); Srinivas Mummidi (San Antonio, Texas); Matthew J. Dolan (San Antonio, Texas); Mike Bamshad (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions, methods and uses for identifying persons at an increased risk of infection by, transmission of, or accelerated progression of a disease caused by an HIV-1 virus. Diagnostic, prognostic and combined therapeutic kits are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/089595 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07393652 | Marks |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Robert Marks (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel 1,4-benzothiazepine intermediates and derivatives, methods for synthesizing same, and methods for assaying same. The present invention also provides methods for using these novel compounds to limit or prevent a decrease in the level of RyR2-bound FKBP12.6 in a subject; to prevent exercise-induced sudden cardiac death in a subject; and to treat or prevent heart failure, atrial fibrillation, or exercise-induced cardiac arrhythmia in a subject. The present invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that enhances binding of RyR2 and FKBP12.6, and agents identified by these methods. Additionally, the present invention provides methods for identifying agents for use in treating or preventing heart failure, atrial fibrillation, or exercise-induced cardiac arrhythmia, and in preventing exercise-induced sudden cardiac death. Also provided are agents identified by such methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088123 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07393653 | Jan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiwen Jan (San Diego, California); Michelle Matter (Martinsville, New Jersey); Jih-tung Pai (San Diego, California); Erkki Ruoslahti (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of identifying an effective agent that alters the association of a Bit1 polypeptide with an AES polypeptide. The method is practiced by contacting a Bit1 polypeptide, or active fragment thereof, and an AES polypeptide, or active fragment thereof, with an agent under conditions that allow the Bit1 polypeptide or active fragment thereof to associate with the AES polypeptide or active fragment thereof; and detecting an altered association of the Bit1 polypeptide or active fragment thereof and the AES polypeptide or active fragment thereof, where an altered association indicates that the agent is an effective agent that alters the association of a Bit1 polypeptide with an AES polypeptide. Such an effective agent can modulate apoptosis and can be a useful therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655755 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| US 07393666 | Tamm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo Tamm (Berlin, Germany); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods of regulating cellular apoptosis by affecting the interaction of hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) with Survivin are described. More specifically, these novel methods of enhancing apoptosis of neoplastic cells comprises inhibiting interaction of hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) with Survivin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/440177 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
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| US 07393682 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polynucleotides encoding promyostatin polypeptides or a peptide portion thereof, polynucleotides complementary thereto, and oligonucleotides that can specifically hybridize to such polynucleotides. The present invention also provides an isolated polynucleotide encoding a mature myostatin peptide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/708693 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07393686 | Jessell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Jessell (Bronx, New York); James Briscoe (London, United Kingdom); Johan Ericson (Hasselby, Sweden); John L. R. Rubenstein (San Francisco, California); Maike Sander (Hamburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of converting a stem cell into a ventral neuron which comprises introducing into the stem cell a nucleic acid which expresses homeodomain transcription factor Nkx6.1 protein in the stem cell so as to thereby convert the stem cell into the ventral neuron. Provided are methods of diagnosing a motor neuron degenerative disease in a subject. Also provides is a method of treating neuronal degeneration in a subject which comprises implanting in diseased neural tissue of the subject a neural stem cell which comprises an isolated nucleic acid molecule which is capable of expressing homeodomain Nkx6.1 protein under conditions such that the stem cell is converted into a motor neuron after implantation, thereby treating neuronal degeneration in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/654462 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07393691 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Alan D. Gift (Wallingford, Connecticut); Frank E. Inscore (Bristol, Connecticut); Chetan S. Shende (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967486 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
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| US 07393692 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Frank E. Inscore (Bristol, Connecticut); Alan D. Gift (Lafayette, Indiana); Chetan S. Shende (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098844 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
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| US 07393835 | Mochly-Rosen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | PKC V5 isozyme-specific peptides are described. The sequences and compositions comprising the sequences are useful for treating diseases states associated with the PKC isozyme from which they are respectively derived. Methods of treatment, pharmaceutical formulations and methods of identifying compounds that mimic the activity of the peptides are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/513003 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17 |
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07393855 — 2,2-bis-(hydroxymethyl)cyclopropylidenemethyl-purines and pyrimidines as antiviral agents
| US 07393855 | Zemlicka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiri Zemlicka (Warren, Michigan); Shaoman Zhou (Detroit, Michigan); John C. Drach (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds which are active against viruses have the following formulas: wherein B is a purine or pyrimidine heterocyclic ring or base. In a preferred embodiment, the purine include 6-aminopurine (adenine), 6-hydroxypurine (hypoxanthine), 2-amino-6-hydroxypurine (guanine), 2,6-diamino-purine, 2-amino-6-azidopurine, 2-amino-6-halo substituted purines such as 2-amino-6-chloropurine, 2-amino-6-fluoropurine, 2-amino-6-alkoxypurines such as 2-amino-6-methoxypurine, 2-amino-6-cyclopropylaminopurine, 2-amino-6-alkylamino or 2-amino-6-dialkylamino substituted purines, 2-amino-6-thiopurine, 2-amino-6-alkylthio substituted purines, 3-deazapurines, 7-deazapurines and 8-azapurines. The pyrimidine incorporates cytosine, uracil and thymine, 5-halo substituted cytosines and uracils, 5-alkyl substituted cytosines and uracils including derivatives with a saturated or unsaturated alkyl group and 6-azapyrimidines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/942313 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.100 |
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| US 07393864 | Lamb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred S. Lamb (Solon, Iowa); Brian C. Schutte (Iowa City, Iowa); Baoli Yang (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the modulation of vascular tone in a patient having compromised vascular tissue, which methods comprise the administration of a chloride channel blocking agent or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/930105 |
| 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 514/324 |
