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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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| US 07434471 | Lukens |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Lukens (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure measurement device with protection from long-term loads and pressure shocks. The novel device includes a diaphragm adapted to deform in response to a pressure applied thereto, and a retractable support adapted to support the diaphragm during periods of non-operation. A strain gauge is attached to the diaphragm for measuring the deformation and the retractable support is designed to minimize stress on the strain gauge during periods of non-operation. The support is retracted during periods of operation to allow the diaphragm and strain gauge to function normally in response to the applied pressure. The diaphragm is disposed within a housing to form a first cavity, which is coupled to media to be measured, and a second cavity, which is set at a reference pressure. In an illustrative embodiment, the retractable support is a threaded plug inserted into the second cavity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654201 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07434476 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Califronia Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Mo Li (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin metallic films are used as the piezoresistive self-sensing element in microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems. The specific application to AFM probes is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010578 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07434516 | Drotar 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) | Jason T. Drotar (King George, Virginia); Raymond M. Gamache (King George, Virginia); Kenneth A. Conley (Laplata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock-triggered warhead fragment transmitter is described. The transmitter is designed to radiate a pulse upon either detonation of the warhead or impact of the fragment with the target. The pulse energy is obtained by shock de-poling of a ferroelectric material and is radiated using a dipole antenna. Detection of the radiated pulses may be used to confirm detonation of the warhead and determine the time and location of the detonation and facilitate battle damage assessment. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363298 |
| 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 07434763 | Walliser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Walliser (Mesa, Arizona); Robert A. Nowak (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A hub fairing system (12) for a stopped-rotor aircraft (10) having a fuselage (14) including a hub (16). The hub (16) is mechanically coupled to the fuselage (14) and to multiple blades (40) and is rotated by an engine (22). A retractable fairing (60, 64) covers a portion of the hub (16). An actuator (26) is coupled to the fairing (60, 64). A controller (28) is coupled to the actuator (26) and retracts the fairing (60, 64). A method of reducing drag on the aircraft includes transitioning between a rotary-wing mode and a fixed-wing mode. The fairing (60, 64) is deployed over a portion of the hub (16) upon the completion of the transition between flight modes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162924 |
| 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 244/7.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07434843 | Pishnov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zakhar Pishnov (Stamford, Connecticut); Henry E. Reinhardt (Wilton, Connecticut); Anthony N. Fischetti (Monroe, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In the preferred embodiments, a hollow shaft rotary fluid joint assembly includes: (a) a hollow shaft through which electrical cables are passed; (b) a rotary fluid joint surrounding an outer diameter of the hollow shaft through which a fluid medium is passed, the rotary fluid joint including inner and outer races defining an interior chamber that are rotatably connected together and that include one or more respective inlet or outlet port. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098428 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07434963 | Kaminski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Breault Research Organization, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Kaminski (Tucson, Arizona); Matthew B Dubin (Tucson, Arizona); Mark R. Fink (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A new lighting system is provided that is particularly useful in projecting light to a deck where pilots use night vision goggles (NVGs). The system comprises a pair of subsystems that project light with different, complementary spatial distributions. One subsystem projects light with one spatial distribution, and the other lighting subsystem projects light with another spatial distribution that supplements the light from the first subsystem, so as to provide a system that effectively illuminates an entire target. The system is designed to substantially filter light so that the light does not interfere with NVGs. The system includes new optical projection structure that minimizes the overall size of the projection structure, and maintains good efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/286988 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435004 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Pal Singh (Cincinnati, Ohio); Larry Jay Sexton (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting bearing failure, wherein the bearing includes an inner race, an outer race, and a plurality of rolling elements between the inner and outer race. The method includes coupling a sensor assembly to the outer race, the sensor assembly including at least one temperature sensor and at least one acoustic sensor, generating a bearing performance model based on an initial signal received from the sensor assembly, receiving a second signal from the sensor assembly, and comparing the second signal to the bearing performance model to predict a bearing failure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/470513 |
| ART UNIT | 3682 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Bearings 384/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435010 | Gauthier, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo R. Gauthier, Jr. (Ellicott City, Maryland); James E. McDonald (Monson, Massachusetts); Louis A. Mattes (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of forming an optical monitoring or transmitting light guide and a resulting apparatus that begins by bonding a bundle of optical fibers together using an epoxy and polishing the distal end of the bundle of optical fibers to create an optical aperture. The ratio of fiber size to binder particulate size of the epoxy used in the bonding process is sufficient to maintain the integrity of the bundle of optical fibers during the polishing of the distal end. The method positions the bundle of optical fibers into a protective sheath and a connector. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the epoxy used in the bonding process matches that of the connector. Once assembled, the invention positions the connector through the opening in the surface of a device, such that the distal end of the bundle of optical fibers is either recessed in, substantially flush with, or extends from the surface of the device through which the connector extends, depending on field-of-view requirements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619449 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435032 | Murphey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Murphey (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric L. Pollard (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A resilient flexure has one end attached within a cavity in a rigid member, and the other end attached within a cavity in a structural mode. The cavities are shaped to limit the flexure's bend radius. The member and the node have mating surfaces that abut to constrain the amount of rotation of the member. The aforementioned elements are shaped to prevent the strain in the flexure from exceeding its design limit when the joint is at its maximum angular deflection and the attached member is fully collapsed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463146 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435050 | Welch |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Welch (Quaker Hill, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a turbine engine component, such as a duct pipe, comprising an annular flange, at least one element, such as two duct pipe halfs, to be mated to the flange, and mating system for joining the at least one element to the flange. The mating system includes a first annular groove in the flange, which groove has two opposed planar wall portions for preventing axial movement of the at least one element relative to the flange. In a preferred embodiment, the mating system also includes a second annular groove in the flange. A sealing element is positioned within the second annular groove. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329554 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/214.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435310 | Roberts 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) | M. Joseph Roberts (Ridgecrest, California); Scott K. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Richard A. Hollins (Ridgecrest, California); Curtis E. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Thomas J. Groshens (Ridgecrest, California); David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making films surface imprinted with nanometer-sized particles to produce micro- and/or nano-structured electron and hole collecting interfaces, include providing at least one transparent substrate, providing at least one photoabsorbing conjugated polymer, providing a sufficient amount of nanometer-sized particles to produce a charge separation interface, providing at least one transparent polymerizable layer, embedding the nanometer-sized particles in the conjugated polymer, applying the polymerizable layer and the conjugated polymer/nanometer-sized particle mixture on separate substrates where the nanometer-sized particles form a stamp surface, imprinting the stamp surface into the surface of the polymerizable film layer to produce micro- and/or nano-structured electron and hole collecting interfaces, polymerizing the polymerizable film layer to form a conformal gap, and filling the gap with at least one photoabsorbing material to promote the generation of photoexcited electrons and transport to the charge separation interface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452564 |
| ART UNIT | 4111 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435353 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Boulder, Colorado); Gregor M. Schürmann (Neuchâtel, Switzerland); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energy at the selected regions. The structure can then be processed, with at least a portion of the patterned solid condensate layer on the structure surface, and then the solid condensate layer removed. Further there can be stimulated localized reaction between the solid condensate layer and the structure by directing a beam of energy at at least one selected region of the condensate layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008402 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435386 | Medintz 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) | Igor L. Medintz (Alexandria, Virginia); Ellen R. Goldman (Germantown, Maryland); George P. Anderson (Lanham, Maryland); J. Matthew Mauro (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The biosensor comprises a modular biorecognition element and a modular flexible arm element. The biorecognition element and the flexible arm element are each labeled with a signaling element. The flexible arm contains an analog of an analyte of interest that binds with the biorecognition element, bringing the two signaling elements in close proximity, which establishes a baseline fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). When an analyte of interest is provided to the biosensor, the analyte will displace the analyte analog, and with it, the signaling module of the modular flexible arm, causing a measurable change in the FRET signal in a analyte concentration dependent manner. The modularity of different portions of the biosensor allows functional flexibility. The biosensor-operates without additional development reagents, requiring only the presence of analyte or target for function. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094540 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435451 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hansen (Austin, Texas); Rock A. Rushing (Spicewood, Texas); John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Joshua B. Lightfoot (Austin, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an epoxy coating for use as a non-skid surface for applications such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. The epoxy coating can be formulated from (a) an amine curing agent, (b) an epoxide-containing toughening agent such as a polysulfide and/or a polythioether, (c) an epoxy resin, (d) a rubber toughening agent, and (e) an optional fire retardant, a glass fiber thixotrope and impact toughening agent, an optional pigment, an optional corrosion inhibitor, an optional moisture penetration inhibitor, an optional ultraviolet light stabilizer, an optional abrasive aggregate, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415862 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/428.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435494 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren K. Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia); Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Coal based carbon foams that are produced by the controlled heating of coal particulate in a mold and under a non-oxidizing atmosphere and subsequently graphitized have been found to provide excellent electrode materials for electrochemical cell applications. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030889 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435495 | DeSimone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Durham, North Carolina); Jennifer Y. Kelly (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Zhillian Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger M. Denison (Durham, North Carolina); Raymond Dominey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is the use of liquid precursor materials to prepare a processible polymeric electrolyte, which can be used to form a proton exchange membrane for use in an electrochemical cell. Also disclosed is the use of liquid precursor materials to prepare a processible catalyst ink composition, which can be conformally applied to a proton exchange membrane and an electrode material for use in an electrochemical cell. Also disclosed is the use of a photocurable perfluoropolyether (PFPE) material to form a microfluidic electrochemical cell. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040317 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435503 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamie Lee Cohen (Ithaca, New York); David James Volpe (Ithaca, New York); Daron A. Westly (Ithaca, New York); Alexander Pechenik (Ithaca, New York); Hector D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar microfluidic membraneless flow cell. The design eliminates the need for a mechanical membrane, such as a polyelectrolyte membrane (PEM) in a fuel cell, by providing a flow channel in which laminar flow regimes exist in two fluids flowing in mutual contact to form a “virtual interface” in the flow channel. In the flow cell, diffusion at the interface is the only mode of mass transport between the two fluids. In a fuel cell embodiment, a planar design provides to large contact areas between the two streams, which are fuel and oxidant streams, and between each stream and a respective electrode. In some embodiments, silicon microchannels, of fixed length and variable width and height, have been used to generate power using formic acid as fuel and oxygen as oxidant. Power densities on the order of 180 μW/cm2 have been obtained using this planar design. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150622 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435578 | Wikswo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Wikswo (Brentwood, Tennessee); Franz J. Baudenbacher (Franklin, Tennessee); Owen McGuinness (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and methods for monitoring status of at least one cell, wherein the cell has a membrane forming a substantially enclosed structure and defining an intracellular space therein. In one embodiment of the present invention, the device includes a first substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface, a second substrate supported by the first substrate, the second substrate having a first surface, an opposite second surface, a body portion between the first surface and the second surface, a first side surface and an opposite second side surface, wherein the body portion defines a first passage between the first side surface and the second side surface and an opening on the first surface of the second substrate and in fluid communication with the first passage, and sidewalls positioned above the first surface of the second substrate. In one operation mode, when a first medium is introduced into the first passage, the intracellular space of the cell is in fluid communication with the first passage with the first medium, a sensor measures the response of the cell to the first medium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/755639 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435611 | Gupta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay Gupta (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are presented to release stiction between suspended structures and the underlying surface in freestanding MEMS structures. A nanosecond rise time stress wave is launched on the backside of the Si substrate by impinging a short-duration Nd:YAG laser pulse onto a small area. The compressive stress wave propagates through the Si substrate and arrives at the site of several stiction-failed cantilevers on the front Si surface. The compressive stress wave propagates through the cantilevered structures and is reflected into a tensile wave from their free surfaces. The returning tensile wave pries off the interface, releasing the cantilevers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511858 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435617 | Shtein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Shtein (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fan Yang (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an optoelectronic device comprises: depositing a first layer having protrusions over a first electrode, in which 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; in which the smallest lateral dimension of the protrusions are between 1 to 5 times the exciton diffusion length of the first organic small molecule material; and depositing a second electrode over the second layer to form the optoelectronic device. A method of fabricating an organic optoelectronic device having a bulk heterojunction is also provided and comprises: depositing a first layer with protrusions over an electrode by organic vapor phase deposition; depositing a second layer on the first layer where the interface of the first and second layers forms a bulk heterojunction; and depositing another electrode over the second layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999716 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435767 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hansen (Austin, Texas); Rock A. Rushing (Spicewood, Texas); John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Joshua B. Lightfoot (Austin, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an epoxy coating for use as a non-skid surface for applications such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. The epoxy coating can be formulated from (a) an amine curing agent, (b) an epoxide-containing toughening agent such as a polysulfide and/or a polythioether, (c) an epoxy resin, (d) a rubber toughening agent, and (e) an optional fire retardant, a glass fiber thixotrope and impact toughening agent, an optional pigment, an optional corrosion inhibitor, an optional moisture penetration inhibitor, an optional ultraviolet light stabilizer, an optional abrasive aggregate, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415859 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435953 | Freeouf |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Interface Studies Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lawrence Freeouf (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | In this invention the technology is provided for rod shaped conductor member fabrication in situ, in position, in the mass filter spatial configuration by growth through vertically repeated conduit mold formations, filling the conduit increments with to be rod material, and coalescing the growth increments as the rod length is achieved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/364105 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436090 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Brady (Marlton, New Jersey); Joseph P. Teter (Mount Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary motor shaft extends through a rheological brake unit through which variable braking resistance to rotation of the motor shaft is applied while it undergoes rotation in response to torque mechanically applied thereto in sequence through a peripheral gear by a selected pair of diagonally aligned electro-magnetically energized push-rod actuators adjustably positioned axially along a varying diameter section of the gear under electrical control for stroke change to yield a variable output torque. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250704 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436099 | Pei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qibing Pei (Temecula, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Marcus Rosenthal (Pacifica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides electroactive polymers, transducers and devices that maintain pre-strain in one or more portions of an electroactive polymer. Electroactive polymers described herein may include a pre-strained portion and a stiffened portion configured to maintain pre-strain in the pre-strained portion. One fabrication technique applies pre-strain to a partially cured electroactive polymer. The partially cured polymer is then further cured to stiffen and maintain the pre-strain. In another fabrication technique, a support layer is coupled to the polymer that maintains pre-strain in a portion of an electroactive polymer. Another embodiment of the invention cures a polymer precursor to maintain pre-strain in an electroactive polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928921 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436209 | Snider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Snider (Mountain View, California); Philip J. Kuekes (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment of the present invention, a nanoscale latch is implemented by interconnecting an enable line, two control lines, and a pull-down line, when needed, to a signal line carrying encoded binary values to be latched and subsequently output. The enable line is interconnected with the signal line through a field-effect-transistor-like nanoscale junction. Both control lines are interconnected with the signal line through asymmetric-switch nanoscale junctions of like polarities. The pull-down line, when needed, is interconnected with the signal line through a resistive nanoscale junction. Inputting a sequence of signals to the enable and control lines allows a value input from the signal line to be stored and subsequently output to the signal line. In various additional embodiments, an array of nanoscale latches can be implemented by overlaying enable and control lines, and a pull-down line when needed, over a set of parallel nanowires. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590491 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436221 | O'Halloran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Micah Galletta O'Halloran (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An analog storage cell circuit includes a switch that minimizes subthreshold conduction and diode leakage, as well as an accumulation-mode coupling mechanism to minimize overall switch leakage to minimize accumulation-mode leakage. In one embodiment, an analog storage circuit includes a sample and hold circuit including an amplifier having first and second inputs and a switch coupled to the first input of the amplifier. The switch includes a first switching device forming a core of the switch, a second switching device coupled to the first switching device to disconnect the first switching device from a first terminal during the hold phase, and a third switching device coupled to the first switching device to connect the first switching device to a second terminal during the hold phase to minimize accumulation mode conduction in the first switching device. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256632 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436234 | Carangelo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MKS Instruments, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Carangelo (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Paul C. Jette (Bethel, Connecticut); Jack Kisslinger (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Eight or more transition points are generated during a given period, and are used in tracking movement of an interferometer reflector. Duty cycles of generated square waves are used to establish precise intervals between the transition points, and precise wave-phase relationships. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/202300 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436295 | Collipi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tilden Collipi (Melbourne, Florida); David F. Harvey (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises the steps of receiving information concerning the operation of surveillance assets, and using the information in a Monte Carlo simulation to produce an estimate of total surveillance time. An apparatus that is used to perform the method is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/455394 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436297 | Tucker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Tucker (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for protecting a plurality of networked security devices is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of connectors, a plurality of security containers coupled together by the plurality of connectors, and a plurality of sensors, whereby at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors is disposed in at least one security container of the plurality of security containers, and the plurality of sensors are adapted to detect a threat to each security container of the plurality of security containers. The system also includes a plurality of monitoring devices, whereby each monitoring device of the plurality of monitoring devices is coupled to at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors, and the plurality of monitoring devices are adapted to monitor the plurality of sensors and activate protective measures in response to at least one detected threat. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372504 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436316 | Fleischman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott G. Fleischman (Palmetto, Florida); James L. Tucker (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical anti-tamper system including a light emitting layer located within a chassis, a light detecting layer located within the chassis and one or more detectors optically coupled to the light detecting layer. The one or more detectors are in communication with an alarm. The alarm is operable to transmit a tamper-event warning signal if an increased light level is detected by at least one detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/325733 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/686.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436342 | Lauxtermann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Licensing, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan C. Lauxtermann (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector circuit having an integration capacitor coupled to an amplifier via a switch matrix and a comparator coupled to the amplifier, the integration capacitor operable in two or more phases, the switch matrix is configured to phase switch the integration capacitor, the comparator triggers the phase switch when the output voltage of the amplifier passes the threshold voltage of the comparator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669061 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436373 | Lopes 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) | Christopher D. Lopes (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Dale K. Kotter (Shelley, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are described relating to a portable antenna-equipped device for multi-band radar detection. The detection device includes a plurality of antennas on a flexible substrate, a detection-and-control circuit, an indicator and a power source. The antenna may include one or more planar lithographic antennas that may be fabricated on a thin-film substrate. Each antenna may be tuned to a different selection frequency or band. The antennas may include a bolometer for radar detection. Each antenna may include a frequency selective surface for tuning to the selection frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398744 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436403 | Debevec |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lighting apparatus may be configured to illuminate a subject while the subject is undergoing a motion during a time period. An imaging system may be configured to generate image data representative of a sequence of frames of the moving subject. A controller may be configured to drive the lighting apparatus and the imaging system so that the lighting apparatus sequentially illuminates the moving subject with a time-multiplexed series of lighting conditions, and so that each one of the frames shows the subject illuminated with a respective one of the lighting conditions. The controller may be further configured to process the image data to generate re-illumination data representative of novel illumination conditions under which the subject can be re-illuminated, subsequent to the time period. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150012 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436429 | Tillotson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Tillotson (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to a virtual pan/tilt camera system and method for use with vehicles, and particularly ground vehicles (MGVs). The disclosure utilizes autonomous navigation systems (ANSs) used with pan/tilt cameras, but eliminates the pan/tilt cameras substituting a plurality of video cameras. Each video camera is mounted in a fixed orientation on the vehicle and covers a selected angular range of lateral view. Commands from the ANS are mapped to selected addresses where the video data from the video cameras are stored, and appropriately transformed data from the selected addresses are input to the ANS. Computers and software in the MGV receive video data from the cameras and stitch the imagery together into a single panoramic view. Video data from cameras with overlapping fields of view are used to simulate the view of stereo cameras. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722148 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436494 | Kennedy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Irvine Sensors Corp. (Costa Mesa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kennedy (Irvine, California); David Ludwig (Irvine, California); Christian Krutzik (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3-D LADAR imaging system incorporating stacked microelectronic layers is provided. A light source such as a laser is imaged upon a target through beam shaping optics. Photons reflected from the target are collected and imaged upon a detector array though collection optics. The detector array signals are fed into a multilayer processing module wherein each layer includes detector signal processing circuitry. The detector array signals are amplified, compared to a user-defined threshold, digitized and fed into a high speed FIFO shift register range bin. Dependant on the value of the digit contained in the bins in the register, and the digit's bin location, the time of a photon reflection from a target surface can be determined. A T0 trigger signal defines the reflection time represented at each bin location by resetting appropriate circuitry to begin processing. A reference insert circuit inserts data into the FIFO registers at a preselected location to provide a reference point at which all FIFO shift register data may be aligned to accommodate for timing differences between layers and channels. The bin data representing the photon reflections from the various target surfaces are read out of the FIFO and processed using appropriate circuitry such as a field programmable gate array to create a synchronized 3-D point cloud for creating a 3-D target image. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706724 |
| 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 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436510 | Grun 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); The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Grun (Silver Spring, Maryland); Charles K Manka (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey H Bowles (Burke, Virginia); Michael R Corson (Frederick, Maryland); Jay F Sperry (North Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectroscopic detector for identifying the presence of a first substance in the presence of another substance includes a laser for illuminating the substances at a plurality of wavelengths to induce the emission of radiation characteristic of the substance; a spectrometer for measuring the emitted radiation to obtain a plurality of spectral measurement data; and a processor for processing the data. An algorithm combines the data into a composite spectrum and a parameter characteristic of the first substance is identified while information in the composite spectrum contributed by emission of radiation from the other substance is removed to identify the presence of the first substance and obtain a characteristic spectral signature of the first substance. The signature is compared to signatures in a spectral library database, wherein at least some of the library signatures have spectral characteristics differentiated from each other by identifiable spectral characteristics caused by environmental factors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946762 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07436585 — Chirped-pulse amplifier using photonic-crystal-rod (PCR) waveguides and associated method
| US 07436585 | Di Teodoro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aculight Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabio Di Teodoro (Everett, Washington); Christopher D. Brooks (Kenmore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Sunday, May 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420755 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436595 | Cathey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado); Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for increasing the depth of field and decreasing the wavelength sensitivity and the effects of misfocus-producing aberrations of the lens of an incoherent optical system incorporates a special purpose optical mask into the incoherent system. The optical mask has been designed to cause the optical transfer function to remain essentially constant within some range from the in-focus position. Signal processing of the resulting intermediate image undoes the optical transfer modifying effects of the mask, resulting in an in-focus image over an increased depth of field. Generally the mask is placed at a principal plane or the image of a principal plane of the optical system. Preferably, the mask modifies only phase and not amplitude of light. The mask may be used to increase the useful range of passive ranging systems. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758740 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436750 | Walker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Call/Recall Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin P. Walker (Makawao, Hawaii); Yi Zhang (San Diego, California); Yoshinao Taketomi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, materials, and methods for increasing the storage capacity of optical recording media are provided. In one aspect, the systems of the present invention take advantage of high NA optics to realize ultra high storage capacity. In another aspect, the systems of the present invention include the use of a liquid interface between the recording medium and a liquid interface singlet objective lens to increase storage capacity. The invention also provides for a material system that allows shorter wavelengths to be used for recording and readout. Further, the invention provides for recording methods wherein the wavelength for recording to a medium is longer than the wavelength for reading from the medium. Additionally, the invention includes a multilayer structure for recording media that increases storage capacity. In another aspect of the present invention, high NA optics and related systems and methods are utilized to increase the storage capacity of optical storage systems. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868742 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/112.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436789 | Caliskan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alaattin Caliskan (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Paul Hashfield (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Indur Mandhyan (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert J. Siracusa (Lawrenceville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A node is suitable for a wireless network. A wireless network comprises one or more sensor nodes and/or one or more control nodes. In the wireless network, the sensor node transmits in response to a sensed event and/or a request from a control node. A transmission/routing of data between a sensor node and/or a control node may be subject to a policy constraint and a resource constraint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900156 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/310.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436876 | Fisher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Time Domain Corporation (Hunstville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa E. Fisher (Huntsville, Alabama); Jennifer P. Rolin (Elkmont, Alabama); Irina Dodoukh (Huntsville, Alabama); Vernon R. Brethour (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Mark Roberts (Huntsville, Alabama); James Richards (Fayetteville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra wideband system employing a threshold to detect signal quality during acquisition wherein the threshold is adjusted based on signal characteristics such as packet traffic rate, packet loss rate, and packet loss fraction. In one embodiment, the threshold is adjusted by adjusting the gain of a variable gain stage ahead of the threshold. In another embodiment, gain and threshold are adjusted in a coordinated manner wherein gain is adjusted for low signal levels and threshold is adjusted for high signal levels. In one embodiment, packet traffic rate is evaluated over an interval based on maximum packet length, number of monitor packets, and inter-packet delay. In a further embodiment, multiple ramp builders are operated in parallel at multiple code offset values to generate signal statistics to compare with the threshold. Embodiments are disclosed wherein the thresholds are adaptively adjusted based on signal performance characteristics or the multipath environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955118 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437044 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Sanders (Madison, Connecticut); Edward M. Dowd (Madison, Connecticut); Andrew S. Kuczma (Clinton, Connecticut); Trevor W. MacDougall (Simsbury, Connecticut); Brian J. Pike (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus provide for birefringent waveguides suitable for optical systems exhibiting polarization dependence such as interferometer sensors including Sagnac interferometric fiber optic gyroscopes (IFOG). The waveguides, for some embodiments, may offer single polarization performance over lengths of about a kilometer or more due to polarization dependent attenuation. According to some embodiments, the waveguides incorporate a pure silica core for resistance to radiation-induced attenuation (RIA). |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/614606 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437223 | Randazzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pasquale A. Randazzo (Havertown, Pennsylvania); John D. Butkiewicz (Gilbert, Arizona); David G. Miller (Mr. Laurel, New Jersey); David C. Mossman (Gilbert, Arizona); Paul Redkoles (Mantua, New Jersey); Channing S. Morse (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for determining a final heading of a turning vehicle, such as a rotorcraft. The system may include an algorithm that calculates an advance prediction of a final heading that will be achieved after control input is terminated. The system may also include a device, such as a display, for conveying predicted final heading information to an aircraft controller, such as a pilot. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198630 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437224 | Tsao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tung-Ching Tsao (Torrance, California); Ketao Liu (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for controlling a gimbaled platform (108). The method comprises the steps of computing an acquisition phase gimbal angle rate command ωcmd |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951670 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437343 | Josephson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Josephson (Worthington, Ohio); Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran (Columbus, Ohio); Mark Carroll (Columbus, Ohio); Naresh Sundaram Iyer (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An architecture is disclosed for assistance with exploration of design and other decision spaces and for making decisions. These decision spaces may be very large. The architecture consists of three main components: A Seeker acquires candidates by generating or retrieving them, along with their scores according to one or more criteria. A Filter locates a relatively small number of promising candidates that are retained for further analysis. Various filters may be used to locate the promising candidates. A Viewer allows a user to examine trade-off diagrams, and other linked displays, that present the filtered candidates for evaluation, analysis, further exploration, and narrowing the choice set. The computational load of the Seeker may be distributed among a large number of clients in a client-server computing environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553126 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437394 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Discrete Cosine Transforms in a radix-2 block transform method enables true split and merge transform processing of equal sized data halves in the transform domain for enabling recursive merges and splits in transform domain without data degradation. Input data in the time domain or spatial domain during either the split and merge radix-2 forward transform processing is firstly transform processed followed by combinational processing. In the split transform process, whole transformed data is split using combinational processing into first and second transformed data halves in the transform domain as a true split. In the merge transform process, first and second transform halves are merged using combinational processing into a merged transformed data whole in the transform domain. In either case, time or spatial domain input data can be transformed into the transform domain in the form of split halves or merged whole. The split halves can be merged by the merge process combinational processing and the merged whole can be split by the split process combinational processing. The split and merge process combinational processing enable recursive splits and merges in the transform domain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/175594 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437517 | da Silva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dilma Menezes da Silva (White Plains, New York); Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy (Austin, Texas); Orran Yaakov Krieger (Newton, Massachusetts); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for reducing memory latency seen by processors by providing a measure of control over on-chip memory (OCM) management to software applications, implicitly and/or explicitly, via an operating system are contemplated. Many embodiments allow part of the OCM to be managed by software applications via an application program interface (API), and part managed by hardware. Thus, the software applications can provide guidance regarding address ranges to maintain close to the processor to reduce unnecessary latencies typically encountered when dependent upon cache controller policies. Several embodiments utilize a memory internal to the processor or on a processor node so the memory block used for this technique is referred to as OCM. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032876 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437520 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Karin Strauss (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In a network-based cache-coherent multiprocessor system, when a node receives a cache request, the node can perform an intra-node cache snoop operation and forward the cache request to a subsequent node in the network. A snoop-and-forward prediction mechanism can be used to predict whether lazy forwarding or eager forwarding is used in processing the incoming cache request. With lazy forwarding, the node cannot forward the cache request to the subsequent node until the corresponding intra-node cache snoop operation is completed. With eager forwarding, the node can forward the cache request to the subsequent node immediately, before the corresponding intra-node cache snoop operation is completed. Furthermore, the snoop-and-forward prediction mechanism can be enhanced seamlessly with an appropriate snoop filter to avoid unnecessary intra-node cache snoop operations. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178924 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437766 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Cohen (Livermore, California); Deanna T. Rogers (Fremont, California); Vicentiu Neagoe (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and/or system and/or apparatus providing deception and/or execution alteration in an information system. In specific embodiments, deceptions and/or protections are provided by intercepting and/or modifying operation of one or more system calls of an operating system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679186 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07434299 | Gill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Dennis Gill (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gordon A. Keeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darwin K. Serkland (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sayan D. Mukherjee (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for manufacturing high precision arrays of curved features (e.g. lenses) in the surface of a workpiece are described utilizing orthogonal sets of inter-fitting locating grooves to mate a workpiece to a workpiece holder mounted to the spindle face of a rotating machine tool. The matching inter-fitting groove sets in the workpiece and the chuck allow precisely and non-kinematically indexing the workpiece to locations defined in two orthogonal directions perpendicular to the turning axis of the machine tool. At each location on the workpiece a curved feature can then be on-center machined to create arrays of curved features on the workpiece. The averaging effect of the corresponding sets of inter-fitting grooves provide for precise repeatability in determining, the relative locations of the centers of each of the curved features in an array of curved features. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946077 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/27.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07434400 | Lawlor et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P. Lawlor (Bellevue, Washington); Mark A. Novaresi (San Diego, California); Charles C. Cornelius (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine. The engine is based on the use of a gas turbine driven rotor having a compression ramp traveling at a local supersonic inlet velocity (based on the combination of inlet gas velocity and tangential speed of the ramp) which compresses inlet gas against a stationary sidewall. The supersonic compressor efficiently achieves high compression ratios while utilizing a compact, stabilized gasdynamic flow path. Operated at supersonic speeds, the inlet stabilizes an oblique/normal shock system in the gasdynamic flow path formed between the rim of the rotor, the strakes, and a stationary external housing. Part load efficiency is enhanced by use of a lean pre-mix system, a pre-swirl compressor, and a bypass stream to bleed a portion of the gas after passing through the pre-swirl compressor to the combustion gas outlet. Use of a stationary low NOx combustor provides excellent emissions results. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102937 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435037 | McKinzie, II |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy John McKinzie, II (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for reducing heat load applied to a frozen barrier by a heated formation is described. The system includes heat interceptor wells positioned between the heated formation and the frozen barrier. Fluid is positioned in the heat interceptor wells. Heat transfers from the formation to the fluid to reduce the heat load applied to the frozen barrier. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409504 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435286 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John H. Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209163 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435297 | Waldrip et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen E. Waldrip (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Y. Tsao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas M. Kerley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for growing Group III nitride materials using a molten halide salt as a solvent to solubilize the Group-III ions and nitride ions that react to form the Group III nitride material. The concentration of at least one of the nitride ion or Group III cation is determined by electrochemical generation of the ions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102357 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435353 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Boulder, Colorado); Gregor M. Schürmann (Neuchâtel, Switzerland); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energy at the selected regions. The structure can then be processed, with at least a portion of the patterned solid condensate layer on the structure surface, and then the solid condensate layer removed. Further there can be stimulated localized reaction between the solid condensate layer and the structure by directing a beam of energy at at least one selected region of the condensate layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008402 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435399 | Knapp, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Furn F Knapp, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Rose A Boll (Knoxville, Tennessee); Saed Mirzadeh (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing and purifying promethium-147 including the steps of: irradiating a target material including neodymium-146 with neutrons to produce promethium-147 within the irradiated target material; dissolving the irradiated target material to form an acidic solution; loading the acidic solution onto a chromatographic separation apparatus containing HDEHP; and eluting the apparatus to chromatographically separate the promethium-147 from the neodymium-146. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/530207 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435402 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U Chicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of materials with the composition Li1+xNiαMnβCoγM′δO2−zFz (M′=Mg,Zn,Al,Ga,B,Zr,Ti) for use with rechargeable batteries, wherein x is between about 0 and 0.3, α is between about 0.2 and 0.6, β is between about 0.2 and 0.6, γ is between about 0 and 0.3, δ is between about 0 and 0.15, and z is between about 0 and 0.2. Adding the above metal and fluorine dopants affects capacity, impedance, and stability of the layered oxide structure during electrochemical cycling. Another aspect of the invention includes materials with the composition Li1+xNiαCoβMnγM′δOyFz (M′=Mg,Zn,Al,Ga,B,Zr,Ti), where the x is between 0 and 0.2, the α between 0 and 1, the β between 0 and 1, the γ between 0 and 2, the δ between about 0 and about 0.2, the y is between 2 and 4, and the z is between 0 and 0.5. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/903514 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/420.