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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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| US 07442212 | Richmond 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) | Barry J. Richmond (Bethesda, Maryland); Matthew Wiener (Westfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for decoding neuronal responses wherein sequences of potentials from neurons are monitored while specific motor tasks are carried out, and these sequences are characterized using order statistics and subsequently the order statistics are used to decode action potentials representing unidentified motor tasks to determine the desired motor task. The method of the invention comprises the steps of monitoring action potentials caused by a motor task being requested by the brain, calculating a spike density function and order tasks for each distinct motor task, to relate action potentials to their specific motor task. The invention also offers methods of formulating instructions for a prosthetic device. This method comprises the steps of learning the neuronal responses of distinct motor tasks by monitoring action potentials caused by a motor task being requested by the brain, calculating a cumulative density function for each distinct motor task, and using order statistics to relate action potentials to their respective motor tasks; monitoring action potentials from at least one neuron of said user wherein the action potentials are caused by the request for an unknown motor task; using said learned neuronal responses to determine which motor task is being requested by the monitored neuron; and formulating instructions on how to carry out the requested motor task. The device of the invention comprises a prosthetic limb, a device capable of making said prosthetic limb carry out motor tasks, a device capable of recording action potentials from neurons, and a device containing instructions for monitoring neurons, calculating cumulative density functions, utilizing order statistics, and determining instructions for various motor tasks. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/250543 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/25 |
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| US 07442373 | 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 | 11/041318 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07442375 | Weinberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Weinberg (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides, among other things, beta-defensin related agents for the treatment and prevention of viral infections, and particularly HIV infections. The disclosure provides methods for identifying additional beta-defensin related agents and for improving available beta-defensin related agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/891825 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07442376 | Boime et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving Boime (St. Louis, Missouri); David Ben-Menahem (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Forms of differentially acting glycoprotein hormones are disclosed. These compositions are of the formula β1-(linker1)m-α-(linker2)n-β2; (1) β1-(linker1)m-β2-(linker2)n-α; (2) α-(linker1)m-β1-(linker2)n-β2; (3) β2≈α-(linker)m-β1; or (4) β1-(linker)m-α≈β2 (5) wherein each of β1 and β2 has the amino acid sequence of the β subunit of a vertebrate glycoprotein hormone or a variant of said amino acid sequence, as variants are defined herein. “α” designates the α subunit of a vertebrate glycoprotein hormone or a variant thereof, “linker” refers to a covalently linked moiety that spaces the β1 and β2 subunits at appropriate distances from the α subunit and from each other. “≈” is a noncovalent link. Each of m and n is independently 0 or 1. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647088 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/195.110 |
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| US 07442377 | Steinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph M. Steinman (Westport, Connecticut); Christan Muenz (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of a subunit vaccine to prevent or treat infection of Epstein Barr Virus. In particular, EBNA-1 was identified as a vaccine antigen. In a specific embodiment, a purified protein corresponding to EBNA-1 elicited a strong CD4+ T cell response. The responsive CD4+ T cell are primarily TH1 in function. EBNA-1 is an attractive candidate for a protective vaccine against EBV, and for immunotherapy of EBV infection and neoplasms, particularly with dendritic cells charged with EBNA-1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/359868 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07442379 | Garcia-Sastre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to genetically engineered Newcastle disease viruses and viral vectors which express heterologous genes or mutated Newcastle disease viral genes or a combination of viral genes derived from different strains of Newcastle disease virus. The invention relates to the construction and use of recombinant negative strand NDV viral RNA templates which may be used with viral RNA-directed RNA polymerase to express heterologous gene products in appropriate host cells and/or to rescue the heterologous gene in virus particles. In a specific embodiment of the invention, the heterologous gene product is a peptide or protein derived from the genome of a human immunodeficiency virus. The RNA templates of the present invention may be prepared by transcription of appropriate DNA sequences using any DNA-directed RNA polymerase such as bacteriophage T7, T3, SP6 polymerase, or eukaryotic polymerase I. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/245644 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/214.100 |
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| US 07442390 | Seshi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beerelli Seshi (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated pluri-differentiated human mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs), which simultaneously express a plurality of genes that are markers for multiple cell lineages, wherein the multiple cell lineages comprise at least four different mesenchymal cell lineages (e.g., adipocyte, osteoblast, fibroblast, and muscle cell) and wherein each of the markers is specific for a single cell lineage. The present invention also method for isolating and purifying human mesenchymal progenitor cells from Dexter-type cultures for characterization of and uses, particularly therapeutic uses for such cells. Specifically, isolated MPCs can be used for diagnostic purposes, to enhance the engraftment of hematopoietic progenitor cells, enhance bone marrow transplantation, or aid in the treatment or prevention of graft versus host disease. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887582 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/577 |