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| US 07393918 | Golemi-Kotra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dasantila Golemi-Kotra (Thornhill, Canada); Alanna S. Schepartz Shrader (Wilton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain aspects, the present invention provides miniature proteins resulted from a protein scaffold such as an avian pancreatic polypeptide that can be modified by substitution of at least one amino acid residue. In other aspects, the present invention provides diagnostic and therapeutic uses of these miniature proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009101 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07393922 | Dean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald H. Dean (Columbus, Ohio); Mohd Amir Abdullah (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to modified Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal crystal proteins, also referred to as mutant toxins, with enhanced toxicity against a variety of insect genera, particularly mosquitos. The invention provides modified Bt Cry4Ba proteins, or mutant toxins, which have toxicity-enhancing sequence modifications at one or more positions within the amino acid sequence of the protein. The invention also provides polynucleotides encoding modified Cry4Ba proteins. The invention also provides insecticidal compositions comprising mutant toxins with a new or broadened insecticidal spectrum, and insecticidal compositions comprising polynucleotides encoding the modified Cry4Ba proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/929754 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07393923 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods using somatic hypermutation (SHM) for producing polypeptide and nucleic acid variants, and nucleic acids encoding such polypeptide variants are disclosed. Such variants may have desired properties. Also disclosed are novel polypeptides, such as improved fluorescent proteins, produced by the novel methods, and nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells comprising such vectors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984694 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07393927 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongwon Choi (New York, New York); Brian Wong (New York, New York); Regis Josien (New York, New York); Ralph Steinman (Westport, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of modulating immune response in an animal is disclosed. Such a method interacting the immature dendritic cells from the animal with an antigen ex vivo so that the immature dendritic cells present the antigen on their surfaces, inducing maturation of the immature dendritic cells ex vivo, and contacting the mature dendritic cells ex vivo with a modulator comprising TRANCE, conservative variants thereof, fragments thereof, analogs or derivatives thereof, or a fusion protein comprising the amino acid sequence of TRANCE, conservative variants thereof, or fragments thereof. After contacting the modulator ex vivo, the mature dendritic cells are introduced into the animal. As a result, immune response in the animal towards the antigen is modulated relative to the immune response against the antigen in an animal in which dendritic cells did not interact with the antigen ex vivo, and did not contact a modulator ex vivo. Preferably, the method of the present invention results in increasing immune response towards the antigen in the animal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032797 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/351 |
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| US 07393932 | Carson-Walter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eleanor Carson-Walter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brad St. Croix (Frederick, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (BelAir, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | To gain a better understanding of tumor angiogenesis, new techniques for isolating endothelial cells (ECs) and evaluating gene expression patterns were developed. When transcripts from ECs derived from normal and malignant colorectal tissues were compared with transcripts from non-endothelial cells, over 170 genes predominantly expressed in the endothelium were identified. Comparison between normal- and tumor-derived endothelium revealed 79 differentially expressed genes, including 46 that were specifically elevated in tumor-associated endothelium. Experiments with representative genes from this group demonstrated that most were similarly expressed in the endothelium of primary lung, breast, brain, and pancreatic cancers as well as in metastatic lesions of the liver. These results demonstrate that neoplastic and normal endothelium in humans are distinct at the molecular level, and have significant implications for the development of anti-angiogenic therapies in the future. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474794 |
| 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 |
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| US 07393941 | Ku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia-Chi Ku (Mountain View, California); Ann M. Arvin (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions for use in a screening assay to identify agents having antiviral activity against a DNA virus by assessing the effect of a candidate agent upon alternative splicing of MxA, or by assessing the effect of a candidate agent on production of a variant form of MxA protein. The invention also provides methods for enhancing resistance of cells to infection by a DNA virus by providing for elevated MxA and/or by providing for reduced production of variant MxA protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486901 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07393944 | Glimcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie H. Glimcher (West Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne J. Szabo (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding T-bet, and isolated T-bet proteins, are provided. The invention further provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing a nucleic acid molecule of the invention, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced and non-human transgenic animals carrying a T-bet transgene. The invention further provides T-bet fusion proteins and anti-T-bet antibodies. Methods of using the T-bet compositions of the invention are also disclosed, including methods for detecting T-bet activity in a biological sample, methods of modulating T-bet activity in a cell, and methods for identifying agents that modulate the activity of T-bet. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/008264 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07393955 | Jagtap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash Jagtap (Beverly, Massachusetts); Aloka Roy (Acton, Massachusetts); William Williams (Ipswich, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel classes of Isoquinoline Derivatives. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of making and using the compounds, are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177161 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/125 |
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| US 07393994 | Masliah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eliezer Masliah (San Diego, California); Edward Rockenstein (Chula Vista, California); Margaret E. Mallory (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Lewy body disease are the most commonly found neurodegenerative disorders in the elderly. The invention is a transgenic mouse that contains two transgenes, human α-synuclein and human amyloid precursor protein, which are responsible for the formation of the neuritic plaques, Lewy bodies and neurodegeneration seen in the above mentioned diseases. The transgenic mouse is an accurate model for disease by both functional and pathological assays. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/933640 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
