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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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| US 07438792 | Mathies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Mathies (Moraga, California); Charles A. Emrich (Berkeley, California); Pankaj Singhal (Pasadena, California); Peter Ertl (Styria, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical detector including side channels associated with a separation channel of a sample component separation apparatus is provided. The side channels of the detector, in one configuration, provide a sheath-flow for an analyte exiting the separation channel which directs the analyte to the electrically developed electrochemical detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107295 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/452 |
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| US 07438892 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of Americas as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Wei Wang (Rockville, Maryland); Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland); Albert J. Fornace (Bethesda, Maryland); Jill D. Coursen (Boston, Massachusetts); Qimin Zhan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel methods for assaying for modulators of GADD45 polypeptide activity. The invention also provides means to sensitize a proliferating cell to a DNA base-damaging agent by administration of novel inhibitors of GADD45 polypeptide activity. The invention further provides polypeptides which interfere with the ability of Cdc2/cyclin B1 complexes to cause a pause at the G2/M stage of the cell cycle in response to GADD45, and nucleic acids which encode such polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506947 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 07438902 | Habener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel E. Habener (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); Henryk Zulewski (Binningen, Switzerland); Elizabeth J. Abraham (Andover, Massachusetts); Mario Vallejo (Madrid, Spain); Denise L. Faustman (Weston, Massachusetts); Melissa K. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for the treatment of type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and other conditions using newly identified stem cells that are capable of differentiation into a variety of pancreatic islet cells, including insulin-producing beta cells, as well as hepatocytes. Nestin has been identified as a molecular marker for pancreatic stem cells, while cytokeratin-19 serves as a marker for a distinct class of islet ductal cells. Methods are described whereby nestin-positive stem cells can be isolated from pancreatic islets and cultured to obtain further stem cells or pseudo-islet like structures. Methods for ex vivo differentiation of the pancreatic stem cells are disclosed. Methods are described whereby pancreatic stem cells can be isolated, expanded, and transplanted into a patient in need thereof, either allogeneically, isogeneically or xenogenically, to provide replacement for lost or damaged insulin-secreting cells or other cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984645 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 07438909 | Morrow, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emergent Product Development Gaithersburg Inc. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne Morrow, legal representative (San Diego, California); Angray S. Kang (Encinitas, California); Fei Wang (San Diego, California); Ivy Jiang (San Diego, California); Ritsuko Sawada (San Diego, California); Wolfgang Scholz (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly efficient method for generating human antibodies using recall technology is provided. In one aspect, human antibodies which are specific to the anthrax toxin are provided. In one aspect, human peripheral blood cells that have been pre-exposed to anthrax toxin are used in the SCID mouse model. This method results in high human antibody titers which are primarily of the IgG isotype and which contain antibodies of high specificity and affinity to desired antigens. The antibodies generated by this method can be used therapeutically and prophylactically for preventing or treating mammals exposed to anthrax. Thus, in one embodiment, a prophylactic or therapeutic agent used to counter the effects of anthrax toxin, released as a mechanism of bioterrorism, is provided. In one embodiment, a formulation and method for preventing and/or treating anthrax infection comprising a binding agent that prevents the assembly of the PA63 heptamer is also provided. Methods for diagnosis and methods to determine anthrax contamination are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041763 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/142.100 |
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| US 07438918 | Apicella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Apicella (Solon, Iowa); Deborah Post (Fairfax, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides lipid A deficient mutant Neisseria meningitidis cells, pharmaceutical compositions incorporating such cells, and methods of using such cells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652857 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100 |
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| US 07438931 | Brewer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Brewer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sofia D. Merajver (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dimitri Coucouvanis (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are agents that can bind to copper, and form a tripartite complex with protein, and the use of these agents in the prevention and treatment of diseases with a vascular component, such as solid tumors. Compositions and methods for combination therapy of these diseases, including cancer, as well as therapeutic kits, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796782 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/641 |
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| US 07439014 | Pamula et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina); Allen E. Eckhardt (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to droplet-based surface modification and washing. According to one embodiment, a method of providing a droplet in contact with a surface with a reduced concentration of a substance is provided, wherein the method includes: (a) providing a droplet microactuator comprising a surface in contact with a droplet comprising a starting concentration and starting quantity of the substance and having a starting volume; (b) conducting one or more droplet operations to merge a wash droplet with the droplet provided in step (a) to yield a combined droplet; and (c) conducting one or more droplet operations to divide the combined droplet to yield a set of droplets comprising: (i) a droplet in contact with the surface having a decreased concentration of the substance relative to the starting concentration; and (ii) a droplet which is separated from the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639736 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07439016 | Anthony et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Digene Corporation (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Anthony (Frederick, Maryland); Attila Lorincz (North Potomac, Maryland); John Troy (Fairfax, Virginia); Yanglin Tan (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Target-specific hybrid capture (TSHC) provides a nucleic acid detection method that is not only rapid and sensitive, but is also highly specific and capable of discriminating highly homologous nucleic acid target sequences. The method produces DNA-RNA hybrids which can be detected by a variety of methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/594839 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07439021 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Vincent W. Coljee (Gentofte, Denmark); William Donahue (Quincy, Massachusetts); Svetlana Mikheeva (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system for linking nucleic acids to one another. In particular, the present invention provides techniques for producing DNA product molecules that may be easily and directly ligated to recipient molecules. The product molecules need not be cleaved with restriction enzymes in order to undergo such ligation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the DNA product molecules are produced through iterative DNA synthesis reactions, so that the product molecules are amplified products. The invention further provides methods for directed ligation of product molecules (i.e., for selective ligation of certain molecules within a collection of molecules), and also for methods of exon shuffling, in which multiple different product molecules are produced in a single ligation reaction. Preferred embodiments of the invention involve ligation of product molecules encoding functional protein domains, particularly domains naturally found in conserved gene families. The inventive DNA manipulation system is readily integrated with other nucleic acid manipulation systems, such as ribozyme-mediated systems, and also is susceptible to automation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132356 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07439024 | Richardson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Richardson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qianjin Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating an autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease. In particular, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing, monitoring and treating an autoimmune disease (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis) or chronic inflammatory disease (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus) based on detecting or altering (e.g., altering expression or methylation status of) autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease proteins (e.g., CD70 and CD40L). The present invention also provides kits for detecting methylation status of autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease proteins (e.g., CD70 and CD40L) and for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating autoimmune or chronic inflammatory diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445415 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07439032 | Pagano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele Pagano (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Cdc25A is herein identified as a substrate for β-TrCP1- or β-TrCP2-mediated ubiquitination and subsequent degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. In particular, it has been found that interfering with β-TrCP expression or function, or increasing β-TrCP degradation, leads to accumulation of Cdc25A in a cell. Since degradation of Cdc25A is a key feature of the response to DNA damage, leading to a stall in the cell cycle during which the cell can repair the damage, Cdc25A accumulation can abolish this response, thereby sensitizing the cell to DNA damage. Described herein are assays for identifying β-TrCP inhibitors, and method of using such inhibitors for modulating Cdc25A degradation, sensitization of tumor cells, and as adjuvants in cancer therapy based on DNA damaging agents. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968871 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.800 |
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| US 07439039 | Blakely et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Blakely (Brentwood, Tennessee); Loren Keith Henry (Mount Juliet, Tennessee); Erika M. Adkins (Layton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The serotonin transporter (SERT) is a target of various therapeutic agents used in the treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. The present invention provides novel forms of SERT that lacks high affinity recognition of specific serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The present invention therefore provides a novel target for use in screening and model development that can aid both the discovery of new medications and the discovery of novel pathways impacted in parallel with SERT blockade. Such novel targets can help identify new SSRI's with unique modifications and lead to discovery of pathways that secondarily support the therapeutic activity of these agents. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884194 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07439051 | Sokoloff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mirus Bio Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Sokoloff (Madison, Wisconsin); Jon A. Wolff (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the selection and use of surface exposed epitopes. The present invention includes in vivo and in vitro phage peptide diplay methods for the identification and selection of peptides and peptide associated factors with desired properties (e.g., targeting specificity, stability, etc.). The present invention further provides methods and compositions for the isolation and identification of peptide-specific antibodies. The present invention also includes methods and compositions employing nuclear localization signals for enhanced nuclear transport and expression of DNA. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/795676 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
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| US 07439057 | Frangos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Bioengineering Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Frangos (La Jolla, California); Peter Sobolewski (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for an improved in vitro tissue assembly system and related methods that includes and uses a bioreactor, a porous mandrel disposed in the bioreactor, and components that provide for the circulation of culture media and cell suspensions within the bioreactor and through the porous mandrel. The circulation of the culture media and cell suspensions within the bioreactor produces a radial, convective flow and drag forces that result in the deposition of cells on the mandrel to form a tissue construct. Upon completion of the culture and tissue formation process, the tissue construct may be removed from the mandrel for subsequent in vivo use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991079 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/299.100 |
