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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 05, 2008
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| US 07406867 | Cardarelli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Milli Sensor Systems + Actuators (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donato Cardarelli (Medfiled, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A gyroscope that lies generally in a plane, for detecting rotation rate about a gyro input axis. The gyroscope has a substrate, and a generally planar support member flexibly coupled to the substrate such that it is capable of oscillatory motion about a drive axis that is orthogonal to the input axis. There is also a generally planar gyro member coplanar with and flexibly coupled to the support member such that it is capable of rotary oscillatory motion relative to the support member about an output axis that is orthogonal to the plane of the members. There are one or more drives for directly or indirectly oscillating the gyro member about the drive axis, and one or more gyro output sensors that detect oscillation of the gyro member about the output axis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426368 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07406907 | Goon 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) | Eric Goon (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Stojan Kotefski (Bloomingdale, New Jersey); Robert Kowalski (Verona, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a cartridge loop, the cartridge loop having a coupling interface with an opening defined in part by a pair of substantially parallel lines separated by a distance; and a coupling comprising first and second ends and a link that connects the first and second ends, the first end connecting with the coupling interface of the cartridge loop wherein a portion of the link adjacent the first end has a first thickness that is greater than the distance between the substantially parallel lines and a second thickness that is less than the distance between the substantially parallel lines. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163578 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07406908 | Goon 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) | Eric Goon (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); Stojan Kotefski (Bloomingdale, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A one-piece metal cartridge loop has no welds and no overlapping parts. The cartridge loop includes a plurality of locking tabs for positioning a cartridge therein. One end of the cartridge loop includes a coupling interface and another end of the cartridge loop includes a coupling support. A method of making the non-welded cartridge loop is disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163037 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/35.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407137 | Klupar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Klupar (Phoenix, Arizona); Calvin C. Potter (Mesa, Arizona); Sharon K. Brault (Chandler, Arizona); Robert J. Pinkerton (Chandler, Arizona); Norman Stanley Kolecki (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated power and attitude control system and method for a vehicle efficiently supplies electrical power to both low voltage and high voltage loads, and does not rely on relatively heavy batteries to supply power during the vehicle initialization process. The system includes an energy storage flywheel, and a solar array that is movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The energy storage flywheel is spun up, using electrical power supplied from a low voltage power source, to a rotational speed sufficient to provide attitude control. Then, after the solar array is moved to its deployed position, the energy storage flywheel is spun up, using electrical power supplied from a second power source, to a rotational speed sufficient to provide both attitude control and energy storage. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418798 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407568 | Malik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdul Malik (Tampa, Florida); Wen Li (Tampa, Florida); David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel on-line method is presented for the extraction and preconcentration of amino acids using a sol-gel coated column coupled to a conventional UV/vis detector. Extraction, stacking and focusing techniques are used in the preconcentration procedures. Sol-gel coatings are created by using N-Octadecyldimethyl[3(trimethoxysilyl)proply] ammonium chloride (C18-TMS) in the coating sol solutions. The resulting sol-gel coating carries a positive charge. For extraction, the pH of the samples is properly adjusted to impart a net negative charge to amino acids. A long plug of the sample is then passed through the sol-gel coated capillary to facilitate extraction via electrostatic interaction between the positively charged sol-gel coating and the negatively charged amino acid molecules. The focusing of the extracted amino acids is accomplished through desorption of the extracted amino acid molecules carried out by local pH change. The described procedure provides 150,000-fold enrichment effect for alanine. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704770 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407638 | Perich 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) | Andrew Perich (Vernon, New Jersey); Emily A. Cordaro (Mt. Arlington, New Jersey); Gartung Cheng (Edison, New Jersey); Neha Mehta (Sucasunna, New Jersey); Daniel Stec, III (Long Valley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a process for the on-demand production of small quantities of lead azide. First, a metered quantity of sodium azide solution and a metered quantity of a solution of a lead salt sufficient to react with the sodium azide are introduced into a T-mixer or Y-mixer. Then, the sodium azide and lead salt solutions are conveyed into a static mixer and the azide and lead compounds are permitted to react together, forming insoluble crystals of lead azide as a slurry in an aqueous medium. The lead azide crystals are then separated from the aqueous medium. The process is carried out within an explosion-proof chamber. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/906623 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407718 | Hazel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Thomas Hazel (Cincinnati, Ohio); Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Christine Govern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating system for Si-containing materials, particularly Si-based composites used to produce articles exposed to high temperatures. The coating system is a compositionally-graded thermal/environmental barrier coating (T/EBC) system that includes an intermediate layer containing yttria-stabilized hafnia (YSHf) and mullite, alumina and/or an aluminosilicate, which is used in combination with an inner layer between a Si-containing substrate and the intermediate layer and a thermal-insulating top coat overlying the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer provides environmental protection to the silicon-containing substrate, and has a coefficient of thermal expansion between that of the top coat and that of the inner layer so as to serve as a transition layer therebetween. The intermediate layer is particular well suited for use in combination with an inner layer of an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate (such as BSAS) and a top coat formed of YSZ or YSHf. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/160185 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407799 | Balagadde et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Balagadde (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemostat is described that includes a growth chamber having a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments may be fluidly isolated from the rest of the growth chamber by one or more actuatable valves. The chemostat may also include a nutrient supply-line to supply growth medium to the growth chamber, and an output port to remove fluids from the growth chamber. Also, a method of preventing biofilm formation in a growth chamber of a chemostat is described. The method may include the steps of adding a lysis agent to a isolated portion of the growth chamber, and reuniting the isolated portion with the rest of the growth chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/012852 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/289.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407863 | Hsieh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuang Chien Hsieh (Champaign, Illinois); Keh-Yung Cheng (Champaign, Illinois); Kuo-Lih Chang (Savoy, Illinois); John H. Epple (St. Louis, Missouri); Gregory Pickrell (Zephyr Cove, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Amorphous and polycrystalline III-V semiconductor including (Ga,As), (Al,As), (In,As), (Ga,N), and (Ga,P) materials were grown at low temperatures on semiconductor substrates. After growth, different substrates containing the low temperature grown material were pressed together in a pressure jig before being annealed. The annealing temperatures ranged from about 300° C. to 800° C. for annealing times between 30 minutes and 10 hours, depending on the bonding materials. The structures remained pressed together throughout the course of the annealing. Strong bonds were obtained for bonding layers between different substrates that were as thin as 3 nm and as thick as 600 nm. The bonds were ohmic with a relatively small resistance, optically transparent, and independent of the orientation of the underlying structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/680509 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407901 | Bystricky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel Bystricky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) composite material has improved impact resistance. The RCC composite material is formed from a fiber reinforcement of layers or plies of thin ply carbon fiber fabric impregnated with a carbon matrix. Carbon nanotube reinforcement in the matrix further improves impact resistance. The stacking arrangement of the plies of the thin ply fabric also further improves impact resistance. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331437 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407935 | Olson 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 A. Olson (Middletown, Maryland); Charles B. Millard (Frederick, Maryland); Michael P. Byrne (New Market, Maryland); Robert W. Wannemacher (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are polypeptides and variants thereof comprising a polypeptide sequence having substantial identity to ricin A chain (RTA) that lack detectable N-glycosidase-rRNA activity or exhibit reduced N-glycosidase-rRNA activity as compared to controls and methods of making and using thereof. The polypeptides and variants have a greater solubility in aqueous solutions of physiological pH and ionic strength than RTA and also retain the integrity of the neutralizing immunological epitope of wild type RTA. Also disclosed are immunogenic compositions that may be used to immunize a subject against ricin intoxication. Methods of immunizing against, treating, and preventing ricin intoxication are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923022 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408009 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Roberts (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dawei Xu (Raleigh, North Carolina); Douglas J. Kiserow (Cary, North Carolina); Ruben G. Carbonell (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of hydrogenating a polymer comprises: (a) providing a dense phase, the dense phase comprising a polymer in a solvent; (b) providing a catalyst system, the catalyst system comprising as least one metal hydrogenation catalyst (preferably including nickel or ruthenium); and (c) providing a light phase, the light phase comprising, consisting of or consisting essentially of hydrogen and carbon dioxide; and (d) contacting the dense phase, the light phase and the catalyst system under conditions in which the hydrogen reacts with the polymer and hydrogenates the polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533625 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408142 | Beaulieu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arradiance, Inc. (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Harry F. Lockwood (Waban, Massachusetts); Anton S. Tremsin (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchannel amplifier includes an insulating substrate that defines at least one microchannel pore through the substrate from an input surface to an output surface. A conductive layer is formed on an outer surface of the at least one microchannel pore that has a non-uniform resistance as a function of distance through the at least one microchannel pore. The non-uniform resistance is selected to simulate saturation by reducing gain as a function of input current and bias voltage compared with uniform resistance. A first and second electrode is deposited on a respective one of the input and the output surfaces of the insulating substrate. The microchannel amplifier amplifying emissions propagating through the at least one microchannel pore when the first and second electrodes are biased. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532008 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.VT0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408319 | Lloyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonny L. Lloyd (Cambridge, Canada); Dikran Yaldizciyan (Mississauga, Canada); Nicolae A. Morcov (Mississauga, Canada); Randy James Fuller (Hillsburgh, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | When multiple motors (40) share a common DC power supply (10) via a bus (20), a system and method is provided for managing the effect of regenerative energy caused by a motor. The regenerative energy may be sensed, e.g., by a power electronics controller (50, 50′). In response, one or more of the other motors currently in operation may be controlled to operate according to a reduced power factor. Thus, the excess energy is consumed without adding any new components or increasing the amount of work performed in the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/430977 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/729 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408410 | Wood |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil E. Wood (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A bias generation circuit for biasing a differential amplifier is disclosed. The bias generation circuit is coupled to the differential amplifier. After determining a common-mode voltage of a pair of differential outputs from the differential amplifier, the bias generation circuit generates a bias voltage, which is proportional to the determined common-mode voltage, to the differential amplifier such that the common-mode input voltage range of the differential amplifier is extended to as far as the rail-to-rail voltage. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445754 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408507 | Paek 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) | Eung Gi Paek (Germantown, Maryland); Mark Parent (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Joon Y Choe (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A phased array antenna system includes an RF front end, a radome, and an optical calibrator embedded in the radome for enabling in-situ calibration of the RF front end. The optical calibrator employs an optical timing signal generator (OTSG), a Variable Optical Amplitude and Delay Generator array (VOADGA) for receiving the modulated optical output signal and generating a plurality of VOADGA timing signals, and an optical timing signal distributor (OTSD). The in-situ optical calibrator allows for reduced calibration time and makes it feasible to perform calibration whenever necessary. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376633 |
| 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 342/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408572 | Baxter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nova Research, Inc. (Solvang, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Robert Baxter (Santa Barbara, California); Ralph Roch Etienne-Cummings (Washington, District of Columbia); Mark Alan Massie (Santa Ynez, California); Jon Paul Curzan (Arroyo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable acuity imager incorporates an array of detection elements for light energy, in the visible, infrared, ultraviolet, or light energy in another region of the electromagnetic spectrum with a means to change the spatial configuration of the array to include “superpixels” by combining energy detected by adjacent elements, thus permitting any number of high-resolution “foveal” regions to be placed within the confines of the focal plane array and moved around at the frame rate of the imaging device. Detectors to measure the pitch, yaw and roll angle rates of background imagery using velocity-sensing circuitry are employed for variation of the foveal regions to accommodate motion of the array. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613126 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408637 | Freeling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Freeling (Brighton, Michigan); Kenneth Augustyn (Plymouth, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for and method of detecting and characterizing materials using entangled photons is presented. The material may be at a great distances from the detector and may be biological material, complex organic compounds, or inorganic chemicals. The disclosed system and method provide advantages over traditional techniques in that they are largely impervious to atmospheric reduction of probing radiation and in that less probing radiation is required. The reduced probe energy requirement allows for detecting and characterizing sensitive material with significantly reduced material bleaching compared with traditional techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088206 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408640 | Cullum 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) | Malford E. Cullum (Grayslake, Illinois); Lloyd G. Simonson (Spring Grove, Illinois); Sylvia Z. Schade (Riverside, Illinois); Linda A. Lininger (Grayslake, Illinois); Alan L. McArthur (Mokena, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive subject matter relates to a method for detecting the presence of a biological substance of interest in a test sample of saliva or oral fluid, comprising combining said test sample with a fluorescence-labeled ligand to said biological substance and detecting a change in the fluorescence polarization of said test sample produced by binding of said fluorescence-labeled ligand to said biological substance. In one aspect of the inventive subject matter, said method comprises additional steps for comparing the fluorescence polarization of said test sample with the fluorescence polarization of a control solution. Also provided is a miniaturized, portable apparatus for measuring the fluorescence polarization of a liquid sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/700868 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408653 | LaCarrubba |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. LaCarrubba (Hopatcong, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A through-optical bench is the optical equivalent of a folded-optical system. Folded optics is generally found in cannon launched guided projectiles and always includes a mirror mounted on a gimbal. Inside the projectile the optical image is hidden behind the mirror and is not easily accessible by measurement instrument. In the through-optical bench the image is repositioned to where it is easily viewed; hence enabling a much finer process to improve manufacturing accuracy and throughput. The through-optical bench uses a collimated beam of light which passes through the seeker nose optical cluster, then through a mask which mimics the mirror, then through an identical optical cluster which substitutes for the reflection, and finally onto a screen to form a focused image directly viewable by a microscope. The clusters and mask simultaneously step through various yaw angles made possible by a reversing linkage that moves them as mirror images. A micrometer dial simulates the focusing shim for the particular seeker nose cluster. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307222 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408829 | Kuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung Cai Ngo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and arrangements to configure power management systems for integrated circuits are provided herein. A group of IC components that are functionally distinct or have mutually exclusive and/or quasi-mutually exclusive, (ME/QME) operating patterns (i.e. alternate or partially overlapping duty cycles) can be powered with a single power cell. An integrated circuit design tool can identified components in an integrated circuit design that have the ME/QME operating patterns. These cells can be collocated in close proximity to each other and power management system components can be placed in this area such that a multiple signal processing cells can share a single power line and a single power cell. Such a configuration can greatly reduce the size of a power management system for an integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/352699 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408840 | Barger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Barger (Winchester, Massachusetts); Stephen D. Milligan (Stow, Massachusetts); Marshall Seth Brinn (Newton, Massachusetts); Richard J. Mullen (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining and disambiguating the location of the shooter of supersonic projectiles based on shockwave-only signals are described. Using several spaced sensors, an initial portion of the shockwave-only signals is sensed to determine Time-Differences-Of-Arrival (TDOA) for the sensor pairs. The resulting TDOAs are used to determine the gradient of curvature of the shockwave wavefront on the sensors. The gradient of curvature is then used to determine the disambiguated projectile trajectory. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580804 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408841 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of the America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R Welch (Westport, Massachusetts); Andrew J Hull (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Shawn M Amorino (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A software system and method is presented that calculates the sensor directivity at all spatial angles, and stores these values in a two dimensional matrix. These values are then used as additional “weighting” coefficients in the equation for the pressure detected by an array of directive sensors. The azimuthal and polar angles of a particular sensor normal vector are used to “rotate” the sensor directivity matrix to account for the angular orientation of each sensor within the array. The software system receives as input sensor and array geometry, shading functions, sensor shape, array structure baffling, steering, and shading. A sensor can have the shape of a point, line, plane, volume, baffled ring, or circular plane piston. The sensors within the array can either be baffled by the array structure or retain their free field directivity response, and array as a whole can have steering or no steering. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/829566 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408973 | McCorkle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. McCorkle (Vienna, Virginia); Martin Rofheart (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra wide bandwidth, high speed, spread spectrum communications system uses short wavelets of electromagnetic energy to transmit information through objects such as walls or earth. The communication system uses baseband codes formed from time shifted and inverted wavelets to encode data on a RF signal. The combination of short duration wavelets and encoding techniques are used to spread the signal energy over an ultra wide frequency band such that the energy is not concentrated in any particular narrow band and is not detected by conventional narrow band receivers so it does not interfere with those communication systems. The use of pulse codes composed of time shifted and inverted wavelets gives the system according to the present invention a spatial resolution on the order of 1 foot which is sufficient to minimize the negative effects of multipath interference and permit time domain rake processing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165519 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409010 | McHenry |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF power amplifier architecture minimizes spurious emissions by breaking the transmitted signal into narrow spectrum sub-bands, amplifying each separately, and then combining the signals for transmission purposes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/861476 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409015 | Misra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saswat Misra (Potomac, Maryland); Ananthram Swami (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cutoff rate may be used to determine an optimal binary input distribution for a communications system which operates with imperfect receiver channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. First, the cutoff rate may be evaluated and used to analyze the optimal binary input as a function of CSI quality and receiver Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). Next, limiting distributions of BPSK and On-Off Keying (OOK) may be examined and an analytic design rule for adaptive modulation between these two inputs (as the receiver CSI changes) may be derived. The modulation scheme may provide near optimal performance by employing only these limiting distributions rather than the full spectrum of binary inputs. Finally, the results may be used to design an adaptive modulation scheme for Pilot Symbol Assisted Modulation (PSAM) systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288270 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409116 | Mackie 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 M. Mackie (College Park, Maryland); Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency (RF) to optical converter for RF imaging, wherein the converter comprises an array of RF antenna pixels adapted to receive RF signals, wherein the RF antenna pixels are adapted to facilitate RF resonance of the received RF signals; a photonic band gap (PBG) layer connected to the array of RF antenna pixels, the PBG layer comprising at least two materials, arranged in a photonic crystal (PC), wherein at least one of the materials comprises an electro-optic (EO) material, wherein the EO material is adapted to use the RF resonant signals to produce changes in optical properties of the EO material, and wherein the PC is adapted to use changes in optical properties of the EO material to produce enhanced changes in optical properties of the PBG layer; and an RF ground plane connected to the PBG layer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/709732 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409118 | Said et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Philippe Bado (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark Allen Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yves Bellouard (Waalre, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic device for determining a translation, the monolithic device being fabricated from a single continuous piece of a glass substrate. The monolithic device comprises at least one frame, a moving platform linked to the at least one frame and an optical transducer. The at least one frame is fabricated from the glass substrate. The moving platform is fabricated from the glass substrate, wherein the moving platform is linked to the at least one frame via at least one elastic hinge. The at least one elastic hinge is also fabricated from the glass substrate. The optical transducer is imbedded into the moving platform and the at least one frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/403384 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409120 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); Opel, Inc. (Shelton, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoff W. Taylor (Storrs-Mansfield, Connecticut); Jianhong Cai (Nashua, New Hampshire); Daniel C. Upp (Southbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Interference caused by the propagation of a transmit signal transmitted from a transmit antenna to a receive antenna is effectively cancelled by an improved signal cancellation system. The system includes an interference cancellation signal generator that generates a time-delayed and amplitude-reduced representation of said transmit signal. A summing stage is operably coupled to the interference cancellation signal generator and the receive antenna. The summing stage subtracts the time-delayed and amplitude-reduced representation of the transmit signal from a receive signal to substantially cancel the interference. The interference cancellation signal generator preferably includes a novel programmable optical delay line that introduces a variable amount of optical delay to an optical signal derived from said transmit signal in addition to a thyristor-based sigma delta modulator that converts samples of the transmit signal to into a digital signal in the optical domain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424012 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409323 | O'Brien, Jr. |
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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) | Francis J. O'Brien, Jr. (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for automatically characterizing data sets containing data points, which may be produced by measurements such as with sonar arrays, as either random or non-random. The data points for each data are located within a Cartesian space and a polygon envelope is constructed which contains the data points. The polygon is divided into grid cells by constructing a grid over the polygon. A prediction is made as to how many grid cells would be occupied if the data were merely a random process. The prediction takes one of two forms depending on the sample size. For small sample sizes, an exact Poisson probability method is utilized. For large sample sizes an approximation to the exact Poisson probability is utilized. A third test is utilized to test the adequacy of the Poisson based model is adequate to assess the data set as either random or non-random. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863840 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409374 | Hohil 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) | Myron Hohil (Parsippany, New Jersey); Sashi V. Desai (Franklin, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for discriminating between explosive events having their origins in High Explosive or Chemical/Biological detonation employing multiresolution analysis provided by a discrete wavelet transform. Original signatures of explosive events are broken down into subband components thereby removing higher frequency noise features and creating two sets of coefficients at varying levels of decomposition. These coefficients are obtained each time the signal is passed through a lowpass and highpass filter bank whose impulse response is derived from Daubechies db5 wavelet. Distinct features are obtained through the process of isolating the details of the high oscillatory components of the signature. The ratio of energy contained within the details at varying levels of decomposition is sufficient to discriminate between explosive events such as High Explosive and Chemical/Biological. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161903 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409504 | Rajamony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Derek Edward Williams (Austin, Texas); Kenneth Lee Wright (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for sequentially coupling successive processor requests for a cache line before the data is received in the cache of a first coupled processor. Both homogenous and non-homogenous operations are chained to each other, and the coherency protocol includes several new intermediate coherency responses associated with the chained states. Chained coherency states are assigned to track the chain of processor requests and the grant of access permission prior to receipt of the data at the first processor. The chained coherency states also identify the address of the receiving processor. When data is received at the cache of the first processor within the chain, the processor completes its operation on (or with) the data and then forwards the data to the next processor in the chain. The chained coherency protocol frees up address bus bandwidth by reducing the number of retries. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245312 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2221 | LaMoy 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) | Craig S. LaMoy (King George, Virginia); Michael A. Pompeii (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Charles K. Atwell (King George, Virginia); W. Dale Craig (King George, Virginia); Bradley A. Repp (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Dallas Wayne Culbertson (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an air supply system that provides filtered ventilation to a protected zone which is maintained at a positive pressure so as to prevent contaminants from infiltrating therein. The system further discloses a three-stage air filter apparatus that provides all the necessary filtering to remove contaminants from the air that may be created by chemical, biological and radiological conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/021682 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2222 | Rangaswamy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muralidhar Rangaswamy (Westborough, Massachusetts); Freeman Lin (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention addresses the problem of radar target detection in severely heterogeneous clutter environments. Specifically, we present the performance of the normalized matched filter test in a background of disturbance consisting of clutter having a covariance matrix with known structure and unknown scaling plus background white Gaussian noise. It is shown that when the clutter covariance matrix is low rank, the (LRNMF) test retains invariance with respect to the unknown scaling as well as the background noise level and has an approximately constant false alarm rate (CFAR). Therefore, a technique known as self-censoring reiterative fast maximum likelihood/adaptive power residue (SCRFML/APR) is developed to treat this problem and its performance is discussed. The SCRFML/AP method is used to estimate the unknown covariance matrix in the presence of outliers. This covariance matrix estimate can then be used in the LRNAMF or any other eigen-based adaptive processing technique. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251007 |