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| US 07442499 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick O. Brown (Stanford, California); Tidhar Dari Shalon (Los Cerros, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the relative amounts of individual polynucleotides in a complex mixture of different-sequence polynucleotides is disclosed. The polynucleotides, after fluorescent labeling, are contacted under hybridization conditions with an array of different DNA sequences disposed at discrete locations on a non-porous surface, at an array density of at least about 100 sequences/cm2, where the different DNA sequences in the array are effective to hybridize to individual polynucleotides in the mixture. The level of fluorescence associated with each array sequence provides a measure of its relative amount in the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/356322 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07442500 | Attie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D Attie (Madison, Wisconsin); Samuel T Nadler (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A gene expression pattern analysis has identified genes the expression patterns of which are different in adipose cells of individuals who have Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from the cells of individuals who do not have the disease. This information provides a mechanism for the genetic diagnosis of the disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/955367 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07442501 | Horvitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Robert Horvitz (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Ho Yon Hwang (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally features sqv nucleic acid and polypeptide molecules associated with connective tissue diseases, progeroid disorders, and aging, and methods for isolating such molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/347470 |
| 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 07442518 | Piwnica-Worms et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Piwnica-Worms (Laduc, Missouri); Kathryn Luker (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gary Luker (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced firefly luciferase protein fragment complementation assay method is described that produces a robust and broadly applicable bioluminescence signal and demonstrates both modification-independent and phosphorylation-dependent protein interactions in intact living human cells and animals useful as a diagnostic and testing tool in living biologic systems in research and in assays. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/912862 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
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| US 07442520 | Kasid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usha Kasid (Rockville, Maryland); Prafulla Gokhale (Oak Hill, Virginia); Deepak Kumar (Arlington, Virginia); Howard Boudreau (Washington, District of Columbia); Imran Ahmad (Wadsworth, Illinois); Anatoly Dritschilo (Bethesda, Maryland); Aquilur Rahman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A gene that is a modulator of tumor growth and metastasis in certain cancer types is provided. This gene and corresponding polypeptide have diagnostic and therapeutic application for detecting and treating cancers that involve expression of BRCC-3 such as breast cancer and lung cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679561 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — 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 435/69.100 |
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| US 07442543 | Gladyshev 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); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim N. Gladyshev (Lincoln, Nebraska); Dolph L. Hatfield (Washington, District of Columbia); Kuan-Teh Jeang (Rockville, Maryland); Alan Diamond (Naperville, Illinois); John C. Wootton (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A 15 kDa selenium-containing protein (“selenoprotein”) is disclosed. The protein is shown to be differentially expressed in cancer cells, such as prostate cancer cells. There is a correlation between the presence of a polymorphism at nucleotide positions 811 and 1125 of the 15 kDa selenoprotein gene, and the presence of cancer. This polymorphism is more prevalent in the African American population. The determination of an individual's genotype may be used as an indicator of the need for dietary selenium supplementation to inhibit tumor development. Compositions including the isolated protein, specific binding agents that recognize the protein, as well as underlying nucleic acid sequences are presented, as are methods of using such compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919554 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07442548 | Thomson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Tenneille Ludwig (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Previous methods for culturing human embryonic stem cells have required either fibroblast feeder cells or a medium which has been exposed to fibroblast feeder cells in order to maintain the stem cells in an undifferentiated state. It has now been found that if high levels of fibroblast growth factor are used in a medium with gamma amino butyric acid, pipecholic acid, lithium and lipids, the stem cells will remain undifferentiated indefinitely through multiple passages, even without feeder cells or conditioned medium. A humanized matrix of human proteins can be used as a basement matrix to culture the cells. New lines of human embryonic stem cells made using these culture conditions, the medium and the matrix, will never have been exposed to animal cells, animal products, feeder cells or conditioned medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221516 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07442558 | Raymond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth N. Raymond (Berkeley, California); Stephane Petoud (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Seth Cohen (Boston, Massachusetts); Jide Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides luminescent lanthanide metal chelates comprising a metal ion of the lanthanide series and a complexing agent comprising at least one phthalamidyl moiety. Also provided are probes incorporating the phthalamidyl ligands of the invention and methods utilizing the ligands of the invention and probes comprising the ligands of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/867882 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
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| US 07442681 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A. Schwartz (Earlysville, Virginia); Rebecca A. Stockton (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of regulating vascular permeability. A peptide inhibitor of p21-activated kinase has been found to inhibit the increase in vascular permeability induced by several factors. The present invention further provides methods of identifying regulators of vascular permeability. This peptide or other p21-activated kinase inhibitors should therefore be useful to treat disorders where vascular leak is a contributing factor. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054789 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07442684 | Lustbader 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) | Joyce Lustbader (Tenafly, New Jersey); Leslie Lobel (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides VEGF-FSH compounds having increased serum half-lives relative to either native VEGF or FSH, in which both VEGF and FSH are biologically active. This invention also provides related compositions and methods for increasing fertility, egg production and spermatogenesis in a subject, as well as methods for increasing vascularization in a tissue, particularly in ovarian tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/357253 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07442685 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Qin Feng (Houston, Texas); Yuki Okada (Carrboro, North Carolina); Guoliang Xu (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polypeptides with histone H3 lysine 79 methyltransferase activity as well as nucleic acids encoding the same. Also provided are methods of using the polypeptides and nucleic acids of the invention in screening assays to identify compounds of interest. Further provided are diagnostic methods for leukemia and prognostic methods to predict the course of the disease in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866908 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07442687 | Rieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren J. Murphree (Rockville, Maryland); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia); Robert Douglas Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196802 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/24 |
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| US 07442706 | Thorner |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael O. Thorner (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for treating sarcopenia with a growth hormone secretagogue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685245 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/278 |
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| US 07442762 | Severinov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin Severinov (Piscataway, New Jersey); Richard Ebright (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Olga Pavlova (Moscow, Russian Federation); Elena Sineva (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Analogs of bacteriocidal peptide microcin J25 (MccJ25) are provided that have an amino acid sequence that differs from that of MccJ25 by having at least one amino acid substitution; and that inhibit bacterial cell growth with a potency at least equal to that of MccJ25. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371736 |
| 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 07442782 | Ranum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura P. W. Ranum (St. Paul, Minnesota); John W. Day (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Christina Liquori (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying individuals not at risk for developing myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2), and individuals that have or at risk for developing DM2. The present invention also provides isolated polynucleotides that include a repeat tract within intron 1 of the zinc finger protein 9. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890685 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07442783 | Carroll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Carroll (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Francis D. Moore, Jr. (Medfield, Massachusetts); Herbert B. Hechtman (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides natural IgM antibody inhibitors that may be used to treat various inflammatory diseases or disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/069834 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07442784 | Barbas, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos F. Barbas, III (Del Mar, California); Michael Joseph Kadan (Adams Town, Maryland); Roger Beerli (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fusion proteins for use as ligand-dependent transcriptional regulators are provided. The fusion proteins include a nucleotide binding domain operatively linked to a ligand-binding domain. They also can include a transcription regulating domain. The nucleotide binding domain is a zinc-finger peptide that binds to a targeted contiguous nucleotide sequence of from 3 to about 18 nucleotides are provided. The fusion proteins are used for gene therapy. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the fusion proteins, expression vectors, and transfected cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422934 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
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| US 07442798 | Pesci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Everett C. Pesci (Greenville, North Carolina); Barbara H. Iglewski (Fairport, New York); Jared B. J. Milbank (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James P. Pearson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrew S. Kende (Pittsford, New York); Everett P. Greenberg (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel bacterial quinolone signal molecules and, more particularly, pseudomonas quinolone signal (“PQS”) molecules, e.g., 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4-quinolone, and analogs and derivatives thereof are described. Therapeutic compositions containing the molecules, and therapeutic methods, methods of for regulating gene expression, methods for identifying modulators of the autoinducer molecules, and methods of modulating quorum sensing signaling in bacteria using the compounds of the invention are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844037 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/157 |
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| US 07443300 | Tessier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radianse, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Tessier (Lynnfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transmitters or object identifiers are discloses that are able to radiate consistent power regardless of the object where the transmitters or object identifiers are placed. The transmitter or object identifier may include a vertical loop antenna. The loop plane of the vertical loop antenna is substantially perpendicular to the surface of the object where the transmitter or object identifier is placed. The transmitter or object identifier may include a folded vertical loop antenna where the loop plane of the vertical loop antenna is extended and folded to have additional loop planes. The antennas of the present invention enable the transmitter or object identifier to radiate consistent power regardless of the object where the transmitter or object identifier is placed and regardless of the orientation of the transmitter or object identifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/320212 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443956 | Loewen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lyncean Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roderick J. Loewen (Redwood City, California); Jeffrey Rifkin (Boulder, Colorado); Ronald D. Ruth (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mirror is reflective to light and transmissive to x-rays. The mirror has a continuous mirror surface and an x-ray aperture within a body portion of the mirror proximate the continuous mirror surface that is transmissive to x-rays. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751545 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444011 | Pan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaochuan Pan (Chicago, Illinois); Yu Zou (Naperville, Illinois); Lifeng Yu (Chicago, Illinois); Chien-Min Kao (Wilmette, Illinois); Martin King (Chicago, Illinois); Maryellen Giger (Elmhurst, Illinois); Dan Xia (Chicago, Illinois); Howard Halpern (Chicago, Illinois); Charles Pelizzari (Chicago, Illinois); Emil Y. Sidky (Chicago, Illinois); Seungryong Cho (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest (ROI) for an object using an imaging system is provided. The imaging system may substantially exactly reconstruct the ROI with a straight line trajectory. In the straight line trajectory, the ROI is not bounded or encircled by the actual trajectory of the source (e.g., no chords that are composed from two points on the source trajectory intersect or fill the ROI to be imaged). However, the ROI may be substantially reconstructed by using “virtual” chords to reconstruct the ROI. The virtual chords are such that no point on the trajectory is included in the virtual chord (such as one that is parallel to the straight line trajectory). These virtual chords may intersect and fill the ROI, thus enabling substantially exact reconstruction. Further, in reconstructing the image, the straight line trajectory may be assumed to be infinite in length. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410594 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Constantine V. Pappas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Watertight closure of an opening within a wall, under manually controlled displacement of a door panel, is enhanced by pivotal mounting of the door panel on the wall by vertically spaced hinge assemblies each of which is more readily assembled from a minimal number of components including upper and lower hinge pads fixed to the wall, a single hinge pin supported on the upper hinge pad and extending downwardly therefrom through the lower hinge pad and an end portion of a hinge blade fixed to the door panel. Flanged bushings are inserted into the upper and lower hinge pads through which the hinge pin extends. Also positioned within the end portion of the hinge blade through which the hinge pin extends is a flanged bushing having a horizontally elongated hole formed, therein through which the hinge pin extends so as to allow limited horizontal displacement thereof relative to the wall. The bottom flange of the hinge blade bushing is spaced by a pair of washers from the flange of the lower hinge pad bushing. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169257 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous hardware 016/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07441331 | Hudson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Hudson (Harwinton, Connecticut); Benjamin R. Harding (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooled turbine engine component is made by providing first and second pieces respectively having first and second surfaces. At least one circuit is formed in at least one of the first and second surfaces. A first plurality of apertures is provided in the first piece to form inlets to the at least one circuit. A second plurality of apertures is provided in the second piece to form outlets to the at least one circuit. A combination of the first and second pieces is assembled and integrated. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926467 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.721 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07441489 | Bennett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon J. Bennett (Voorheesville, New York); Donald G. Forkas (Rexford, New York); George E. Hathaway, IV (Sprakers, New York); Ronald G. Gast (Cohoes, New York); Ronald S. Jacobs (Contoocook, New Hampshire); Henry Sneck (West Sand Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mortar munition includes a mortar tube; first and second openings in the wall of the mortar tube, the first opening being closer to a breech end of the mortar tube than the second opening; a spring loaded valve assembly disposed in the first opening in the wall of the mortar tube; and a shoe assembly disposed in the second opening in the wall of the mortar tube. The spring loaded valve assembly is connected to a vacuum source. The vacuum source pulls the mortar bomb rearward in the tube. The shoe assembly includes a shoe that bears on the mortar bomb to hold it in place when the tube is in an elevated position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427073 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07441585 | Otero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Otero (Southington, Connecticut); Patrick Strong (Tremonton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A core for casting a metal part having a body with solid portions spaced apart by hollow portions. The body includes at least one support element extending between adjacent solid portions. The support element provides stiffness and strength for the casting core during the casting process. The support element has an optimized shape to prevent the core from fracturing during the casting process and to minimize operating stress in the metal part around the area formed by the support element. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654846 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07441793 | Lim |
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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) | James G. Lim (Macomb, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | For use in a vehicular trailer hitch system, a vehicular trailer hitch lunette assembly is provided. The assembly includes at least one “U” shaped outer laminate plate having two legs with a semi-circular region therebetween, and at least one substantially flat inner laminate plate positioned between the legs of the U-shape of the outer laminate plate to provide support, stiffness, and additional mechanical strength to the assembly. The outer laminate plate and the inner laminate plate have cooperating apertures that are traversely positioned therethrough and the apertures are aligned and sized such that fasteners may be snugly inserted therein to mechanically couple the laminate plates together as a sandwich structure having first and second ends. The semi-circular region of the outer laminate plate and ends of the inner laminate plate comprise an inner void at the first end of the assembly to provide a lunette shaped structure to attach to a complimentary hitch assembly that is adapted to receive the lunette shaped structure, and the second end of the assembly is shaped to mate to a corresponding housing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340008 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442049 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian Samuel Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Claudius Feger (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for providing electrical connections are provided. In one aspect, an electrical connecting device is provided which comprises a plurality of compressible contacts; and a downstop structure surrounding at least a portion of one or more of the contacts, limiting compression of the contacts, and being configured to limit interaction between the contacts. The electrical connecting device may be further configured to have the plurality of compressible contacts have a first coefficient of thermal expansion and the downstop structure have a second coefficient of thermal expansion, the first coefficient of thermal expansion being substantially similar to the second coefficient of thermal expansion. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194790 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442137 | Hansen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Hansen (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An eccentric adjustment and mounting system is useful for belt engaging engine components such as alternators or water pumps. The system includes a housing fixed to the engine, a socket rotatable in pawl-and-ratchet fashion within the housing, and a socket aperture eccentrically disposed relative to the socket's axis. The aperture receives the belt engaging component, whereby rotation of the socket moves the component to adjust belt tension. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094549 |