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| US 07439063 | Digicaylioglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Digicaylioglu (San Diego, California); Stuart A. Lipton (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of providing acute neuroprotection by inducing the erythropoietin (EPO) signaling pathway in neuronal cells close to or subsequent to the time of excitatory insult; and inducing an insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling pathway in the neuronal cells close to or subsequent to the time of excitatory insult, thereby producing a synergistic acute neuroprotective effect in the neuronal cells. The invention also provides a method of preventing or reducing the severity of a neurologic condition in a subject by administering to the subject EPO or an active fragment or analog thereof at a dose of at most 2000 U/kg; and administering to the subject an IGF or an active fragment or analog thereof, thereby providing neuroprotection and preventing or reducing the severity of the neurologic condition. Such a method can be used to prevent or reduce the severity of, for example, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, a movement disorder, HIV-associated dementia, HIV-associated neuropathy, neuropathic pain, migraine, glaucoma, drug addiction, drug withdrawal, drug dependency, depression or anxiety. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460550 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07439066 | McCray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. McCray, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Colleen Stein (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel pseudotyped retroviral vectors that can transduce human and other cells. Vectors are provided that are packaged efficiently in packaging cells and cell lines to generate high titer recombinant virus stocks expressing novel envelope glycoproteins. The present invention further relates to compositions for gene therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593963 |
| 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 435/458 |
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| US 07439221 | Shur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry D. Shur (Atlanta, Georgia); Michael Ensslin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for modulating mammalian gamete adhesion are provided. Representative modulators of gamete adhesion include, but are not limited to polypeptides comprising at least one discoidin/C domain, and optionally at least one EGF domain. A representative polypeptide includes, but is not limited to SED1 polypeptides (SEQ ID NOs. 2-7), prodrugs, fragments, or derivatives thereof. Methods for identifying modulators of SED1-mediated gamete adhesion are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575816 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07439226 | Roller 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) | Peter P. Roller (Rockville, Maryland); Peng Li (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns peptides and peptidomimetics having inhibitory activity against serine proteases. The disclosed peptides and peptidomimetics are particularly useful as selective inhibitors of matriptase and MTSP1. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising serine protease inhibitors and methods for administering the compositions also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957266 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/10 |
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| US 07439250 | Lakner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick J. Lakner (San Diego, California); George R. Negrete (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the use of methods and/or compositions related to the synthesis and use of fatty asparagine, cysteine and/or serine derivatives. In particular, the invention concerns methods and compositions for the production of liposomes including fatty asparagine, cysteine and/or serine derivatives. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/715331 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/269 |
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| US 07439264 | Meltzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Organix, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Meltzer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bertha K. Madras (Newton, Massachusetts); Paul Blundell (Winchester, Massachusetts); Shanghao Liu (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention to antagonists that inhibit transporters and receptors. The invention also relates to partial inhibitors of transporters and receptors that allow partial transport or partial binding of a compound to the transporter or receptor. The invention also relates to compounds that differentially prevent transport or binding through a transporter or to a receptor. The invention also relates to the use of these compounds for treating certain diseases and disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364028 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/431 |
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| US 07439265 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Jun-Ping Xu (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The Indo-Pacific marine sponge Ircinia ramosa has been found to contain two powerful (GI50 0.001 to <0.0001 μg/ml) murine and human cancer cell growth inhibitors, denominated herein as irciniastatin A and irciniastatin B. Both were isolated (10-3 to 10-4% yields) by cancer cell line bioassay-guided techniques and named irciniastatins A (1) and B (2). Structural elucidation by a combination of spectral analyses, primarily high resolution mass and 2D-NMR (principally APT, HMQC, HMBC and ROESY) revealed unusual structures 1 and 2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/580572 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
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| US 07439270 | Brennan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univeristy of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Brennan (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Spinal anesthetics for intrathecal administration to produce spinal anesthesia are provided with use of 6-[2-(1(2)H-tetrazole-5-yl)ethyl]decahydroisoquinolone-3-carboxylic acid or its pharmaceutically active analogues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422788 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/816 |
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| US 07439319 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Smith (San Diego, California); Emily I. Chen (Encinitas, California); Steven J. Kridel (Clemmons, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated MMP-2, MMP-9 and MT1-MMP selective substrate polypeptides or functional peptidomimetics. The selective substrate polypeptides contain the following sequences: MMP-2 selective substrate polypeptides contain SEQ ID NOS:1-27, MMP-9 selective substrate polypeptides contain SEQ ID NOS:28-35, and MT1-MMP selective substrate polypeptide contain SEQ ID NOS:36-40. In addition, the invention provides a method of preferentially directing a moiety to a site of MMP-2 activity by administering to a subject an effective amount of an isolated MMP-2 selective substrate polypeptide containing SEQ ID NOS:45-47 linked to a moiety. Also provided is a method of preferentially directing a moiety to a site of MMP-9 activity by administering to a subject an effective amount of an isolated MMP-9 selective substrate polypeptide containing SEQ ID NO:44 linked to a moiety, and preferentially directing a moiety to a site of MT1-MMP activity by administering to a subject an effective amount of an isolated MT1-MMP selective substrate polypeptide containing SEQ ID NOS:36-40 linked to a moiety. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243613 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07439323 | Bielicki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Bielicki (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cysteine containing amphipathic alpha helices of the exchangeable apolipoproteins, as exemplified by apolipoprotein (apo) A-IMilano (R173C) and apoA-IParis, (R151C) were found to exhibit potent antioxidant activity on phospholipid surfaces. The addition of a free thiol, at the hydrophobic/hydrophilic interface of an amphipathic alpha helix of synthetic peptides that mimic HDL-related proteins, imparts a unique antioxidant activity to these peptides which inhibits lipid peroxidation and protects phospholipids from water-soluble free radical initiators. These peptides can be used as therapeutic agents to combat cardiovascular disease, ischemia, bone disease and other inflammatory related diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177237 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
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| US 07439328 | Sung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Hwa Sung (New York, New York); Jen-Zen Chuang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A polypeptide may include an amino acid sequence having at least about 95% identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 42, wherein a residue at position 94 of the polypeptide is an amino acid other than threonine or wherein a residue at position 82 of the polypeptide is an amino acid other than serine. A polypeptide may include at least the first 14 residues and at most the first 92 residues of an amino acid sequence starting with residue 1 of, and having at least about 95% identity to, the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, or 17. Such polypeptide may stimulate neurite outgrowth or neurogenesis. A nucleic acid may encode the polypeptide. A vector may include the nucleic acid. A host cell, such as an embryonic stem cell, may include the vector. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428122 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07439330 | Halperin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof which bind specifically to glycated CD59, compositions containing one or a combination of such antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof, hybridoma cell lines that produce the antibodies, and methods of producing and using the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof for diagnosis and treatment of diabetic conditions and diabetic-associated conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870342 |
| 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 530/388.200 |
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| US 07439343 | Rege et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaushal Rege (Troy, New York); Shanghui Hu (San Diego, California); Jonathan S. Dordick (Schenectady, New York); Steven M. Cramer (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Aminoglycoside-polyamines are disclosed along with methods of use thereof in displacement chromatography and as DNA-binding ligands. The aminoglycoside-polyamines are derivatives of carbohydrates, such as sugars, amino sugars, deoxysugars, glycosides, nucleosides and their substituted counterparts. The subject polyamines possess a group in place of at least one hydrogen atom of at least one hydroxyl group of the carbohydrate compound. In these compounds R1 is an alkyl group or an azaalkyl group, and R2 is a primary or secondary amino group. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217193 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.400 |
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| US 07439415 | Greer et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joy M. Greer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mario R. Capecchi (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides in vivo and in vitro methods of screening for an agent or a combination of agents that reduces one or more repetitive behaviors, comprising contacting neuronal cells of an animal with a HOXB8 gene mutation with the agent combination of agents to be screened, and determining whether one or more repetitive behaviors of the animal is reduced or whether one or more biochemical correlates of repetitive behaviors is reduced, the reduction in one or more repetitive behaviors or biochemical correlates indicating an agent or combination of agents that reduces repetitive behaviors. The invention also provides method of treating a subject with repetitive behaviors, comprising administering a therapeutically effective dose of the agent or combination of agents identified by the screening method. Further provided is a population of animals with a HOXB8 gene mutation, wherein more than 30% of the animals have excessive grooming behaviors and wherein less than 10% of the animals show skeletal defects. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/479148 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/9 |