| 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 342/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE40448 | Borden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solutions-IES, Inc. (Raleigh, North Carolina); Terra Systems, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Borden (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael D. Lee (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for remediating aquifers and groundwater contaminated, for example by toxic halogenated organic compounds, certain inorganic compounds, and oxidized heavy metals and radionuclides, using the introduction of an innocuous oil, preferably an edible, food grade oil such as soybean oil, formulated into a microemulsion preferably by mixing with a natural food-grade emulsifier (such as lecithin) and water. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/862126 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07407478 | Zangen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham Zangen (Jerusalem, Israel); Roy A. Wise (Baltimore, Maryland); Mark Hallett (Bethesda, Maryland); Pedro Cavaleiro Miranda (Lisbon, Portugal); Yiftach Roth (Ramat-Gan, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic stimulator, which may be used as a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) device, and a method for its use are disclosed. The stimulator comprises a frame and an electrically conductive coil having a partially toroidal or ovate base and an outwardly projecting extension portion. The frame may be a flexible or malleable material and may be non-conductive. The electrically conductive coil may comprise one or more windings of electrically conductive material (such as a wire) coupled to the frame. The coil is electrically connected to a power supply. The device may be placed adjacent to or in contact with the body of a subject, such as on the head of a subject. The device may be used on humans for treating certain physiological conditions, such as cardiovascular or neurophysiological conditions, or for studying the physiology of the body. This device is useful in studying or treating neurophysiological conditions associated with the deep regions of the brain, such as drug addiction and depression. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/399559 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407653 | Plaut et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Plaut (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jiazhou Qiu (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses the use of bacterial IgA1 proteases to treat IgA1 deposition in tissue and organs. Bacterial IgA1 proteases specifically cleave IgA1 molecules and thus provide a means to specifically cleave and remove IgA1 depositions. Accordingly, therapeutic agents for the treatment of diseases characterized by IgA deposition are provided. In particular, therapeutic agents to treat IgA nephropathy, Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH), and Henoch-Schoenlein purpura (HS) are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/921676 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407658 | Kaslow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Kaslow (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Takafumi Tsuboi (Ehime, Japan); Motomi Torii (Ehime, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates novel methods and compositions for blocking transmission of Plasmodium vivax which cause malaria. In particular, Pvs25 and Pvs28 polypeptides, variants, including deglycosylated forms, and fusion proteins thereof, are disclosed which, when administered to a susceptible organism, induce an immune response against a 25 kD and 28 kD protein, respectively, on the surface of Plasmodium vivax zygotes and ookinetes. This immune response in the susceptible organism can block transmission of malaria. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/611779 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407664 | Beall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard W. Beall (Doraville, Georgia); George M. Carlone (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Jacquelyn S. Sampson (College Park, Georgia); Edwin W. Ades (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention, in one aspect, relates to synthetic immunoreactive peptides. These peptides are approximately 20-25 amino acids in length which are portions of the N termini of the M proteins of the most prevalent United States (U.S.) Group A Streptococcus (GAS) serotypes. At least some of the synthetic peptides can be recognized by M type-specific antibodies and are capable of eliciting functional opsonic antibodies and/or anti-attachment antibodies without eliciting tissue cross-reactive antibodies. In another aspect, it relates to compositions or vaccines comprising these synthetic serotype-specific peptides, including polypeptides and proteins. The invention may also be isolated antibodies which are raised in response to the peptides, compositions or vaccines. The invention further relates to kits for using the peptides, compositions, or antibodies. In still further aspects, the invention also relates to methods for using the peptides, compositions, vaccines, or antibodies and methods for tailoring vaccines. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/477955 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407675 | Einbond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Saxe Einbond (Crestwood, New York); I. Bernard Weinstein (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition for use in treating or preventing neoplasia, comprising an effective actein. The present invention also provides a composition for use in treating or preventing neoplasia, comprising an effective anti-neoplastic amount of an ethyl acetate extract of black cohosh. The present invention further provides a combination of anti-neoplastic agents, comprising an effective anti-neoplastic amount of an ethyl acetate extract of black cohosh and an effective anti-neoplastic amount of at least one additional chemopreventive or chemotherapeutic agent. Methods for treating and preventing neoplasia are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746960 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/764 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407752 | Kriesel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Kriesel (Holladay, Utah); Brandt B. Jones (Bountiful, Utah); Charles B. Grissom (Salt Lake City, Utah); Geoff Herpin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Peter M. Glazer (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods disclosed herein are of use for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. In particular, the methods provide for the targeting of a transcription altering agent to a specific target site of a viral genome in order to inactivate the virus. In addition, the methods provide for a triplex-forming oligonucleotide capable of interacting with a target site in a viral genome in order to alter transcription. The methods of the present invention may be used against viral pathogens or agents of bioterrorism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830287 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407756 | Slaugenhaupt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Slaugenhaupt (Quincy, Massachusetts); James F. Gusella (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions useful for detecting mutations which cause Familial Dysautonomia. Familial dysautonomia (FD; Riley-Day syndrome), an Ashkenazi Jewish disorder, is the best known and most frequent of a group of congenital sensory neuropathies and is characterized by widespread sensory and variable autonomic dysfunction. Previously, we mapped the FD gene, DYS, to a 0.5 cM region of chromosome 9q31 and showed that the ethnic bias is due to a founder effect, with >99.5% of disease alleles sharing a common ancestral haplotype. To investigate the molecular basis of FD, we sequenced the minimal candidate region and cloned and characterized its 5 genes. One of these, IKBKAP, harbors two mutations that can cause FD. The major haplotype mutation is located in the donor splice site of intron 20. This mutation can result in skipping of exon 20 in the mRNA from FD patients, although they continue to express varying levels of wild-type message in a tissue-specific manner. RNA isolated from patient lymphoblasts is primarily wild-type, whereas only the deleted message is seen in RNA isolated from brain. The mutation associated with the minor haplotype in four patients is a missense (R696P) mutation in exon 19 that is predicted to disrupt a potential phosphorylation site. Our findings indicate that almost all cases of FD are caused by an unusual splice defect that displays tissue-specific expression; and they also provide the basis for rapid carrier screening in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073203 |
| 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 07407758 | Rice, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Rice, III (New York, New York); Keril J. Blight (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | HCV variants are described. The variants include polynucleotides comprising non-naturally occurring HCV sequences and HCV variants that have a transfection efficiency and ability to survive subpassage greater than HCV that have wild-type polyprotein coding regions. Expression vectors comprising the above polynucleotides and HCV variants are also described, as are the provision of cells and host cells comprising the expression vectors. Methods for identifying a cell line that is permissive for infection with HCV are also provided, as are methods for identifying HCV variant polynucleotides with increased transfection efficiencies. Additionally, methods for identifying one or more HCV sequence mutations that provide drug-resistant HCV variants are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173792 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07407760 | Supattapone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surachai Supattapone (Hanover, New Hampshire); Nathan Deleault (Lyme, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, methods and kits for enhancing the amplification of PrPSc for use in increasing the sensitivity of identifying the presence of PrPSc in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327993 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07407763 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan T. Keller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zheng Fu (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, including but not limited to, RKIP cancer markers and RKIP pathway modulators. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods of using RKIP in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052444 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07407801 | Ostedgaard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lynda S. Ostedgaard (Iowa City, Iowa); Michael J. Welsh (Riverside, Iowa); Mark F. Stinski (North Liberty, Iowa); John A. Chiorini (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules comprising certain truncated forms of the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) immediate-early enhancer-promoter, either alone or operably linked to transgenes of interest, including those encoding partially-deleted CFTR proteins. This invention further relates to vectors comprising these nucleic acid molecules and host cells transformed by such vectors. The nucleic acid molecules, vectors and transformed host cells of the present invention are useful for treating a variety of genetic, metabolic and acquired diseases, including inter alia cystic fibrosis (CF) airway disease. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005410 |