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| US 07394252 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fa-Hsuan Lin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for reconstructing a fully sampled k-space data set. An undersampled GRAPPA scan of a subject is performed in a parallel MRI system using a set of receiver coil elements and corresponding receiver channels to obtain a reduced k-space data set. Autocalibration samples in k-space for each receiver channel are obtained and a GRAPPA reconstruction kernel β is calculated from the reduced k-space data set and autocalibration samples. Missing k-space lines are reconstructed to obtain a reconstructed k-space data set which together with the reduced k-space data set fully samples each channel of k-space. Each line is reconstructed using a regularized GRAPPA reconstruction if prior k-space information is available and using an unregularized GRAPPA reconstruction if no prior k-space information is available. The regularized GRAPPA reconstructions are performed preferably using a Tikhonov regularization framework. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/743739 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07394254 | Rieke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Viola Rieke (Palo Alto, California); Rosemary Kim Butts (Redwood City, California); Arundhuti Ganguly (San Jose, California); Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved compatibility of MRI with radiation imaging is provided by MRI RF coils having transmissive coil sections. The transmissive coil sections are substantially transparent to the penetrating radiation employed by the radiation imaging system. Thus the transmissive coil sections can be disposed in a field of view of the radiation imaging system without introducing artifacts into the radiation images. Transparency to penetrating radiation can be achieved by substantially including only low atomic number (i.e., Z<29) elements in the transmissive coil sections. Preferably, the transmissive coil sections are fabricated substantially from aluminum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/412419 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
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| US 07394923 | Zou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Zou (Naperville, Illinois); Xiaochuan M. Pan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest for an object is provided. The reconstruction of the object may be based on chords which may fill a part, all, or more than all of the region of interest. Using chords for reconstruction may allow for reducing data acquired and/or processing for reconstructing a substantially exact image of the ROI. Moreover, various methodologies may be used in reconstructing the image, such as backprojection-filtration, and modified filtration backprojection. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054788 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395103 | Cappo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osmopen, LLC (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony P. Cappo (New York, New York); Gregory Bennett (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical diagnostic method utilizes a surface plasmon resonance apparatus provided with a sensing surface. A tear sample from an eye of a patient is placed into contact with the sensing surface. The surface plasmon resonance apparatus is then operated to determine osmolarity of the tear sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030839 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395108 | Roopchansingh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Vinai Roopchansingh (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Robert W. Cox (Bethesda, Maryland); Andrzej Jesmanowicz (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); James S. Hyde (Dousman, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for acquiring magnetic field maps simultaneously with the images they affect allows improved correction of shimming and/or geometric distortions in the image and allows imaging techniques where subject motion is inevitable or required. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843940 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395185 | Wittkowski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Knut M. Wittkowski (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analysis including an intrinsically valid class of statistical methods for dealing with multivariate ordinal data. A decision support system that can (1) provide automated decision support in a transparent fashion (2) optionally be controlled by a decision maker, (3) provide for an evidence acquisition concept, including automatically increasing the content of an underlying database, and (4) provide a computationally efficient interactive distributed environment. The method is exemplified in the context of assisted diagnostic support. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330761 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Becka (North Bend, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for an accelerometer mechanism having a proof mass that is suspended for out-of-plane motion between first and second damping plates, wherein at least one of the first and second damping plates is movable between first and second positions relative to the proof mass under the control of a position control structure that is coupled to the movable damping plate for positioning the damping plate in the second position relative to the proof mass. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/190371 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07392691 | Yeckley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sierra Lobo, Inc. (Fremont, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander J. Yeckley (Castalia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining the position of a gas/liquid interface of a fluid in a tank having a probe and a controller. The probe has silicon diodes arranged linearly on a substrate. The controller applies power to each of the silicon diodes to make a determination of whether a fluid in which the silicon diode is immersed is a liquid or a gas based on a rate of transfer of heat from the silicon diode to the fluid. A method for determining the phase of a fluid in which a sensor is immersed includes the steps of immersing the sensor in a fluid and increasing power applied to the sensor. The value of a thermal transient of the sensor is then measured and the phase of the fluid is determined based on the measured value of the thermal transient. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255416 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/64.550 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07392708 | Bohlmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond E. Bohlmann (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Milton D. Hurd (Cool Valley, Missouri); Jeff Wollschlager (Maryland Heights, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method an apparatus for testing shear strain response of a test specimen having a thick adhesive bond line is disclosed. Method and apparatus permit the use of readily available clip-on extensometers. The apparatus and method may include the use of knife edges secured to each of two adherend components on a standard ASTM D 5656 thick adherent test specimen. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123655 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/841 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07392733 | Kuklinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile based targeting system for underwater objects includes a trainable gun terminal mounted in a waterproof housing. The gun terminal includes plural gun barrels terminating in waterproof breeches. Noise generating projectiles are launched from the gun barrels, and a fire control system selectively fires the projectiles from each of the plural gun barrels in a noise pattern. A host controller detects and processes noise generated by a launched pattern of the noise generating projectiles to give information about the objects. The projectiles each include a void region connected to an outer surface of the projectile by a hole formed in a neck of the projectile. Launching of the projectile creates a vaporous cavity around the projectile and thus the hole, thereby causing the void region to resonate at a noise generating frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947789 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393045 | Gonzalez |
