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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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| US 07418835 | Nguyen 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) | Vinh Q. Nguyen (Fairfax, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a chalcogenide glass of low optical loss that can be on the order of 30 dB/km or lower, and to a process for preparing the chalcogenide glass. The process includes the steps of optionally preparing arsenic monochalcogenide precursor or the precursor can be provided beforehand; dynamically distilling the precursor in an open system under vacuum from a hot section to a cold section to purify same; homogenizing the precursor in a closed system so that it is of a uniform color; disposing the distilled or purified precursor and at least one chalcogenide element at a hot section of an open distillation system; dynamically distilling under vacuum in an open system so that the precursor and the at least one chalcogenide element are deposited at a cold section of the open system in a more purified state; homogenizing the precursor and the at least chalcogenide element in a closed system while converting the precursor and the at least one chalcogenide element from crystalline phase to glassy phase. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824836 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07418896 | Dindl 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) | Frank Dindl (Newton, New Jersey); Kenneth R. Jones (Wayne, New Jersey); Richard Beckman (Randolph, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A recoilless weapon system is provided rear portion, a barrel in movable connection to the rear portion, and a handle portion in removable connection with the barrel and/or rear portion. Further, a ballast payload cartridge is removably disposed within a ballast payload cartridge portion of said rear portion, and serves as a center breach to support a combat cartridge. The ballast payload cartridge may have a side primer disposed therein, which allows a single weapon firing pin to simultaneously initiate both the combat cartridge primer and the ballast payload cartridge primer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/906944 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07418906 | Brislin 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) | Philip Brislin (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Stephen Ginetto (Carlstadt, New Jersey); Jeffery McNaboe (Sparta, New Jersey); Roger Joinson (Boonton, New Jersey); Richard DalBraccio (Dover, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual spin projectile includes a base; a body connected to the base with a first snap joint, the first snap joint allowing relative rotation between the base and the body; a can having an open forward end and connected to the body with a second snap joint, the second snap joint allowing relative rotation between the body and the can; an aft payload disposed in the body; a forward payload disposed in the can; and a cap connected to the can and closing the open forward end of the can. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161667 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07418914 | Ansay 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) | Michael T. Ansay (Narrangansett, Rhode Island); Angelo Di Biasio (Saunderstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for pre-positioning a canister assembly at an undersea location. A transporter deploys to and releases the assembly proximate to the desired location. Once the assembly has fallen a safe distance after release, spring bands of the assembly are released by the action of lanyards of the transporter. The release allows anchor plates on each end of the assembly to separate from the assembly thereby dragging the assembly to a seafloor with the assembly buoyant at the undersea location. A vehicle deployment from the assembly is actuated by an acoustic receiver that causes a release device to release a normally compressed spring thereby allowing the spring to expand. During expansion, water is drawn into the assembly through flow ports to force a plunger plate with the water to act on a vehicle to deploy the vehicle out of a deployment tube of the assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006717 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419122 | Lee |
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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) | Calvin Lee (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A parachute system having a parachute canopy having a skirt, and a plurality of gores spaced about the skirt. The plurality of gores is defined by first and second groups of gores. The parachute system includes a slider having a plurality of through-holes, a line loop attached to the slider, a first reefing line extending through the first group of gores and having a pair of ends attached to the line loop, and a second reefing line extending through the second group of gores and having a pair of ends attached to the line loop. A corresponding group of suspension lines passes through a corresponding through-hole in the slider. Each suspension line in each group of suspension lines is attached to a corresponding gore. A single reefing line cutter is engaged with the line loop and configured to cut the line loop after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed so as to release the reefing lines and allow the slider to slide down the suspension lines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269918 |
| 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 244/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419327 | Weiss, Jr. |
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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) | Charles A. Weiss, Jr. (Clinton, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating and forming a continuous covered area, such as a sidewalk or patio, employing vertically interlocking tessellated components. One embodiment, termed PORTAPAVE™, achieves this interlocking via an array of uniquely configured two-sectioned pavers. Each paver has a first section of a first shape and a second section of a second shape impressed upon the first section and bonded together. In one embodiment, first sections of pavers are installed in a bottom layer to form a cavity between them having the same shape as the second section of a paver that is inverted onto the pavers of the bottom layer, thus providing a top layer. Each inverted paver in this top layer is fitted to interlock in that cavity formed between the un-inverted pavers in the bottom layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603431 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419624 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a method for producing composites of fullerene nanotubes and compositions thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a method of producing a composite material that includes a matrix and a fullerene nanotube material embedded within said matrix. In another embodiment, a method of producing a composite material containing fullerene nanotube material is disclosed. This method includes the steps of preparing an assembly of a fibrous material; adding the fullerene nanotube material to the fibrous material; and adding a matrix material precursor to the fullerene nanotube material and the fibrous material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507974 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419627 | Sheu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi Hsien Sheu (Los Angeles, California); Denise M. Shimazu (Los Angeles, California); David Michael Kane (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a co-cured vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding manufacturing method includes providing a tool base, disposing a prepreg skin panel outwardly from the tool base, disposing one or more tooling details outwardly from the prepreg skin panel, and disposing one or more preforms proximate the one or more tooling details. The one or more preforms are either dry or binderized. The method further includes disposing a high permeability medium between the one or more tooling details and the one or more preforms, enclosing the prepreg skin panel, the one or more tooling details, the one or more preforms, and the high permeability medium with at least one vacuum bag, pulling a vacuum on the vacuum bag, infusing the one or more preforms with a resin, and curing the one or more preforms and the prepreg skin panel. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243796 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419639 | Osterfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastian J Osterfeld (Stanford, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microfluidic devices constructed from four layers. The layers include a rigid substrate layer, a patterned rigid layer having thickness t, a patterned elastomeric layer having thickness greater than t, and a rigid support layer. Microfluidic structures in the devices are defined by the alignment of openings in the patterned rigid layer and the patterned elastomeric layer. The rigid support layer, rigid substrate layer, and patterned rigid layer may be made of any rigid material, including but not limited to plastic or silicon-containing materials, such as glass, quartz, or SiO2-coated materials. Similarly, the patterned elastomeric layer may be made of any elastomeric material, including but not limited to polydimethylsiloxanes, polymethylmethacrylates, perfluoropolyethers, or combinations thereof. Microfluidic devices according to the present invention may include sensors or sensor arrays. The microfluidic devices are fabricated using the provided error-tolerant alignment, biocompatible process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/388223 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419651 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a method for producing self-assembled objects comprising fullerene nanotubes and compositions thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a three-dimensional structure of derivatized fullerene nanotubes that spontaneously form. It includes several components having multiple derivatives brought together to assemble into the three-dimensional structure. In another embodiment, objects may be obtained by bonding functionally-specific agents (FSAs) to groups of nanotubes, enabling them to form into structures. The bond selectivity of FSAs allow selected nanotubes of a particular size or kind to assemble together and inhibit the assembling of unselected nanotubes that may also be present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507965 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419683 | Szebeni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janos Szebeni (Bethesda, Maryland); Carl R. Alving (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for inhibiting or preventing toxicity and other unwanted effects (a) caused by solvents for pharmaceuticals which solvents or emulsifier which contain amphiphilic molecules such as polyethoxylated oils or a derivative thereof, or (b) caused by a drug in a vehicle containing amphiphilic molecules such as phopholipids or derivative thereof, emptying a complement inhibitor. Drug compositions containing amphiphilic molecules, or derivatives thereof and a complement inhibitor, and pharmaceutical compositions including a drug, solvent or carrier containing amphiphilic molecules or derivatives thereof, and a complement inhibitor are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/183375 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419719 | Elsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon A. Elsworth (Mason, New Hampshire); Marvin I. Fredberg (Stoughton, Massachusetts); William H. Fossey, Jr. (Arlington, Massachusetts); Stuart Press (Guilford, Connecticut); Thad H. Fredrickson (Frederica, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A high strength, high modulus structural fabric product and the method of manufacturing the product are disclosed. The incorporation of a specific fiber/fabric treatment coupled with a resin impregnation and coating process produces a composite material. This composite material comprises high strength and modulus fibers embedded in and linked to a matrix. The resulting fabric product is useable in the formation of seamed structures, which carry and distribute high-level