| 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 07407805 | Comer et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin substitutes, and in particular to in vitro cultured skin substitutes that have improved barrier function. In some embodiments, improved barrier function is a result of improved culture conditions, while in other embodiments, improved barrier function results from genetic modification of keratinocytes. Improved culture conditions to improve barrier function include organotypic culture in the presence of linoleic acid and/or linoleic acid at about 75% humidity. Suitable genetic modifications for improving barrier function includes transfection with a DNA construct capable of expressing GKLF. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/235814 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408014 | Levy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Levy (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Ivan Alferiev (Clementon, New Jersey); Stanley J. Stachelek (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified polyurethane including a lipid substituent pendant from at least one urethane nitrogen and/or at least one carbon atom of the modified polyurethane, methods of preparing modified polyurethanes and the use thereof as an implantable biomaterial. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/521994 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408022 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Celtek Bioscience, LLC (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yao-Zhong Lin (Nashville, Tennessee); Claudia Budu (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides cell permeable peptides and peptide agents that inhibit anti-apoptotic processes in cancer cells to promote tumor cell death, as well as a method for providing therapeutic treatment for cancer. The composition may be delivered in conjunction with a conventional chemotherapeutic agent to provide a synergistic effect that significantly increases the effectiveness of the chemotherapeutic agent to destroy cancer cells. The invention also provides kits or systems for cancer therapy, comprising at least one peptide agent for inhibiting the anti-apoptotic effects of NF-kB and at least one chemotherapeutic agent for stimulating the cellular apoptotic pathway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/270295 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408026 | Kent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen B. H. Kent (San Francisco, California); Tom W. Muir (New York, New York); Philip E. Dawson (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Proteins of moderate size having native peptide backbones are produced by a method of native chemical ligation. Native chemical ligation employs a chemoselective reaction of two unprotected peptide segments to produce a transient thioester-linked intermediate. The transient thioester-linked intermediate then spontaneously undergoes a rearrangement to provide the full length ligation product having a native peptide bond at the ligation site. Full length ligation products are chemically identical to proteins produced by cell free synthesis. Full length ligation products may be refolded and/or oxidized, as allowed, to form native disulfide-containing protein molecules. The technique of native chemical ligation is employable for chemically synthesizing full length proteins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/710633 |
| 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 530/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408039 | Sykes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Megan Sykes (Boston, Massachusetts); Thomas R. Spitzer (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventors have discovered that hematologic disorders, e.g., both neoplastic (hematologic cancers) and non-neoplastic conditions, can be treated by the induction of mixed chimerism using myeloreductive, but not myeloablative, conditioning. Methods of the invention reduce GVHD, especially GVHD associated with mismatched allogeneic or xenogeneic donor tissue, yet provide, for example, significant graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374302 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408075 | Rezanka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis J Rezanka (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present invention include methods of synthesizing phosphocholine analogues and the phosphocholine conjugates formed therefrom and their use in preventing infections caused by microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385514 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408079 | Pomper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Gilbert Pomper (Baltimore, Maryland); Jiazhong Zhang (Washington, District of Columbia); Alan P. Kozikowski (Princeton, New Jersey); John L. Musachio (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds particularly asymmetric urea compounds which are labeled with one or more radioisotopes and which are suitable for imaging or therapeutic treatment of tissues, organs, or tumors which express NAALADase and/or PSMA. In another embodiment, the invention relates to methods of imaging tissues, organs, or tumors using radiolabeled compounds of the invention, particularly tissues, organs, or tumors which express NAALADase and/or PSMA to which the compounds of the invention have an affinity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/340864 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408147 | Blick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Heinrich Blick (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Scott Westphall (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Lloyd Michael Smith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, devices and device components for detecting, sensing and analyzing molecules. Detectors of the present invention provide good detection sensitivity over a wide range of molecular masses ranging from a few Daltons up to 10s of megadaltons, which does not decrease as function of molecular mass. Sensors and analyzers of the present invention detect emission from an array of resonators to determine the molecular masses and/or electric charges of molecules which impact or contact an external surface of a membrane that is used to mount and excite the resonators in the array. Resonators in the array are excited via piezoelectric and/or magnetic excitation of the mounting membrane and, optionally, grid electrodes are used in certain configurations for electrically biasing for the resonator array, and for amplification or suppression of emission from the resonators so as to provide detection and mass/electric charge analysis with good sensitivity and resolution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460063 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408345 | Bammer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California); Chunlei Liu (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an effective algorithm to correct motion-induced phase error using an iterative reconstruction. Using a conjugate-gradient (CG) algorithm, the phase error is treated as an image encoding function. Given the complex perturbation terms, diffusion-weighted images can be reconstructed using an augmented sensitivity map. The mathematical formulation and image reconstruction procedures are similar to the SENSE reconstruction. By defining a dynamic composition sensitivity, the CG phase correction method can be conveniently incorporated with SENSE reconstruction for the application of multi-shot SENSE DWI. Effective phase correction and multi-shot SENSE DWI (R=1 to 3) are demonstrated on both simulated and in vivo data acquired with PROPELLER and SNAILS. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348852 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408347 | Mistretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin); John Perry (Madison, Wisconsin); Oliver Wieben (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of image frames are acquired in which an MR parameter such as echo time (TE) is changed and the resulting image frames are employed to produce an MRS image of a metabolite. Scan time is reduced without sacrificing image quality by reconstructing a composite image from data acquired for a plurality of the image frames and using a highly constrained image reconstruction method with the composite image to produce each image frame. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524838 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409033 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Stanford, California); Rebecca Fahrig (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is x-ray cone beam scan data reconstruction of an imaged object with a reconstruction algorithm using shift invariant filtering and backprojection with the maximum tomographic capability of a circular scan larger than p plus cone angle, when CB data is not truncated and data extrapolation is not allowed. The reconstruction scheme includes a conventional FDK reconstruction and a parallel reconstruction using differential back projection and 1D Hilbert transform to suppress the CB artifacts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/557441 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase-change compounds, and optical storage recording media, for recording and/or storage of data, comprising such compounds, according to the formula XSbySz; wherein X is selected from the group consisting of K, Rb, Tl, Na, Li, Cs and mixtures thereof; and wherein y is about 1 or about 5, and z is about 1 or about B. Preferably, X is K, y is 5 and z is B. Also provided are optical recording media comprising a layer of the phase-change material and methods of creating a reversible phasechange by irradiating the material with a laser radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/543214 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/64.