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| US 07439736 | Meaney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Meaney (Hanover, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); John B. Weaver (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic resonance elastography pulse sequences for encoding position and motion of spins, and methods of using the pulse sequences are disclosed. The pulse sequences utilize imaging gradients, comprising a positive lobe and a negative lobe having non-symmetric amplitudes, to encode harmonic or wave motion within a specimen, such as tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/529451 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439739 | Beatty |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Beatty (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of providing magnetic resonance image reconstruction from k-space data obtained from any trajectory of k-space using multiple receiver coils. An image is constructed for data from each coil, and then the multiple coil images are combined such as by using sum of squares of image data, for example. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/456772 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07439740 | Cukur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tolga Cukur (Stanford, California); Dwight G. Nishimura (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing artifacts in steady-state free precession (SSFP) signals for use in magnetic resonance imaging is provided. A plurality of SSFP imaging sequences is applied to an object. An imaging data for each of the SSFP imaging sequences is acquired. The imaging data is combined using a weighted combination where weights depend on a control parameter that adjusts a trade-off between banding artifact reduction and signal to noise ratio (SNR). |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800414 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07440601 | Summers 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); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Summers (Potomac, Maryland); Jianhua Yao (Columbia, Maryland); C. Daniel Johnson (Rochester, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Portions of a virtual colon can be analyzed to identify a normal structure, such as an ileocecal valve. Paradigmatic characteristics of ileocecal valves can be used to identify a digital representation as an ileocecal valve. Upon determination that a digital representation has the characteristics of an ileocecal valve, action can be taken. For example, the digital representation can be removed from a list of polyp candidates. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/961681 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 07440659 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quan Liu (Durham, North Carolina); Nirmala Ramanujam (Janesville, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflectance instrument illuminates the surface of tissue with light of a selected wavelength and light emanating from the tissue due to reflectance is collected. The angle of illumination of tissue surface and/or collection of reflections is changed to probe at various depths beneath the surface of the tissue. The reflectance instrument may be used in a method for measuring the optical properties of a two layer diffuse media such as epithelial tissues. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708211 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jindong Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Robert E. Newnham (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating a ceramic electroactive transducer of a predetermined shape is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of providing a suitably shaped core having an outer surface, attaching a first conductor to the outer surface of the core, coating an inner conductive electrode on the outer surface of the core such that the inner conductive electrode is in electrical communication with the first conductor, coating a ceramic layer onto the inner electrode, thereafter sintering the ceramic layer, coating an outer electrode onto the sintered ceramic layer to produce an outer electrode that is not in electrical communication with the first conductor, and then poling the sintered ceramic layer across the inner electrode and the outer electrode to produce the ceramic electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329464 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/594 |
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| US 07437819 | Escobedo |
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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) | Rudolph B. Escobedo (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for sealing an electrical connector having a transition end and a cable. A protective coating is applied to the transition end of the connector. The connector, transition end and cable are positioned within halves of a mold. An annular resilient seal is positioned about the transition end within the mold. When the mold is filed with castable material the annular resilient seal compresses against the connector, preventing leakage of the castable material along the connector. The mold can then be separated leaving a waterproof boot formed on the transition end of the connector. The invention also provides a mold and sealing means for this process. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/602433 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/874 |
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| US 07437912 | Sparks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Ray Sparks (Whitmore Lake, Michigan); Nader Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for assessing rheological properties of a fluid, including lubricity and viscosity. The invention utilizes a tube into which the fluid is introduced, and relies on tracking the movement of the fluid through the tube either alone or with one or more particles intentionally introduced into the fluid to assess the rheological properties of the fluid. The method and device generally entail flowing the fluid and the optional suspended particle through a passage within the tube, and assessing a rheological property of the fluid within the tube by tracking the movement of the fluid and/or particle through the portion relative to the flow of the fluid through the portion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/184620 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.10 |
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| US 07437959 | Chadwick 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 Bartholomew Chadwick (San Diego, California); Ignacio Rivera-Duarte (San Diego, California); Robert Martin Cook (Escondido, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An In-Water Hull Cleaning Sampling Device includes a sampling chamber, a drive shaft housing, a drive shaft sealing membrane, a drive shaft, a spring retainer, a pressure spring, a cleaning pad, a mechanical drive device and a chamber sealing means. The sampling chamber further includes a chamber sealing membrane coupled to a base; and a chamber wall coupled to the base and a chamber ceiling. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417282 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.560 |
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| US 07437972 | Yeager |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur F. Yeager (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The device performs the function of opening and/or closing lids attached to containers, and more particularly child-proof lids in at least some embodiments. The device preferably includes a base, a post, a lever, a plate to engage the lid of a container, and a mechanism that coverts movement of the lever to rotational movement of the plate against a lid. The conversion mechanism in at least some embodiments includes a spring. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603254 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools 081/3.330 |
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| US 07437995 | Rastegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omnitek Partners LLC (Bayshore, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Richard Murray (East Patchogue, New York); Gary Chen (Succasunna, New Jersey); Raymond Michael Hartley (Abingdon, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertial igniter including: a first member having a wall and internal cavity; a second member slidable in the internal cavity, a striker disposed thereon and a first concave portion; a third member slidable on an exterior surface of the wall, a second concave portion; biasing springs for biasing the first and second members in a direction opposite an acceleration; locking balls in the first and second concave portions for preventing movement of the second and third members when the acceleration time profile is below a predetermined threshold; and a percussion cap primer on the first member; wherein when the acceleration time profile is greater than the predetermined threshold the locking balls are released from the concave portions to first permit relative movement of the third member with the first member and after a time delay to permit relative movement of the second member with the first member. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599878 |
| 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 12/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438118 | Santeler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith A. Santeler (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one feedcore and at least one wall cooling core are assembled with a number of elements of a die for forming a cooled turbine engine element investment casting pattern. A sacrificial material is molded in the die. The sacrificial material is removed from the die. The removing includes extracting a first of the die elements from a compartment in a second of the die elements before disengaging the second die element from the sacrificial material. The first element includes a compartment receiving an outlet end portion of a first of the wall cooling cores in the assembly and disengages therefrom in the extraction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831028 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438524 | Lyders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Lyders (Middletown, Connecticut); C. Brian Klinetob (Manchester, Connecticut); James T. Roach (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural joint includes inner preforms 20, 22 and outer preforms 24, 26 of material. The outer preform has legs 38, 40 that extend longitudinally and laterally from a fold 42. The inner preforms project longitudinally past the fold to define a spar 44. A wing, such as wings 50, 52, 54, 56, extends from the spar. The spar and wing cooperate with a substructure to resist separation of the spar and wing from the substructure. The joint is described in the context of a duct, such as a turbine engine inlet duct, but may be used in other applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185493 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/200 |
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| US 07438781 | Ciambrone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Ciambrone (Georgetown, Texas); Kirk E. Johnson (Diamond Bar, California); Hossien Ahmad (Buena Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for vacuum bag assembly fabrication via the vacuum bag method which reduces the amount of trapped air. The inventive system includes a chamber adapted to contain a vacuum bag and first and second evacuating mechanisms. The first evacuating mechanism serves to evacuate the bag and vent to atmosphere. The second evacuating mechanism serves to evacuate and vent the chamber to atmosphere. Thus, generally, the inventive method includes the steps of placing a vacuum bag lay up in an air tight chamber; and evacuating the vacuum bag lay up and the air tight chamber at the same time. In practice, the assembly would consist of at least two components and a heat curable composition. The components can be parts to be bonded together or layers of cloth to be made into a laminate. In this case, the heat curable composition would be a catalyzed adhesive or resin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000356 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/286 |
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| US 07438880 | Hung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheng-Hung Hung (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Noel R. Vanier (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The production of ultrafine metal carbide powders from solid metal carbide and nitrogen-containing material is disclosed. The starting materials are fed together or separately to a plasma system where the solid metal carbide is melted and/or vaporized in the presence of nitrogen to form ultrafine metal carbide particles of high purity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613551 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438916 | Rathore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendar Rathore (Blacksburg, Virginia); Dewal Jani (Blacksburg, Virginia); Rana Nagarkatti (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel Fasciclin Related Adhesive Protein (FRAP) from Plasmodium and related parasites is provided as a target for therapeutic intervention in diseases caused by the parasites. FRAP has been shown to play a critical role in adhesion to, or invasion into, host cells by the parasite. Furthermore, FRAP catalyzes the neutralization of heme by the parasite, by promoting its polymerization into hemozoin. This invention provides methods and compositions for therapies based on the administration of protein, DNA or cell-based vaccines and/or antibodies based on FRAP, or antigenic epitopes of FRAP, either alone or in combination with other parasite antigens. Methods for the development of compounds that inhibit the catalytic activity of FRAP, and diagnostic and laboratory methods utilizing FRAP are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/249355 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438953 | Kotov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Zhiyong Tang (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Arif A. Mamedov (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the assembly of a thin film containing highly anisotropic colloids that includes the steps of immersing a substrate in a first solution or dispersion comprising a first substance, wherein the first substance has an affinity for the substrate. Then, immersing the substrate in a second solution or dispersion comprising a second substance, wherein the second substance has an affinity for the first substance. A least one of the first substance and the second substance is a highly anisotropic colloid having at least one dimension differing from the others by a ratio of at least 1:1.5. The method incorporates highly anisotropic colloids using a layer-by-layer process that circumvents the tendency for separation of nanotubes at high nanotube loadings. Additionally, the method incorporates aligned highly anisotropic colloids and provides a method for carbon nanotube alignment, which among other advantages makes possible the preparation of unique criss-crossed composites. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457024 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/430.100 |
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| US 07439012 | Van Dyke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Van Dyke (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid plasma expander or resuscitation fluid composition for use in a subject in need thereof, comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of: (a) a keratin derivative (preferably alpha keratose, gamma keratose, or combinations thereof, and with basic alpha keratose preferred over acidic alpha keratose); and (b) an electrolyte solution, with the keratin derivative solubilized in the electrolyte solution to form a homogeneous liquid composition. Blood substitutes formed therefrom and methods of making and using the same are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205800 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
