FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, July 08, 2008
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| US 07395555 | Aldridge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lion Apparel, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Aldridge (New Carlisle, Ohio); Harry P. Winer (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A foldable protective garment including an outer shell shaped to fit about at least part of the body of a wearer, the outer shell being foldable into a compact position, and a pouch coupled to the outer shell. The pouch is shaped and sized to receive generally all of the outer shell therein when the outer shell is in the compact position. The pouch includes an upper mouth and a lower mouth located on a generally opposite side of the pouch relative to the upper mouth, and the upper mouth and the lower mouth are both selectively openable and closable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/749760 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395761 | Bittle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Bittle (Somerville, Alabama); Gary T. Jimmerson (Athens, Alabama); Julian L. Cothran (Arab, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The Variable-Force Payload Ejecting System, residing within an air vehicle, utilizes multiple pressure generators, one or more of which may be activated, to produce variable levels of force. A controlling computer within the air vehicle determines when and how much pressure needs to be generated to eject a given item, such as a submunition, from the vehicle. In its determination, the computer factors in the vehicle's forward velocity and height over the intended target at the time of ejection and the characteristics of the particular submunition to be ejected. An activating mechanism activates one or more pressure generators to produce the determined amount of pressure. The pressure thusly generated acts on an inflatable tube that inflates and expels the selected submunition. The result is a more precise delivery of the submunitions onto the intended targets. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/326677 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07395922 | Sinha |
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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) | Yash Sinha (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A grenade container includes a box having a bottom and four sides; a first foam layer disposed on the bottom of the box; a second foam layer disposed on the first foam layer and having a plurality of openings formed therein for receiving grenades; a plurality of grenades placed in the openings in the second foam layer; a first partition disposed on the grenades placed in the openings in the second foam layer; a third foam layer disposed above the first partition and having a plurality of openings formed therein for receiving grenades; a plurality of grenades placed in the openings in the third foam layer; a second partition disposed on the grenades placed in the openings in the third foam layer; a fourth foam layer disposed above the second partition; and a lid and a latch for closing the box. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162129 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Special receptacle or package 26/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396058 | Mariani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eliseo Scott Mariani (Melbourne Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a frame, a counterweight connected to the frame, a load attachment member connected to the frame, a movable pick point mounted on the frame, and a pick point position adjuster for moving the pick point to balance a load supported by the load attachment member. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332969 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/67.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396476 | Ridley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); James A. Neus (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating comb drive devices utilizing one or more sacrificial etch-buffers are disclosed. An illustrative fabrication method may include the steps of etching a pattern onto a wafer substrate defining one or more comb drive elements and sacrificial etch-buffers, liberating and removing one or more sacrificial etch-buffers prior to wafer bonding, bonding the etched wafer substrate to an underlying support substrate, and etching away the wafer substrate. In some embodiments, the sacrificial etch-buffers are removed after bonding the wafer to the support substrate. The sacrificial etch-buffers can be provided at one or more selective regions to provide greater uniformity in etch rate during etching. A comb drive device in accordance with an illustrative embodiment can include a number of interdigitated comb fingers each having a more uniform profile along their length and/or at their ends, producing less harmonic distortion during operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/275575 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396590 | Wynne |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Joseph Wynne (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers, and particularly conventional commodity bulk polymers, are modified to have a surface activity of interest using a surface modifying polymer that includes a moiety that favors migration to the surface of the bulk polymer together with a moiety provides the activity of interest (e.g., biocidal, wettability modifying (hydrophobic or hydrophilic), resistance to radiant energy, providing a functional group for functionalizing the surface, etc.). The surface modifying polymer is combined with the bulk polymer, and, due to the presence of the moiety that favors migration, concentrates primarily on the surface of the bulk polymer such that the moiety that provides the activity of interest is located primarily on the surface of the bulk polymeric article which is produced. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/882238 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396654 | Hayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. (Alachua, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Hayes (Gainesville, Florida); Kevin Ka-Wang Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming Chen Liu (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107248 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396698 | Horning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Horning (Savage, Minnesota); Jeffrey A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a MEMS device having a top cap and an upper sense plate is described. The method includes producing a device wafer including an etched substrate, etched MEMS device components, and interconnect metal, a portion of the interconnect metal being bond pads and adding a metal wraparound layer to a back side, edges, and a portion of a front side of the device wafer. The method also includes producing an upper wafer including an etched substrate and interconnect metal, bonding the device wafer and the upper wafer, and dicing the bonded upper wafer and device wafer into individual MEMS devices. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/323233 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396731 | Fields |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Fields (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention refers to a method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor comprising: preparing a patterned emitter metal on an emitter epi layer of a HBT epi structure on a substrate; preparing an emitter epitaxy below the emitter metal; applying a resist layer on the top surface covering the emitter metal and emitter epitaxy, and the base layer; applying lithography leaving the emitter epitaxy and the emitter metal covered by the resist vertically with a width pD and leaving a pattern according to the mask in the resist; depositing base metal on the entire surface; and removing the remaining resist and the base metal covering the resist defining a base metal, the base metal being spaced from the emitter epitaxy and the emitter metal by a distance xD from 0.05 μm to 0.7 μm. The present invention refers to a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor as prepared by this method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966219 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396810 | Clinton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health Sciences University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gail M. Clinton (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternative HER-2/neu product, herstatin, consists of subdomains I and II from the ectodomain of p185HER-2 and a unique 79 amino acid C-terminus encoded by intron 8. Recombinant herstatin added to cells was found to bind to and inhibit p185HER-2. The effects of ectopic expression of herstatin in combination with either p185HER-2 or with its homolog, the EGF receptor, in several cell lines was studied. Cotransfection of herstatin with HER-2 inhibited p185HER-2 levels and caused an approximate 8 fold reduction in p185 tyrosine phosphorylation. Inhibition of p185HER-2 tyrosine phosphorylation corresponded to a dramatic decline in colony formation by cells that coexpressed p185HER-2 and herstatin. Herstatin also interfered with EGF activation of the EGF receptor in cotransfected cells demonstrated by impaired receptor tyrosine phosphorylation, reduced receptor down-regulation, and growth suppression. For both p185HER-2 and the EGF receptor, the extent of inhibition was affected by the expression levels of herstatin relative to the receptor. Herstatin is an autoinhibitor of p185HER-2 and expands its inhibitory activity to another member of the group I family of receptor tyrosine kinases, the EGF receptor. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/638834 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396938 | Irvin 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) | David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California); Mark H. Mason (Inyokern, California); Stephen Fallis (Ridgecrest, California); Andrew Chafin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making energetic cured binders by making poly-tetrazoles to produce multi-functional tetrazole polyols for producing tetrazole base polymers. Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to a process for preparation of a monomer including reacting an effective amount of nitrile(s) with inorganic azide and a divalent zinc salt in a first solvent, cooling to room temperature producing poly tetrazole, purifying the poly tetrazole by precipitation in a second solvent, and reacting an effective amount of the purified poly tetrazole with a third solvent, a soluble reversible or non-reversible base, and 2-chloro-ethanol, cooling to room temperature producing tetrazole polyol. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151180 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397165 | Kosinski |
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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) | John A. Kosinski (Neptune, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A restrained surface wave resonator with reduced or abated acceleration sensitivity is provided with a stiffening layer, adhesive layers and subsurface horizontal indentations on the substrate to achieve reduced acceleration sensitivity, increased structural rigidity, decreased sensitivity to in-plane deformations, a lightweight device and reduced deleterious effects from environmental shocks and vibration. The substrate of the restrained surface wave resonators features multiple subsurface horizontal indentations in one major substrate surface deposited on a stiffening layer to provide improved structural rigidity against flexure caused by normal acceleration based upon the diminished mass and reduced weight resulting from removal of portions of the substrate subsurface through micro-machining, and it also tends to improve excessive sensitivity to other flexural deformations. The present invention encompasses a restrained surface wave resonator device and a restrained surface wave resonator system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729085 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397440 | Horner 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) | Rob Horner (San Diego, California); Dennis Bermeo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Extended Phase Center Tapered Slot Antenna (NC#97529). The apparatus includes a first antenna element capable of transmitting and receiving radio frequency energy; a second antenna element capable of transmitting and receiving radio frequency energy, wherein the first antenna element and the second antenna element are situated in a tapered slot antenna pair configuration; and at least one conductive launch structure, electrically coupled to the first antenna element and the second antenna element at a location between a lowest operating frequency phase center and a launch end of the tapered slot antenna pair configuration, capable of conducting electricity. |
| FILED | Monday, November 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645258 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397567 | Kaertner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franz X. Kaertner (Newton, Massachusetts); Jung-Won Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A balanced optical-RF phase detector for the extraction of low-jitter radiofrequency (RF) signals from optical pulse trains is demonstrated. The extraction of the low-jitter radiofrequency signals is based on the precise phase detection by use of a differentially biased Sagnac-loop interferometer and synchronous detection. The phase-error signal from this balanced optical-RF phase detector, which is robust against drifts and photodetector nonlinearities, is used to regenerate low-jitter radiofrequency signals from optical pulse trains. Alternatively, the phase-error signal is used to generate a low-jitter optical pulse train, synchronized with a master radiofrequency signal or to synchronize multiple modelocked lasers with each other. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609195 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397840 | Lillo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter E. Lillo (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct sequence spread spectrum receiver includes a first spreading code generator for receiving a first channel signal spectrum spread by a first spread code, while a second group of receivers use a second spreading code, where the first and second codes are partially correlated, so that, the first group of receivers receive all messages communicated while the second group of receivers only receives a portion of the messages. In this manner, a spread spectrum broadcast system can selectively communicate to a selected portion of receivers in a whole group of receivers by simply switching the spreading code at the transmitter. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/623288 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397970 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruey-Yuan Han (Winter Park, Florida); Tommy J. Piper (Clermont, Florida); Robert P. Castagno (Orlando, Florida); James M. Martin (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Computer software for and a method of determining location of a target image within a two-dimensional input image by employing a three-dimensional reference image comprising determining object edge points in the input image; given estimated seeker line-of-sight orientation and range data, computing a two-dimensional reference image from the three-dimensional reference image; applying a weighted-direction-cross-product Hough Transform to the object edge points and points of the two-dimensional reference image; classifying the input image as containing a target image or not; if the image contains a target image, identifying a location of the target image within the two-dimensional input image; computing confidence measure as to the selected location of the target image; and in the case of sequential decision, also performing confidence accumulation through multi-frames or multi-looks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007529 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397987 | Witzens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Witzens (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for increasing efficiency of grating couplers are disclosed. The apparatus through the use of a defect or a reflective element allows coupling of light around a normal or nearly normal angle with a high efficiency. The method disclosed teaches how to increase the efficiency of a grating coupler through the use of a defect or a mirror. The apparatus and method can be of particular utility in the context of optical clocking implemented with a III-V chip flip-chip bonded on a CMOS chip. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119380 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398201 | Marchisio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evri Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Alejandro Murua (Seattle, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Lubos Pochman (Breckenridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for syntactically indexing and searching data sets to achieve more accurate search results and for indexing and searching data sets using entity tags alone or in combination therewith are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set, as well as processes natural language queries subsequently submitted against the data set. The SQE comprises a Query Preprocessor, a Data Set Preprocessor, a Query Builder, a Data Set Indexer, an Enhanced Natural Language Parser (“ENLP”), a data set repository, and, in some embodiments, a user interface. After preprocessing the data set, the SQE parses the data set according to a variety of levels of parsing and determines as appropriate the entity tags and syntactic and grammatical roles of each term to generate enhanced data representations for each object in the data set. The SQE indexes and stores these enhanced data representations in the data set repository. Upon subsequently receiving a query, the SQE parses the query also using a variety of parsing levels and searches the indexed stored data set to locate data that contains similar terms used in similar grammatical roles and/or with similar entity tag types as indicated by the query. In this manner, the SQE is able to achieve more contextually accurate search results more frequently than using traditional search engines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371399 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398274 | Ittycheriah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Ittycheriah (Brookfield, Connecticut); Hongyan Jing (White Plains, New York); Nandakishore Kambhatla (White Plains, New York); Xiaoqiang Luo (Ardsley, New York); Salim E. Roukos (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Bell Tree data structure is provided to model the process of chaining the mentions, from one or more documents, into entities, tracking the entire process; where the data structure is used in an entity tracking process that produces multiple results ranked by a product of probability scores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833256 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07396533 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold J. Levine (New York City, New York); Diane Pennica (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | DNAs are provided, whose genes are induced at least by Wnt-1. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides, as well as vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides, and methods for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/628770 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396537 | Krupnick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Krupnick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel Kreisel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bruce R. Rosengard (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A patch for cardiac tissue engineering includes a gel layer supported by an intermediate layer, which is attached to a reinforcement layer. These patches may be implanted in a heart to treat pediatric congenital malformations of the heart as well as adult ischemic myopathies. The gel layer may include cells such as, for example, stem cells; the intermediate layer may be biodegradable porous mesh and the reinforcement layer may be polytetrafluoroethylene. Included are methods for making patches according to the invention and for tissue engineering using patches of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378015 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396654 | Hayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. (Alachua, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Hayes (Gainesville, Florida); Kevin Ka-Wang Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Ming Chen Liu (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies biomarkers that are diagnostic of nerve cell injury and/or neuronal disorders. Detection of different biomarkers of the invention are also diagnostic of the degree of severity of nerve injury, the cell(s) involved in the injury, and the subcellular localization of the injury. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107248 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396658 | Haupert, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garner T. Haupert, Jr. (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to rapid, quantitative, specific, high through-put methods for screening test substances for their ability to inhibit activity of an ouabain-resistant Na+—K+-ATPase involved in a variety of biological processes such as regulation of osmotic balance and cell volume, maintenance of the resting membrane potential, establishment of the ionic composition of cerebrospinal fluid and aqueous humor, electrical activity of muscle and nerve, and receptor-mediated endocytosis, cardiac muscle contractility, neurotransmitter metabolism and vascular muscle cell contraction. These methods can be employed to identify compounds for use in therapeutic applications for disease processes in which dysfunction of the Na+—K+-ATPase contributes to a pathological process. The present invention also includes kits which are used in the methods provided herein. The present invention further includes methods of treating or preventing diseases or disorders which are associated with dysfunction of the Na+—K+—ATPase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803185 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396659 | Singh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Musc Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inderjit Singh (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating type 1 diabetes in a human in need of such treatment, comprising administering to the human a biologically effective amount of at least one inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase or a pro-inflammatory cytokine, wherein the inhibitor is an inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the inhibitor specifically inhibits the activity of HMG-CoA reductase. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204288 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396669 | Boddy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael N. Boddy (San Diego, California); Veronique Blais (San Diego, California); Xiao-Bo Chen (Tucson, Arizona); Clare H. McGowan (Del Mar, California); Pierre-Henri L. Gaillard (La Jolla, California); Paul R. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated mammalian Mus81-Eme endonuclease complexes comprise an Mus81 protein portion and an Eme protein portion. A method of identifying a chemical compound that modulates mammalian cellular response to DNA damage comprises contacting a chemical compound to be tested with a biochemical mixture containing an isolated mammalian Mus81-Eme1 endonuclease complex, a source of magnesium ion, and a suitable DNA substrate; measuring the activity level of mammalian Mus81-Eme endonuclease complex in the mixture; comparing the measured activity level to the activity level of a substantially similar mixture of isolated Mus81-Eme1 endonuclease, magnesium ion, and DNA substrate in the absence of the chemical compound to be tested; and selecting a chemical compound that increases or decreases the endonuclease activity. Isolated mammalian Eme1 and Eme2 proteins derived from humans and murine species and isolated nucleic acids encoding the proteins are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/880881 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396678 | Kolodner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Kolodner (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Robert A. G. Reenan (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard Fishel (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | We have now discovered that eukaryotes, including mammals, have a DNA mismatch repair pathway analogous to the pathway that exists in bacteria. Defects or alterations in this mismatch repair pathway in a mammal, such as a human, will result in the accumulation of unstable repeated DNA sequences. Such a phenotype has a high correlation to disease state in a number of cancers, such as hereditary colon cancers. Accordingly, discovering a defect or alteration in the pathway can be diagnostic of a predisposition to cancer, and prognostic for a particular cancer. We have also discovered and sequenced one of the genes in this pathway in a number of mammals, including humans. This gene, referred to herein as MSH2, has many applications. It can be used in assays, to express gene product, for drug screens, and therapeutically. We also disclose herein a method for screening for other genes in this mismatch repair pathway. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/465251 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396680 | Shmelkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey V. Shmelkov (New York, New York); Shahin Rafii (Great Neck, New York); Jun Lin (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of isolating stem cells from a mixed population of different cell types. This method involves selecting a promoter which functions only in said stem cells and not in the other cell types. The promoter can have a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7, and SEQ ID NO: 8. A nucleic acid molecule encoding a marker protein under control of said promoter is introduced into all cell types of said mixed population and only the stem cells, but not the other cell types, within said mixed population are allowed to express said marker protein. The cells of said mixed population of cell types that are expressing the marker protein, which are restricted to the stem cells are identified and separated from the mixed population, where the separated cells are restricted to the stem cells. The promoter, nucleic acid constructs comprising it, and the resulting stem cells are also disclosed. The nucleic constructs can be incorporated in transgenic animals in order to monitor stem cell movement. A disorder mediated by stem cell proliferation can be carried out by administering both (1) a nucleic acid construct comprising the promoter of the present application and an enzyme capable of converting a prodrug to a cytotoxic drug and (2) the prodrug. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974265 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396685 | Szyperski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Szyperski (Amherst, New York); Seho Kim (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses eleven reduced dimensionality (RD) triple resonance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments for measuring chemical shift values of certain nuclei in a protein molecule, where the chemical shift values encoded in a peak pair of an NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR and RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiments are designed to yield “sequential” connectivities, while the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiments provide “intraresidue” connectivities. The RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR, RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR, and RD 2D H,C,H-COSY NMR experiments allow one to obtain assignments for aliphatic and aromatic side chain chemical shifts, while the RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment provide information for the aromatic side chain chemical shifts. In addition, methods of conducting suites of RD triple resonance NMR experiments for high-throughput resonance assignment of proteins and determination of secondary structure elements are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/628818 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396813 | Adang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Gang Hua (Athens, Georgia); Jiang Chen (Athens, Georgia); Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to the use of peptide fragments of cadherins (including cadherin-like proteins). The subject invention includes a cell (and use thereof) comprising a polynucleotide that expresses the peptide fragment. The subject invention includes methods of feeding the peptides to insects. In preferred embodiments, the peptides are fed to target insects together with one or more insecticidal proteins, preferably (but not limited to) B.t. Cry proteins. When used in this manner, the peptide fragment can not only enhance the apparent toxin activity of the Cry protein against the insect species that was the source of the receptor but also against other insect species. Preferably, the cadherin is a Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) insecticidal crystal protein (Cry) toxin receptor. Preferably, the peptide fragment is a binding domain of the receptor. In some preferred embodiments, the peptide is the binding domain nearest to the membrane proximal ectodomain. Corresponding domains are identifiable in a variety of B.t. toxin receptors. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040472 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396824 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); James Myette (Belmont, Massachusetts); Zachary Shriver (Boston, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to 2-O sulfatase and uses thereof. In particular, the invention relates to recombinantly produced 2-O sulfatase, functional variants and nucleic acid molecules that encode these molecules. The invention also provides methods of using 2-O sulfatase for a variety of purposes, including degrading and analyzing glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) present in a sample. For instance, 2-O sulfatase may be used for determining the purity, identity, composition and sequence of glycosaminoglycans present in a sample. The invention also relates to methods of inhibiting angiogenesis and cellular proliferation as well as methods for treating cancer, neurodegenerative disease, atherosclerosis and microbial infection using 2-O sulfatase and/or GAG fragments produced by degradation with 2-O sulfatase. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433224 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396825 | Okusa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Okusa (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Alaa S. Awad (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a therapeutic method for treating diabetic kidney disease, e.g., diabetic nephropathy that includes the administration of an effective amount of an A2A adenosine receptor agonist. Optionally, the method includes administration of a type IV PDE inhibitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121169 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396914 | Ambrosino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donna Ambrosino (Avon, Massachusetts); Hector Hernandez (Canton, Massachusetts); Thomas Greenough (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Katherine Luzuriaga (Harvard, Massachusetts); Mohan Somasundaran (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Gregory J. Babcock (Marlborough, Massachusetts); William D. Thomas, Jr. (Somerville, Massachusetts); John Sullivan (West Boylston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Codon-optimized nucleic acids, polypeptides, and antibodies are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911838 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396926 | 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); Jianghong Rao (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are fluorescent substrates for β-lactamases having the general formula I: in which R is a benzyl, 2-thienylmethyl, or cyanomethyl group; R′ is selected from the group consisting of H, physiologically acceptable salts or metal, ester groups, ammonium cations, —CHR2OCO(CH2)nCH3, —CHR2OCOC(CH3)3, acylthiomethyl, acyloxy-alpha-benzyl, deltabutyrolactonyl, methoxycarbonyloxymethyl, phenyl, methylsulphinylmethyl, β-morpholinoethyl, dialkylaminoethyl, and dialkylaminocarbonyloxymethyl, in which R2 is selected from the group consisting of H and lower alkyl; A is selected from the group consisting of S, O, SO, SO2 and CH2; and Z is a donor fluorescent moiety. Also provided are methods of use of the compound of general formula I. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044486 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397232 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Hu (Fairlawn, Ohio); Jiang Zhe (Copley, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to a method for rapidly counting micron and/or submicron particles by passing such particles through any of a plurality of orifices simultaneously with an ion current and measuring the signal generated thereby. The present invention also generally relates to a device for practicing the method of the present invention. Some embodiments can include methods and/or devices for distinguishing between and counting particles in mixtures. Still other embodiments can include methods and/or devices for identifying and/or counting bioparticles and/or bioactive particles such as pollen. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584945 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397242 | Samsonov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey A. Samsonov (Madison, Wisconsin); Arjun Arunachalam (Madison, Wisconsin); Walter F. Block (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A fast and efficient method for reconstructing an image from undersampled, parallel MRI data sets acquired with non-Cartesian trajectories includes the calculation of unsampled k-space data from the acquired k-space data and sets of calculated reconstruction coefficients. To reduce the computation time, only a few reference reconstruction coefficients are calculated using a matrix inversion step and the remaining reconstruction coefficients are produced by interpolating between the reference reconstruction coefficients. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259802 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398201 | Marchisio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evri Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Alejandro Murua (Seattle, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Lubos Pochman (Breckenridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for syntactically indexing and searching data sets to achieve more accurate search results and for indexing and searching data sets using entity tags alone or in combination therewith are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set, as well as processes natural language queries subsequently submitted against the data set. The SQE comprises a Query Preprocessor, a Data Set Preprocessor, a Query Builder, a Data Set Indexer, an Enhanced Natural Language Parser (“ENLP”), a data set repository, and, in some embodiments, a user interface. After preprocessing the data set, the SQE parses the data set according to a variety of levels of parsing and determines as appropriate the entity tags and syntactic and grammatical roles of each term to generate enhanced data representations for each object in the data set. The SQE indexes and stores these enhanced data representations in the data set repository. Upon subsequently receiving a query, the SQE parses the query also using a variety of parsing levels and searches the indexed stored data set to locate data that contains similar terms used in similar grammatical roles and/or with similar entity tag types as indicated by the query. In this manner, the SQE is able to achieve more contextually accurate search results more frequently than using traditional search engines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371399 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07395711 | Greenwood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret S. Greenwood (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining property of multiphase fluids based on ultrasonic diffraction grating spectroscopy includes a diffraction grating on a solid in contact with the fluid. An interrogation device delivers ultrasound through the solid and a captures a reflection spectrum from the diffraction grating. The reflection spectrum exhibits peaks whose relative size depends on the properties of the various phases of the multiphase fluid. For example, for particles in a liquid, the peaks exhibit dependence on the particle size and the particle volume fraction. Where the exact relationship is know know a priori, data from different peaks of the same reflection spectrum or data from the peaks of different spectra obtained from different diffraction gratings can be used to resolve the size and volume fraction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038843 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396382 | Ku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Yu-Chung Ku (Rexford, New York); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Jennifer Lynn Molaison (Marietta, Georgia); Louis Andrew Schick (Delmar, New York); Vidya Ramaswamy (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous membrane for separation of carbon dioxide from a fluid stream at a temperature higher than about 200° C. with selectivity higher than Knudsen diffusion selectivity. The porous membrane comprises a porous support layer comprising alumina, silica, zirconia or stabilized zirconia; a porous separation layer comprising alumina, silica, zirconia or stabilized zirconia, and a functional layer comprising a ceramic oxide contactable with the fluid stream to preferentially transport carbon dioxide. In particular, the functional layer may be MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, La2O3, CeO2, ATiO3, AZrO3, AAl2O4, A1FeO3, A1MnO3, A1CoO3, A1NiO3, A2HfO3, A3CeO3, Li2ZrO3, Li2SiO3, Li2TiO3 or a mixture thereof; wherein A is Mg, Ca, Sr or Ba; A1 is La, Ca, Sr or Ba; A2 is Ca, Sr or Ba; and A3 is Sr or Ba. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263165 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397169 | Nersessian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nersesse Nersessian (Van Nuys, California); Gregory P. Carman (Los Angeles, California); Harry B. Radousky (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel energy harvesting system and method utilizing a thermoelectric having a material exhibiting a large thermally induced strain (TIS) due to a phase transformation and a material exhibiting a stress induced electric field is introduced. A material that exhibits such a phase transformation exhibits a large increase in the coefficient of thermal expansion over an incremental temperature range (typically several degrees Kelvin). When such a material is arranged in a geometric configuration, such as, for a example, a laminate with a material that exhibits a stress induced electric field (e.g. a piezoelectric material) the thermally induced strain is converted to an electric field. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082632 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397301 | Brocato |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Brocato (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A pyroelectric demodulating detector (also termed a pyroelectric demodulator) is disclosed which utilizes an electrical resistor stacked upon a pyroelectric element to demodulate an rf or microwave electrical input signal which is amplitude-modulated (AM). The pyroelectric demodulator, which can be formed as a hybrid or a monolithic device, has applications for use in AM radio receivers. Demodulation is performed by feeding the AM input signal into the resistor and converting the AM input signal into an AM heat signal which is conducted through the pyroelectric element and used to generate an electrical output signal containing AM information from the AM input signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431776 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Demodulators 329/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397418 | Doerry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Grant D. Martin (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Michael W. Holzrichter (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Two-dimensional SAR data can be processed into a rectangular grid format by subjecting the SAR data to a Fourier transform operation, and thereafter to a corresponding interpolation operation. Because the interpolation operation follows the Fourier transform operation, the interpolation operation can be simplified, and the effect of interpolation errors can be diminished. This provides for the possibility of both reducing the re-grid processing time, and improving the image quality. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446892 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397709 | Bright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Bright (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Paul G. Crumley (Yorktown Heights, New York); Marc B. Dombrowa (Bronx, New York); Steven M. Douskey (Rochester, Minnesota); Rudolf A. Haring (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Steven F. Oakland (Colchester, Vermont); Michael R. Ouellette (Westford, Vermont); Scott A. Strissel (Byron, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of repairing an integrated circuit of the type comprising of a multitude of memory arrays and a fuse box holding control data for controlling redundancy logic of the arrays. The method comprises the steps of providing the integrated circuit with a control data selector for passing the control data from the fuse box to the memory arrays; providing a source of alternate control data, external of the integrated circuit; and connecting the source of alternate control data to the control data selector. The method comprises the further step of, at a given time, passing the alternate control data from the source thereof, through the control data selector and to the memory arrays to control the redundancy logic of the memory arrays. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/872088 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/189.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398160 | Morrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas B. Morrow (San Antonio, Texas); Eric Kelner (San Antonio, Texas); Thomas E. Owen (Helotes, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas energy meter that acquires the data and performs the processing for an inferential determination of one or more gas properties, such as heating value, molecular weight, or density. The meter has a sensor module that acquires temperature, pressure, CO2, and speed of sound data. Data is acquired at two different states of the gas, which eliminates the need to determine the concentration of nitrogen in the gas. A processing module receives this data and uses it to perform a “two-state” inferential algorithm. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/171977 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398309 | Baumann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Baumann (Riverside, California); Alexandre V. Beloussov (Bernardino, California); Julide Bakir (Alta Loma, California); Deganit Armon (Redlands, California); Howard B. Olsen (Colton, California); Dana Salem (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tiered communications architecture for managing network traffic in a distributed system. Communication between client or control computers and a plurality of hardware devices is administered by agent and monitor devices whose activities are coordinated to reduce the number of open channels or sockets. The communications architecture also improves the transparency and scalability of the distributed system by reducing network mapping dependence. The architecture is desirably implemented in a proton beam therapy system to provide flexible security policies which improve patent safety and facilitate system maintenance and development. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/433817 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Joseph Wynne (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers, and particularly conventional commodity bulk polymers, are modified to have a surface activity of interest using a surface modifying polymer that includes a moiety that favors migration to the surface of the bulk polymer together with a moiety provides the activity of interest (e.g., biocidal, wettability modifying (hydrophobic or hydrophilic), resistance to radiant energy, providing a functional group for functionalizing the surface, etc.). The surface modifying polymer is combined with the bulk polymer, and, due to the presence of the moiety that favors migration, concentrates primarily on the surface of the bulk polymer such that the moiety that provides the activity of interest is located primarily on the surface of the bulk polymeric article which is produced. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/882238 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396685 | Szyperski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Szyperski (Amherst, New York); Seho Kim (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses eleven reduced dimensionality (RD) triple resonance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments for measuring chemical shift values of certain nuclei in a protein molecule, where the chemical shift values encoded in a peak pair of an NMR spectrum are detected in a phase sensitive manner. The RD 3D HA,CA,(CO),N,HN NMR and RD 3D H,C,(C-TOCSY-CO),N,HN NMR experiments are designed to yield “sequential” connectivities, while the RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,CO,HA NMR and RD 3D Hα/β,Cα/β,N,HN NMR experiments provide “intraresidue” connectivities. The RD 3D H,C,C,H-COSY NMR, RD 3D H,C,C,H-TOCSY NMR, and RD 2D H,C,H-COSY NMR experiments allow one to obtain assignments for aliphatic and aromatic side chain chemical shifts, while the RD 2D HB,CB,(CG,CD),HD NMR experiment provide information for the aromatic side chain chemical shifts. In addition, methods of conducting suites of RD triple resonance NMR experiments for high-throughput resonance assignment of proteins and determination of secondary structure elements are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/628818 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07396921 | Gill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey P. Gill (Davis, California); Garth R. Brown (Davis, California); David B. Neale (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is the most important commercial tree species in the USA harvested for pulp and solid wood products. Increasing the efficiency of chemical pulping may be achieved through the manipulation of genes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway. A null allele of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) has been discovered in the loblolly pine clone 7-56 which displays altered lignin composition. During identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the cad gene, a two-base pair adenosine insertion located in exon five and unique to clone 7-56 was discovered. The sequence mutation causes a frame-shift predicted to result in premature termination of the protein. For routine detection of the mutation, a diagnostic assay was developed utilising Template-directed Dye-terminator Incorporation and Fluorescence Polarization detection (FP-TDI). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155438 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397232 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Hu (Fairlawn, Ohio); Jiang Zhe (Copley, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to a method for rapidly counting micron and/or submicron particles by passing such particles through any of a plurality of orifices simultaneously with an ion current and measuring the signal generated thereby. The present invention also generally relates to a device for practicing the method of the present invention. Some embodiments can include methods and/or devices for distinguishing between and counting particles in mixtures. Still other embodiments can include methods and/or devices for identifying and/or counting bioparticles and/or bioactive particles such as pollen. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584945 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397987 | Witzens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Witzens (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for increasing efficiency of grating couplers are disclosed. The apparatus through the use of a defect or a reflective element allows coupling of light around a normal or nearly normal angle with a high efficiency. The method disclosed teaches how to increase the efficiency of a grating coupler through the use of a defect or a mirror. The apparatus and method can be of particular utility in the context of optical clocking implemented with a III-V chip flip-chip bonded on a CMOS chip. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119380 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398375 | Ernst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Ernst (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Todd M. Austin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a dynamic scheduling scheme that uses reservation stations having at least one station that stores an at least two operand instruction. An allocator portion determines that the instruction, entering the pipeline, has one ready operand and one not-ready operand, and accordingly places it in a station having only one comparator. The one comparator then compares the not-ready operand with tags broadcasted on a result tag bus to determine when the not-ready operand becomes ready. Once ready, execution is requested to the corresponding functional unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406475 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398556 | Erickson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Erickson (Norwich, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Copyrighted electronic media are packaged in a secure electronic format, and registered on associated registration server, which serves to provide on-line licensing and copyright management for that media. Users are connected to the server, e.g., through a computer network or the Internet, to enable data transfers and to transact licenses to utilize the media. Packaged electronic media are typically created by an author or derivative user of the work. Once the packaged media is registered on the server, the media is made available for limited use and possible license through an authorization server. This limited use is specified within the minimum permissions data set assigned to each packaged media. Without a license, users are typically permitted to view the packaged media—through a system which unpackages the media—but cannot save or otherwise transfer the media without obtaining auxiliary permissions to do so from the authorization server. The electronic media is authenticated through digital signatures and optional encryption. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781145 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07396478 | Hayworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ken J. Hayworth (Northridge, California); Karl Y. Yee (Pasadena, California); Kirill V. Shcheglov (Los Angeles, California); Youngsam Bae (Gardena, California); Dean V. Wiberg (La Crescenta, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Chris S. Peay (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Multiple Internal Seal Ring (MISR) Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) vacuum packaging method that hermetically seals MEMS devices using MISR. The method bonds a capping plate having metal seal rings to a base plate having metal seal rings by wafer bonding the capping plate wafer to the base plate wafer. Bulk electrodes may be used to provide conductive paths between the seal rings on the base plate and the capping plate. All seals are made using only metal-to-metal seal rings deposited on the polished surfaces of the base plate and capping plate wafers. However, multiple electrical feed-through metal traces are provided by fabricating via holes through the capping plate for electrical connection from the outside of the package through the via-holes to the inside of the package. Each metal seal ring serves the dual purposes of hermetic sealing and providing the electrical feed-through metal trace. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850458 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397774 | Holland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Douglas Holland (Houston, Texas); Glen F. Steele (Webster, Texas); Denise M. Romero (Houston, Texas); Robert David Koudelka (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A data multiplexer that accommodates both industry standard CCSDS data packets and bits streams and standard IEEE 1394 data is described. The multiplexer provides a statistical allotment of bandwidth to the channels in turn, preferably four, but expandable in increments of four up to sixteen. A microcontroller determines bandwidth requested by the plurality of channels, as well as the bandwidth available, and meters out the available bandwidth on a statistical basis employing flow control to the input channels. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446283 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397978 | Nguyen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung Nguyen (Lakewood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is disclosed that includes a carrier structure and an optical coupling arrangement. The carrier structure is made of a silicon material and allows for the packaging and integrating of microphotonic devices onto a single chip. The optical coupling mechanism enables laser light to be coupled into and out of a microphotonic resonant disk integrated on the carrier. The carrier provides first, second and third cavities that are dimensioned so as to accommodate the insertion and snug fitting of the microphotonic resonant disk and first and second prisms that are implemented by the optical coupling arrangement to accommodate the laser coupling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180990 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07398119 | Lambert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Lambert (Sunland, California); Mark S. Borchert (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive method for analyzing the blood-brain barrier includes obtaining a Raman spectrum of a selected portion of the eye and monitoring the Raman spectrum to ascertain a change to the dynamics of the blood brain barrier. Also, non-invasive methods for determining the brain or blood level of an analyte of interest, such as glucose, drugs, alcohol, poisons, and the like, comprises: generating an excitation laser beam at a selected wavelength (e.g., at a wavelength of about 400 to 900 nanometers); focusing the excitation laser beam into the anterior chamber of an eye of the subject so that aqueous humor, vitreous humor, or one or more conjunctiva vessels in the eye is illuminated; detecting (preferably confocally detecting) a Raman spectrum from the illuminated portion of the eye; and then determining the blood level or brain level (intracranial or cerebral spinal fluid level) of an analyte of interest for the subject from the Raman spectrum. In certain embodiments, the detecting step may be followed by the step of subtracting a confounding fluorescence spectrum from the Raman spectrum to produce a difference spectrum; and determining the blood level and/or brain level of the analyte of interest for the subject from that difference spectrum, preferably using linear or nonlinear multivariate analysis such as partial least squares analysis. Apparatus for carrying out the foregoing methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/396035 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07396852 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound including at least one type of an optionally substituted indolocarbazole moiety and at least one divalent linkage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/280552 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07397086 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Paul F. Smith (Oakville, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin-film transistor, such as a top-gate thin-film transistor, is provided herein. The thin-film transistor has a performance-enhancing layer, such as a performance-enhancing bottom layer, comprising a polymer other than a polyimide. In specific embodiments, the polymer is selected from the group consisting of polysiloxane, polysilsesquioxane, and mixtures thereof. In other embodiments, it is a self-assembling polymeric monolayer of a silane agent and an organophosphonic acid. The performance-enhancing layer directly contacts the substrate. The layer improves the carrier mobility and current on/off ratio of the thin film transistor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/317168 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07396921 | Gill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey P. Gill (Davis, California); Garth R. Brown (Davis, California); David B. Neale (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is the most important commercial tree species in the USA harvested for pulp and solid wood products. Increasing the efficiency of chemical pulping may be achieved through the manipulation of genes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway. A null allele of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) has been discovered in the loblolly pine clone 7-56 which displays altered lignin composition. During identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the cad gene, a two-base pair adenosine insertion located in exon five and unique to clone 7-56 was discovered. The sequence mutation causes a frame-shift predicted to result in premature termination of the protein. For routine detection of the mutation, a diagnostic assay was developed utilising Template-directed Dye-terminator Incorporation and Fluorescence Polarization detection (FP-TDI). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155438 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07398274 | Ittycheriah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Ittycheriah (Brookfield, Connecticut); Hongyan Jing (White Plains, New York); Nandakishore Kambhatla (White Plains, New York); Xiaoqiang Luo (Ardsley, New York); Salim E. Roukos (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Bell Tree data structure is provided to model the process of chaining the mentions, from one or more documents, into entities, tracking the entire process; where the data structure is used in an entity tracking process that produces multiple results ranked by a product of probability scores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833256 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07395693 | Porter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the state of Arizona acting for Northern Arizona University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Porter (Flagstaff, Arizona); Michael P. Eastman (McAllen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for sensing chemical and/or biological analytes includes a deflectable arm of a microcantilever at least partially embedded within a sensing element. A gaseous or liquid medium which may include the analyte being detected is introduced to the sensing element. The sensing element undergoes volumetric expansion or contraction in the presence of the analyte sought to be detected, typically by adsorbing the analyte. The volumetric change of the sensing element causes the deflectable arm to deflect. The deflectable arm includes at least one measurable physical property which changes when the arm deflects. Detecting means are provided to measure the change in the physical property to determine the presence and amount of analyte present. An array of microcantilevers in which each microcantilever is dedicated to detecting a particular analyte which may be included in the medium, is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657250 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07397009 | O'Donohue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard O'Donohue (Centreville, Virginia); Lori Johnson (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (100) and method for sorting mail (112) includes a first database (106) containing addresses and zipcodes for a plurality of mail item recipients, a second database (104) containing a plurality of individual and firm names and their associated addresses, and an imaging device (114) for capturing an image of address information on a mail item (112). Based on identified elements from the captured address information image, a subsystem (110) containing an algorithm compares the elements with the first database (106) and determines if there is a match of all elements. If one or more address information elements are unmatched, the algorithm compares the elements to the second database (104), and applies a set of criteria to the address information elements matched in the second database (104) to determine if a match exists. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/363684 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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