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435490 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diane M. England (Bloomfield, New York); Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Churchville, New York); Michael T. Faville (Geneseo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a fuel cell assembly, nickel-based anodes are readily oxidized when exposed to oxygen as may happen through atmospheric invasion of the assembly during cool-down following shutdown of the assembly. Repeated anode oxidation and reduction can be destructive of the anodes, leading to cracking and failure. To prevent such oxygen migration, oxygen getter devices containing oxygen-gettering material such as metallic nickel are provided in the fuel passageways leading to and from the anodes. Oxidation of the oxygen-gettering material is readily reversed through reduction by fuel when the assembly is restarted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593672 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435509 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois); Dennis W. Dees (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a positive electrode for an electrochemical cell or battery, and to an electrochemical cell or battery; the invention relates more specifically to a positive electrode for a non-aqueous lithium cell or battery when the electrode is used therein. The positive electrode includes a composite metal oxide containing AgV3O8 as one component and one or more other components consisting of LiV3O8, Ag2V4O11, MnO2, CFx, AgF or Ag2O to increase the energy density of the cell, optionally in the presence of silver powder and/or silver foil to assist in current collection at the electrode and to improve the power capability of the cell or battery. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/338507 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435617 | Shtein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Shtein (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fan Yang (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an optoelectronic device comprises: depositing a first layer having protrusions over a first electrode, in which 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; in which the smallest lateral dimension of the protrusions are between 1 to 5 times the exciton diffusion length of the first organic small molecule material; and depositing a second electrode over the second layer to form the optoelectronic device. A method of fabricating an organic optoelectronic device having a bulk heterojunction is also provided and comprises: depositing a first layer with protrusions over an electrode by organic vapor phase deposition; depositing a second layer on the first layer where the interface of the first and second layers forms a bulk heterojunction; and depositing another electrode over the second layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999716 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435760 | Herling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell R Herling (Richland, Washington); Chris L. Aardahl (Richland, Washington); Robert T. Rozmiarek (Middleton, Wisconsin); Kenneth G. Rappe (Richland, Washington); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Jamelyn D. Holladay (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a process for producing reagents for a chemical reaction by introducing a fuel containing hydrocarbons into a flash distillation process wherein the fuel is separated into a first component having a lower average molecular weight and a second component having a higher average molecular weight. The first component is then reformed to produce synthesis gas wherein the synthesis gas is reacted catalytically to produce the desire reagent. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128488 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schott Solar, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miles Clayton Russell (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Rectangular PV modules (6) are mounted on a building roof (4) by mounting stands that are distributed in rows and columns. Each stand comprises a base plate (10) that rests on the building roof (4) and first and second brackets (12, 14) of different height attached to opposite ends of the base plate (10). Each bracket (12, 14) has dual members for supporting two different PV modules (6), and each PV module (6) has a mounting pin (84) adjacent to each of its four corners. Each module (6) is supported by attachment of two of its mounting pins (84) to different first brackets (12), whereby the modules (6) and their supporting stands are able to resist uplift forces resulting from high velocity winds without the base plates (10) being physically attached to the supporting roof structure (4). Preferably the second brackets (14) have a telescoping construction that permits their effective height to vary from less than to substantially the same as that of the first brackets (12). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/506145 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436349 | Doerry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); J. Thomas Cordaro (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryan L. Burns (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A desired rotation of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image can be facilitated by adjusting a SAR data collection operation based on the desired rotation. The SAR data collected by the adjusted SAR data collection operation can be efficiently exploited to form therefrom a SAR image having the desired rotational orientation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474768 |
| ART UNIT | 4182 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436570 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McClesky (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrochromic salts. Electrochromic salts of dicationic viologens such as methyl viologen and benzyl viologen associated with anions selected from bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide, and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide are produced by metathesis with the corresponding viologen dihalide. They are highly soluble in molten quarternary ammonium salts and together with a suitable reductant provide electrolyte solutions that are used in electrochromic windows. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/996927 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437025 | Kychakoff et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George Kychakoff (Maple Valley, Washington); Martin A. Afromowitz (Mercer Island, Washington); Richard E. Hogle (Olympia, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detection and control of deposition on pendant tubes in recovery and power boilers includes one or more deposit monitoring sensors operating in infrared regions of about 4 or 8.7 microns and directly producing images of the interior of the boiler, or producing feeding signals to a data processing system for information to enable a distributed control system by which the boilers are operated to operate said boilers more efficiently. The data processing system includes an image pre-processing circuit in which a 2-D image formed by the video data input is captured, and includes a low pass filter for performing noise filtering of said video input. It also includes an image compensation system for array compensation to correct for pixel variation and dead cells, etc., and for correcting geometric distortion. An image segmentation module receives a cleaned image from the image pre-processing circuit for separating the image of the recovery boiler interior into background, pendant tubes, and deposition. It also accomplishes thresholding/clustering on gray scale/texture and makes morphological transforms to smooth regions, and identifies regions by connected components. An image-understanding unit receives a segmented image sent from the image segmentation module and matches derived regions to a 3-D model of said boiler. It derives a 3-D structure the deposition on pendant tubes in the boiler and provides the information about deposits to the plant distributed control system for more efficient operation of the plant pendant tube cleaning and operating systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137089 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437595 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, program product and method checks for nodal faults in a row of nodes by causing each node in the row to concurrently communicate with its adjacent neighbor nodes in the row. The communications are analyzed to determine a presence of a faulty node or connection. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052660 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437766 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Cohen (Livermore, California); Deanna T. Rogers (Fremont, California); Vicentiu Neagoe (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and/or system and/or apparatus providing deception and/or execution alteration in an information system. In specific embodiments, deceptions and/or protections are provided by intercepting and/or modifying operation of one or more system calls of an operating system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679186 |
| ART UNIT | 2137 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07435539 | Oberste 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) | Steven Oberste (Lilburn, Georgia); Kaija Maher (Atlanta, Georgia); David R. Kilpatrick (Norcross, Georgia); Mark A. Pallansch (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for detecting the presence of an enterovirus in a clinical sample. The invention additionally discloses a method for typing an enterovirus in a clinical sample. Both methods employ a set of primer oligonucleotides for reverse transcription and amplification that hybridize to conserved regions of the enterovirus genome, and that provide amplicons that include significant portions of the VP1 region that are characteristic of the various serotypes. In the typing method, the invention further provides a database consisting of nucleotide sequences from prototypical enteroviral serotypes, which is used to type the clinical sample by comparing the sequence of its amplicon with each prototypical sequence in the database. The invention additionally provides mixtures of primer oligonucleotides, and a kit for use in conducting the typing method that includes a mixture of the primer oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042898 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435542 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Shi (Ithaca, New York); John T. Lis (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying RNA ligands which bind to a target molecule by treating a first pool of RNA ligands that collectively bind more than one target under conditions effective to reduce the concentration or eliminate the presence of one or more predominate target-binding RNA ligands from the first pool of RNA ligands; amplifying the RNA ligands in the treated first pool, thereby forming a second pool of RNA ligands that is enriched in one or more non-predominate target-binding RNA ligands of the first pool but not the one or more predominate target-binding RNA ligands thereof; and identifying one or more predominate target-binding RNA ligands that are present in the second pool at a higher concentration than other target-binding RNA ligands. Oligonucleotides and kits which can be used in practicing the present invention are also disclosed, as are aptamers that bind to a heat shock factor protein and their use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602837 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435548 | Hakonarson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | deCODE genetics ehf. (Reykjavik, Iceland); The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hakon Hakonarson (Revkjavik, Iceland); Michael M. Grunstein (Merion, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for inducing a pro-asthma/pro-inflammatory like state in a resident tissue cell, comprising contacting the cell with one or more cytokines, e.g., IL-β, TNFα or both. Methods are also disclosed for identifying genes that regulate responses to anti-inflammatory drugs, to methods for drug screening, and to methods for identifying genes that correlate with various pro-asthma/pro-inflammatory disease phenotypes. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879066 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435562 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Modular Genetics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); William F. Donahue (Quincy, Massachusetts); Brian M. Turczyk (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides improved techniques and reagents for producing nucleic acid molecules. In certain preferred embodiments, the nucleic acid molecules are modular vectors. In certain preferred embodiments, the nucleic acid molecules are produced in polymerase chain reactions employing terminator primer residues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383135 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435585 | Tykocinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Guoxing Zheng (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for transferring one or more proteins to a cell are disclosed. The protein or proteins to be transferred are in the form of a fusion protein, and contain at least one domain encoding for a protein or peptide having trans signaling and/or adhesion function. The fusion protein is transferred to a cell by binding to a lipidated protein, which has been incorporated into the cell membrane. In an additional aspect of the invention, methods of making fusion proteins having cis signaling capabilities, as well as the ability to bind with receptors on the cell's own surface, are provided. Fusion proteins incorporating GPI or a homing element, and a costimulator or inhibitor domain can also be directly transferred to the cell surface. Methods for using cells which have undergone protein transfer according to the present methods are also disclosed. This includes use in a cancer vaccine, use for treatment of cancer or autoimmune disease, and use in determining costimulator threshold levels. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/205524 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435587 | Diresta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene R. Diresta (Pleasantville, New York); John H. Healey (New York, New York); Robert Schwar (Forestburgh, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an apparatus for growing cells under static or dynamic physiological pressure which contains a cell culture cassette having a cassette frame; two side walls secured to each side of the cassette frame to form a cell growing chamber, and at least one side wall comprises a cell growth surface. The apparatus also contains a means for adjusting fluid pressure or flow, for providing culture media or cell culture, or for sampling cell culture or culture media within the cell growing chamber. The apparatus further contains an adapter which contains two side assemblies where each side assembly includes a frame with a rigid support that fits over the cell culture cassette. The side assemblies joined by a hinge at one end and positioned over the two side walls of the cell culture cassette. The apparatus further contains a means to secure the two side assemblies over the two side walls of the cell culture cassette. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/018094 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435591 | Malek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nisar P. Malek (Hanover, Germany); James M. Roberts (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to germ line and somatic cells comprising a mutant p27kip1 protein lacking a Cdk2 phosphorylation site. Also provided are transgenic animals and methods of making such transgenic animals which have increased size and/or growth rate. |