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| US 07439054 | Maga 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) | Gerardo F. Maga (Thousand Oaks, California); Frederick E. Goetz (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 10,000 gallon sequencing batch reactor tank for the on-site bio-degradation of oily sludge. Bacteria already present in and adapted to oily sludge degrade the hydrocarbons found in oily sludge within two weeks from 20,000 ppm to less than 100 ppm. A degradation cycle requires 5 days. After five days a recirculation pump and aeration system are turned off and solids are allowed to settle to the bottom of the tank. An ultrafiltration unit connected to the tank requires approximately 16 hours to process the contents of the reactor tank. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975124 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/265 |
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| US 07439208 | Moeckly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian H. Moeckly (Menlo Park, California); Ward S. Ruby (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming MgB2 films in-situ on a substrate includes the steps of (a) depositing boron onto a surface of the substrate in a deposition zone; (b) moving the substrate into a reaction zone containing pressurized, gaseous magnesium; (c) moving the substrate back into the deposition zone; and (d) repeating steps (a)-(c). In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the substrate is moved into and out of the deposition zone and the reaction zone using a rotatable platen. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/726232 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439510 | Bevan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Millenium Engineering and Integration Company (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward James Bevan (Cambria, California); Max Michael Briggs (Palo Alto, California); John Didomenico (Tucson, Arizona); Robert W. Gedridge (Lusby, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held, fleet deployable infrared camera with integrated hardware and software providing real time processing of infrared images. The camera senses variable temperature images over a selected object of interest and senses variable emissivities over the object. The camera also measures and corrects for reflected environmental radiation as well as corrections for the atmospheric path through which the object is viewed. A calibrated reference patch having known emissivity and reflectance is attached to an object of interest and viewed through the camera. The calibrated patch is used to provide correction for the environmental radiation reflected off the object. Once the environmental radiation correction is known, it can be used to correct measurements taken from the rest of the object of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714517 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439678 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California); Artan Qerushi (Irvine, California); Hooshang Tahsiri (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498354 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439814 | Happer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Happer (Princeton, New Jersey); Yuan-Yu Jau (Princeton, New Jersey); Fei Gong (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and system in which multi-coherent resonances of a microwave in which the alkali-metal atoms in the ground state are driven simultaneously by a microwave hyperfine frequency ΩH and a Zeeman frequency ΩZ. The driving influences on the atom can include magnetic fields or by optically pumping light modulated by a Zeeman frequency ΩZ or a microwave hyperfine frequency ΩH or by combinations of their harmonics or subharmonics. Multi-coherent resonances permit simultaneous measurement or control of the ambient magnetic field and measurement or control of a hyperfine resonance frequency of alkali-metal atoms. In one embodiment, the hyperfine frequency for a controlled magnetic field can serve as an atomic clock frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509357 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439873 | Tillotson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J Tillotson (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems and apparatus to allow a user to perceive the relative spatial location or present position of other elements of interest in a control space, such as the location of a speaker participating in a telephone conference or that of an aircraft carrier to a remotely piloted vehicle on final approach. The system inserts synthetic sound cues into the communication to the user that represent the relative position(s). In one embodiment, the user will perceive the communication as though it were communicated through free space to the user from the relative position of the represented source, so that, for example, the squad leader will perceive his wingman to be at his immediate left. Methods of conveying relative position sound cues are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/551293 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/692 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439906 | Blunt 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) | Shannon D Blunt (Shawnee, Kansas); Karl R Gerlach (Chesapeake Beach, Maryland); Kevin J Smith (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A radar receiver system includes a receiver, a processor including a Doppler Compensated Adaptive Pulse Compressor (DCAPC) algorithm, possible other intermediate processing and a target detector. The DCAPC algorithm processes samples of a radar return signal, applies Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE), or alternatively matched filtering, to the radar return signal to obtain initial radar impulse response estimates, computes power estimates, estimates a range cell Doppler shift for each range cell, computes range-dependent filters, applies the MMSE filters, and then repeats the cycle for subsequent reiterative stages until a desired length−L range window is reached, thereby resolving the scatterer from noise and other scatterers. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626931 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/195 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gorden Videen (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for analyzing polarized light back-scattered from a sample are provided. An exemplary system comprises an optical beamsplitter, a polarization separator and an array of light detectors. The optical beamsplitter is operative to receive an incident ray of light, to direct at least a portion of the incident ray to a sample, to receive a back-scattered ray from the sample, and to reflect at least a portion of the back-scattered ray as a reflected back-scattered ray. The polarization separator is located to receive the reflected back-scattered ray and is operative to divide the reflected back-scattered ray into a transverse-electric (TE) component and a transverse-magnetic (TM) component. The array of light detectors is located to receive the TE component and the TM component and is operative to acquire information corresponding to the respective intensities of the TE component and the TM component simultaneously. Methods and other systems also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211560 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440109 | Doheny 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 A. Doheny (Clearwater, Florida); John L. Kollig (Canastota, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A least-mean-squares based algorithm is used to adaptively update dither stripper gains, in a dither stripper of a ring laser gyro. The algorithm is used in conjunction with a dither estimator of the dither stripper. The dither stripper substantially reduces effects of dithering a ring laser gyro, during operation of the ring laser gyro. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482305 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440175 | 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 | Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420732 |
| 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 07440193 | Gunasekaran et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | R. Alfred Gunasekaran (Ruston, Louisiana); Ji Fang (Ruston, Louisiana); Jackie Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan); Weisong Wang (College Station, Texas); Kody Varahramyan (Ruston, Louisiana); Mangilal Agarwal (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable focal length microlens system having a base section with a fluid chamber and a fluid pressurization mechanism. A flexible, substantially transparent polymer lens section is fixed above the fluid chamber and the lens section has a curvature providing an initial focal point when in an unstrained state. The fluid chamber is substantially sealed and the fluid pressurization mechanism includes a flexible wall in the base section. The flexible wall may be displaced by magnetic activation, PZT activation of another activating mechanism. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/013937 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/666 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440479 | Nurmikko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arto V Nurmikko (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A Magneto-Optoelectronic Device MOD (10) includes a magnetic sensing device (12), such as a magnetoresistive device or a magnetic tunnel junction device, that is combined with a semiconductor light emitter (14), such as a LED or a laser diode, to create a compact integrated device where changes in an ambient magnetic field are expressed as changes in an optical beam intensity emanating from the MOD. Using the MOD (10) the magnetic field related information can be transmitted by a light wave over very large distances through some medium (34), for example, through free space and/or through an optical fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/488570 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440480 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Alfano (Bronx, New York); Vladimir Petricevic (New York, New York); Alexey Bykov (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described to improve and produce purer Cr4+-doped laser materials and lasers with reduced co-incorporation of chromium in any other valence states, such as Cr3+, Cr2+, Cr5+, and Cr6+. The method includes: 1) certain crystals of olivine structure with large cation (Ca) in octahedral sites such as Cr4+:Ca2GeO4, Cr4+:Ca2SiO4, Cr4+:Ca2GexSi1-xO4 (where 0<x<1), and/or 2) high-temperature solution growth techniques that enable the growth of the crystals below the temperature of polymorphic transitions by using low melting point solvent based on oxide, fluoride and/or chloride compounds. Purer Cr4+-doped laser materials are characterized by a relatively high concentration of Cr4+-lasing ion in crystalline host that makes these materials suitable for compact high power (thin disk/wedge) NIR laser applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295749 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440610 | Wirtz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Mathew Wirtz (Ridgecrest, California); Michael Robert Havlin (Ridgecrest, California); Diane Sue Tilley (Inyokern, California); Frank Joseph Modlinski (Ridgecrest, California); Michael David Thomas (Ridgecrest, California); Louis Christopher Miller (Ridgecrest, California); William Rodney Ditzler (Ridgecrest, California); James Edward McKnight (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the present invention utilizes the Precision Strike Suite (PSS). PSS performs tasks including but not limited to the generation of true geodetic coordinates and elevation of an item or a location, utilizing a stereo image database. PSS generates the precise true geodetic coordinates and elevation of any identifiable point or target contained within the area provided by the image database. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816578 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440825 | Einthoven et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pieter G. Einthoven (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Channing S. Morse (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the concept of managing the rate of change of energy in a helicopter or other aeronautical vehicle. The invention uses energy management calculations to determine the maximum longitudinal and lateral inputs that can be made while still enabling the vehicle to maintain a desired vertical state. The results of the calculations can be cued to the pilot either tactilely, aurally, or visually, or used for internal software limiting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424149 |