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407799 | Balagadde et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Balagadde (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemostat is described that includes a growth chamber having a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments may be fluidly isolated from the rest of the growth chamber by one or more actuatable valves. The chemostat may also include a nutrient supply-line to supply growth medium to the growth chamber, and an output port to remove fluids from the growth chamber. Also, a method of preventing biofilm formation in a growth chamber of a chemostat is described. The method may include the steps of adding a lysis agent to a isolated portion of the growth chamber, and reuniting the isolated portion with the rest of the growth chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/012852 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/289.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407872 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung Han (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jie Su (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly ordered and aligned epitaxy of III-Nitride nanowires is demonstrated in this work. <1010> M-axis is identified as a preferential nanowire growth direction through a detailed study of GaN/AlN trunk/branch nanostructures by transmission electron microscopy. Crystallographic selectivity can be used to achieve spatial and orientational control of nanowire growth. Vertically aligned (Al)GaN nanowires are prepared on M-plane AlN substrates. Horizontally ordered nanowires, extending from the M-plane sidewalls of GaN hexagonal mesas or islands demonstrate new opportunities for self-aligned nanowire devices, interconnects, and networks. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/207226 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407896 | Negro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luca Dal Negro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jae Hyung Yi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jurgen Michel (Arlington, Massachusetts); Yasha Yi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Victor T. Nguyen (Walnut, California); Lionel C. Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabrication method and materials produce high quality aperiodic photonic structures. Light emission can be activated by thermal annealing post growth treatments when thin film layers of SiO2 and SiNx or Si-rich oxide are used. From these aperiodic structures, that can be obtained in different vertical and planar device geometries, the presence of aperiodic order in a photonic device provides strong group velocity reduction (slow photons), enhanced light-matter interaction, light emission enhancement, gain enhancement, and/or nonlinear optical properties enhancement. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113624 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/787 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408009 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Roberts (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dawei Xu (Raleigh, North Carolina); Douglas J. Kiserow (Cary, North Carolina); Ruben G. Carbonell (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of hydrogenating a polymer comprises: (a) providing a dense phase, the dense phase comprising a polymer in a solvent; (b) providing a catalyst system, the catalyst system comprising as least one metal hydrogenation catalyst (preferably including nickel or ruthenium); and (c) providing a light phase, the light phase comprising, consisting of or consisting essentially of hydrogen and carbon dioxide; and (d) contacting the dense phase, the light phase and the catalyst system under conditions in which the hydrogen reacts with the polymer and hydrogenates the polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533625 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408098 | Conkling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Conkling (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina); Wen Song (San Diego, California); Nandini Mendu (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA encoding a plant quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPRTase) enzyme, and constructs comprising such DNA are provided. Methods of altering quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase expression are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748789 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408346 | Szyperski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Szyperski (Amherst, New York); David M. Parish (Buffalo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method of simultaneously conducting more than one step of a radiofrequency phase cycle in a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment. The method first involves providing a sample. Next, one or more radiofrequency pulses are applied to a plurality of spatially discrete slices of the sample under conditions effective to simultaneously conduct more than one step of a radiofrequency phase cycle in a single transient. Then, NMR signals generated from the step of applying the radiofrequency pulses are acquired. Finally, the NMR signals are processed to obtain an NMR spectrum. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474249 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408366 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); William L. Hughes (Atlanta, Georgia); Brent A. Buchine (Smyrna, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe includes a substrate and a tetragonal structure disposed on the substrate that has four end points. Three of the end points are disposed adjacent to the substrate. A fourth of the end points extends outwardly and substantially normal to the substrate. In a method of making a probe tip, a plurality of tetrapods are grown and at least one of the tetrapods is placed on a substrate at a selected location. The tetrapod is affixed to the substrate at the selected location. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/352535 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408397 | Serrano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo José Serrano (Atlanta, Georgia); Matthew Raymond Kucic (Austell, Georgia); Paul Edward Hasler (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are discussed for using a floating-gate MOSFET as a programmable reference circuit. One example of the programmable reference circuit is a programmable voltage reference source, while a second example of a programmable reference circuit is a programmable reference current source. The programmable voltage reference source and/or the reference current source may be incorporated into several types of circuits, such as comparator circuits, current-mirror circuits, and converter circuits. Comparator circuits and current-mirror circuits are often incorporated into circuits such as converter circuits. Converter circuits include analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326834 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408551 | Kazmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Kazmer (Amherst, Massachusetts); Liang Zhu (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented decision support system provides a performance-based representation using multi-dimensional clipping and transformation algorithms. Three types of supporting information are presented to the decision maker: a function matrix that describes the performance attributes varying with the decision variables; a decision space that illustrates the feasible decision set that meets performance requirements; and, a performance space that provides the feasible performance region displays the Pareto Optimal set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/578108 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408966 | Botez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Botez (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides semiconductor lasers having an Active-Photonic-Crystal (APC) structure that allows scaling of the coherent power by using a waveguide having a periodic structure that selects operation in a single spatial mode from large-aperture devices. The lasers include an active medium that includes an array of quantum box ministacks, each ministack containing 2 to 5 vertically stacked, coupled quantum boxes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507039 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408975 | Bar-Ness et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeheskel Bar-Ness (Marlboro, New Jersey); Ye Hoon Lee (Suwon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Transmit power adaptation for DS/CDMA systems is disclosed for a CDMA system that utilizes a successive interference cancellation receiver on fading channels. The transmission power is adapted in response to channel variations to achieve an arbitrary power profile for received signal powers at the system base station. That is, the received signal powers are distributed with some factor xi's given as: SRi=SR(1)xi, (i=2, 3, . . . , K and x1=1) where K is the number of users and SR(i) is the received signal power of the user having the ith strength, and wherein user strengths are ranked in the order of estimated channel gains. The factor xi gives a measure of the disparity between the received power levels. The channel is estimated at both the transmitter and receiver. In one embodiment, the factors, xi, for distributing the signal powers are selected such that the average BER for each user is minimized. In another embodiment, the factors, xi, for distributing the signal powers are selected such that, after successive interference cancellation, an instantaneous BER for all users is equal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076751 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409306 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adit D. Singh (Auburn, Alabama); Thomas S. Barnett (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining the early life reliability of an electronic component, including classifying the electronic component based on an initial determination of a number of fatal defects, and estimating a probability of latent defects present in the electronic component based on that classification with the aim of optimizing test costs and product quality. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715172 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409534 | Uht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustus K. Uht (Cumberland, Rhode Island); David Morano (Malden, Massachusetts); David Kaeli (Medway, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computing device that provides hardware conversion of flow control predicates associated with program instructions executable within the computing device, detects the beginning and the end of a branch domain of the program instructions, and realizes the beginning and the end of the branch domain at execution time, for selectively enabling and disabling instructions within said branch domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515374 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Hoff (East Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A four wheel drive articulated mine loader is powered by a fuel cell and propelled by a single electric motor. The drivetrain has the first axle, second axle, and motor arranged in series on the work machine chassis. Torque is carried from the electric motor to the back differential via a pinion meshed with the ring gear of the back differential. A second pinion oriented in an opposite direction away from the ring gear is coupled to a drive shaft to transfer torque from the ring gear to the differential of the front axle. Thus, the ring gear of the back differential acts both to receive torque from the motor and to transfer torque to the forward axle. The in-line drive configuration includes a single electric motor and a single reduction gear to power the four wheel drive mine loader. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/258961 |