| FILED | Monday, January 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/502001 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435596 | Campana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dario Campana (Germantown, Tennessee); Chihaya Imai (Niigata, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel methods for preferentially activating and expanding NK cells. The methods utilize the stimulatory effects of IL-15 and CD137 ligand to preferentially expand and activate NK cells in a mixed cell culture comprising NK cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074525 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435722 | Hedman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Hedman (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving the resistance of collagenous tissue to mechanical degradation in accordance with the present invention comprises the step of contacting at least a portion of a collagenous tissue with an effective amount of a crosslinking reagent. Methods and devices for enhancing the body's own efforts to stabilize discs in scoliotic spines by increasing collagen crosslinks. This stability enhancement is caused by reducing the bending hysteresis and increasing the bending stiffness of scoliotic spines, by injecting non-toxic crosslinking reagents into the convex side of discs involved in the scoliotic curve. Alternatively, contact between the tissue and the crosslinking reagent is affected by placement of a time-release delivery system directly into or onto the target tissue. Methods and devices that use crosslinking agents for increasing the permeability of an intervertebral disc, improving fluid flux to the intervertebral disc, and increasing the biological viability of cells within the intervertebral disc are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786861 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435801 | Long et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric O. Long (Rockville, Maryland); Sumati Rajagopalan (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides antibodies and other ligands that specifically bind to KIR2DL4 receptor and stimulate production of interferon gamma. One embodiment is mAb #33 on deposit at ATCC. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420067 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.730 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435870 | Serbedzija et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Serbedzija (Woburn, Massachusetts); Carlos Semino (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Deanna Frost (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of screening an agent for activity using teleosts. Methods of screening an agent for angiogenesis activity, toxic activity and an effect cell death activity in teleosts are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/280849 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436862 | Ilday et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fatih Omer Ilday (Ankara, Turkey); Frank Wise (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser producing high energy ultrashort laser pulses comprises a normal dispersion segment, a gain segment, an anomalous dispersion segment with negligible nonlinearity and an effective saturable absorber arranged to form a laser cavity. Each segment is optically interconnected so that a laser pulse will propagate self-similarly therein. (A pulse that propagates in a self-similar manner is sometimes referred to as a “similariton.”) With this laser the limitations of prior art laser oscillators are avoided. Also provided are means for pumping the gain medium in the laser cavity, and means for extracting laser pulses from the laser cavity. The laser cavity is preferably a ring cavity. Preferably the laser is configured to achieve unidirectional circulation of laser pulses therein. This configuration is scalable to much higher pulse energy than lasers based on soliton-like pulse shaping. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510739 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437188 | Kruger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daivd G. Kruger (Nelson, Wisconsin); Stephen J. Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota); Phillip J. Rossman (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | MRA data is acquired from a large, longitudinal region of interest by translating the patient through the more limited longitudinal FOV of the MRI system as a three-dimensional MRA data set are acquired. Patient table movement is controlled to track a bolus of contrast agent as it passes through the region of interest. A seamless image of the entire region of interest is reconstructed after correcting the phase of acquired MRA data to reduce the signal falloff at abutting longitudinal FOVs. Phase corrections are determined from the central DC views acquired during the scan. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060934 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07434476 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Califronia Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Mo Li (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin metallic films are used as the piezoresistive self-sensing element in microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems. The specific application to AFM probes is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010578 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435495 | DeSimone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Durham, North Carolina); Jennifer Y. Kelly (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Zhillian Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger M. Denison (Durham, North Carolina); Raymond Dominey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is the use of liquid precursor materials to prepare a processible polymeric electrolyte, which can be used to form a proton exchange membrane for use in an electrochemical cell. Also disclosed is the use of liquid precursor materials to prepare a processible catalyst ink composition, which can be conformally applied to a proton exchange membrane and an electrode material for use in an electrochemical cell. Also disclosed is the use of a photocurable perfluoropolyether (PFPE) material to form a microfluidic electrochemical cell. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040317 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435503 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamie Lee Cohen (Ithaca, New York); David James Volpe (Ithaca, New York); Daron A. Westly (Ithaca, New York); Alexander Pechenik (Ithaca, New York); Hector D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar microfluidic membraneless flow cell. The design eliminates the need for a mechanical membrane, such as a polyelectrolyte membrane (PEM) in a fuel cell, by providing a flow channel in which laminar flow regimes exist in two fluids flowing in mutual contact to form a “virtual interface” in the flow channel. In the flow cell, diffusion at the interface is the only mode of mass transport between the two fluids. In a fuel cell embodiment, a planar design provides to large contact areas between the two streams, which are fuel and oxidant streams, and between each stream and a respective electrode. In some embodiments, silicon microchannels, of fixed length and variable width and height, have been used to generate power using formic acid as fuel and oxygen as oxidant. Power densities on the order of 180 μW/cm2 have been obtained using this planar design. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150622 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435562 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Modular Genetics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); William F. Donahue (Quincy, Massachusetts); Brian M. Turczyk (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides improved techniques and reagents for producing nucleic acid molecules. In certain preferred embodiments, the nucleic acid molecules are modular vectors. In certain preferred embodiments, the nucleic acid molecules are produced in polymerase chain reactions employing terminator primer residues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383135 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435579 | Bashir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (West Lafayette, Indiana); Rafael Gomez (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscale biosensor for use in the detection of target biological substances includes a detection chamber disposed on the substrate and defining a volume between 1 pico-liter and 1 micro-liter. The detection chamber is adapted to confine a composition containing microorganisms. Specimen concentration componentry is connected to the detection chamber for rapidly concentrating the microorganisms in the detection chamber. A heater is operatively connected to the substrate to heat the composition in the detection chamber. Electrodes are mounted on the substrate in communication with the detection chamber to identify AC impedance changes within the detection chamber from bacterial metabolism of the microorganisms of the composition over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825413 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435611 | Gupta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay Gupta (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are presented to release stiction between suspended structures and the underlying surface in freestanding MEMS structures. A nanosecond rise time stress wave is launched on the backside of the Si substrate by impinging a short-duration Nd:YAG laser pulse onto a small area. The compressive stress wave propagates through the Si substrate and arrives at the site of several stiction-failed cantilevers on the front Si surface. The compressive stress wave propagates through the cantilevered structures and is reflected into a tensile wave from their free surfaces. The returning tensile wave pries off the interface, releasing the cantilevers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511858 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436175 | Epstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L Epstein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jeremy Magland (North Wales, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The discrete inverse scattering (DIST) approach is used to design selective RF pulses. As in SLR, a hard pulse approximation is used to actually design the pulse. Unlike SLR, the pulse is designed using the full inverse scattering data (the reflection coefficient and the bound states) rather than the flip angle profile. The reflection coefficient is approximated in order to obtain a pulse with a prescribed rephasing time. In contrast to the SLR approach, direct control on the phase of the magnetization profile is retained throughout the design process. Explicit recursive algorithms are provided for computing the hard pulse from the inverse scattering data. These algorithms are essentially discretizations of the Marchenko equations. When bound states are present, both the left and right Marchenko equations are used in order to improve the numerical stability of the algorithm. The DIST algorithm is used in preferred applications to generate pulses for use in magnetic resonance imaging, although it has applications in other two-level quantum systems such as quantum computing and spintronics. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/538361 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436221 | O'Halloran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Micah Galletta O'Halloran (Hyde Park, Massachusetts); Rahul Sarpeshkar (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An analog storage cell circuit includes a switch that minimizes subthreshold conduction and diode leakage, as well as an accumulation-mode coupling mechanism to minimize overall switch leakage to minimize accumulation-mode leakage. In one embodiment, an analog storage circuit includes a sample and hold circuit including an amplifier having first and second inputs and a switch coupled to the first input of the amplifier. The switch includes a first switching device forming a core of the switch, a second switching device coupled to the first switching device to disconnect the first switching device from a first terminal during the hold phase, and a third switching device coupled to the first switching device to connect the first switching device to a second terminal during the hold phase to minimize accumulation mode conduction in the first switching device. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256632 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436251 | Ozgun 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) | Mehmet T. Ozgun (Dallas, Texas); Yannis P. Tsividis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit including two operational amplifiers connected in parallel. For the purpose of this explanation, assume that an equivalent input noise of a circuit with one operational amplifier is too high. Where two operational amplifiers, are connected in parallel, the signals from the operational amplifiers add as currents at the output node of the parallel combination. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733977 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436595 | Cathey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado); Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for increasing the depth of field and decreasing the wavelength sensitivity and the effects of misfocus-producing aberrations of the lens of an incoherent optical system incorporates a special purpose optical mask into the incoherent system. The optical mask has been designed to cause the optical transfer function to remain essentially constant within some range from the in-focus position. Signal processing of the resulting intermediate image undoes the optical transfer modifying effects of the mask, resulting in an in-focus image over an increased depth of field. Generally the mask is placed at a principal plane or the image of a principal plane of the optical system. Preferably, the mask modifies only phase and not amplitude of light. The mask may be used to increase the useful range of passive ranging systems. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758740 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436862 | Ilday et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fatih Omer Ilday (Ankara, Turkey); Frank Wise (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser producing high energy ultrashort laser pulses comprises a normal dispersion segment, a gain segment, an anomalous dispersion segment with negligible nonlinearity and an effective saturable absorber arranged to form a laser cavity. Each segment is optically interconnected so that a laser pulse will propagate self-similarly therein. (A pulse that propagates in a self-similar manner is sometimes referred to as a “similariton.”) With this laser the limitations of prior art laser oscillators are avoided. Also provided are means for pumping the gain medium in the laser cavity, and means for extracting laser pulses from the laser cavity. The laser cavity is preferably a ring cavity. Preferably the laser is configured to achieve unidirectional circulation of laser pulses therein. This configuration is scalable to much higher pulse energy than lasers based on soliton-like pulse shaping. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510739 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436988 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liyan Zhang (Jiangsu, China PRC); Anshuman Razdan (Phoenix, Arizona); Gerald Farin (Paradise Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a novel approach for automatic human face authentication. Taking a 3D triangular facial mesh as input, the approach first automatically extracts the bilateral symmetry plane of the face surface. The intersection between the symmetry plane and the facial surface, namely the Symmetry Profile, is then computed. By using both the mean curvature plot of the facial surface and the curvature plot of the symmetry profile curve, three essential points of the nose on the symmetry profile are automatically extracted. The three essential points uniquely determine a Face Intrinsic Coordinate System (FICS). Different faces are aligned based on the FICS. The Symmetry Profile, together with two transversal profiles, namely the Forehead Profile and the Cheek Profile compose a compact representation, called the SFC representation, of a 3D face surface. The face authentication and recognition steps are finally performed by comparing the SFC representation of the faces. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145033 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07435329 | Nafis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Nafis (Mount Prospect, Illinois); Gregory F. Maher (Aurora, Illinois); Lynn H. Rice (Arlington Heights, Illinois); William D. Schlueter (Lake in the Hills, Illinois); Ralph D. Gillespie (Gurnee, Illinois); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A reforming and isomerization process has been developed. A reforming feedstream is charged to a reforming zone containing a reforming catalyst and operating at reforming conditions to generate a reforming zone effluent. Hydrogen and an isomerization feedstream is charged into an isomerization zone to contact an isomerization catalyst at isomerization conditions to increase the branching of the hydrocarbons. The isomerization catalyst is a solid acid catalyst comprising a support comprising a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of at least an element of Group IVB, a first component being at least one lanthanide series element, mixtures thereof, or yttrium, and a second component being a platinum group metal or mixtures thereof. The reforming zone effluent and the isomerization zone effluent are each separated to form a light ends stream and a product stream. The light ends streams are combined for processing in a net gas re-contacting zone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/220127 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435933 | Bedingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin); Raj Rajagopal (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and methods for processing sample materials. The sample materials may be located in a plurality of process chambers in the device, which is rotated during heating of the sample materials. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/622643 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435944 | Ja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiou-jyh Ja (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Lloyd Salsman (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Brian Strecker (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert Shelton (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Frederick G. Johnson (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically-powered integrated microstructure pressure sensing system for sensing pressure within a cavity. The pressure sensing system comprises a pressure sensor having an optical resonant structure subject to the pressure within the cavity and having physical properties changing due to changing pressures within the cavity. A substrate supports the optical resonant structure. An input optical pathway evanescently couples light into the optical resonant structure. An output optical pathway collects light from the optical resonance structure. A light source delivers a known light input into the input optical pathway whereby the known light input is evanescently coupled into the optical resonant structure by the input optical pathway and a portion of such light is collected from the optical resonant structure by the output optical pathway. A light detector receives the portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure, and generates a light signal indicative of such portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure. A temperature compensation sensor generates a temperature signal indicative of the temperature near the optical resonant structure. A spectrum detection device receives the light signal and temperature signal. The spectrum detection device analyzing the light signal and the temperature signal with a detection algorithm to generating a pressure signal indicative of the pressure within the cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713858 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436500 | Treado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemImage Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Nelson (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Scott Keitzer (Export, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical imaging system is provided which uses a near infrared radiation microscope. The system includes an illumination source which illuminates an area of a sample using light in the near infrared radiation wavelength and light in the visible wavelength. A multitude of spatially resolved spectra of transmitted, reflected, emitted or scattered near infrared wavelength radiation light from the illuminated area of the sample is collected and a collimated beam is produced therefrom. A near infrared imaging spectrometer is provided for selecting a near infrared radiation image of the collimated beam. The filtered images are collected by a detector for further processing. The visible wavelength light from the illuminated area of the sample is simultaneously detected providing for the simultaneous visible and near infrared chemical imaging analysis of the sample. Two efficient means for performing three dimensional near infrared chemical imaging microscopy are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257222 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437012 | Carasso |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred S. Carasso (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for image deblurring based on correctly specifying the lack of smoothness in the unknown desired sharp image, in terms of Lipschitz (Besov) space classification. The method makes essential use of Singular Integrals and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms to estimate the image's Lipschitz exponent α. Such Singular Integrals and Fast Fourier Transforms are then used in a method for regularizing the ill-posed deblurring problem, resulting in a fast, direct, (i.e., non-iterative) computationally effective deblurring procedure. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928308 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07434963 | Kaminski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Breault Research Organization, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Kaminski (Tucson, Arizona); Matthew B Dubin (Tucson, Arizona); Mark R. Fink (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A new lighting system is provided that is particularly useful in projecting light to a deck where pilots use night vision goggles (NVGs). The system comprises a pair of subsystems that project light with different, complementary spatial distributions. One subsystem projects light with one spatial distribution, and the other lighting subsystem projects light with another spatial distribution that supplements the light from the first subsystem, so as to provide a system that effectively illuminates an entire target. The system is designed to substantially filter light so that the light does not interfere with NVGs. The system includes new optical projection structure that minimizes the overall size of the projection structure, and maintains good efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/286988 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435451 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hansen (Austin, Texas); Rock A. Rushing (Spicewood, Texas); John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Joshua B. Lightfoot (Austin, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an epoxy coating for use as a non-skid surface for applications such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. The epoxy coating can be formulated from (a) an amine curing agent, (b) an epoxide-containing toughening agent such as a polysulfide and/or a polythioether, (c) an epoxy resin, (d) a rubber toughening agent, and (e) an optional fire retardant, a glass fiber thixotrope and impact toughening agent, an optional pigment, an optional corrosion inhibitor, an optional moisture penetration inhibitor, an optional ultraviolet light stabilizer, an optional abrasive aggregate, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415862 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/428.