| 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 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440942 | Dixon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heidi E. Dixon (Eugene, Oregon); Matthew L. Ginsberg (Eugene, Oregon); David Hofer (Eugene, Oregon); Eugene M. Luks (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Data in a database describe an application domain such as a satisfiability problem. The data are represented in a manner that expresses the structure inherent in the data and one such representation uses group theory and represents the data as one or more “augmented clauses,” where each clause has a pair (c, G) including a database element c and a group G of group elements g acting on it. A query is encoded in a group theory representation and is executed on the group theory representation of the data to identify database elements and associated group elements satisfying the query. If desired, the satisfying database elements are converted from the group theory representation to the native representation of the data. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/989982 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440989 | Tsui 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) | James B. Y. Tsui (Dayton, Ohio); John M. Emmert (Dayton, Ohio); Stephen L. Hary (Dayton, Ohio); David M. Lin (Beavercreek, Ohio); Nicholas A. Pequignot (Dayton, Ohio); Keith M. Graves (Springfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A Fourier transformation arrangement usable in an electronic warfare radio receiver for analyzing spectral content of multiple transmitter-sourced brief duration incoming signals for their signal characteristics. The disclosed Fourier transformation arrangement includes approximated Kernel function values disposed in a significant plurality of locations about a real-imaginary coordinate axis origin according to disclosed locating principles. The points are displaced from the origin by magnitudes having real and imaginary component lengths of powers of two commencing with zero. Multiplication involving a power of two component length during a Kernel function utilization are preferably achieved by way of an expanded binary shift multiplication algorithm in lieu of a full fledged digital multiplication algorithm. A group of guiding principles for selecting desirable approximation Kernel function locations is included. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816353 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07441267 | Elliott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Verizon Corporate Service Group Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention performs “flow control” based on the remaining encryption capacity of an encrypted outbound network interface link of a network routing device, such as a router or switch. As the encrypted link begins to run low on encryption key material, this invention begins to discard datagrams queued for transit across that link, in order to signal distant host computers that they should slow down the rate at which they are sending datagrams. The invention, which is particularly useful in cryptographically protected networks that run the TCP/IP protocol stack, allows fine-grained flow control of individual traffic classes because it can determine, for example, how various classes of data traffic (e.g., voice, video, TCP) should be ordered and transmitted through a network. Thus, the invention can be used to implement sophisticated flow control rules so as to give preferential treatment to certain people, departments or computers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391582 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ineos USA LLC (Lisle, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rian Reyneke (Katy, Texas); Michael J. Foral (Aurora, Illinois); Guang-Chung Lee (Houston, Texas); Wayne W. Y. Eng (League City, Texas); Iain Sinclair (Warrington, United Kingdom); Jeffery S. Lodgson (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the recovery and purification of ethylene and optionally propylene from a stream containing lighter and heavier components that employs an ethylene distributor column and a partially thermally coupled distributed distillation system. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017159 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/935 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438004 | Peascoe-Meisner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberta A. Peascoe-Meisner (Knoxville, Tennessee); James R. Keiser (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); James G. Hemrick (Knoxville, Tennessee); Camden R. Hubbard (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); J. Peter Gorog (Kent, Washington); Amul Gupta (Jamestown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes containing a high-temperature alkali salt containing environment using a refractory containment liner containing MgAl2O4 spinel. A method, includes forming a refractory brick containing MgAl2O4 spinel having an exterior chill zone defined by substantially columnar crystallization and an interior zone defined by substantially equiaxed crystallization; and removing at least a portion of the exterior chill zone from the refractory brick containing MgAl2O4 spinel by scalping the refractory brick containing MgAl2O4 spinel to define at least one outer surface having an area of substantially equiaxed crystallization. A product of manufacture includes a refractory brick containing MgAl2O4 spinel including an interior zone defined by substantially equiaxed crystallization; and at least one outer surface having an area of substantially equiaxed crystallization. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/207320 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Furnaces 110/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438005 | Kobayashi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hisashi Kobayashi (Putnam Valley, New York); Lawrence E. Bool, III (Aurora, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustion of hydrocarbon liquids and solids is achieved with less formation of NOx by feeding a small amount of oxygen into the fuel stream. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803135 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Furnaces 110/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438472 | Lazarski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof Z. Lazarski (Darien, Illinois); Andrzej Joachimiak (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for implementing robust and efficient cryoloop auto-centering for crystal location and alignment to the x-ray beam are provided. Image processing techniques are used for recognition of the small protein crystals. The detected crystal location enables crystal positioning in the x-ray beam, and optimization of the x-ray optics such as beam profile and intensity to the size and shape of the protein crystals. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774679 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438733 | Labinov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon D. Labinov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy R. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Roddie R. Judkins (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for converting fuel energy to electricity includes the steps of converting a higher molecular weight gas into at least one mixed gas stream of lower average molecular weight including at least a first lower molecular weight gas and a second gas, the first and second gases being different gases, wherein the first lower molecular weight gas comprises H2 and the second gas comprises CO. The mixed gas is supplied to at least one turbine to produce electricity. The mixed gas stream is divided after the turbine into a first gas stream mainly comprising H2 and a second gas stream mainly comprising CO. The first and second gas streams are then electrochemically oxidized in separate fuel cells to produce electricity. A nuclear reactor can be used to supply at least a portion of the heat the required for the chemical conversion process. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/525700 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438755 | Wagh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun S. Wagh (Naperville, Illinois); Seung-Young Jeong (Taejon, South Korea); Richard McDaniel (Crest Hill, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealant for an oil or geothermal well capable of setting within about 3 to about 6 hours at temperatures less than about 250° F. for shallow wells less than about 10,000 feet and deep wells greater than about 10,000 feet having MgO present in the range of from about 9.9 to about 14.5%, KH2PO4 present in the range of from about 29.7 to about 27.2%, class C fly ash present in the range of from about 19.8 to about 36.3%, class F fly ash present in the range of from about 19.8 to about 0%, boric acid or borax present in the range of from about 0.39 to about 1.45%, and water present in the range of from about 20.3 to about 21.86% by weight of the sealant. A method of sealing wells is disclosed as are compositions for very high temperature wells is disclosed as is a composition for treating oil field wastes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/212087 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438792 | Mathies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Mathies (Moraga, California); Charles A. Emrich (Berkeley, California); Pankaj Singhal (Pasadena, California); Peter Ertl (Styria, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical detector including side channels associated with a separation channel of a sample component separation apparatus is provided. The side channels of the detector, in one configuration, provide a sheath-flow for an analyte exiting the separation channel which directs the analyte to the electrically developed electrochemical detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107295 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438887 | Suib et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Lawrence Suib (Storrs, Connecticut); Jikang Yuan (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanowires, films, and membranes comprising ordered porous manganese oxide-based octahedral molecular sieves, and methods of making, are disclosed. A single crystal ultra-long nanowire includes an ordered porous manganese oxide-based octahedral molecular sieve, and has an average length greater than about 10 micrometers and an average diameter of about 5 nanometers to about 100 nanometers. A film comprises a microporous network comprising a plurality of single crystal nanowires in the form of a layer, wherein a plurality of layers is stacked on a surface of a substrate, wherein the nanowires of each layer are substantially axially aligned. A free standing membrane comprises a microporous network comprising a plurality of single crystal nanowires in the form of a layer, wherein a plurality of layers is aggregately stacked, and wherein the nanowires of each layer are substantially axially aligned. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/220340 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/605 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438916 | Rathore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendar Rathore (Blacksburg, Virginia); Dewal Jani (Blacksburg, Virginia); Rana Nagarkatti (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel Fasciclin Related Adhesive Protein (FRAP) from Plasmodium and related parasites is provided as a target for therapeutic intervention in diseases caused by the parasites. FRAP has been shown to play a critical role in adhesion to, or invasion into, host cells by the parasite. Furthermore, FRAP catalyzes the neutralization of heme by the parasite, by promoting its polymerization into hemozoin. This invention provides methods and compositions for therapies based on the administration of protein, DNA or cell-based vaccines and/or antibodies based on FRAP, or antigenic epitopes of FRAP, either alone or in combination with other parasite antigens. Methods for the development of compounds that inhibit the catalytic activity of FRAP, and diagnostic and laboratory methods utilizing FRAP are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/249355 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438987 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California); Nerine Cherepy (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for preparing particulate carbon fuel and using the particulate carbon fuel in a fuel cell. Carbon particles are finely divided. The finely dividing carbon particles are introduced into the fuel cell. A gas containing oxygen is introduced into the fuel cell. The finely divided carbon particles are exposed to carbonate salts, or to molten NaOH or KOH or LiOH or mixtures of NaOH or KOH or LiOH, or to mixed hydroxides, or to alkali and alkaline earth nitrates. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845939 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439055 | Huo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qisheng Huo (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jun Liu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting and measuring the concentration of biomolecules in solution, utilizing a conducting electrode in contact with a solution containing target biomolecules, with a film with controllable pore size distribution characteristics applied to at least one surface of the conducting electrode. The film is functionalized with probe molecules that chemically interact with the target biomolecules at the film surface, blocking indicator molecules present in solution from diffusing from the solution to the electrode, thereby changing the electrochemical response of the electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120935 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439067 | Lasure et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda L. Lasure (Fall City, Washington); Ziyu Dai (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes isolated polynucleotide molecules that are differentially expressed in a native fungus exhibiting a first morphology relative to the native fungus exhibiting a second morphology. The invention includes a method of enhancing a bioprocess utilizing a fungus. A transformed fungus is produced by transforming a fungus with a recombinant polynucleotide molecule. The recombinant polynucleotide molecule contains an isolated polynucleotide sequence linked operably to a promoter. The polynucleotide sequence is expressed to promote a first morphology. The first morphology of the transformed fungus enhances a bioprocess relative to the bioprocess utilizing a second morphology. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/442017 |