| ART UNIT | 3681 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Planetary gear transmission systems or components 475/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407782 | Prudent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Prudent (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeff G. Hall (Madison, Wisconsin); Victor I. Lyamichev (Madison, Wisconsin); Mary Ann Brow (Madison, Wisconsin); James L. Dahlberg (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to means for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences, as well as variations in nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also relates to methods for forming a nucleic acid cleavage structure on a target sequence and cleaving the nucleic acid cleavage structure in a site-specific manner. The structure-specific nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave the target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103943 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407788 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco A/S, Genencor Division (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl7, and the corresponding BGL7 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL7, recombinant BGL7 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/301015 |
| 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 07407872 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung Han (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jie Su (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly ordered and aligned epitaxy of III-Nitride nanowires is demonstrated in this work. <1010> M-axis is identified as a preferential nanowire growth direction through a detailed study of GaN/AlN trunk/branch nanostructures by transmission electron microscopy. Crystallographic selectivity can be used to achieve spatial and orientational control of nanowire growth. Vertically aligned (Al)GaN nanowires are prepared on M-plane AlN substrates. Horizontally ordered nanowires, extending from the M-plane sidewalls of GaN hexagonal mesas or islands demonstrate new opportunities for self-aligned nanowire devices, interconnects, and networks. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/207226 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407905 | Ginosar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Raymond P. Anderson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reactivating a catalyst, such as a solid catalyst or a liquid catalyst. The method comprises providing a catalyst that is at least partially deactivated by fouling agents. The catalyst is contacted with a fluid reactivating agent that is at or above a critical point of the fluid reactivating agent and is of sufficient density to dissolve impurities. The fluid reactivating agent reacts with at least one fouling agent, releasing the at least one fouling agent from the catalyst. The at least one fouling agent becomes dissolved in the fluid reactivating agent and is subsequently separated or removed from the fluid reactivating agent so that the fluid reactivating agent may be reused. A system for reactivating a catalyst is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613719 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408235 | Harrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Harrison (Santa Fe, New Mexico); John Singleton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Albert Migliori (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum coherent switch having a substrate formed from a density wave (DW) material capable of having a periodic electron density modulation or spin density modulation, a dielectric layer formed onto a surface of the substrate that is orthogonal to an intrinsic wave vector of the DW material; and structure for applying an external spatially periodic electrostatic potential over the dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887153 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408236 | Potter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nth Tech (Churchville, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Potter (Churchville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for injecting charge includes providing a first material on a second material and injecting charge into the first material to trap charge at an interface between the first and second materials. The thickness of the first material is greater than a penetration depth of the injected charge in the first material. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712724 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408512 | Rodenbeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandie Corporation (Albuquerque, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. Rodenbeck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jason A. Payne (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cory W. Ottesen (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna comprises electrical conductors arranged to form a radiating element including a folded line configuration and a distributed strip configuration, where the radiating element can be in proximity to a ground conductor and/or arranged as a dipole. Embodiments of the antenna include conductor patterns formed on a printed wiring board, having a ground plane, spacedly adjacent to and coplanar with the radiating element. An antenna can comprise a distributed strip patterned on a printed wiring board, integrated with electronic components mounted on top of or below the distributed strip, and substantially within the extents of the distributed strip. Mounting of electronic components on top of or below the distributed strip has little effect on the performance of the antenna, and allows for realizing the combination of the antenna and integrated components in a compact form. An embodiment of the invention comprises an antenna including a distributed strip, integrated with a battery mounted on the distributed strip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415931 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408794 | Su |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battele LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gui-Jia Su (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit and method of providing three dc voltage buses and transforming power between a low voltage dc converter and a high voltage dc converter, by coupling a primary dc power circuit and a secondary dc power circuit through an isolation transformer; providing the gating signals to power semiconductor switches in the primary and secondary circuits to control power flow between the primary and secondary circuits and by controlling a phase shift between the primary voltage and the secondary voltage. The primary dc power circuit and the secondary dc power circuit each further comprising at least two tank capacitances arranged in series as a tank leg, at least two resonant switching devices arranged in series with each other and arranged in parallel with the tank leg, and at least one voltage source arranged in parallel with the tank leg and the resonant switching devices, said resonant switching devices including power semiconductor switches that are operated by gating signals. Additional embodiments having a center-tapped battery on the low voltage side and a plurality of modules on both the low voltage side and the high voltage side are also disclosed for the purpose of reducing ripple current and for reducing the size of the components. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409597 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408898 | Brown |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth D. Brown (Grain Valley, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A transceiver for facilitating two-way wireless communication between a baseband application and other nodes in a wireless network, wherein the transceiver provides baseband communication networking and necessary configuration and control functions along with transmitter, receiver, and antenna functions to enable the wireless communication. More specifically, the transceiver provides a long-range wireless duplex communication node or channel between the baseband application, which is associated with a mobile or fixed space, air, water, or ground vehicle or other platform, and other nodes in the wireless network or grid. The transceiver broadly comprises a communication processor; a flexible telemetry transceiver including a receiver and a transmitter; a power conversion and regulation mechanism; a diplexer; and a phased array antenna system, wherein these various components and certain subcomponents thereof may be separately enclosed and distributable relative to the other components and subcomponents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311322 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07407550 | Sachs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuel Michael Sachs (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for growing a crystalline or poly-crystalline body from a melt is described, wherein the melt is retained by capillary attachment to edge features of a mesa crucible. The boundary profile of the resulting melt surface results in an effect which induces a ribbon grown from the surface of the melt to grow as a flat body. Further, the size of the melt pool is substantially reduced by bringing these edges close to the ribbon, thereby reducing the materials cost and electric power cost associated with the process. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/688864 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407592 | van Leeuwen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nutech 03, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes van Leeuwen (Story, Iowa); Michael D. Jennings (Ellicott City, Maryland); Richard A. Mueller (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Jack H. Robinson (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of ozone treatment diverts a portion of water from a flow of water in a conduit, injects ozone into the portion to provide an ozonated portion, and recombines the ozonated portion with the flow of water in the conduit. Another method and system identifies a species-destructive reaction product of ozone with a water constituent, determines a life of the reaction product, and contacts ozone with a water containing the species for a period determined according to the determined life of the reaction product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230571 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407780 | Dodge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genencor International, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Dodge (Sunnyvale, California); Fernando Valle (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for producing products comprising improved host cells genetically engineered to have uncoupled productive and catabolic pathways. In particular, the present invention provides host cells having a modification in nucleic acid encoding an endogenous enzymatic activity that phosphorylates D-glucose at its 6th carbon and/or a modification of nucleic acid encoding an enzymatic activity that phosphorylates D-gluconate at its 6th carbon. Such improved host cells are used for the production of products, such as, ascorbic acid intermediates. Methods for making and using the improved host cells are provided. Nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for glucokinase and gluconokinase are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/598375 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407782 | Prudent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Prudent (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeff G. Hall (Madison, Wisconsin); Victor I. Lyamichev (Madison, Wisconsin); Mary Ann Brow (Madison, Wisconsin); James L. Dahlberg (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to means for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences, as well as variations in nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also relates to methods for forming a nucleic acid cleavage structure on a target sequence and cleaving the nucleic acid cleavage structure in a site-specific manner. The structure-specific nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave the target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103943 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07407640 | Barrera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Richard Wilkins (College Station, Texas); Meisha Shofner (Watervliet, New York); Merlyn X. Pulikkathara (Houston, Texas); Ranjii Vaidyanathan (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/536688 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407805 | Comer et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin substitutes, and in particular to in vitro cultured skin substitutes that have improved barrier function. In some embodiments, improved barrier function is a result of improved culture conditions, while in other embodiments, improved barrier function results from genetic modification of keratinocytes. Improved culture conditions to improve barrier function include organotypic culture in the presence of linoleic acid and/or linoleic acid at about 75% humidity. Suitable genetic modifications for improving barrier function includes transfection with a DNA construct capable of expressing GKLF. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/235814 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407901 | Bystricky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel Bystricky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) composite material has improved impact resistance. The RCC composite material is formed from a fiber reinforcement of layers or plies of thin ply carbon fiber fabric impregnated with a carbon matrix. Carbon nanotube reinforcement in the matrix further improves impact resistance. The stacking arrangement of the plies of the thin ply fabric also further improves impact resistance. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331437 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07407131 | Corda 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) | Stephen Corda (Lancaster, California); Mark Stephen Smith (Lancaster, California); David Daniel Myre (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention blocks and/or attenuates the upstream travel of acoustic disturbances or sound waves from a flight vehicle or components of a flight vehicle traveling at subsonic speed using a local injection of a high molecular weight gas. Additional benefit may also be obtained by lowering the temperature of the gas. Preferably, the invention has a means of distributing the high molecular weight gas from the nose, wing, component, or other structure of the flight vehicle into the upstream or surrounding air flow. Two techniques for distribution are direct gas injection and sublimation of the high molecular weight solid material from the vehicle surface. The high molecular weight and low temperature of the gas significantly decreases the local speed of sound such that a localized region of supersonic flow and possibly shock waves are formed, preventing the upstream travel of sound waves from the flight vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288052 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/1.N00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07407640 | Barrera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Richard Wilkins (College Station, Texas); Meisha Shofner (Watervliet, New York); Merlyn X. Pulikkathara (Houston, Texas); Ranjii Vaidyanathan (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/536688 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07408148 | Proctor |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nucsafe, Inc. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Proctor (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and an apparatus for reducing the effect of background ionizing radiation depression in vehicle and container monitoring systems due to shielding effects from components of the vehicle or container or modifications thereof. The methods utilize measurements of background radiation in two spectral regions of interest to calculate a normalization constant, and then utilize the normalization constant to normalize measurements in the same regions of interest when a vehicle or container is tested for the presence of a relevant ionizing radiation source such as 137Cs and 76Ga. Subtracting the two measurements to calculate a net difference provides a substantially valid measure of radiation counts in one spectral region of interest. Preferably the regions of interest abut or overlap, and preferably the spectral widths of the regions of interest are selected so that the attenuation of radiation counts due to background shielding effects in the two regions of interest is substantially equal. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474633 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07409039 | Banchieri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Homeland Protection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Banchieri (Newark, California); David E. Kresse (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonintrusive inspection apparatus is described of the kind having a base frame, an elongated shield on the base frame, a conveyor belt passing through the shield which is used for transporting closed containers, and a rotating CT scanner subsystem which is used for scanning the container on the conveyor belt. The CT scanner subsystem is mounted through the shield to the base frame. The shield provides sufficient rigidity for the CT scanner subsystem. A cover is positioned over the CT scanner subsystem, but only over a portion of the shield, thereby allowing for a person on one side of the shield to see a person on an opposite side of the shield. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/917680 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07409334 | Shoemaker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Shoemaker (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of text processing by receiving textual units. Then, select a language and a textual unit. Identify the selected textual unit's stem and suffix. Search a rules database for the suffix. If a base suffix is found in the rules database, combine it with the stem to form a lemma. Search a lexicon database for the lemma. If the lemma is found, a model number from the lexicon database is retrieved and cross-referenced with the rules database to obtain all inflected suffixes for the selected textual unit. Combine the inflected suffixes with the stem to form inflected forms. Output a subset of inflected-forms and information associated with the lemma and inflected suffixes. The method is repeated for unprocessed textual units. If the language selected is Russian or Somali, the textual units are processed separately. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896803 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07407640 | Barrera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Richard Wilkins (College Station, Texas); Meisha Shofner (Watervliet, New York); Merlyn X. Pulikkathara (Houston, Texas); Ranjii Vaidyanathan (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/536688 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07407790 | Hone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Hone (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides recombinant double stranded RNA phages (rdsRP) that express dsRNA-encoded genes in eukaryote cells. Recombinant dsRNA phages are useful for the expression of dsRNA expression cassettes encoding passenger genes, such as, but not restricted to, vaccine antigens, bioactive proteins, immunoregulatory proteins, antisense RNAs, and catalytic RNAs in eukaryotic cells or tissues. Methods are provided to deliver a recombinant dsRNA phage to eukaryotic cells and tissues, either by direct administration, formulated in lipid or polylactidecoglycolide, or by utilizing a bacterial vaccine vector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525702 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07408186 | Merkulov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Anatoli V. Melechko (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for controlled alignment of catalyticaly grown nanostructures in a large-scale synthesis process. A composition includes an elongated nanostructure including a first segment defining a first axis and a second segment coupled to the first segment, the second segment defining a second axis that is substantially nonparallel to the first axis. A method includes: generating an electric field proximate an edge of a protruding section of an electrode, the electric field defining a vector; and forming an elongated nanostructure located at a position on a surface of a substrate, the position on the surface of the substrate proximate the edge of the protruding section of the electrode, at least one tangent to the elongated nanostructure i) substantially parallel to the vector defined by the electric field and ii) substantially non-parallel to a normal defined by the surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089099 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07409133 | Dimmick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy E. Dimmick (Oviedo, Florida); Kevin H. Smith (West Melbourne, Florida); Douglas J. Markos (West Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber (100A-100D) is provided with a cylindrical core (102) and a first optical cladding layer (104). The core (102) is formed of a core material (105) that is optically transmissive. The core material (105) has a core index of refraction that is continuously variable over a predetermined range of values responsive to a first energetic stimulus, such as thermal energy, photonic energy, magnetic field, and an electrical potential. The core (102) includes a bore (103) axially disposed within the first optical cladding layer (104). The bore (103) is filled with the core material (105). The first optical cladding layer (104) is disposed on the core (102). The first optical cladding layer (104) is formed of a photosensitive material. The photosensitive material has a first cladding layer index of refraction that is permanently selectively configurable responsive to an exposure to a second energetic stimulus. The first optical cladding layer (104) has gratings (114-1, 114-2) inscribed therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538947 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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