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435722 | Hedman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Hedman (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving the resistance of collagenous tissue to mechanical degradation in accordance with the present invention comprises the step of contacting at least a portion of a collagenous tissue with an effective amount of a crosslinking reagent. Methods and devices for enhancing the body's own efforts to stabilize discs in scoliotic spines by increasing collagen crosslinks. This stability enhancement is caused by reducing the bending hysteresis and increasing the bending stiffness of scoliotic spines, by injecting non-toxic crosslinking reagents into the convex side of discs involved in the scoliotic curve. Alternatively, contact between the tissue and the crosslinking reagent is affected by placement of a time-release delivery system directly into or onto the target tissue. Methods and devices that use crosslinking agents for increasing the permeability of an intervertebral disc, improving fluid flux to the intervertebral disc, and increasing the biological viability of cells within the intervertebral disc are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786861 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435767 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hansen (Austin, Texas); Rock A. Rushing (Spicewood, Texas); John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas); Joshua B. Lightfoot (Austin, Texas); Brad A. Rix (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention concerns an epoxy coating for use as a non-skid surface for applications such as the deck of an aircraft carrier. The epoxy coating can be formulated from (a) an amine curing agent, (b) an epoxide-containing toughening agent such as a polysulfide and/or a polythioether, (c) an epoxy resin, (d) a rubber toughening agent, and (e) an optional fire retardant, a glass fiber thixotrope and impact toughening agent, an optional pigment, an optional corrosion inhibitor, an optional moisture penetration inhibitor, an optional ultraviolet light stabilizer, an optional abrasive aggregate, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415859 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435944 | Ja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiou-jyh Ja (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Lloyd Salsman (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Brian Strecker (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert Shelton (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Frederick G. Johnson (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optically-powered integrated microstructure pressure sensing system for sensing pressure within a cavity. The pressure sensing system comprises a pressure sensor having an optical resonant structure subject to the pressure within the cavity and having physical properties changing due to changing pressures within the cavity. A substrate supports the optical resonant structure. An input optical pathway evanescently couples light into the optical resonant structure. An output optical pathway collects light from the optical resonance structure. A light source delivers a known light input into the input optical pathway whereby the known light input is evanescently coupled into the optical resonant structure by the input optical pathway and a portion of such light is collected from the optical resonant structure by the output optical pathway. A light detector receives the portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure, and generates a light signal indicative of such portion of the light collected from the optical resonant structure. A temperature compensation sensor generates a temperature signal indicative of the temperature near the optical resonant structure. A spectrum detection device receives the light signal and temperature signal. The spectrum detection device analyzing the light signal and the temperature signal with a detection algorithm to generating a pressure signal indicative of the pressure within the cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713858 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07434990 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Mississippi (University, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Lee (Oxford, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for confirming the presence of termites in a structure, involving a preliminary infrared scan of a structure and confirmation of termite infestation with at least one detector in order to quickly locate potential areas of termite infestation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711248 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435579 | Bashir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (West Lafayette, Indiana); Rafael Gomez (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscale biosensor for use in the detection of target biological substances includes a detection chamber disposed on the substrate and defining a volume between 1 pico-liter and 1 micro-liter. The detection chamber is adapted to confine a composition containing microorganisms. Specimen concentration componentry is connected to the detection chamber for rapidly concentrating the microorganisms in the detection chamber. A heater is operatively connected to the substrate to heat the composition in the detection chamber. Electrodes are mounted on the substrate in communication with the detection chamber to identify AC impedance changes within the detection chamber from bacterial metabolism of the microorganisms of the composition over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825413 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07435873 | St. Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven St. Martin (Columbus, Ohio); Anne Dorrance (Wooster, Ohio); Kara Burnham (Portland, Oregon); Ron Fioritto (Wooster, Ohio); David Francis (Wooster, Ohio); Stuart G. Gordon (Stow, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides soybean plants having a novel determinant, Rps8, for resistance to Phytophthora sojae. The invention also provides methods for identifying germplasms that are either heterozygous or homozygous for Rps8 using marker assisted selection. Genetic markers with known chromosomal location that are associated with the Rps8 gene are used to confirm Rps8-derived Phytophthora sojae resistance in germplasms. Marker assisted selection also used when introgressing Rps8-derived soybean Phytophthora sojae resistance into non-resistant soybean germplasm or less resistant soybean germplasms. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/778018 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07434409 | Gedeon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower, Inc. (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Gedeon (Athens, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved pulse tube cooler having a resonator tube connected in place of a compliance volume or reservoir. The resonator tube has a length substantially equal to an integer multiple of ¼ wavelength of an acoustic wave in the working gas within the resonator tube at its operating frequency, temperature and pressure. Preferably, the resonator tube is formed integrally with the inertance tube as a single, integral tube with a length approximately ½ of that wavelength. Also preferably, the integral tube is spaced outwardly from and coiled around the connection of the regenerator to the pulse tube at a cold region of the cooler and the turns of the coil are thermally bonded together to improve heat conduction through the coil. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209984 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437253 | Shcheglov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirill V. Shcheglov (Los Angeles, California); Ken J. Hayworth (Northridge, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Chris S. Peay (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Parametrically disciplined operation of a symmetric nearly degenerate mode vibratory gyroscope is disclosed. A parametrically-disciplined inertial wave gyroscope having a natural oscillation frequency in the neighborhood of a sub-harmonic of an external stable clock reference is produced by driving an electrostatic bias electrode at approximately twice this sub-harmonic frequency to achieve disciplined frequency and phase operation of the resonator. A nearly symmetric parametrically-disciplined inertial wave gyroscope that can oscillate in any transverse direction and has more than one bias electrostatic electrode that can be independently driven at twice its oscillation frequency at an amplitude and phase that disciplines its damping to zero in any vibration direction. In addition, operation of a parametrically-disciplined inertial wave gyroscope is taught in which the precession rate of the driven vibration pattern is digitally disciplined to a prescribed non-zero reference value. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192759 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07437272 | Samson, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Samson, Jr. (Palm Harbor, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for self-synchronized data sampling are provided. In one embodiment, a system for capturing synchronous data samples is provided. The system includes an analog to digital converter adapted to capture signals from one or more sensors and convert the signals into a stream of digital data samples at a sampling frequency determined by a sampling control signal; and a synchronizer coupled to the analog to digital converter and adapted to receive a rotational frequency signal from a rotating machine, wherein the synchronizer is further adapted to generate the sampling control signal, and wherein the sampling control signal is based on the rotational frequency signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264566 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07434843 | Pishnov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zakhar Pishnov (Stamford, Connecticut); Henry E. Reinhardt (Wilton, Connecticut); Anthony N. Fischetti (Monroe, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In the preferred embodiments, a hollow shaft rotary fluid joint assembly includes: (a) a hollow shaft through which electrical cables are passed; (b) a rotary fluid joint surrounding an outer diameter of the hollow shaft through which a fluid medium is passed, the rotary fluid joint including inner and outer races defining an interior chamber that are rotatably connected together and that include one or more respective inlet or outlet port. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098428 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07436295 | Collipi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tilden Collipi (Melbourne, Florida); David F. Harvey (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprises the steps of receiving information concerning the operation of surveillance assets, and using the information in a Monte Carlo simulation to produce an estimate of total surveillance time. An apparatus that is used to perform the method is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/455394 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07437253 | Shcheglov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirill V. Shcheglov (Los Angeles, California); Ken J. Hayworth (Northridge, California); A. Dorian Challoner (Manhattan Beach, California); Chris S. Peay (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Parametrically disciplined operation of a symmetric nearly degenerate mode vibratory gyroscope is disclosed. A parametrically-disciplined inertial wave gyroscope having a natural oscillation frequency in the neighborhood of a sub-harmonic of an external stable clock reference is produced by driving an electrostatic bias electrode at approximately twice this sub-harmonic frequency to achieve disciplined frequency and phase operation of the resonator. A nearly symmetric parametrically-disciplined inertial wave gyroscope that can oscillate in any transverse direction and has more than one bias electrostatic electrode that can be independently driven at twice its oscillation frequency at an amplitude and phase that disciplines its damping to zero in any vibration direction. In addition, operation of a parametrically-disciplined inertial wave gyroscope is taught in which the precession rate of the driven vibration pattern is digitally disciplined to a prescribed non-zero reference value. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192759 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07435286 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John H. Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209163 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07435134 | Lenox |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower Corporation, Systems (Richmond, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl J. Lenox (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive mounting/grounding clip, for use with a photovoltaic assembly of the type having an electrically conductive frame, comprises an electrically conductive body. The body has a central portion and first and second spaced-apart arms extending generally perpendicular to the central portion. Each arm has an outer portion with each outer portion having an outer end. At least one frame surface-disrupting element is at each outer end. The central portion defines a plane with the frame surface-disrupting elements pointing towards the plane. In some examples each arm extends from the central portion at an acute angle to the plane. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/681972 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/567 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07437222 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ketao Liu (Cerritos, California); Justin Burch (Irvine, California); Gregory S. Becker (Redondo Beach, California); Patrick A. Nelson (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to precision control system for spacecraft gimbaled payloads. Embodiments of the invention provide an innovative technique of calibrating gimbals disturbances to directly canceling gimbal control disturbances. Such a calibration system includes a receiver for receiving telemetry data for pointing a payload, a processor for calculating a disturbance parameter vector for a gimbal disturbance model with the telemetry data and a transmitter for transmitting the disturbance parameter vector to compensate for pointing error when applied in pointing the payload. The gimbal disturbance model comprises a harness stiffness term, a disturbance harmonics term and at least one friction hysteresis term. The telemetry data may be time matched prior to calculating the disturbance parameter vector. Typically, the telemetry data comprises gimbal angle and applied torque data and the disturbance parameter vector is calculated from convergence of an iterative gradient computation with the telemetry data. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/191805 |
| ART UNIT | 4136 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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