| 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 435/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439275 | Pivovar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan S. Pivovar (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Anion-conducing polymers and membranes with enhanced stability to aqueous alkali include a polymer backbone with attached sulfonium, phosphazenium, phosphazene, and guanidinium residues. Compositions also with enhanced stability to aqueous alkali include a support embedded with sulfonium, phosphazenium, and guanidinium salts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387310 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439323 | Bielicki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Bielicki (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cysteine containing amphipathic alpha helices of the exchangeable apolipoproteins, as exemplified by apolipoprotein (apo) A-IMilano (R173C) and apoA-IParis, (R151C) were found to exhibit potent antioxidant activity on phospholipid surfaces. The addition of a free thiol, at the hydrophobic/hydrophilic interface of an amphipathic alpha helix of synthetic peptides that mimic HDL-related proteins, imparts a unique antioxidant activity to these peptides which inhibits lipid peroxidation and protects phospholipids from water-soluble free radical initiators. These peptides can be used as therapeutic agents to combat cardiovascular disease, ischemia, bone disease and other inflammatory related diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177237 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439369 | Thorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loa Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William Tumas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); P. Jeffrey Hay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel E. Schwarz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas M. Cameron (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for storing and evolving hydrogen employ chemical compounds that can be hydrogenated to store hydrogen and dehydrogenated to evolve hydrogen. A catalyst lowers the energy required for storing and evolving hydrogen. The method and system can provide hydrogen for devices that consume hydrogen as fuel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152525 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/302.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439470 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Bailey (Richland, Washington); Johnson N. Roger (Richland, Washington); Munley T. John (Benton City, Washington); Park R. Walter (Benton City, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for affecting the properties of a material include vibrating the material during its formation (i.e., “surface sifting”). The method includes the steps of providing a material formation device and applying a plurality of vibrations to the material during formation, which vibrations are oscillations having dissimilar, non-harmonic frequencies and at least two different directions. The apparatus includes a plurality of vibration sources that impart vibrations to the material. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/035463 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/76.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439492 | Ice |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene E. Ice (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention extends the Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) mirror focusing geometry to allow nondispersive focusing of neutrons with a convergence on a sample much larger than is possible with existing KB optical schemes by establishing an array of at least three mirrors and focusing neutrons by appropriate multiple deflections via the array. The method may be utilized with supermirrors, multilayer mirrors, or total external reflection mirrors. Because high-energy x-rays behave like neutrons in their absorption and reflectivity rates, this method may be used with x-rays as well as neutrons. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/344044 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439678 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California); Artan Qerushi (Irvine, California); Hooshang Tahsiri (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498354 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439935 | Rodenbeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. Rodenbeck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna comprises electrical conductors arranged to form a radiating element including a folded line configuration and a distributed strip configuration, where the radiating element is in proximity to a ground conductor. The folded line and the distributed strip can be electrically interconnected and substantially coplanar. The ground conductor can be spaced from, and coplanar to, the radiating element, or can alternatively lie in a plane set at an angle to the radiating element. Embodiments of the antenna include conductor patterns formed on a printed wiring board, having a ground plane, spacedly adjacent to and coplanar with the radiating element. Other embodiments of the antenna comprise a ground plane and radiating element on opposed sides of a printed wiring board. Other embodiments of the antenna comprise conductors that can be arranged as free standing “foils”. Other embodiments include antennas that are encapsulated into a package containing the antenna. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754724 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/895 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440121 | Stone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Franklin Stone (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring the three-dimensional volume or perimeter shape of an interior cavity includes the steps of collecting a first optical slice of data that represents a partial volume or perimeter shape of the interior cavity, collecting additional optical slices of data that represents a partial volume or perimeter shape of the interior cavity, and combining the first optical slice of data and the additional optical slices of data to calculate of the three-dimensional volume or perimeter shape of the interior cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524648 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440244 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SuperPower, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xing Yuan (Albany, New York); Kasegn Tekletsadik (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular and scaleable Matrix Fault Current Limiter (MFCL) that functions as a “variable impedance” device in an electric power network, using components made of superconducting and non-superconducting electrically conductive materials. The matrix fault current limiter comprises a fault current limiter module that includes a superconductor which is electrically coupled in parallel with a trigger coil, wherein the trigger coil is magnetically coupled to the superconductor. The current surge doing a fault within the electrical power network will cause the superconductor to transition to its resistive state and also generate a uniform magnetic field in the trigger coil and simultaneously limit the voltage developed across the superconductor. This results in fast and uniform quenching of the superconductors, significantly reduces the burnout risk associated with non-uniformity often existing within the volume of superconductor materials. The fault current limiter modules may be electrically coupled together to form various “n” (rows)דm” (columns) matrix configurations. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097560 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440483 | Kireev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vassili Kireev (Sunnyvale, California); Yun Liu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Vladimir Protopopescu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yehuda Braiman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a cascaded injection resonator for coherent beam combining of laser arrays. The resonator comprises a plurality of laser emitters arranged along at least one plane and a beam sampler for reflecting at least a portion of each laser beam that impinges on the beam sampler, the portion of each laser beam from one of the laser emitters being reflected back to another one of the laser emitters to cause a beam to be generated from the other one of the laser emitters to the beam reflector. The beam sampler also transmits a portion of each laser beam to produce a laser output beam such that a plurality of laser output beams of the same frequency are produced. An injection laser beam is directed to a first laser emitter to begin a process of generating and reflecting a laser beam from one laser emitter to another laser emitter in the plurality. A method of practicing the invention is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/652238 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/44.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440527 | Dimsdle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey William Dimsdle (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facilitate data recovery; amplitude scale tracking to track-out rapid and severe scale variations and facilitate successful demodulation and data retrieval; 2N power carrier recovery; incoherent demodulation where coherent carrier recovery is not possible or practical due to signal degradation; coherent demodulation; multipath equalization to equalize frequency dependent multipath; and demodulation filtering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560090 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440546 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chian Q. Liu (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Raymond P. Conley (DeKalb, Illinois); Albert T. Macrander (Naperville, Illinois); Hyon Chol Kang (Chonan Chungchongnam-Do, South Korea); G. Brian Stephenson (Lisle, Illinois); Jorg Maser (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A zone plate multilayer structure includes a substrate carrying a plurality of alternating layers respectively formed of tungsten silicide (WSi2) and silicon (Si). The alternating layers are sequentially deposited precisely controlling a thickness of each layer from a minimum thickness of a first deposited layer adjacent the substrate to a maximum thickness of a last deposited layer. The first minimum thickness layer has a selected thickness of less than or equal to 5 nm with the thickness of the alternating layers monotonically increasing to provide a zone plate multilayer structure having a thickness of greater than 12 μm (microns). The x-rays are diffracted in Laue transmission geometry by the specific arrangement of silicon and tungsten silicide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634681 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440568 | Rhodes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Rhodes (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bipolar pulse forming transmission line module for linear induction accelerators having first, second, third, fourth, and fifth planar conductors which form an interleaved stack with dielectric layers between the conductors. Each conductor has a first end, and a second end adjacent an acceleration axis. The first and second planar conductors are connected to each other at the second ends, the fourth and fifth planar conductors are connected to each other at the second ends, and the first and fifth planar conductors are connected to each other at the first ends via a shorting plate adjacent the first ends. The third planar conductor is electrically connectable to a high voltage source, and an internal switch functions to short a high voltage from the first end of the third planar conductor to the first end of the fourth planar conductor to produce a bipolar pulse at the acceleration axis with a zero net time integral. Improved access to the switch is enabled by an aperture through the shorting plate and the proximity of the aperture to the switch. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/450429 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/413.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440858 | Simons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Simons (Modesto, California); Charles R. Carrigan (Tracy, California); Philip E. Harben (Livermore, California); Barry A. Kirkendall (Golden, Colorado); Craig A. Schultz (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is utilized to determine the bearing and/or location of sources, such as, alternating current (A.C.) generators and loads, power lines, transformers and/or radio-frequency (RF) transmitters, emitting electromagnetic-wave energy for which a Poynting-Vector can be defined. When both a source and field sensors (electric and magnetic) are static, a bearing to the electromagnetic source can be obtained. If a single set of electric (E) and magnetic (B) sensors are in motion, multiple measurements permit location of the source. The method can be extended to networks of sensors allowing determination of the location of both stationary and moving sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404609 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07438953 | Kotov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Kotov (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Zhiyong Tang (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Arif A. Mamedov (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the assembly of a thin film containing highly anisotropic colloids that includes the steps of immersing a substrate in a first solution or dispersion comprising a first substance, wherein the first substance has an affinity for the substrate. Then, immersing the substrate in a second solution or dispersion comprising a second substance, wherein the second substance has an affinity for the first substance. A least one of the first substance and the second substance is a highly anisotropic colloid having at least one dimension differing from the others by a ratio of at least 1:1.5. The method incorporates highly anisotropic colloids using a layer-by-layer process that circumvents the tendency for separation of nanotubes at high nanotube loadings. Additionally, the method incorporates aligned highly anisotropic colloids and provides a method for carbon nanotube alignment, which among other advantages makes possible the preparation of unique criss-crossed composites. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457024 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/430.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439021 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Vincent W. Coljee (Gentofte, Denmark); William Donahue (Quincy, Massachusetts); Svetlana Mikheeva (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system for linking nucleic acids to one another. In particular, the present invention provides techniques for producing DNA product molecules that may be easily and directly ligated to recipient molecules. The product molecules need not be cleaved with restriction enzymes in order to undergo such ligation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the DNA product molecules are produced through iterative DNA synthesis reactions, so that the product molecules are amplified products. The invention further provides methods for directed ligation of product molecules (i.e., for selective ligation of certain molecules within a collection of molecules), and also for methods of exon shuffling, in which multiple different product molecules are produced in a single ligation reaction. Preferred embodiments of the invention involve ligation of product molecules encoding functional protein domains, particularly domains naturally found in conserved gene families. The inventive DNA manipulation system is readily integrated with other nucleic acid manipulation systems, such as ribozyme-mediated systems, and also is susceptible to automation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132356 |