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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) | Rene′ G. Gonzalez (Southfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for a two-piece armored cab includes an upper cab portion, a lower cab portion, and a vehicle chassis system. The upper cab portion and the lower cab portion are armored to provide protection to occupants of the cab system. The upper cab portion removably mates to the lower cab portion at a mating line that comprises a lower edge of the upper cab portion and an upper edge of the lower cab portion. The lower cab portion is mounted to the vehicle chassis system such that the vehicle chassis system is operable when the upper cab portion is removed from the lower cab portion as well as when the upper cab portion is mated to the lower cab portion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340005 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/190.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393391 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen B. Atanassov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dmitri A. Brevnov (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marcos Barela (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Anisotropic hydrophobic/hydrophilic nanoporous membranes and methods of forming anisotropic hydrophobic/hydrophilic nanoporous membranes are disclosed. The method of forming the nanoporous membrane includes growing a nanoporous oxide film on a substrate. A nanoporous membrane having a top side and a bottom side can then be formed by partially separating the nanoporous oxide film from the substrate. A fluorocarbon film can be deposited on the top side of the nanoporous membrane by plasma polymerization. The disclosed anisotropic hydrophobic/hydrophilic nanoporous membranes can have extremely different hydrophobicity between the top side and the bottom side of the nanoporous membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969341 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393488 | Grose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas L. Grose (Algona, Washington); Steven P. Wanthal (St. Charles, Missouri); Joseph L. Sweetin (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Christopher B. Mathiesen (University City, Missouri); Randy A. Southmayd (Florissant, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of joining a first structure to a second structure using a joint element. The joint element has a base and at least two legs extending from the base and the legs define a slot having opposing sides and a bottom. The method comprises attaching the joint element to the first structure and inserting the second structure into the slot. The method further includes injecting an adhesive into the slot. The method also includes ensuring a cavity is formed between the bottom of the slot and the second structure and the cavity is substantially free of adhesive. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137222 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Cotton (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for filtering hard alpha inclusions from a reactive metal alloy, such as titanium, is provided. The system includes a vessel, a receptacle and a filter. The vessel is capable of holding the reactive metal alloy in a molten form, and can pour the molten reactive metal alloy. The receptacle is for receiving the molten reactive metal alloy poured from the vessel. And to prevent at least some hard alpha inclusions from entering the receptacle, the filter is disposed between the vessel and the receptacle such that the molten reactive metal alloy passes therethrough before being received by the receptacle. The filter includes a frame, and a porous surface that is disposed within the frame. The porous surface defines openings that are sized to permit the reactive metal alloy in molten form to pass therethrough while capturing hard alpha inclusions. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/793558 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metallurgical apparatus 266/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393503 | Swager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Jye-Shane Yang (Ping-Chen, Taiwan); Vance Williams (Vancouver, Canada); Yijun Miao (Falls Church, Virginia); Claus G. Lugmair (San Jose, California); Igor A. Levitsky (Fall River, Massachusetts); Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Robert Deans (Grafton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a class of luminescent and conductive polymer compositions having chromophores, and particularly solid films of these compositions exhibiting increased luminescent lifetimes, quantum yields and amplified emissions. These desirable properties can be provided through polymers having rigid groups designed to prevent polymer reorganization, aggregation or π-stacking upon solidification. These polymers can also display an unusually high stability with respect to solvent and heat exposures. The invention also relates to a sensor and a method for sensing an analyte through the luminescent and conductive properties of these polymers. Analytes can be sensed by activation of a chromophore at a polymer surface. Analytes include aromatics, phosphate ester groups and in particular explosives and chemical warfare agents in a gaseous state. The present invention also relates to devices and methods for amplifying emissions by incorporating a polymer having an energy migration pathway and/or providing the polymer as a block co-polymer or as a multi-layer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/252530 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393577 | Day et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Webcore Technologies, Inc. (Miamisburg, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Day (Dayton, Ohio); G. Scott Campbell (Dayton, Ohio); Danny E. Tilton (Dayton, Ohio); Frederick Stoll (West Chester, Ohio); Michael Sheppard (Dayton, Ohio); Paul L. Galloway (Clayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber reinforced core panel is formed from strips of plastics foam helically wound with layers of rovings to form webs which may extend in a wave pattern or may intersect transverse webs. Hollow tubes may replace foam strips. Axial rovings cooperate with overlying helically wound rovings to form a beam or a column. Wound roving patterns may vary along strips for structural efficiency. Wound strips may alternate with spaced strips and spacers between the strips enhance web buckling strength. Continuously wound rovings between spaced strips permit folding to form panels with reinforced edges. Continuously wound strips are helically wrapped to form annular structures, and composite panels may combine both thermoset and thermoplastic resins. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810298 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393634 | Ahuja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Texas System, Board of Regents (Austin, Texas); The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Ahuja (San Antonio, Texas); Enrique Gonzales (San Antonio, Texas); Srinivas Mummidi (San Antonio, Texas); Matthew J. Dolan (San Antonio, Texas); Mike Bamshad (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions, methods and uses for identifying persons at an increased risk of infection by, transmission of, or accelerated progression of a disease caused by an HIV-1 virus. Diagnostic, prognostic and combined therapeutic kits are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/089595 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393694 | Schlein 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) | Mark S. Schlein (Abingdon, Maryland); Peter A. Emanuel (Abingdon, Maryland); Kevin S. Wallace (Elkton, Maryland); Peter J. Schlitzkus (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-contained, leak-proof sampling device and kit employing said device for collecting chemical and biological samples from various surfaces. The invention provides a sampling device and kit that may be employed to easily collect chemical and biological samples, safely transport the collected samples, safely dispense collected samples for analysis and provide optimum sample recovery. The sampling device is in the form of a leak proof container that comprises a lid and base. The lid contains a sterile absorbent collection means integrated into and positioned on the inside surface of the lid. The base contains a means to facilitate sample recovery from the absorbent collection means via compression and/or scraping of the absorbent collections means. Methods for employing the present invention are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264337 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393735 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Steven J. Koester (Ossining, New York); Qiqing C. Ouyang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure and method of fabricating a high-mobility semiconductor layer structure and field-effect transistor (MODFET) that includes a high-mobility conducting channel, while at the same time, maintaining counter doping to control deleterious short-channel effects. The MODFET design includes a high-mobility conducting channel layer wherein the method allows the counter doping to be formed using a standard technique such as ion implantation, and further allows the high-mobility channel to be in close proximity to the counter doping without degradation of the mobility. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209408 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394092 | Freedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Freedman (Redmond, Washington); Chetan V. Navak (Santa Monica, California); Sankar Das Sarma (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum computer can only function stably if it can execute gates with extreme accuracy. “Topological protection” is a road to such accuracies. Quasi-particle interferometry is a tool for constructing topologically protected gates. Assuming the corrections of the Moore-Read Model for ν=5/2's FQHE (Nucl. Phys. B 360, 362 (1991)) we show how to manipulate the collective state of two e/4-charge anti-dots in order to switch said collective state from one carrying trivial SU(2) charge, |1>, to one carrying a fermionic SU(2) charge |∈>. This is a NOT gate on the {|1>, |∈>} qubit and is effected by braiding of an electrically charged quasi particle a which carries an additional SU(2)-charge. Read-out is accomplished by σ-particle interferometry. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544492 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394094 | Halpert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal can have a barbell shape. The nanocrystal can include two semiconductor materials selected so that upon excitation, one charge carrier is substantially confined to the one semiconductor material and the other charge carrier is substantially confined to the other semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/320316 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394182 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Roy David Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Richard Heydt (Palo Alto, California); Jonathan R. Heim (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes devices for performing thermodynamic work on a fluid, such as pumps, compressors and fans. The thermodynamic work may be used to provide a driving force for moving the fluid. Work performed on the fluid may be transmitted to other devices, such as a piston in a hydraulic actuation device. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contact with a fluid where the deflection of the electroactive polymer may be used to perform thermodynamic work on the fluid. The devices may be designed to efficiently operate at a plurality of operating conditions, such as operating conditions that produce an acoustic signal above or below the human hearing range. The devices may be used in thermal control systems, such as refrigeration system, cooling systems and heating systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645226 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394226 | Adler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Energetics, Inc. (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Adler (Marana, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods presented herein generally provide for the controlled voltage of electrical energy through the selected operation of power stages. Generally, a system that provides electrical energy includes a power supply and up to 20 power stages coupled to the power supply such that the system may output up to 72 kV in 3.6 kV increments. By selecting the number of power stages which are turned on at a given time the total voltage of the electrical energy is controlled at that time. The use of air core magnetic flux coupling provides a unique, easily insulated method to provide power to the voltage stages at different potentials relative to each other. The system may further include one or more controllers coupled to the power stages to control selection of the power stages and thereby vary the output voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345857 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394276 | Gebara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Ying Liu (Austin, Texas); Jayakumaran Sivagnaname (Austin, Texas); Ivan Vo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An active cancellation matrix for process parameter measurements provides feedback paths for each test location wherein each feedback path is used to sense the applied voltage and the sensed voltage is used to adjust the source voltage for any variations along the input path. The devices under test are arranged in a row and column array, and the feedback and voltage input paths are formed along respective rails which extend generally parallel to a row of devices under test. Selectors are used to selectively route the outputs of the test nodes to a measurement unit such as a current sensor. The input voltages can be varied to establish current-voltage (I-V) curves for the devices under various conditions. In the example where the devices under test are transistors, each source input includes three voltage inputs (rails) for a drain voltage, a source voltage, and a gate voltage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333612 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Robinson (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a method for reducing conflict misses in a set-associative cache by mapping each memory address to a primary set and at least one overflow set are described. If a conflict miss occurs within the primary set, a cache line from the primary set is selected for replacement. However, rather than removing the selected cache line from the cache completely, the selected cache line may instead be relocated to the overflow set. The selected cache line replaces a cache line in the overflow set, if it is determined that the selected cache line from the primary set has an estimated age that is more recent than an estimated age for any cache line in the overflow set. Embodiments of the method incorporate various techniques for estimating the age of cache lines, and, particularly, for estimating the relative time since any given cache line was last accessed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230866 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395407 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a data access pattern interface that allows software to specify one or more data access patterns such as stream access patterns, pointer-chasing patterns and producer-consumer patterns. Software detects a data access pattern for a memory region and passes the data access pattern information to hardware via proper data access pattern instructions defined in the data access pattern interface. Hardware maintains the data access pattern information properly when the data access pattern instructions are executed. Hardware can then use the data access pattern information to dynamically detect data access patterns for a memory region throughout the program execution, and voluntarily invoke appropriate memory and cache operations such as pre-fetch, pre-send, acquire-ownership and release-ownership. Further, hardware can provide runtime monitoring information for memory accesses to the memory region, wherein the runtime monitoring information indicates whether the software-provided data access pattern information is accurate. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250288 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395416 | Sathaye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sumedh W. Sathaye (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system for operating a plurality of processors that each includes an execution pipeline for processing dependence chains, the method comprising: configuring the plurality of processors to execute the dependence chains on execution pipelines; implementing a Super Re-Order Buffer (SuperROB) in which received instructions are re-ordered after out-of-order execution when at least one of the plurality of processors is in an Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) mode and at least one of the plurality of processors has a Thread Level Parallelism (TLP) core; detecting an imbalance in a dispatch of instructions of a first dependence chain compared to a dispatch of instructions of a second dependence chain with respect to dependence chain priority; determining a source of the imbalance; and activating the ILP mode when the source of the imbalance has been determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531042 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2219 | Bayya 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) | Shyam S. Bayya (Falls Church, Virginia); Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Greenbelt, Maryland); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The coating method includes the steps of dissolving coating precursor(s) in a solvent to form a precursor solution: adding with mixing a miscible diluent to the precursor solution to form a coating solution; admixing solid particles to the coating solution to form a coating slurry, with the particles surrounded with the coating solution; spraying the coating slurry to form droplets containing at least one particle; passing the droplets through a drying zone where the droplets are dried and form dry particles coated with a coating material formed from the coating precursor(s); heat-treating the coating material on the particles emanating from the drying zone to remove volatile matter on the coating material, to improve integrity of the coating material and/or to effect another objective; and collecting dry coated particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239433 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07392856 | Nance et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington Savannah River Company, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Timothy J. Steeper (Trenton, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A sampling device for collecting depth-specific samples in silt, sludge and granular media has three chambers separated by a pair of iris valves. Rotation of the middle chamber closes the valves and isolates a sample in a middle chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/341107 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393145 | Stevens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick C. Stevens (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Charles J. Kryzak (Mendota Heights, Minnesota); Gordon A. Keeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darwin K. Serkland (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kent M. Geib (Tijeras, New Mexico); William P. Kornrumpf (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One apparatus embodiment includes an optical emitter and a photodetector. At least a portion of the optical emitter extends a radial distance from a center point. The photodetector provided around at least a portion of the optical emitter and positioned outside the radial distance of the portion of the optical emitter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/285244 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393664 | Maiyuran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suchindra Maiyuran (Gold River, California); Ana Fidantsef (Davis, California); Howard Brody (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing a polypeptide, comprising: (a) cultivating a fungal host cell in a medium conducive for the production of the polypeptide, wherein the fungal host cell comprises a nucleic acid construct comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding a signal peptide operably linked to a second nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide, wherein the first nucleotide sequence is foreign to the second nucleotide sequence and the 3′ end of the first nucleotide sequence is immediately upstream of the initiator codon of the second nucleotide sequence. The present invention also relates to the isolated signal peptide sequences and to constructs, vectors, and fungal host cells comprising the signal peptide sequences operably linked to nucleotide sequences encoding polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/837318 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393673 | Adney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); Shi-You Ding (Golden, Colorado); Todd B. Vinzant (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado); Stephen R. Decker (Berthoud, Colorado); Suzanne Lantz McCarter (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a thermal tolerant cellulase that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase family. The invention further discloses this cellulase as Gux1. Gux1 has been isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus. The invention further provides recombinant forms of the identified Gux1. Methods of making and using Gux1 polypeptides, including fusions, variants, and derivatives, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/917384 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393678 | Triplett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Triplett (Middleton, Wisconsin); Shawn M. Kaeppler (Oregon, Wisconsin); Marisa K. Chelius (Greeley, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A biological inoculant for enhancing the growth of plants is disclosed. The inoculant includes the bacterial strains Herbaspirillum seropedicae 2A, Pantoea agglomerans P101, Pantoea agglomerans P102, Klebsiella pneumoniae 342, Klebsiella pneumoniae zmvsy, Herbaspirillum seropedicae Z152, Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PA15, with or without a carrier. The inoculant also includes strains of the bacterium Pantoea agglomerans and K. pneumoniae which are able to enhance the growth of cereal grasses. Also disclosed are the novel bacterial strains Herbaspirillum seropedicae 2A, Pantoea agglomerans P101 and P102, and Klebsiella pneumoniae 342 and zmvsy. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/720459 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393762 | Hoffbauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Secruity, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alex Mueller (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a nanostructure at low temperatures. A substrate that is reactive with one of atomic oxygen and nitrogen is provided. A flux of neutral atoms of at least one of nitrogen and oxygen is generated within a laser-sustained-discharge plasma source and a collimated beam of energetic neutral atoms and molecules is directed from the plasma source onto a surface of the substrate to form the nanostructure. The energetic neutral atoms and molecules in the plasma have an average kinetic energy in a range from about 1 eV to about 5 eV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603517 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393810 | Coronado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Coronado (Livermore, California); Sabre J. Coleman (Oakland, California); Robert D. Sanner (Livermore, California); Victoria L. Dias (Livermore, California); John G. Reynolds (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid materials have been developed to remove arsenic compounds from aqueous media. The arsenic is removed by passing the aqueous phase through the solid materials which can be in molded, granular, or powder form. The solid materials adsorb the arsenic leaving a purified aqueous stream. The materials are aerogels or xerogels and aerogels or xerogels and solid support structure, e.g., granulated activated carbon (GAC), mixtures. The species-specific adsorption occurs through specific chemical modifications of the solids tailored towards arsenic. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/728568 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393923 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods using somatic hypermutation (SHM) for producing polypeptide and nucleic acid variants, and nucleic acids encoding such polypeptide variants are disclosed. Such variants may have desired properties. Also disclosed are novel polypeptides, such as improved fluorescent proteins, produced by the novel methods, and nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells comprising such vectors. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984694 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Gerbi (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially all diamond transistor with an electrically insulating substrate, an electrically conductive diamond layer on the substrate, and a source and a drain contact on the electrically conductive diamond layer. An electrically insulating diamond layer is in contact with the electrically conductive diamond layer, and a gate contact is on the electrically insulating diamond layer. The diamond layers may be homoepitaxial, polycrystalline, nanocrystalline or ultrananocrystalline in various combinations. A method of making a substantially all diamond self-aligned gate transistor is disclosed in which seeding and patterning can be avoided or minimized, if desired. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226703 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394201 | Lewellen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Lewellen (Plainfield, Illinois); John Noonan (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method of gating electron emission from field-emitter cathodes for radio frequency (RF) electrode guns and a novel cathode that provides a focused electron beam without the need for magnetic fields or a curved cathode surface are provided. The phase and strength of a predefined harmonic field, such as the 3rd harmonic field, are adjusted relative to a fundamental field to cause a field emission cathode to emit electrons at predefined times for the generation of high-brightness electron beams. The emission time is gated responsive to the combined harmonic and fundamental fields and the response of the FE cathode to the combined fields. A planar focusing cathode includes a selected dielectric material, such as a ceramic material, to provide an electron beam emission surface. Metal surfaces are provided both radially around and behind the dielectric material to shape the electric fields that accelerate and guide the beam from the cathode surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248661 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/5.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394381 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BAttelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Navigational Sciences, Inc. (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Richard Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee); Stephen Fulton Smith (Loudon, Tennessee); Michael Roy Moore (Corryton, Tennessee); Eric Lesley Dobson (Charleston, South Carolina); Jeffrey Scott Blair (Charleston, South Carolina); Christopher Allen Duncan (Marietta, Georgia); Roberto Lenarduzzi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for marine asset security and tracking (MAST). A method includes transmitting identification data, location data and environmental state sensor data from a radio frequency tag. An apparatus includes a radio frequency tag that transmits identification data, location data and environmental state sensor data. Another method includes transmitting identification data and location data from a radio frequency tag using hybrid spread-spectrum modulation. Another apparatus includes a radio frequency tag that transmits both identification data and location data using hybrid spread-spectrum modulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840092 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394472 | Oliveira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph S. Oliveira (Richland, Washington); Janet B. Jones-Oliveira (Richland, Washington); Colin G. Bailey (Wellington, New Zealand); Dean W. Gull (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention includes a computer operable to represent a physical system with a graphical data structure corresponding to a matroid. The graphical data structure corresponds to a number of vertices and a number of edges that each correspond to two of the vertices. The computer is further operable to define a closed pathway arrangement with the graphical data structure and identify each different one of a number of fundamental cycles by evaluating a different respective one of the edges with a spanning tree representation. The fundamental cycles each include three or more of the vertices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247424 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/645 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07393443 | Colón et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wilfredo Colón (Cohoes, New York); Marta Manning (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a fast and efficient means for identifying kinetically stable proteins. As used herein the term “kinetically stable protein” means a protein that is trapped in a specific conformation due to an unusually high unfolding barrier that results in very slow unfolding rates. The present inventors are the first to discover the existence of a correlation between kinetic stability and SDS-induced denaturation. Thus, the invention provides methods for identifying kinetically stable proteins comprising the step of testing the proteins for resistance to denaturation by SDS. In one embodiment, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is one simple method for quickly identifying and selecting kinetically stable proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/924235 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393559 | Groza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna R Groza (Carmichael, California); Vladimir Kodash (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the production of functionally graded material (FGM) are provided. FGM is processed by powder cold spraying ceramic-metal layers, the final shape is pre-pressed by cold isostatic pressing and is then sintered using field activated sintering technique (FAST). The FGM materials can be used for medical applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/049335 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393691 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Alan D. Gift (Wallingford, Connecticut); Frank E. Inscore (Bristol, Connecticut); Chetan S. Shende (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967486 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07393692 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Frank E. Inscore (Bristol, Connecticut); Alan D. Gift (Lafayette, Indiana); Chetan S. Shende (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The method and apparatus rapidly separate drugs and their metabolites from saliva and, in a continuous sequence of steps, rapidly detect, identify and quantify them through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098844 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394065 | Grimm, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald L. Grimm, II (Costa Mesa, California); Jesse L. Beauchamp (LaCanada Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for probing the chemistry of a single droplet are provided. The technique uses a variation of the field-induced droplet ionization (FIDI) method, in which isolated droplets undergo heterogeneous reactions between solution phase analytes and gas-phase species. Following a specified reaction time, the application of a high electric field induces FIDI in the droplet, generating fine jets of highly charged progeny droplets that can then be characterized. Sampling over a range of delay times following exposure of the droplet to gas phase reactants, the spectra yield the temporal variation of reactant and product concentrations. Following the initial mass spectrometry studies, we developed an experiment to explore the parameter space associated with FIDI in an attempt to better understand and control the technique. In an alternative embodiment of the invention switched electric fields are integrated with the technique to allow for time-resolved studies of the droplet distortion, jetting, and charged progeny droplet formation associated with FIDI. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/390695 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394092 | Freedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Freedman (Redmond, Washington); Chetan V. Navak (Santa Monica, California); Sankar Das Sarma (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum computer can only function stably if it can execute gates with extreme accuracy. “Topological protection” is a road to such accuracies. Quasi-particle interferometry is a tool for constructing topologically protected gates. Assuming the corrections of the Moore-Read Model for ν=5/2's FQHE (Nucl. Phys. B 360, 362 (1991)) we show how to manipulate the collective state of two e/4-charge anti-dots in order to switch said collective state from one carrying trivial SU(2) charge, |1>, to one carrying a fermionic SU(2) charge |∈>. This is a NOT gate on the {|1>, |∈>} qubit and is effected by braiding of an electrically charged quasi particle a which carries an additional SU(2)-charge. Read-out is accomplished by σ-particle interferometry. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544492 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394094 | Halpert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal can have a barbell shape. The nanocrystal can include two semiconductor materials selected so that upon excitation, one charge carrier is substantially confined to the one semiconductor material and the other charge carrier is substantially confined to the other semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/320316 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394546 | Vakhtin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei B. Vakhtin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel J. Kane (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Kristen A. Peterson (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for differential spectral interferometry comprising providing an interferometer comprising a light source; employing an element to provide a dithered relative phase shift between target and reference arms of the interferometer, detecting output from the interferometer, demodulating signals received from the detector at different multiples of the dither frequencies, generating more than one real-valued interferograms from demodulated signals, and using the real-valued interferograms to obtain the complex spectral interferogram. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438864 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07393876 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eltron Research, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. White (Boulder, Colorado); Jesse W. Taylor (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalyst compositions and methods for F-T synthesis which exhibit high CO conversion with minor levels (preferably less than 35% and more preferably less than 5%) or no measurable carbon dioxide generation. F-T active catalysts are prepared by reduction of certain oxygen deficient mixed metal oxides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/303451 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07394181 | Su et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji Su (Yorktown, Virginia); Tian-Bing Xu (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid electromechanical actuator has two different types of electromechanical elements, one that expands in a transverse direction when electric power is applied thereto and one that contracts in a transverse direction when electric power is applied thereto. The two electromechanical elements are (i) disposed in relation to one another such that the transverse directions thereof are parallel to one another, and (ii) mechanically coupled to one another at least at two opposing edges thereof. Electric power is applied simultaneously to the elements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076824 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395163 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana Tech of the University of Montana (Butte, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Morrison (Butte, Montana); William H. Morrison (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Real time battery impedance spectrum is acquired using one time record, Compensated Synchronous Detection (CSD). This parallel method enables battery diagnostics. The excitation current to a test battery is a sum of equal amplitude sin waves of a few frequencies spread over range of interest. The time profile of this signal has duration that is a few periods of the lowest frequency. The voltage response of the battery, average deleted, is the impedance of the battery in the time domain. Since the excitation frequencies are known, synchronous detection processes the time record and each component, both magnitude and phase, is obtained. For compensation, the components, except the one of interest, are reassembled in the time domain. The resulting signal is subtracted from the original signal and the component of interest is synchronously detected. This process is repeated for each component. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825629 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07393876 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eltron Research, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. White (Boulder, Colorado); Jesse W. Taylor (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalyst compositions and methods for F-T synthesis which exhibit high CO conversion with minor levels (preferably less than 35% and more preferably less than 5%) or no measurable carbon dioxide generation. F-T active catalysts are prepared by reduction of certain oxygen deficient mixed metal oxides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/303451 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395103 | Cappo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osmopen, LLC (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony P. Cappo (New York, New York); Gregory Bennett (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical diagnostic method utilizes a surface plasmon resonance apparatus provided with a sensing surface. A tear sample from an eye of a patient is placed into contact with the sensing surface. The surface plasmon resonance apparatus is then operated to determine osmolarity of the tear sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030839 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07393930 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon); Yuan Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An adhesive composition made by reacting a soy protein with at least one compound under conditions sufficient for introducing additional phenolic hydroxyl functional groups, amine functional groups, and/or thiol functional groups into the soy protein structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372998 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/378 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07394053 | Frangioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Frangioni (Wayland, Massachusetts); Roberto Accorsi (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Richard C. Lanza (Brookline, Massachusetts); John Idoine (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to imaging systems that include a coded aperture detection system and an optical detection system. The coded aperture detection system is configured to detect radiation emitted by a radionuclide present within an object and to provide a first detector signal from the detected radiation. The optical detection system is configured to detect optical radiation from the object and to provide a second detector signal from the detected optical radiation. The system also includes a processor configured to prepare first image data from the first detector signal, second image data from the second detector signal, and registered data indicative of a spatial relationship in at least one dimension between the first and second image data. The invention also includes methods of using the new systems, e.g., for sentinel lymph node mapping and tissue resection. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222864 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07393930 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaichang Li (Corvallis, Oregon); Yuan Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An adhesive composition made by reacting a soy protein with at least one compound under conditions sufficient for introducing additional phenolic hydroxyl functional groups, amine functional groups, and/or thiol functional groups into the soy protein structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372998 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/378 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 01, 2008.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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