loads under extreme environmental conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773125 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419814 | Spiegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sankyo Company, Limited (Tokyo, Japan); Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Spiegel (McLean, Virginia); Takafumi Kohama (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting agents or drugs which inhibit or promote an activity of sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform involving providing a recombinant DNA construct into a cell such that sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform is produced in the cell, adding at least one drug or agent to the cell, and detecting whether or not the drug or agent inhibits or promotes an activity of sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform by measuring sphingosine kinase-depedendent phosphorylation of lipids in the cell and comparing the resultant measurement to a control which did not receive the drug or agent, wherein a decrease in the amount of sphingosine kinase-dependent phosphorylation of the lipids as compared to the control indicates an inhibitory drug or agent, or an increase in the amount of sphingosine kinase-dependent phosphorylation of the lipids in the cell as compared to the control indicates a stimulatory drug or agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830677 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419915 | Abraham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret H. Abraham (Los Angeles, California); Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); Siegfried W. Janson (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method using an etchant and a laser for localized precise heating enables precise etching and release of MEMS devices with improved process control while expanding the number of materials used to make MEMS, including silicon-dioxide patterned films buried in and subsequently released from bulk silicon, as a direct write method of release of patterned structures that enables removal of only that material needed to allow the device to perform to be precisely released, after which, the bulk material can be further processed for additional electrical or packaging functions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/061485 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/743 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419917 | Abraham |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret H. Abraham (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is used for producing nanoscale and microscale devices in a variety of materials, such as silicon dioxide patterned buried films. The method is inexpensive and reliable for making small scale mechanical, optical, or electrical devices and relies upon the implantation of ions into a substrate and subsequent annealing to form a stoichiometric film with the device geometry is defined by the implant energy and dose and so is not limited by the usual process parameters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504466 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/766 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419942 | Mallow, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy J. Mallow, legal representative (Helotes, Texas); Ronald J. Mathis (San Antonio, Texas); Andrew Warren (Fredricksburg, Virginia); Christian J Schwartz (San Antonio, Texas); Errol M. Brigance (San Antonio, Texas); Kenneth R. Collins (Belcamp, Maryland); Nicholle K. Reinhardt (San Antonio, Texas); Mary C. Marshall (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a lubricious anti-traction material for effectively denying the mobility and access of personnel and vehicles to selected areas. The anti-traction material is composed of a slurry combined with water. The slurry is composed of an emulsion or dispersion and an anionic acrylamide polymer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/684427 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420004 | Hardy 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) | Dennis R. Hardy (Alexandria, Virginia); Timothy Coffey (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing synthetic hydrocarbons that reacts carbon dioxide, obtained from seawater of air, and hydrogen obtained from water, with a catalyst in a chemical process such as reverse water gas shift combined with Fischer Tropsch synthesis. The hydrogen is produced by nuclear reactor electricity, nuclear waste heat conversion, ocean thermal energy conversion, or any other source that is fossil fuel-free, such as wind or wave energy. The process can be either land based or sea based. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108149 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/704 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420025 | Wagener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth B. Wagener (Gainesville, Florida); John C. Sworen (Gainesville, Florida); Hector F. Zuluaga (Cali, Colombia); Piotr Matloka (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) has been utilized in the synthesis of carbosilane and carbosiloxane polymers bearing a latent reactive methoxy-functional group on each repeat unit. The polymerization results in a linear thermoplastic polymer. The latent reactive methoxy groups remain inert during polymerization; however, exposure to moisture triggers hydrolysis and the formation of a chemically cross-linked thermoset. The thermoset's properties can be modified by varying the ratio of carbosilane and carbosiloxane repeat units in the final material. Also, increasing cross-link density by using cross-linkable chain-end groups and increasing the run length of the soft phase, maximizing phase separation and elasticity, allows for the synthesis of elastic thermosets exhibiting good tensile strength. Adding a trifunctional ADMET active chain-end cross-linker to the system improved the mechanical behavior of the resulting polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718764 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420156 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong Koo Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Zhijun Sun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yun Suk Jung (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal nanowire array acts as a band pass filter in the visible to IR range. The filter may be used in a monochromator, spectrometer, color camera, analyte detector or other devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345673 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420318 | Pulskamp |
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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) | Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Mclean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device comprises a substrate; an anchored end connected to the substrate; a free end comprising an end effector opposite to the anchored end; a spring attached to the end effector; multiple actuation beams; multiple connection beams adapted to connect the multiple actuation beams to one another; and an actuator/sensor comprising a first electrode; a piezoelectric layer over the first electrode; and a set of second electrodes over the piezoelectric layer, wherein the set of second electrodes being defined by a transverse gap therebetween. Each of the multiple actuation beams comprises two sets of the second electrodes. The set of second electrodes comprise an extensional electrode and a contraction electrode. One of the sets of second electrodes is actuated asymmetrically with respect to a first plane resulting in a piezoelectrically induced bending moment arm in a lateral direction that lies in a second plane. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387078 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420366 | In 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) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Antonio Palacios (San Diego, California); Yong Kho (San Diego, California); Adi R. Bulsara (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system employing a plurality of nonlinear sensors utilizes a coupling network to interconnect the sensors wherein the coupling network inherently induces oscillations in the sensor system. This approach removes the need to provide bias signal generation either onboard the sensors or via a source external to the sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874009 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420421 | Lie 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) | Donald Y. C. Lie (San Diego, California); Jeremy Daniel Popp (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Open-Loop RF Transmitter Output Power Control for Increased Power Efficiency (NC#97507) system includes microprocessor, battery, bias control circuitry, supply control circuitry and power amplifier. Microprocessor receives desired RF output power and battery voltage value and transmits bias control voltage and supply control voltage. Bias control circuitry is operatively coupled to microprocessor and receives bias control voltage and transmits bias output voltage. Supply control circuitry is operatively coupled to battery and microprocessor, and receives battery voltage and supply control voltage, and transmits supply collector voltage. Power amplifier is operatively coupled to supply control circuitry and bias control circuitry via inductor, and receives supply collector voltage and bias output voltage, and transmits RF output signal in response to RF input signal, supply collector voltage and bias output voltage. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387083 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420474 | Elks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barron Associates, Inc. (Charlottesvilles, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl R. Elks (Earlysville, Virginia); Alec Bateman (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing idiosyncratic electronic emissions fingerprints from an electronic device is disclosed wherein emissions produced by the electronic device are collected and converted into one or more digital electronic fingerprints. The method contemplates a variety of emissions, such as electromagnetic emissions (including radio frequency emissions) and vibrational emissions (including audio emissions). The emissions fingerprints of various types extracted from an electronic device can be combined into more complex emissions signatures, and/or they can be combined with conventional electronic fingerprints or other idiosyncratic identifying data. A drift-test method for compensation and correction of emissions fingerprint drift is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128674 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/678 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420505 | Blanchard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clean Earth Technologies, LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Blanchard (Murphy, Texas); Jeffry Golden (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Robert D. Morgan (Chesterfield, Missouri); Andrew Cilia (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of organizing a radar system or a sensor system with multiple levels of hierarchical constructs for all level of the system. These architectural levels incorporate self-similar organizational structure and represent design strategies that implement data transfer and communication interfaces with both intranet and internet communication network connections. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855447 |
| 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 342/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420508 | Ksienski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Ksienski (Los Angeles, California); James P. McKay (Hermosa Beach, California); Samuel S. Osofsky (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Keven S. MacGowan (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Gwendolyn M. Shaw (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing intermodulation beams includes applying a beam-smearing phase distribution in addition to a beam-steering distribution for scanning to an array of antenna elements such that multiple higher-order intermodulation products are simultaneously reduced. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354551 |
| 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 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420522 | Steinbrecher |