| 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 07439034 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven W. Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland); Ahmed Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Hafez (Nasr, Egypt); Michael Howard (Diamondhead, Mississippi); Larry Edmund Taylor, II (Palmyra, Pennsylvania); Nathan A. Ekborg (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141691 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439343 | Rege et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaushal Rege (Troy, New York); Shanghui Hu (San Diego, California); Jonathan S. Dordick (Schenectady, New York); Steven M. Cramer (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Aminoglycoside-polyamines are disclosed along with methods of use thereof in displacement chromatography and as DNA-binding ligands. The aminoglycoside-polyamines are derivatives of carbohydrates, such as sugars, amino sugars, deoxysugars, glycosides, nucleosides and their substituted counterparts. The subject polyamines possess a group in place of at least one hydrogen atom of at least one hydroxyl group of the carbohydrate compound. In these compounds R1 is an alkyl group or an azaalkyl group, and R2 is a primary or secondary amino group. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217193 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439416 | Evans |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Evans (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides the genes for indeterminate gametophyte (ig1), mutants of ig1, homologs of ig1, and orthologs of ig1, as well as the proteins encoded by these genes. This invention also provides compositions and methods which utilize these genes and proteins. Such methods include the creation of transgenic plants with antisense or expression constructs which comprise a nucleotide sequence derived from ig1. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030329 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440590 | Hassebrook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Chun Guan (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique, associated system and program code, for retrieving depth information about at least one surface of an object. Core features include: projecting a composite image comprising a plurality of modulated structured light patterns, at the object; capturing an image reflected from the surface; and recovering pattern information from the reflected image, for each of the modulated structured light patterns. Pattern information is preferably recovered for each modulated structured light pattern used to create the composite, by performing a demodulation of the reflected image. Reconstruction of the surface can be accomplished by using depth information from the recovered patterns to produce a depth map/mapping thereof. Each signal waveform used for the modulation of a respective structured light pattern, is distinct from each of the other signal waveforms used for the modulation of other structured light patterns of a composite image; these signal waveforms may be selected from suitable types in any combination of distinct signal waveforms, provided the waveforms used are uncorrelated with respect to each other. The depth map/mapping to be utilized in a host of applications, for example: displaying a 3-D view of the object; virtual reality user-interaction interface with a computerized device; face—or other animal feature or inanimate object—recognition and comparison techniques for security or identification purposes; and 3-D video teleconferencing/telecollaboration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/444033 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440634 | Ben-Ezra 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) | Moshe Ben-Ezra (Princeton, New Jersey); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing methods are provided for deblurring images, which are blurred due to the movement of objects in the imaged scene. The systems and methods involve separating a moving object component from a static or background component of a primary image. The moving object component is deblurred using suitable image processing algorithms, and then superimposed on the static or background component to obtain a deblurred primary image. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870814 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440637 | Schechner 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) | Yoav Y. Schechner (Kiriaf-Bialik, Israel); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus is provided for capturing images using a camera or other imager having imaging sensitivity characteristics which vary across the imager's viewing angle. The imager's characteristics can be non-uniform with respect to exposure, color sensitivity, polarization sensitivity, focal distance, and/or any other aspect of image detection. The imager is rotated or translated in order to capture different portions of the scene being imaged. Because the imager is in multiple positions when the respective scene portions are captured, each scene portion is imaged by multiple portions of the imager's sensitivity profile. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/312891 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440766 | Tuovinen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jussi Tuovinen (Espoo, Finland); William Forsyth (Honolulu, Hawaii); Wayne Shiroma (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of employing multipath propagation in wireless radio communications uses an omnidirectional transmitting/receiving antenna at one end of a transmission link to send an interrogating signal across an environment subject to multipath disturbances to a phase-conjugating retrodirective antenna, and the retrodirective antenna returns a communication signal along the multiple pathways taken by the interrogating signal to the omnidirectional antenna despite the multipath disturbances. In a simplex communication mode, the retrodirective antenna sends a return signal mixed with a communication signal to the omnidirectional antenna. In a duplex communication mode, both an omnidirectional antenna and a phase-conjugating retrodirective antenna are operated in tandem at each end of the transmission link to provide effective two-way wireless radio transmissions. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144973 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07437878 | Gedeon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower, Inc. (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Gedeon (Athens, Ohio); Kyle B. Wilson (Logan, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The cool down time for a multi-stage, pulse tube cryocooler is reduced by configuring at least a portion of the acoustic impedance of a selected stage, higher than the first stage, so that it surrounds the cold head of the selected stage. The surrounding acoustic impedance of the selected stage is mounted in thermally conductive connection to the warm region of the selected stage for cooling the acoustic impedance and is fabricated of a high thermal diffusivity, low thermal radiation emissivity material, preferably aluminum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209983 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438030 | Okojie |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Okojie (Strongsville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuator operated microvalve and the method of making same is disclosed and claimed. The microvalve comprises a SiC housing which includes a first lower portion and a second upper portion. The lower portion of the SiC housing includes a passageway therethrough, a microvalve seat, and a moveable SiC diaphragm. The SiC diaphragm includes a centrally located boss and radially extending corrugations which may be sinusoidally shaped. The boss of the SiC diaphragm moves and modulates in a range of positions between a closed position wherein the boss interengages said microvalve seat prohibiting communication of fluid through the passageway and a fully open position when the boss is spaced apart from the seat at its maximum permitting communication of fluid through said passageway. The actuator includes a SiC top plate affixed to the boss of the diaphragm and a first electrode and the second upper portion of the SiC housing further includes a second electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/213604 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/90.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438264 | Cepollina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cepollina (Annandale, Maryland); Richard D. Burns (Annapolis, Maryland); Jill M. Holz (Laurel, Maryland); James E. Corbo (Columbia, Maryland); Nicholas M. Jedhrich (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method and supporting apparatus for autonomously capturing, servicing and de-orbiting a free-flying spacecraft, such as a satellite, using robotics. The capture of the spacecraft includes the steps of optically seeking and ranging the satellite using LIDAR; and matching tumble rates, rendezvousing and berthing with the satellite. Servicing of the spacecraft may be done using supervised autonomy, which is allowing a robot to execute a sequence of instructions without intervention from a remote human-occupied location. These instructions may be packaged at the remote station in a script and uplinked to the robot for execution upon remote command giving authority to proceed. Alternately, the instructions may be generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) logic onboard the robot. In either case, the remote operator maintains the ability to abort an instruction or script at any time, as well as the ability to intervene using manual override to teleoperate the robot. In one embodiment, a vehicle used for carrying out the method of this invention comprises an ejection module, which includes the robot, and a de-orbit module. Once servicing is completed by the robot, the ejection module separates from the de-orbit module, leaving the de-orbit module attached to the satellite for de-orbiting the same at a future time. Upon separation, the ejection module can either de-orbit itself or rendezvous with another satellite for servicing. The ability to de-orbit a spacecraft further allows the opportunity to direct the landing of the spent satellite in a safe location away from population centers, such as the ocean. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670781 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438422 | Castellano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Castellano (San Juan Bautista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable structure, simply constructed with inexpensive and generally lightweight materials, for displaying a selected portion of the night sky and selected planets, satellites, comets and other astronomically observable objects that are visually perceptible within that portion of the night sky. The structure includes a computer having stored signals representing the observable objects, an image projector that converts and projects the stored signals as visually perceptible images, a first curvilinear light-reflecting surface to receive and reflect the visually perceptible images, and a second curvilinear surface to receive and display the visually perceptible images reflected from the first surface. The images may be motionless or may move with passage of time. In one embodiment, the structure includes an inflatable screen surface that receives gas in an enclosed volume, supports itself without further mechanical support, and optionally self-regulates pressure of the received gas within the enclosed volume. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340816 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440480 | Alfano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Alfano (Bronx, New York); Vladimir Petricevic (New York, New York); Alexey Bykov (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described to improve and produce purer Cr4+-doped laser materials and lasers with reduced co-incorporation of chromium in any other valence states, such as Cr3+, Cr2+, Cr5+, and Cr6+. The method includes: 1) certain crystals of olivine structure with large cation (Ca) in octahedral sites such as Cr4+:Ca2GeO4, Cr4+:Ca2SiO4, Cr4+:Ca2GexSi1-xO4 (where 0<x<1), and/or 2) high-temperature solution growth techniques that enable the growth of the crystals below the temperature of polymorphic transitions by using low melting point solvent based on oxide, fluoride and/or chloride compounds. Purer Cr4+-doped laser materials are characterized by a relatively high concentration of Cr4+-lasing ion in crystalline host that makes these materials suitable for compact high power (thin disk/wedge) NIR laser applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295749 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440590 | Hassebrook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Chun Guan (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique, associated system and program code, for retrieving depth information about at least one surface of an object. Core features include: projecting a composite image comprising a plurality of modulated structured light patterns, at the object; capturing an image reflected from the surface; and recovering pattern information from the reflected image, for each of the modulated structured light patterns. Pattern information is preferably recovered for each modulated structured light pattern used to create the composite, by performing a demodulation of the reflected image. Reconstruction of the surface can be accomplished by using depth information from the recovered patterns to produce a depth map/mapping thereof. Each signal waveform used for the modulation of a respective structured light pattern, is distinct from each of the other signal waveforms used for the modulation of other structured light patterns of a composite image; these signal waveforms may be selected from suitable types in any combination of distinct signal waveforms, provided the waveforms used are uncorrelated with respect to each other. The depth map/mapping to be utilized in a host of applications, for example: displaying a 3-D view of the object; virtual reality user-interaction interface with a computerized device; face—or other animal feature or inanimate object—recognition and comparison techniques for security or identification purposes; and 3-D video teleconferencing/telecollaboration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/444033 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440651 | Savchenkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoliy Savchenkov (Glendale, California); Dmitry V. Strekalov (Arcadia, California); Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Ilchenko (Arcadia, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonators configured to support only a single whispering gallery mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282160 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07437995 | Rastegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omnitek Partners LLC (Bayshore, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Richard Murray (East Patchogue, New York); Gary Chen (Succasunna, New Jersey); Raymond Michael Hartley (Abingdon, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertial igniter including: a first member having a wall and internal cavity; a second member slidable in the internal cavity, a striker disposed thereon and a first concave portion; a third member slidable on an exterior surface of the wall, a second concave portion; biasing springs for biasing the first and second members in a direction opposite an acceleration; locking balls in the first and second concave portions for preventing movement of the second and third members when the acceleration time profile is below a predetermined threshold; and a percussion cap primer on the first member; wherein when the acceleration time profile is greater than the predetermined threshold the locking balls are released from the concave portions to first permit relative movement of the third member with the first member and after a time delay to permit relative movement of the second member with the first member. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599878 |
| 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 12/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438411 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Donald Payne (Kingwood, Texas); Joseph B. Jackson (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A contact lens is provided in which tunable nanoparticles are embedded or otherwise coated on the lens to extinguish near-infrared energy. In one preferred embodiment, the tunable nanoparticles are nanoshells consisting of a dielectric core and a metal shell, wherein the plasmon resonance frequency is determined by the relative size of the core and the metal shell. With the capability to alter the relative size of the core and the metal shell, nanoshells are uniquely tunable nanoparticles, allowing a range of optical extinctions. In another embodiment, the nanoshells are tuned to extinguish energy from other parts of the energy spectrum. In one desired embodiment of the invention, these plasmon resonant structures are introduced into the lens polymer prior to formation or manufacturing of a lens. In another embodiment of the invention, these nanoshells are coated on a contact lens after formation of the lens. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418893 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438890 | Rondon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dyax Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac J. Rondon (San Francisco, California); Robert Charles Ladner (Ijamsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides binding moieties for CEA, which have a variety of uses wherever detecting, isolating or localizing CEA, and particularly CEA as opposed to cross-reactive antigens such as NCA, is advantageous. Particularly disclosed are synthetic, isolated polypeptides capable of binding CEA, which is overexpressed in adenocarcinomas of endodermally derived digestive system epithelia and fetal colon. Such polypeptides and disclosed derivatives are useful, e.g., as imaging agents for CEA-expressing tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045477 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07439510 | Bevan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Millenium Engineering and Integration Company (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward James Bevan (Cambria, California); Max Michael Briggs (Palo Alto, California); John Didomenico (Tucson, Arizona); Robert W. Gedridge (Lusby, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held, fleet deployable infrared camera with integrated hardware and software providing real time processing of infrared images. The camera senses variable temperature images over a selected object of interest and senses variable emissivities over the object. The camera also measures and corrects for reflected environmental radiation as well as corrections for the atmospheric path through which the object is viewed. A calibrated reference patch having known emissivity and reflectance is attached to an object of interest and viewed through the camera. The calibrated patch is used to provide correction for the environmental radiation reflected off the object. Once the environmental radiation correction is known, it can be used to correct measurements taken from the rest of the object of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714517 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07438815 | Moore, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Moore, Jr. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Lipids, such as plant oils and animal fats, are effective for treatment of animal wastes to inhibit both the emission of ammonia and other odors, and the discharge of particulate matter, microorganisms, and endotoxins, therefrom. Inhibition of ammonia volatilization and particulate or microbial discharge is effected by application of an effective amount of a lipid containing composition onto the animal wastes. Moreover, when used in combination with solutions of salts of acidic proton donors such as aluminum chloride, aluminum nitrate, and alum, these lipids significantly improve the effectiveness of the proton donors to inhibit the release of ammonia and reduce phosphorous solubility. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/640090 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07438915 | Lillehoj |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyun S. Lillehoj (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This study reports a novel immunopotentiating effect of a lectin (FFrL) extracted from the mushroom Fomitella fraxinea on poultry cell-mediated immunity and poultry coccidiosis. We describe the extraction of FFrL, its in vitro mitogenic activity and in vivo protection against an oral challenge infection with Eimeria acervulina. When tested on several cell types, crude FFrL agglutinated mouse erythrocytes and thymocytes and also various other cells including murine and human cell lines. However, crude FFrL did not agglutinate human A, B, AB, or O erythrocytes. FFrL showed a potent mitogenic activity on chicken splenic lymphocytes where at lower concentrations, crude FFrL exerted stronger mitogenic activity than Con A, a well-known potent mitogen for T lymphocytes. Further, FFrL significantly induced (P<0.05) nitric oxide secretion in HD11 cells, an established macrophage cell line, and suppressed (P<0.05) RP9 tumor cell growth, both, in a dose-dependent fashion. When injected into eighteen-day-old chicken embryos followed by an oral E. acervulina challenge infection, FFrL-treatment significantly protected chickens against weight loss associated with coccidiosis (P<0.05). Injecting embryos with FFrL also resulted in significant reduction in oocyst shedding as compared to the control saline-injected birds (P<0.05). The results of this study demonstrate that FFrL is an effective growth-promoting and immunostimulating agent in poultry during coccidiosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203587 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07439419 — Solanum tuberosum β-solanine/β-chaconine rhamnosyl transferase sequences and uses thereof
| US 07439419 | McCue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent F. McCue (El Cerrito, California); Paul V. Allen (Pinole, California); David R. Rockhold (El Cerrito, California); Louise V. T. Shepherd (Errol, United Kingdom); Mary M. Maccree (Woodland, California); Howard V. Davies (Invergowire, United Kingdom); William R. Belknap (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid sequences from potato that encode the enzyme β-solanine/β-chaconine rhamnosyltransferase (SGT3) are disclosed. Recombinant DNA molecules containing the sequences, and use thereof, in particular, use of the sequences and antisense constructs to inhibit the production of SGT3 and thereby reduce levels of the predominant steroidal glycoalkaloids α-chaconine and α-solanine in Solanaceous plants such as potato are described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272958 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07439034 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Weiner (Potomac, Maryland); Steven W. Hutcheson (Columbia, Maryland); Ahmed Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Hafez (Nasr, Egypt); Michael Howard (Diamondhead, Mississippi); Larry Edmund Taylor, II (Palmyra, Pennsylvania); Nathan A. Ekborg (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141691 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440684 | Spaid et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Spaid (Mountain View, California); Andrea W. Chow (Los Altos, California); Yevgeny Yurkovetsky (Jamaica Estates, New York); Seth R. Stern (Palo Alto, California); Allen R. Boronkay (San Jose, California); Morten Juel Jensen (San Francisco, California); Carlton F. Brooks (San Jose, California); Ken Swartz (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic system and method for employing it to control fluid temperatures of fluids residing within microchannels of a microfluidic device. The microfluidic device is provided with a top layer and a bottom layer and microchannels configured therebetween. Temperature of the fluid within the microchannels is controlled in various ways including the use of electrical resistive heating elements and by providing zones located in contact with the top and bottom layers of the microfluidic device for circulating heat transfer of fluid therein. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/323318 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07439265 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Jun-Ping Xu (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The Indo-Pacific marine sponge Ircinia ramosa has been found to contain two powerful (GI50 0.001 to <0.0001 μg/ml) murine and human cancer cell growth inhibitors, denominated herein as irciniastatin A and irciniastatin B. Both were isolated (10-3 to 10-4% yields) by cancer cell line bioassay-guided techniques and named irciniastatins A (1) and B (2). Structural elucidation by a combination of spectral analyses, primarily high resolution mass and 2D-NMR (principally APT, HMQC, HMBC and ROESY) revealed unusual structures 1 and 2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/580572 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07440942 | Dixon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heidi E. Dixon (Eugene, Oregon); Matthew L. Ginsberg (Eugene, Oregon); David Hofer (Eugene, Oregon); Eugene M. Luks (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Data in a database describe an application domain such as a satisfiability problem. The data are represented in a manner that expresses the structure inherent in the data and one such representation uses group theory and represents the data as one or more “augmented clauses,” where each clause has a pair (c, G) including a database element c and a group G of group elements g acting on it. A query is encoded in a group theory representation and is executed on the group theory representation of the data to identify database elements and associated group elements satisfying the query. If desired, the satisfying database elements are converted from the group theory representation to the native representation of the data. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/989982 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07439682 | Caiafa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Homeland Protection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Caiafa (Niskayuna, New York); Juan Antonio Sabate (Ganesvoort, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit for driving the current for inductive loads such as a electron beam deflection coil for an x-ray generator system. The circuit includes two selectable voltage levels which are provided by a high level voltage source and a low level voltage source or, alternatively, by a low level voltage source and a boosting converter. A plurality of switches for selecting the voltage source allow only one voltage source to be connected to the load at any given time, and for selecting the polarity of the current through the coil. The high level voltage source is selected when the load is charging or discharging. The low level voltage source is selected when the load is operating in a constant current mode, where a high frequency switching device uses the low level voltage source to generate a pulse width modulation waveform according to a reference current duty cycle to control the voltage across the load. A feedback loop monitors the current through the load so that the duty cycle of the pulse width modulation waveform may be adjusted to more accurately control the current through the load. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843989 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07439024 | Richardson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Richardson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Qianjin Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating an autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease. In particular, the present invention provides methods for diagnosing, monitoring and treating an autoimmune disease (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis) or chronic inflammatory disease (e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus) based on detecting or altering (e.g., altering expression or methylation status of) autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease proteins (e.g., CD70 and CD40L). The present invention also provides kits for detecting methylation status of autoimmune or chronic inflammatory disease proteins (e.g., CD70 and CD40L) and for diagnosing, monitoring and/or treating autoimmune or chronic inflammatory diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445415 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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FILED
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APPL NO
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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