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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) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic radiation interface is provided that is suitable for use with radio wave frequencies. A surface is provided with a plurality of metallic conical bristles. A corresponding plurality of termination sections are provided so that each bristle is terminated with a termination section. The termination section may comprise an electrical resistance for capturing substantially all the electromagnetic wave energy received by each respective bristle to thereby prevent reflections from the surface of the interface. Each termination section may also comprise an analog to digital converter for converting the energy from each bristle to a digital word. The bristles may be mounted on a ground plane having a plurality of holes therethrough. A plurality of coaxial transmission lines may extend through the ground plane for interconnecting the plurality of bristles to the plurality of termination sections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956526 |
| 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 343/853 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420654 | Cherala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Pawan K. Nimmakayala (Austin, Texas); Mario J. Meissl (Austin, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a method to vary dimensions of a substrate supported by a chuck. The method includes applying compressive forces to the substrate with the actuator assembly while facilitating movement of the actuator assembly with respect to the substrate to minimize reactive forces generated in response to the compressive forces being sensed by the chuck. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/142834 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420659 | Cabuz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Interantional Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cleopatra Cabuz (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Eugen Cabuz (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having a disposable cytometer cartridge containing pumps, pressure chambers, reservoirs, flow sensors, flow channels, and microfluidic circuits with fluid operations on the cartridge. The circuits may include mesopumps and mesovalves embedded in the chip, card or cartridge. The apparatus may have multiple detecting, analyzing and identification capabilities of blood or other fluids of interest. The sample to be tested may be entered in the disposable microfluidic cartridge which in turn is insertable in a hand-holdable or portable cytometer instrument. This apparatus may have significant application in biological warfare agent detection, water analyses, environmental checks, hematology, and other clinical and research fields. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/908014 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420685 | Guo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunlei Guo (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Two optical signals are autocorrelated by causing them to be incident on a metal surface, where they generate a second (or higher) harmonic signal. The resulting harmonic signal is detected by a photomultiplier tube or the like. The harmonic signal generation on the metal surface is phase-matched and dispersion free and can be performed over a wide range of wavelengths. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/413137 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420875 | Hendricks |
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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) | Peter J. Hendricks (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for improving horizontal spatial resolution of a flow field in compact jet-like current features so as to quantify the axial velocity in the cross section of a compact jet using an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). The ADCP is a four-beam, Janus-type ADCP having beams aligned so that each of the beams is at an angle of about 20° to 30° to vertical and at 45° to the fore and aft axis of the vessel, such that two beams point at 45° to forward and two pointing 45° to aft. The measurements from each range bin of the aft-facing beams are combined with the previously measured samples from the corresponding forward-facing beams at the same position along the vessel track. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/767658 |
| 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 367/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421158 | Fainman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California); Wataru Nakagawa (Palos Park, Illinois); Chyong-Hua Chen (La Jolla, California); Pang-Chen Sun (San Diego, California); Lin Pang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for etching a solid state material to create a surface relief pattern. A resist layer is formed on the surface of the solid state material. The photoresist layer is holographically patterned to form a patterned mask. The pattern is then transferred into the solid state material by a dry etching process. The invention is especially useful for forming optical nanostructures. In preferred embodiments, a direct write process, such as ebeam lithography, is used to define defects and functional elements, such as waveguides and cavities. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521425 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421179 | Jiang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Jiang (Austin, Texas); Ray T. Chen (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An active device for dynamic control of the transmission properties has at least one photonic crystal waveguide that has an electrically insulating layer formed within or near the waveguide core and two lateral conductive regions divided by the insulating layer. An alternating voltage signal induces phase and amplitude changes of electromagnetic wave propagating inside the device. Electromagnetic wave signals propagating through two such active photonic crystal waveguide devices may be mixed to produce at least one output signal through interference. Devices having one or more such active photonic crystal waveguides may be utilized as a tunable optical delay line, a tunable optical filter, a switch, or a modulator. A preferred embodiment comprises a photonic crystal waveguide made of a silicon slab with a periodic array of apertures or oxide columns therein, wherein an silicon oxide layer disposed in the waveguide core separates a p-doped region from an n-doped region. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541239 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421343 | Hawkinson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley J. Hawkinson (Chanhassen, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reducing vibration-induced bias errors in inertial sensors are disclosed. A system for reducing bias errors in an inertial sensor operating within an environment may include a vibration detector for sensing vibration changes within the environment proximate to the inertial sensor, and a Kalman filter for computing an estimate of the navigational error produced by the inertial sensor due to a vibration-induced bias shift detected by the vibration detector. The vibration detector can be configured to measure an accelerometer output of the inertial sensor over a Kalman filter cycle, and then use the standard deviation of such output to obtain a statistical measure of the vibration within the environment. In some embodiments, the inertial sensor may include an inertial measurement unit (IMU) connected to an error compensation unit and strapdown navigator, each of which can be fed navigation corrections determined by the Kalman filter. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163695 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421349 | Stack |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Stack (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, and method, detects the presence of developing faults in rolling element bearings. Detection is accomplished by measuring the vibration of the apparatus in which the bearing is operating (motor, generator, engine, etc.) and searching for signatures unique to bearing faults. These signatures are predicted by a fault signature model and recognized by a detector, both of which are part of this invention. |
| FILED | Monday, May 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449185 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421354 | Brunell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Jerome Brunell (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing an effect of a disturbance signal on an output of a dynamic system. The method includes generating an increment of the disturbance signal, and modifying an incremental signal input to the dynamic system based on the increment of the disturbance signal, thereby reducing the effect of the disturbance signal. According to one embodiment the method includes generating an increment by calculating a difference between two values sampled during consecutive sampling periods, wherein a first one of the two values is sampled during a first one of the consecutive sampling periods, and wherein a second one of the two values is sampled during a second one of the consecutive sampling periods, and wherein the two values are disturbances. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/549320 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421417 | Mangasarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olvi L. Mangasarian (Madison, Wisconsin); Glenn M. Fung (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A feature selection technique for support vector machine (SVM) classification makes use of fast Newton method that suppresses input space features for a linear programming formulation of a linear SVM classifier, or suppresses kernel functions for a linear programming formulation of a nonlinear SVM classifier. The techniques may be implemented with a linear equation solver, without the need for specialized linear programming packages. The feature selection technique may be applicable to linear or nonlinear SVM classifiers. The technique may involve defining a linear programming formulation of a SVM classifier, solving an exterior penalty function of a dual of the linear programming formulation to produce a solution to the SVM classifier using a Newton method, and selecting an input set for the SVM classifier based on the solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650121 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421601 | Bose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Prabhakar N. Kudva (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling power and performance in a microprocessor system includes a monitoring and control system integrated into a microprocessor system. The monitoring and control system includes a hierarchical architecture having a plurality of layers. Each layer in the hierarchical architecture is responsive to commands from a higher level, and the commands provide instructions on operations and power distribution, such that the higher levels provide modes of operation and budgets to lower levels and the lower levels provide feedback to the higher levels to control and manage power usage in the microprocessor system both globally and locally. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357612 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421738 | Harp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Harp (Coon Rapids, Minnesota); Christopher W. Geib (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A skeptical system protects an asset by monitoring commands of a user, predicting a plan of the user based on the monitored commands, inferring an actual plan from the predicted plan, receiving information related to an identity of the user, inferring an actual identity of the user from the information, assessing a threat based on the actual plan and the actual user identity, and selecting, from among a plurality of possible responses, a response that is appropriate to the assessed threat. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/303223 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2223 | Brizzolara |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Brizzolara (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A biosensor has a micrometer sized antibody substrate surface which may include patterned single or multiple antibody substrates. The substrate is capable of detecting multiple chemical species simultaneously and/or continuously monitoring a single chemical species. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/406197 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE40477 | Fridrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of SUNY (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method that efficiently, accurately, and simply detect reliably least-significant-bit (“LSB”) embedding of a secret message in randomly scattered pixels. The system and method apply to both 24-bit color images and 8-bit grayscale or color images. Many commercial steganographic programs use Least Significant Bit embedding (LSB) as the method of choice to hide messages in 24-bit, 8-bit color images and in grayscale images. They do so based on the common belief that changes to the LSBs of colors cannot be detected because of noise that is always present in digital images. By inspecting the differences in capacity for lossless (invertible) embedding in the LSB and the shifted LSB plane, the present invention reliably detects messages as short as 1% of the total number of pixels (assuming 1 bit per sample). The system and method of the present invention are fast, and they provide accurate estimates for the length of the embedded secret message. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639355 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Armstrong (Laramie, Wyoming); Jonathan Naughton (Laramie, Wyoming); William R. Lindberg (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A shear stress sensor for measuring fluid wall shear stress on a test surface is provided. The wall shear stress sensor is comprised of an active sensing surface and a sensor body. An elastic mechanism mounted between the active sensing surface and the sensor body allows movement between the active sensing surface and the sensor body. A driving mechanism forces the shear stress sensor to oscillate. A measuring mechanism measures displacement of the active sensing surface relative to the sensor body. The sensor may be operated under periodic excitation where changes in the nature of the fluid properties or the fluid flow over the sensor measurably changes the amplitude or phase of the motion of the active sensing surface, or changes the force and power required from a control system in order to maintain constant motion. The device may be operated under non-periodic excitation where changes in the nature of the fluid properties or the fluid flow over the sensor change the transient motion of the active sensor surface or change the force and power required from a control system to maintain a specified transient motion of the active sensor surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/557999 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/841 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07418997 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Martin (Washburn, Illinois); Dwight E. Elliott (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiator assembly includes a finned radiator core and a debris removing apparatus having a compressed air inlet and at least one compressed air outlet configured to direct compressed air through the radiator core. A work machine such as a wheel loader includes a radiator and a debris removing apparatus coupled with on-board compressed air and having at least one pressurized gas outlet configured to direct a gas toward the face of the radiator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311808 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419574 | Cummings et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California); Yolanda Fintschenko (Livermore, California); Blake Simmons (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic devices according to embodiments of the present invention include an inlet port, an outlet port, and a channel or chamber having a non-uniform array of insulating features on one or more surfaces. Electrodes are provided for generation of a spatially non-uniform electric field across the array. A voltage source, which may be an A.C. and/or a D.C. voltage source may be coupled to the electrodes for the generation of the electric field. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760139 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419575 | Culbertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. Culbertson (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Stephen C. Jacobson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Maxine A. McClain (Knoxville, Tennessee); J. Michael Ramsey (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic systems and methods are disclosed which are adapted to transport and lyse cellular components of a test sample for analysis. The disclosed microfluidic systems and methods, which employ an electric field to rupture the cell membrane, cause unusually rapid lysis, thereby minimizing continued cellular activity and resulting in greater accuracy of analysis of cell processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/858096 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419630 | Palmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy A. Palmer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Donald W. Davis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bart D. Chavez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Phillip L. Gallegos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ryan B. Wicker (El Paso, Texas); Francisco R. Medina (El Paso, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment provides, for example, a system and method of integrating fluid media dispensing technology such as direct-write (DW) technologies with rapid prototyping (RP) technologies such as stereolithography (SL) to provide increased micro-fabrication and micro-stereolithography. A preferred embodiment of the present invention also provides, for example, a system and method for Rapid Prototyping High Density Circuit (RPHDC) manufacturing of solderless connectors and pilot devices with terminal geometries that are compatible with DW mechanisms and reduce contact resistance where the electrical system is encapsulated within structural members and manual electrical connections are eliminated in favor of automated DW traces. A preferred embodiment further provides, for example, a method of rapid prototyping comprising: fabricating a part layer using stereolithography and depositing thermally curable media onto the part layer using a fluid dispensing apparatus. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/907979 |
| ART UNIT | 4111 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419635 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ping Liu (San Diego, California); C. Edwin Tracy (Golden, Colorado); J. Roland Pitts (Lakewood, Colorado); R. Davis Smith, II (Golden, Colorado); Se-Hee Lee (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor structure for chemochromic optical detection of hydrogen gas over a wide response range, that exhibits stability during repeated coloring/bleaching cycles upon exposure and removal of hydrogen gas, comprising: a glass substrate (20); a vanadium oxide layer (21) coated on the glass substrate; and a palladium layer (22) coated on the vanadium oxide layer. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/239977 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419741 | Vernstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George D. Vernstrom (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Radoslav Atanasoski (Edina, Minnesota); Mark K. Debe (Stillwater, Minnesota); Gregory M. Haugen (Edina, Minnesota); Krzysztof A. Lewinski (Oakdale, Minnesota); Andrew J. L. Steinbach (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell cathode catalyst is provided which comprises nanostructured elements comprising microstructured support whiskers bearing nanoscopic catalyst particles. The nanoscopic catalyst particles are made by the alternating application of first and second layers, the first layer comprising platinum and the second layer being an alloy or intimate mixture of iron and a second metal selected from the group consisting of Group VIb metals, Group VIIb metals and Group VIIIb metals other than platinum and iron, where the atomic ratio of iron to the second metal in the second layer is between 0 and 10, where the planar equivalent thickness ratio of the first layer to the second layer is between 0.3 and 5, and wherein the average bilayer planar equivalent thickness of the first and second layers is less than 100 Å. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674594 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419846 | Shtein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Shtein (Princeton, New Jersey); Fan Yang (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an organic optoelectronic device having a bulk heterojunction comprises the steps of: depositing a first layer over a first electrode by organic vapor phase deposition, wherein the first layer comprises a first organic small molecule material; depositing a second layer on the first layer such that the second layer is in physical contact with the first layer, wherein the interface of the second layer on the first layer forms a bulk heterojunction; and depositing a second electrode over the second layer to form the optoelectronic device. In another embodiment, a first layer having protrusions is deposited over the first electrode, wherein the first layer comprises a first organic small molecule material. For example, when the first layer is an electron donor layer, the first electrode is an anode, the second layer is an electron acceptor layer, and the second electrode is a cathode. As a further example, when the first layer is an electron acceptor layer, the first electrode is a cathode, the second layer is an electron donor layer, and the second electrode is an anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824288 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419925 | Nunn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D Nunn (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A sintered ceramic composition includes at least 50 wt. % boron carbide and at least 0.01 wt. % of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu, the sintered ceramic composition being characterized by a density of at least 90% of theoretical density. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466491 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/87 |
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| US 07420027 | Kong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a borohydride is described and which includes the steps of providing a source of borate; providing a material which chemically reduces the source of the borate to produce a borohydride; and reacting the source of borate and the material by supplying heat at a temperature which substantially effects the production of the borohydride. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992441 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420071 | Chaiko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Chaiko (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided novel thermally stable surfactants for use with fillers in the preparation of polymer composites and nanocomposites. Typically, surfactants of the invention are urethanes, ureas or esters of thiocarbamic acid having a hydrocarbyl group of from 10 to 50 carbons and optionally including an ionizable or charged group (e.g., carboxyl group or quaternary amine). Thus, there are provided surfactants having Formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein. Further provided are methods of making thermally stable surfactants and compositions, including composites and nanocomposites, using fillers coated with the surfactants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121425 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420102 | Amasino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M Amasino (Madison, Wisconsin); Fritz M Schomburg (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott D Michaels (Madison, Wisconsin); Colleen M. Bizzell (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses the function, the cDNA sequences, and the expressed amino acid sequences of two genes the expression of which reduced bioactive GA levels and the height of a plant. This information enables creation of dwarf transgenic plants or transgenic plants with a specific dwarf organ. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152892 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420187 | Klemic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gladys Klemic (Naperville, Illinois); Paul Bailey (Chicago, Illinois); Cecilia Breheny (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a citizen's dosimeter. More specifically, the invention relates to a small, portable, personal dosimetry device designed to be used in the wake of a event involving a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), Improvised Nuclear Device (IND), or other event resulting in the contamination of large area with radioactive material or where on site personal dosimetry is required. The card sized dosimeter generally comprises: a lower card layer, the lower card body having an inner and outer side; a upper card layer, the layer card having an inner and outer side; an optically stimulated luminescent material (OSLM), wherein the OSLM is sandwiched between the inner side of the lower card layer and the inner side of the upper card layer during dosimeter radiation recording, a shutter means for exposing at least one side of the OSLM for dosimeter readout; and an energy compensation filter attached to the outer sides of the lower and upper card layers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288058 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/484.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420225 | Wanke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric A. Shaner (Albuquerque, New Mexico); S. James Allen (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct detector for terahertz radiation comprises a grating-gated field-effect transistor with one or more quantum wells that provide a two-dimensional electron gas in the channel region. The grating gate can be a split-grating gate having at least one finger that can be individually biased. Biasing an individual finger of the split-grating gate to near pinch-off greatly increases the detector's resonant response magnitude over prior QW FET detectors while maintaining frequency selectivity. The split-grating-gated QW FET shows a tunable resonant plasmon response to FIR radiation that makes possible an electrically sweepable spectrometer-on-a-chip with no moving mechanical optical parts. Further, the narrow spectral response and signal-to-noise are adequate for use of the split-grating-gated QW FET in a passive, multispectral terahertz imaging system. The detector can be operated in a photoconductive or a photovoltaic mode. Other embodiments include uniform front and back gates to independently vary the carrier densities in the channel region, a thinned substrate to increase bolometric responsivity, and a resistive shunt to connect the fingers of the grating gate in parallel and provide a uniform gate-channel voltage along the length of the channel to increase the responsivity and improve the spectral resolution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/290090 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420293 | Donnelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew K. Donnelly (Kennewick, Washington); David P. Chassin (Pasco, Washington); Jeffery E. Dagle (Richland, Washington); Michael Kintner-Meyer (Richland, Washington); David W. Winiarski (Kennewick, Washington); Robert G. Pratt (Kennewick, Washington); Anne Marie Boberly-Bartis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical appliance energy consumption control methods and electrical energy consumption systems are described. In one aspect, an electrical appliance energy consumption control method includes providing an electrical appliance coupled with a power distribution system, receiving electrical energy within the appliance from the power distribution system, consuming the received electrical energy using a plurality of loads of the appliance, monitoring electrical energy of the power distribution system, and adjusting an amount of consumption of the received electrical energy via one of the loads of the appliance from an initial level of consumption to an other level of consumption different than the initial level of consumption responsive to the monitoring. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/301868 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420323 | Krummacher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Claus Krummacher (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus such as a light source is disclosed which has an OLED device and a structured luminescence conversion layer disposed on the substrate or transparent electrode of said OLED device and on the exterior of said OLED device. The structured luminescence conversion layer contains color-changing and non-color-changing regions arranged in a particular pattern. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264516 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420442 | Forman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Forman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a signal controller, e.g., a filter or a switch, for a coplanar waveguide during the LIGA fabrication process of the waveguide. Both patterns for the waveguide and patterns for the signal controllers are created on a mask. Radiation travels through the mask and reaches a photoresist layer on a substrate. The irradiated portions are removed and channels are formed on the substrate. A metal is filled into the channels to form the conductors of the waveguide and the signal controllers. Micromachined quasi-lumped elements are used alone or together as filters. The switch includes a comb drive, a spring, a metal plunger, and anchors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/149400 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420656 | Sandusky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Sandusky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd Alan Pitts (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Scannerless loss modulated flash color range imaging methods and apparatus are disclosed for producing three dimensional (3D) images of a target within a scene. Apparatus and methods according to the present invention comprise a light source providing at least three wavelengths (passbands) of illumination that are each loss modulated, phase delayed and simultaneously directed to illuminate the target. Phase delayed light backscattered from the target is spectrally filtered, demodulated and imaged by a planar detector array. Images of the intensity distributions for the selected wavelengths are obtained under modulated and unmodulated (dc) illumination of the target, and the information contained in the images combined to produce a 3D image of the target. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/841050 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420662 | Yalin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Azer Yalin (Fort Collins, Colorado); Bryan Willson (Fort Collins, Colorado); Morgan Defoort (Fort Collins, Colorado); Sachin Joshi (Fort Collins, Colorado); Adam Reynolds (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A spark delivery system for generating a spark using a laser beam is provided, and includes a laser light source and a laser delivery assembly. The laser delivery assembly includes a hollow fiber and a launch assembly comprising launch focusing optics to input the laser beam in the hollow fiber. The laser delivery assembly further includes exit focusing optics that demagnify an exit beam of laser light from the hollow fiber, thereby increasing the intensity of the laser beam and creating a spark. Other embodiments use a fiber laser to generate a spark. Embodiments of the present invention may be used to create a spark in an engine. Yet other embodiments include collecting light from the spark or a flame resulting from the spark and conveying the light for diagnostics. Methods of using the spark delivery systems and diagnostic systems are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197833 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420669 | Sopori et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhushan L. Sopori (Denver, Colorado); Artak Hambarian (Yerevan, Armenia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is an optical probe (120) for use in characterizing surface defects in wafers, such as semiconductor wafers. The optical probe (120) detects laser light reflected from the surface (124) of the wafer (106) within various ranges of angles. Characteristics of defects in the surface (124) of the wafer (106) are determined based on the amount of reflected laser light detected in each of the ranges of angles. Additionally, a wafer characterization system (100) is described that includes the described optical probe (120). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/543970 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421166 | Woodruff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Woodruff (Morgantown, West Virginia); Dustin L. McIntyre (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser spark distribution and ignition system that reduces the high power optical requirements for use in a laser ignition and distribution system allowing for the use of optical fibers for delivering the low peak energy pumping pulses to a laser amplifier or laser oscillator. An optical distributor distributes and delivers optical pumping energy from an optical pumping source to multiple combustion chambers incorporating laser oscillators or laser amplifiers for inducing a laser spark within a combustion chamber. The optical distributor preferably includes a single rotating mirror or lens which deflects the optical pumping energy from the axis of rotation and into a plurality of distinct optical fibers each connected to a respective laser media or amplifier coupled to an associated combustion chamber. The laser spark generators preferably produce a high peak power laser spark, from a single low power pulse. The laser spark distribution and ignition system has application in natural gas fueled reciprocating engines, turbine combustors, explosives and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy diagnostic sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/462516 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421576 | Kent |
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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) | Alexander Dale Kent (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems in a data/computer network for authenticating identifying data transmitted from a client to a server through use of a gateway interface system which are communicately coupled to each other are disclosed. An authentication packet transmitted from a client to a server of the data network is intercepted by the interface, wherein the authentication packet is encrypted with a one-time password for transmission from the client to the server. The one-time password associated with the authentication packet can be verified utilizing a one-time password token system. The authentication packet can then be modified for acceptance by the server, wherein the response packet generated by the server is thereafter intercepted, verified and modified for transmission back to the client in a similar but reverse process. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/345265 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconcin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor M. Haughton (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin); M. Elizabeth Meyerand (Cross Plains, Wisconsin); Baxter P. Rogers (Madison, Wisconsin); Ryan Henry Sydnor (Racine, Wisconsin); Anthony Carl Nelson (Appleton, Wisconsin); Jeremy Robert O'Brien (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian Peter Asti (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Rafael Davis Connemara (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Michael John Hallam (Wausau, Wisconsin); Scott Richard Wiese (Glendale, Wisconsin); John Paul Puccinelli (Bayside, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A patient support and software evaluate spinal instability by controlled isocentric rotation of the spine and measurement of rotation among vertebra to detect damaged vertebra having disproportionately large rotations. The patient support comprises a first support, adapted to support the shoulders of a patient, and a second rotatable support adapted to support the hips and legs of the patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489820 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Beds 05/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419264 | Otten, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kestrel Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard John Otten, III (Placitas, New Mexico); Paul Harrison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gavin Erry (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A ophthalmic aberrometer uses a wavefront sensor aligned with an eye under examination through an optical path and a light source for introducing a light beam into the eye via the optical path, wherein the optical path has a reference through which the light beam passes before passing to an eye retina to form a reference spot on the retina, a focus dynamic range extender, and an astigmatism dynamic range extender positioned in the optical path between the reference and an eye under examination. The wavefront sensor is positioned to receive a wavefront reflected from the eye retina via the optical path. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/981996 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419782 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent D Taylor (Ventura, California); Jerome I Rotter (Los Angeles, California); Huiying Yang (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of diagnosing or predicting susceptibility to an autoimmune disease in an individual by determining the presence or absence in the individual of a 2-2-4 haplotype at the Notch4, HSP70-HOM and D6S273 loci, where the presence of the haplotype diagnoses or predicts susceptibility to the autoimmune disease. The methods of the invention can be particularly useful for diagnosing or predicting susceptibility to Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis or type I diabetes mellitus. In a preferred embodiment, a method of the invention is used to diagnose or predict susceptibility to Crohn's disease in an individual of Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/075425 |
| 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 07419814 | Spiegel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sankyo Company, Limited (Tokyo, Japan); Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Spiegel (McLean, Virginia); Takafumi Kohama (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting agents or drugs which inhibit or promote an activity of sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform involving providing a recombinant DNA construct into a cell such that sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform is produced in the cell, adding at least one drug or agent to the cell, and detecting whether or not the drug or agent inhibits or promotes an activity of sphingosine kinase type 2 isoform by measuring sphingosine kinase-depedendent phosphorylation of lipids in the cell and comparing the resultant measurement to a control which did not receive the drug or agent, wherein a decrease in the amount of sphingosine kinase-dependent phosphorylation of the lipids as compared to the control indicates an inhibitory drug or agent, or an increase in the amount of sphingosine kinase-dependent phosphorylation of the lipids in the cell as compared to the control indicates a stimulatory drug or agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830677 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhen Fang Fu (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mutant virus contains a mutation at a phosphorylation site in one or more viral proteins, which attenuates the virus, and an improved vaccine composition. The invention also relates to methods of inducing an immune response, and protecting mammals from infection by rabies virus. Also included are methods of producing the mutant virus and mutant viral proteins, including producing the mutant virus in a host cell which produces or-overproduces a wild-type counterpart of the mutant viral protein, which complements the other viral proteins such that production of the mutant viral particle is optimized. The invention also includes those host cells, vaccine compositions including the viral proteins,-alone or in combination with-intact virus, and methods of inducing an immune response or protecting a mammal from infection. Also included are vectors suitable for delivering a gene to a cell of a human or animal, and methods of delivery thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730029 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
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| US 07419817 | Chiorini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services, NIH. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Chiorini (Silver Springs, Maryland); Nikola A. Kaludov (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of purifying adeno-associated virus (AAV) particles. These AAV particles include AAV2, AAV4 and AAV5 particles. The present invention also provides AAV particles purified by the methods of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166347 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/239 |
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| US 07419834 | Mannick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan Mannick (Weston, Massachusetts); Benjamin Gaston (Charlottesville, Virginia); Barbara Leinweber (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a novel, simplified method for detecting and monitoring whether the presence of nitrosylated proteins, such as S-nitrosoproteins, in a biological sample using fluorescence detection. The present invention further describes a method which can both quantify and identify the nature of nitrosylated proteins, which method is useful for monitoring both normal and disease states, in the development and screening of potential therapeutic drug species. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319457 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/116 |
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| US 07419950 | Giachelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecilia M. Giachelli (Mill Creek, Washington); Susie Steitz (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of inhibiting ectopic calcification in an individual. The method consists of administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of osteopontin or a functional fragment thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376383 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07419953 | Friedlander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Friedlander (Del Mar, California); Michael I. Dorrell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated peptide useful as a selective antagonist of mammalian R-cadherin comprises 3 to 30 amino acid residues, three contiguous residues of the peptide having the amino acid sequence Ile-Xaa-Ser; wherein Xaa is an amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of Asp, Asn, Glu, and Gln. Preferably Xaa is Asp or Asn. In one preferred embodiment the peptide is a cyclic peptide having 3 to 10 amino acid residues arranged in a ring. The selective R-cadherin antagonist peptides of the invention are useful for inhibiting the targeting of stem cells, such as endothelial precursor cells, to developing vasculature, for inhibiting R-cadherin mediated cellular adhesion, and for inhibiting retinal angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836289 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
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| US 07419957 | Hwu 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) | Patrick Hwu (Houston, Texas); Rejean LaPointe (Laval, Canada); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Maria Parkhurst (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic peptides of a melanoma antigen recognized by T cells, designated gp100, bioassays using the peptides to diagnose, assess or prognose a mammal afflicted with cancer, more specifically melanoma or metastatic melanoma, and use of the proteins and peptides as immunogens to inhibit, prevent or treat melanoma. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/486989 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07419958 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Brian Wilson (Lexington, Massachusetts); Glenn Dranoff (Lexington, Massachusetts); Silke Gillessen (St. Gallen, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of inhibiting CD1d activation by administering a composition containing a moiety that blocks CD1d activation. Compositions of the invention are useful for the attenuation of CD1d-restricted immune responses, including treatment of skin disorders due to hyperactive immune responses (e.g., contact hypersensitivity), for systemic administration to attenuate ongoing immune responses, and to provide hypoallergenic cosmetic products including pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and skin care compositions. Preferably, these compositions are in a form intended for topical administration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/106901 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419963 | Townsend et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy B. Townsend (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John C. Drach (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel chemical compounds, and methods for their use. In particular, the present invention provides indole derivatives (e.g. as shown in Formula (I)) and related compounds and methods of using indole derivatives and related compounds as therapeutic agents to treat a number of conditions, including those associated with viral infection and cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959885 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419983 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Yongsheng Chen (San Diego, California); Dongpei Wu (San Diego, California); Chen Chen (San Diego, California); Warren Wade (San Diego, California); Wesley J. Dwight (San Diego, California); Charles Q. Huang (San Diego, California); Fabio C. Tucci (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein R1a, R1b, R1c, R2a, R2b, R3, R4, R5, R6 and X are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627204 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420000 | Petasis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aminophosphonate and amino bisphosphonate compounds and methods for their preparation are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical and agricultural compositions containing the compounds. The compounds and compositions are useful in methods for treatment of various diseases, including, inflammation, autoimmune disease, cardiovascular disease, bacterial infection, viral disease, abnormal cell proliferation, bone resorption disease, osteoporosis, or parasitic disease and in various agricultural methods, including, methods of eradicating weeds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/938256 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420030 | Arap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer. More specifically, the present invention relates to identification of aminopeptidase A (APA) as a functional target in neo-vasculature, e.g., tumor vasculature; the present invention also relates to targeting peptides and antibodies specific for APA which may be used for cancer therapies. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/784537 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420032 | Zeng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); National Institutes of Health (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Zeng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for obtaining at least one epitope suitable for detecting the presence of an antibody against a tumor associated antigen of a cancer in a sample. Kits, assays, and substrates employing the epitopes of the present invention are disclosed. Also disclosed are epitopes of NY-ESO-1 and XAGE-1b and methods of using thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/569250 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420371 | Zhang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ENH Research Institute (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huiming Zhang (Palatine, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF coil includes two coil portions that are spaced apart to define a slab therebetween. Each coil portion is a microstrip transmission line formed as a loop wherein the microstrip includes a conductive strip disposed on one side of a dielectric material and a ground plane disposed on the other side of the dielectric material. When energized, a uniform RF field is produced in the slab. An array of such RF coils arranged back to back can be formed to allow for the selective excitation of a desired slab. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619258 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420682 | Salamon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zdzislaw Salamon (Tucson, Arizona); Gordon Tollin (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring a property of a sample material present at an interface of an emerging medium in a spectroscopic device include a sensor (10) featuring at least one dielectric member (14) disposed upon a entrant medium (12), with the dielectric member being of an optical thickness selected to produce an observable interference effect for an incident angle of light below the critical angle of total internal reflection at the interface with the dielectric member (14). The dielectric member (14) of the sensor device (10) may be modified and functionalized for binding of a sample analyte by disposing a sensing surface area (38, 40, 42) upon it. Moreover, an metal layer (18) may be added to an entrant medium (20) to produce a sensor (16) that generates observable optical phenomena both above (resonance) and below (interference) a given critical angle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/571381 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420724 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Kenneth L. Gentry (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Zara (Vienna, Virginia); Stephen M. Bobbio (Wake Forest, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A disclosed scanner apparatus includes a member having spaced apart proximal and distal portions. An electromagnetic radiation device is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation therefrom and is moveably coupled to the distal portion of the member. The electromagnetic radiation device is configured to move in a first plane of movement to a first position to direct the electromagnetic radiation along a first path and configured to move in the plane of movement to a second position to direct the electromagnetic radiation along a second path. A MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) actuator is coupled to the electromagnetic radiation device, wherein the MEMS actuator is configured to move in a first direction to move the electromagnetic radiation device to the first position and configured to move in a second direction to move the electromagnetic radiation device to the second position. Other scanning and robotic structure devices are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/380791 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421159 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisor of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ren Yang (Corona, California); Steven Soper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Wanjun Wang (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An accurate and inexpensive integral micro-optical system for coupling and aligning optical fibers with other optical components, such as other optical fibers, diffusers, beam shapers, beam splitters, mirrors, or lenses is disclosed. The micro-optical coupler disclosed comprises one or more fiberport collimators and one or more microlens arrays, optically aligned during fabrication so that an optical fiber, or other source of light, was coupled to another optical fiber, or other light receiver, by simple inserting the optical source in one side of the micro-coupler and inserting the optical receiver in the other side of the micro-coupler. Often the fabrication process for this system can be done in a single lithography procedure. Since the optical axis of each component was aligned during the fabrication step, no subsequent alignment was required. |
| FILED | Friday, December 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/635944 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ZIN Technologies (Brook Park, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alain Izadnegahdar (Orange, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methodologies that provide for multi-parameter sensing via micro fabricated sensing structures operatively connected to oscillators, each micro-fabricated sensing structure in part defines a frequency of a respective associated oscillator. Output from such oscillators can be combined together, and then AC coupled with an incoming DC voltage that feeds the oscillators. The wiring arrangement includes two conducting paths/wires that carry a direct current to the oscillators as well as outputting the combined signal to external measurement devices. In addition, arrangements for pressure sensors are provided that mitigate errors from temperature variations and the induced stress/strains. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/352629 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419624 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a method for producing composites of fullerene nanotubes and compositions thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a method of producing a composite material that includes a matrix and a fullerene nanotube material embedded within said matrix. In another embodiment, a method of producing a composite material containing fullerene nanotube material is disclosed. This method includes the steps of preparing an assembly of a fibrous material; adding the fullerene nanotube material to the fibrous material; and adding a matrix material precursor to the fullerene nanotube material and the fibrous material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507974 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419651 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to a method for producing self-assembled objects comprising fullerene nanotubes and compositions thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a three-dimensional structure of derivatized fullerene nanotubes that spontaneously form. It includes several components having multiple derivatives brought together to assemble into the three-dimensional structure. In another embodiment, objects may be obtained by bonding functionally-specific agents (FSAs) to groups of nanotubes, enabling them to form into structures. The bond selectivity of FSAs allow selected nanotubes of a particular size or kind to assemble together and inhibit the assembling of unselected nanotubes that may also be present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507965 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419780 | Cornish |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Virginia W. Cornish (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying a protein as being able to bind a ligand comprising, providing a molecule composed of a methotrexate moiety that is covalently bonded to the ligand; introducing the molecule into a cell which a) expresses a first fusion protein comprising a dihydrofolate reductase capable of binding methotrexate, expresses b) a second fusion protein comprising the protein, wherein one of the first and second fusion proteins also comprises a transcription activator domain and the other comprises a DNA-binding domain, and c) has a reporter gene wherein expression of the reporter gene is conditioned on the proximity of the first fusion protein to the second fusion protein; permitting the molecule to bind to the first fusion protein and to the second fusion protein so as to activate the expression of the reporter gene; and selecting the cell if it expresses the reporter gene. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705644 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419950 | Giachelli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecilia M. Giachelli (Mill Creek, Washington); Susie Steitz (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of inhibiting ectopic calcification in an individual. The method consists of administering to the individual a therapeutically effective amount of osteopontin or a functional fragment thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/376383 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420106 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clayton C. Williams (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ezra B. Bussmann (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Characterizing dielectric surfaces by detecting electron tunneling. An apparatus includes an atomic force probe. A mechanical actuator is connected to the atomic force probe. A mechanical modulator is connected to the mechanical actuator. The mechanical modulator modulates the mechanical actuator and the atomic force probe at the resonant frequency of the atomic force probe. An electrical modulator is connected to the atomic force probe. A feedback sensing circuit is connected to the mechanical modulator to detect movement of the atomic force probe and provide information about the movement of the atomic force probe to the mechanical modulator allowing the mechanical modulator to modulate the atomic force probe at the resonant frequency of the atomic force probe as the resonant frequency of the atomic force probe changes. An FM detector is connected to the feedback circuit detects changes in the resonant frequency of the atomic force probe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375867 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanotechnology 977/852 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420484 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhixin Liu (College Station, Texas); Samuel S. Cheng (Houston, Texas); Angelos D. Liveris (Stafford, Texas); Zixiang Xiong (Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the intermediate data using an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf encoder in order to generate compressed output data representing the input data. Similarly, a Wyner-Ziv decoder may be realized by: (1) applying an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf decoder to compressed input data using side information to generate intermediate values, and (b) jointly decoding the intermediate values using the side information to generate decompressed output data. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/868894 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420682 | Salamon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zdzislaw Salamon (Tucson, Arizona); Gordon Tollin (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring a property of a sample material present at an interface of an emerging medium in a spectroscopic device include a sensor (10) featuring at least one dielectric member (14) disposed upon a entrant medium (12), with the dielectric member being of an optical thickness selected to produce an observable interference effect for an incident angle of light below the critical angle of total internal reflection at the interface with the dielectric member (14). The dielectric member (14) of the sensor device (10) may be modified and functionalized for binding of a sample analyte by disposing a sensing surface area (38, 40, 42) upon it. Moreover, an metal layer (18) may be added to an entrant medium (20) to produce a sensor (16) that generates observable optical phenomena both above (resonance) and below (interference) a given critical angle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/571381 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420750 | Kuthirummal 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) | Sujit Kuthirummal (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Catadioptric single camera systems capable of sampling the lightfield of a scene from a locus of circular viewpoints and the methods thereof are described. The epipolar lines of the system are radial, and the systems have foveated vision characteristics. A first embodiment of the invention is directed to a camera capable of looking at a scene through a cylinder with a mirrored inside surface. A second embodiment uses a truncated cone with a mirrored inside surface. A third embodiment uses a first truncated cone with a mirrored outside surface and a second truncated cone with a mirrored inside surface. A fourth embodiment of the invention uses a planar mirror with a truncated cone with a mirrored inside surface. The present invention allows high quality depth information to be gathered by capturing stereo images having radial epipolar lines in a simple and efficient method. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135830 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421032 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callifornia Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Aamod Khandekar (Pasadena, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate substantially close to one. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542950 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421158 | Fainman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California); Wataru Nakagawa (Palos Park, Illinois); Chyong-Hua Chen (La Jolla, California); Pang-Chen Sun (San Diego, California); Lin Pang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for etching a solid state material to create a surface relief pattern. A resist layer is formed on the surface of the solid state material. The photoresist layer is holographically patterned to form a patterned mask. The pattern is then transferred into the solid state material by a dry etching process. The invention is especially useful for forming optical nanostructures. In preferred embodiments, a direct write process, such as ebeam lithography, is used to define defects and functional elements, such as waveguides and cavities. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521425 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421159 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisor of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ren Yang (Corona, California); Steven Soper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Wanjun Wang (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An accurate and inexpensive integral micro-optical system for coupling and aligning optical fibers with other optical components, such as other optical fibers, diffusers, beam shapers, beam splitters, mirrors, or lenses is disclosed. The micro-optical coupler disclosed comprises one or more fiberport collimators and one or more microlens arrays, optically aligned during fabrication so that an optical fiber, or other source of light, was coupled to another optical fiber, or other light receiver, by simple inserting the optical source in one side of the micro-coupler and inserting the optical receiver in the other side of the micro-coupler. Often the fabrication process for this system can be done in a single lithography procedure. Since the optical axis of each component was aligned during the fabrication step, no subsequent alignment was required. |
| FILED | Friday, December 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/635944 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421173 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Limin Tong (Hangzhous, China PRC); Rafael Gattass (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nanometer-sized diameter silica fibers that exhibit high diameter uniformity and surface smoothness. The silica fibers can have diameters in a range of a about 20 nm to about 1000 nm. An exemplary method according to one embodiment of the invention for generating such fibers utilizes a two-step process in which in an initial step a micrometer sized diameter silica preform fiber is generated, and in a second step, the silica preform is drawn while coupled to a support element to form a nanometer sized diameter silica fiber. The portion of the support element to which the preform is coupled is maintained at a temperature suitable for drawing the nansized fiber, and is preferably controlled to exhibit a temporally stable temperature profile. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/013198 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421178 | Podolskiy et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Viktor A. Podolskiy (Corvallis, Oregon); Evgueni E. Narimanov (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of materials and structures that have a negative refractive index. For example, one exemplary embodiment is a waveguide structure comprising a first waveguide border element having a first substantially planar surface, and a second waveguide border element spaced apart from the first waveguide border element and having a second substantially planar surface. This exemplary embodiment further comprises a core material positioned between the first substantially planar surface and the second substantially planar surface. The core material has a positive in-plane dielectric constant and a negative perpendicular-to-plane dielectric constant. Furthermore, the first waveguide border element, the second waveguide border element, and the core material form a waveguide exhibiting a negative index of refraction for electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434364 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07420024 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-Chang Chu (Ithaca, New York); Xian-Zheng Zhang (Wuhan, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Partially biodegradable hydrogel that changes its volume and shape in response to change in pH and/or temperature is prepared by UV irradiation of composition comprising dextran-maleic acid monoester and N-isopropylacrylamide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/537354 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 527/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07420222 | Slater, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Slater, Jr. (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert C. Glass (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Charles M. Swoboda (Morrisville, North Carolina); Bernd Keller (Goleta, California); James Ibbetson (Goleta, California); Brian Thibeault (Santa Barbara, California); Eric J. Tarsa (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Light emitting diodes include a substrate having first and second opposing faces and that is transparent to optical radiation in a predetermined wavelength range and that is patterned to define, in cross-section, a plurality of pedestals that extend into the substrate from the first face towards the second face. A diode region on the second face is configured to emit light in the predetermined wavelength range, into the substrate upon application of voltage across the diode region. A mounting support on the diode region, opposite the substrate is configured to support the diode region, such that the light that is emitted from the diode region into the substrate, is emitted from the first face upon application of voltage across the diode region. A reflector is provided between the mounting support and the diode region, that is configured to reflect light that is emitted from the diode region back into the diode region, through the substrate that is transparent to optical radiation in the predetermined wavelength range and from the plurality of pedestals, upon application of voltage across the diode region. A layer of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) is provided between the reflector and the diode region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842350 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07421268 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, South Korea); The University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. In another embodiment of the present invention, an authentication server transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs to which the STA is likely to move, so that when the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753180 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07418866 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Fibre-gen Instruments Limited (Auckland, New Zealand) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiping Wang (Verona, Wisconsin); Nigel Sharplin (Waikuku Beach, New Zealand); Peter Carter (Papatoetoe, New Zealand); Robert J. Ross (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of live, standing timber employs deep-set spike probes angled to create a longitudinal compression wave. Alignment tools and isolation of the probes provide an improved signal, automated detection of probe separation and amplitude-independent pulse discrimination process ensure higher reliability and repeatability of the measurements, and wireless operation provides operational efficiencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038968 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07419812 | Thomashow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda S. Thomashow (Pullman, Washington); Shannon M. Delaney (Schiller Park, Illinois); Dmitri V. Mavrodi (Pullman, Washington); David M. Weller (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Th invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences which encode polypeptides having PhzO activity, namely, the ability to convert phenazine-1-carboxylic acid to a 2-hydroxylated phenazine, and isolated polypeptides having this activity. The invention is also directed to recombinant nucleic acid molecules, vectors, and host cells including the nucleic acid sequences as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides, including expression in bacterial or plant cells to inhibit fungal pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810904 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07420187 | Klemic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gladys Klemic (Naperville, Illinois); Paul Bailey (Chicago, Illinois); Cecilia Breheny (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a citizen's dosimeter. More specifically, the invention relates to a small, portable, personal dosimetry device designed to be used in the wake of a event involving a Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD), Improvised Nuclear Device (IND), or other event resulting in the contamination of large area with radioactive material or where on site personal dosimetry is required. The card sized dosimeter generally comprises: a lower card layer, the lower card body having an inner and outer side; a upper card layer, the layer card having an inner and outer side; an optically stimulated luminescent material (OSLM), wherein the OSLM is sandwiched between the inner side of the lower card layer and the inner side of the upper card layer during dosimeter radiation recording, a shutter means for exposing at least one side of the OSLM for dosimeter readout; and an energy compensation filter attached to the outer sides of the lower and upper card layers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288058 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/484.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07420011 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amar K. Mohanty (Lansing, Michigan); Yashodhan Parulekar (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Toughened compositions from polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), preferably PHB reactively blended with maleated poly butadiene and with an epoxidized natural or synthetic rubber are described. The compositions preferably include clay nanoparticles which can be organically modified and can be exfoliated by the blend. The compositions can be used in a variety of applications, including automotive uses. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199463 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/398 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07418814 | Greene |
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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) | William D. Greene (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual expander cycle (DEC) rocket engine with an intermediate closed-cycle heat exchanger is provided. A conventional DEC rocket engine has a closed-cycle heat exchanger terhamlly coupled thereto. The heat exchanger utilizes heat extracted from the engine's fuel circuit to drive the engine's oxidizer turbomachinery. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172666 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07421268 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, South Korea); The University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. In another embodiment of the present invention, an authentication server transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs to which the STA is likely to move, so that when the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753180 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/411 |
| 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)
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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