| ART UNIT | 4165 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Endless belt power transmission systems or components 474/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442160 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zev J. Gartner (Somerville, Massachusetts); Matthew W. Kanan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nature evolves biological molecules such as proteins through iterated rounds of diversification, selection, and amplification. The present invention provides methods, compositions, and systems for synthesizing, selecting, amplifying, and evolving non-natural molecules based on nucleic acid templates. The sequence of a nucleic acid template is used to direct the synthesis of non-natural molecules such as unnatural polymers and small molecules. Using this method combinatorial libraries of these molecules can be prepared and screened. Upon selection of a molecule, its encoding nucleic acid template may be amplified and/or evolved to yield the same molecule or related molecules for re-screening. The inventive methods and compositions of the present invention allow for the amplification and evolution of non-natural molecules in a manner analogous to the amplification of natural biopolymer such as polynucleotides and protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141542 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442230 | Snow, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Snow, Jr. (Fountain Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inert gas generating system for generating inert gas on a vehicle having a fuel tank and a fuel tank vent. The system includes an inlet for receiving a flow of gas having a nitrogen component and an oxygen component from a gas source, a heat exchanger downstream from the inlet and in fluid communication with the inlet for cooling gas received from the inlet, and a gas separation module downstream from the heat exchanger and in fluid communication with the heat exchanger for separating gas received from the heat exchanger into a nitrogen-enriched gas flow and an oxygen-enriched gas flow. The gas separation module is adapted to deliver nitrogen-enriched gas from the nitrogen-enriched gas flow to the fuel tank without delivering the nitrogen-enriched gas through the fuel tank vent. The gas separation module is also adapted to deliver nitrogen-enriched gas from the nitrogen-enriched gas flow to the fuel tank vent. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/684388 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442237 | Gardner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Gardner (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An end-of-service-life-indicator for a multi-agent respirator filter that is safe, reliable, and easy to read and may be configured to cover a broad range of threats, including chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals, is achieved by positioning an array of chemically reactive calorimetric indicators substantially next to a sorbent bed behind a viewing window that may be integrated into the filter housing. Each colorimetric indicator in the array may be configured to produce a color change in responsive to a different target threat or threat category and may be calibrated to display easily identifiable colors, symbols or patterns to indicate an optimum time to exchange a filter. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222165 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/117.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442284 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Wen (Newton, Massachusetts); Jinghua Chen (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Zhongping Huang (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dezhi Wang (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) electrode materials comprising aligned CNT substrates coated with an electrically conducting polymer, and the fabrication of electrodes for use in high performance electrical energy storage devices. In particular, the present invention provides conductive CNTs electrode material whose electrical properties render them especially suitable for use in high efficiency rechargeable batteries. The present invention also provides methods for obtaining surface modified conductive CNT electrode materials comprising an array of individual linear, aligned CNTs having a uniform surface coating of an electrically conductive polymer such as polypyrrole, and their use in electrical energy storage devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595561 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442414 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifen Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Guo Wen (Newton, Massachusetts); Jing Y. Lao (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Wenzhi Li (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing reinforced carbon nanotubes having a plurality of microparticulate carbide or oxide materials formed substantially on the surface of such reinforced carbon nanotubes composite materials are disclosed. In particular, the present invention provides reinforced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having a plurality of boron carbide nanolumps formed substantially on a surface of the reinforced CNTs that provide a reinforcing effect on CNTs, enabling their use as effective reinforcing fillers for matrix materials to give high-strength composites. The present invention also provides methods for producing such carbide reinforced CNTs. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987257 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442471 | Jow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T. Richard Jow (Potomac, Maryland); Shengshui Zhang (Olney, Maryland); Kang Xu (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael S. Ding (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for lithium or a lithium ion cell, which improves lithium ion cell capacity retention and enhances storage life thereof. The non-aqueous solution can be implemented in the context of an electrolyte system that includes a lithium salt dissolved in a solvent formed from a mixture of one or more cyclic esters, and/or one or more chain esters, and at least one lactam based solvent. Such a system is suited for use with electrochemical energy storage devices, which are based on non-aqueous electrolytes, such as high energy density batteries and/or high power electrochemical capacitors. Such an electrochemical storage devices is generally based on non-aqueous electrolytes that include lithium salt dissolved in a solvent system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/307537 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442573 | Hutchison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Scott M. Reed (Eugene, Oregon); Martin N. Wybourne (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming arrays of metal, alloy, semiconductor or magnetic clusters is described. The method comprises placing a scaffold on a substrate, the scaffold comprising, for example, polynucleotides and/or polypeptides, and coupling the clusters to the scaffold. Methods of producing arrays in predetermined patterns and electronic devices that incorporate such patterned arrays are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094049 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442574 | Baldo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Peumans (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic semiconductor device is provided. The device has a first electrode and a second electrode, with an organic semiconductor layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. An electrically conductive grid is disposed within the organic semiconductor layer, which has openings in which the organic semiconductor layer is present. At least one insulating layer may be disposed adjacent to the electrically conductive grid, preferably such that the electrically conductive grid is completely separated from the organic semiconductor layer by the insulating layer. Methods of fabricating the device, and the electrically conductive grid in particular, are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114715 |
| ART UNIT | 4122 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442677 | Wagner |
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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) | George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical solution and process for the decontamination of chemical warfare agents. More particularly, a process for the decontamination of the vesicant HD by oxidation to its corresponding sulfoxide and nerve agents VX and GD by perhydrolysis to their non-toxic phosphonic acids using environmentally safe reactants, specifically a citrate/bicarbonate/molybdate peroxide solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217847 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442747 | Long 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) | Jeffrey W Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Wendy Baker (Lanham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to sulfur-functionalized polymer gels and carbon gels, including aerogels, and such carbon gels containing platinum or metal nanoparticles. The platinum-containing gels may be useful as fuel-cell electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828434 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443090 | Geis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Geis (Acton, Massachusetts); Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Sandra J. Deneault (Waltham, Massachusetts); Keith E. Krohn (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Theodore M. Lyszczarz (Concord, Massachusetts); Michael F. Marchant (N. Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-emission cathode formed on an insulating surface having cantilevered, i.e. “undercut,” electrodes. Suitable insulating surfaces include negative electron affinity (NEA) insulators such as glass or diamond. The cathode can operate in a comprised vacuum (e.g., 10−7 Torr) with no bias on the electrodes and low vacuum electric fields (e.g., at least 10 V cm−1). Embodiments of the present invention are inexpensive to fabricate, requiring lithographic resolution of approximately 10 micrometers. These cathodes can be formed over large areas for use in lighting and displays and are suitable for satellite applications, such as cathodes for tethers, thrusters and space-charging neutralizers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237637 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic tunnel junctions are disclosed that include ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic) materials and a bilayer tunnel barrier structure. The bilayer includes a crystalline material, such as MgO or Mg—ZnO, and Al2O3, which may be amorphous. If MgO is used, then it is preferably (100) oriented. The magnetic tunnel junctions so formed enjoy high tunneling magnetoresistance, e.g., greater than 100% at room temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099184 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/324.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443711 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duncan R. Stewart (Menlo Park, California); Patricia A. Beck (Palo Alto, California); Douglas A. Ohlberg (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Programmable impedance devices and methods of fabricating the devices are disclosed. The programmable impedance devices exhibit non-volatile tunable impedance properties. A programmable impedance device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a programmable material disposed between the two electrodes. The programmable material may be disposed at a junction between the first and second electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014554 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443719 | Kirichenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex F. Kirichenko (Pleasantville, New York); Timur V. Filippov (Mahopac, New York); Deepnarayan Gupta (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-speed lookup table is designed using Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic elements and fabricated using superconducting integrated circuits. The lookup table is composed of an address decoder and a programmable read-only memory array (PROM). The memory array has rapid parallel pipelined readout and slower serial reprogramming of memory contents. The memory cells are constructed using standard non-destructive reset-set flip-flops (RSN cells) and data flip-flops (DFF cells). An n-bit address decoder is implemented in the same technology and closely integrated with the memory array to achieve high-speed operation as a lookup table. The circuit architecture is scalable to large two-dimensional data arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/360749 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443764 | Clark 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) | Joseph A. Clark (Arlington, Virginia); Jane A. Young (Silver Spring, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Each of a pair of electrically conductive spiral coils is ensconced in a disk-shaped matrix. The two coil-ensconced matrices are joined face-to-face so as to sandwich between them a thin, non-magnetic elastic layer. An electronic device is connected so that each coil and a corresponding capacitor form an LC circuit. Electrification of the two LC circuits results in the departing and returning, in oscillatory fashion, of the two coil-ensconced matrices. This resonant behavior is both electromagnetic and mechanical in nature. The intermittent electromagnetic repelling is related to the LC circuitry and the oppositely polar electrifications of the respective coils. The springy mechanical activity is based on a spring-mass model and involves the elasticity of the intermediate material and the entrainment of ambient fluid. The dual oscillatory modes are merged at the same frequency through tuning of either/both oscillatory mode(s). In many applications, an inventive acoustic projector produces pressure waves underwater. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/481231 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443765 | Thomenius et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Erik Thomenius (Clifton Park, New York); Rayette Ann Fisher (Niskayuna, New York); Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Robert Hazard (Niskayuna, New York); Lowell Scott Smith (Niskayuna, New York); Bruno Hans Haider (Ballston Lake, New York); Kenneth Wayne Rigby (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable linear array of sensors (e.g., optical, thermal, pressure, ultrasonic). The reconfigurability allows the size and spacing of the sensor elements to be a function of the distance from the beam center. This feature improves performance for imaging systems having a limited channel count. The improved performance, for applications in which multiple transmit focal zones are employed, arises from the ability to adjust the aperture for a particular depth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/018238 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443902 | Scherer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical switches and logic devices comprising microstructure-doped nanocavity lasers are described. These switches and logic devices have gain and thus can be cascaded and integrated in a network or system such as for example on a chip. Exemplary switching elements switch the intensity, wavelength, or direction of the output. Exemplary logic devices include AND, OR, NAND, NOR, NOT, and XOR gates as well as flip-flops. Microfluidic sorting and delivery as well as optical tweezing and trapping may be employed to select and position a light emitter in a nanooptical cavity to form the nanolaser. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967080 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444041 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray T. Chen (Austin, Texas); Chulchae Choi (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for improved electrical-to-optical transmitters (100) disposed within printed circuit boards (104). The heat sink (110, 200) is a thermal conductive material disposed within a cavity (102) of the printed circuit board (104) and is thermally coupled to a bottom surface (112) of the electrical-to-optical transmitter (100). A portion of the thermal conductive material extends approximately to an outer surface (120, 122 or 124) of a layer (114, 116 or 118) of the printed circuit board (104). The printed circuit board may comprise a planarized signal communications system or an optoelectronic signal communications system. In addition, the present invention provides a method for fabricating the heat sink wherein the electrical-to-optical transmitter disposed within a cavity of the printed circuit board is fabricated. New methods for flexible waveguides and micro-mirror couplers are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524557 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444316 | Vengerov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that assigns jobs to a system containing a number of central processing units (CPUs). During operation, the system captures a current state of the system, which describes available resources on the system, characteristics of jobs currently being processed, and characteristics of jobs waiting to be assigned. The system then uses the current system state to estimate a long-term benefit to the system of not preempting any jobs currently being processed. If the benefit from preempting one or more jobs exceeds the benefit from not preempting any jobs, the system preempts one or more jobs currently being processed on the system with a new job. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045561 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444424 | Tourancheau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Tourancheau (Miribel, France) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for routing data between integrated circuit devices. This system couples together an n-dimensional grid of integrated circuit devices using multiple independent communication networks, wherein each of the communication networks only moves data in two orthogonal directions (e.g., North and East, North and West, South and East, or South and West). The system also includes a routing mechanism that routes data across these communication networks, as well as, into, out of, and through integrated circuits within the n-dimensional grid of integrated circuits. Note that the process of routing a signal across a given network is greatly simplified because it is not possible to create a cycle that causes a deadlock within a given network. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/674939 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07441599 | Hermes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hermes (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Manuel E. Gonzalez (Kingwood, Texas); Brian C. Llewellyn (Kingwood, Texas); James B. Bloys (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is described for replacing at least a portion of the liquid within the annular volume of a casing system within a wellbore with a second liquid. The second liquid is preselected to provide a measure of control of the pressure within the annular volume as the fluid within the volume is being heated. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282424 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442162 | Henderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglass L. Henderson (Madison, Wisconsin); Sua Yoo (Southfield, Michigan); Michael E. Kowalok (Madison, Wisconsin); Bruce R. Thomadsen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A pre-computed sensitivity function providing ex ante assessment of optimal placement of a single radioactive seed, is used for sequential placement of multiple radioactive seeds. The location of each successive seed may also be constrained by an exclusion function omitting areas in the target receiving a pre-defined dose from the preexisting seeds. This technique makes possible optimization of additional dimensions of treatment planning including using a different number of needles and using mixed seed types. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851515 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442284 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Wen (Newton, Massachusetts); Jinghua Chen (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Zhongping Huang (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dezhi Wang (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) electrode materials comprising aligned CNT substrates coated with an electrically conducting polymer, and the fabrication of electrodes for use in high performance electrical energy storage devices. In particular, the present invention provides conductive CNTs electrode material whose electrical properties render them especially suitable for use in high efficiency rechargeable batteries. The present invention also provides methods for obtaining surface modified conductive CNT electrode materials comprising an array of individual linear, aligned CNTs having a uniform surface coating of an electrically conductive polymer such as polypyrrole, and their use in electrical energy storage devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595561 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442353 | Richards et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Richards (Morgantown, West Virginia); David A. Berry (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process by which heat is removed from a reactant fluid to reach the operating temperature of a known pollutant removal method and said heat is recirculated to raise the temperature of the product fluid. The process can be utilized whenever an intermediate step reaction requires a lower reaction temperature than the prior and next steps. The benefits of a heat-recirculating cooler include the ability to use known pollutant removal methods and increased thermal efficiency of the system. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/969607 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442403 | Sansinena et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose-Maria Sansinena (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Antonio Redondo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Basil I. Swanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Chanel Kitmon Yee (Davis, California); Annapoorna R. Sapuri/Butti (Davis, California); Atul N. Parikh (Woodland, California); Calvin Yang (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a process of forming a bilayer lipid membrane structure by depositing an organic layer having a defined surface area onto an electrically conductive substrate, removing portions of said organic layer upon said electrically conductive substrate whereby selected portions of said organic layer are removed to form defined voids within said defined surface area of said organic layer and defined islands of organic layer upon said electrically conductive substrate, and, depositing a bilayer lipid membrane over the defined voids and defined islands of organic layer upon said substrate whereby aqueous reservoirs are formed between said electrically conductive substrate and said bilayer lipid membrane, said bilayer lipid membrane characterized as spanning across the defined voids between said defined islands. A lipid membrane structure is also described together with an array of such lipid membrane structure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072720 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442414 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifen Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Guo Wen (Newton, Massachusetts); Jing Y. Lao (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Wenzhi Li (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing reinforced carbon nanotubes having a plurality of microparticulate carbide or oxide materials formed substantially on the surface of such reinforced carbon nanotubes composite materials are disclosed. In particular, the present invention provides reinforced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having a plurality of boron carbide nanolumps formed substantially on a surface of the reinforced CNTs that provide a reinforcing effect on CNTs, enabling their use as effective reinforcing fillers for matrix materials to give high-strength composites. The present invention also provides methods for producing such carbide reinforced CNTs. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987257 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442510 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Christopher M. Strohsahl (Saugerties, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying molecular beacons in which a secondary structure prediction algorithm is employed to identify oligonucleotide sequences within a target gene having the requisite hairpin structure. Isolated oligonucleotides, molecular beacons prepared from those oligonucleotides, and their use are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553904 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442517 | Agron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Agron (Castro Valley, California); Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Richard L. Walker (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the identification of a novel Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis locus that serves as a marker for DNA-based identification of this bacterium. In addition, three primer pairs derived from this locus that may be used in a nucleotide detection method to detect the presence of the bacterium are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/272715 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442558 | Raymond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth N. Raymond (Berkeley, California); Stephane Petoud (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Seth Cohen (Boston, Massachusetts); Jide Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides luminescent lanthanide metal chelates comprising a metal ion of the lanthanide series and a complexing agent comprising at least one phthalamidyl moiety. Also provided are probes incorporating the phthalamidyl ligands of the invention and methods utilizing the ligands of the invention and probes comprising the ligands of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/867882 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442629 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mengyan Shen (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides semiconductor substrates having submicron-sized surface features generated by irradiating the surface with ultra short laser pulses. In one aspect, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed that includes placing at least a portion of a surface of the substrate in contact with a fluid, and exposing that surface portion to one or more femtosecond pulses so as to modify the topography of that portion. The modification can include, e.g., generating a plurality of submicron-sized spikes in an upper layer of the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196929 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442665 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Xiaodong Xiang (Danville, California); Isy Goldwasser (Palo Alto, California); Gabriel Brice{hacek over (n)}o (Baldwin Park, California); Xiao-Dong Sun (Fremont, California); Kai-An Wang (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the preparation and use of a substrate having an array of diverse materials in predefined regions thereon. A substrate having an array of diverse materials thereon is generally prepared by delivering components of materials to predefined regions on a substrate, and simultaneously reacting the components to form at least two materials. Materials which can be prepared using the methods and apparatus of the present invention include, for example, covalent network solids, ionic solids and molecular solids. More particularly, materials which can be prepared using the methods and apparatus of the present invention include, for example, inorganic materials, intermetallic materials, metal alloys, ceramic materials, organic materials, organometallic materials, non-biological organic polymers, composite materials (e.g., inorganic composites, organic composites, or combinations thereof), etc. Once prepared, these materials can be screened for useful properties including, for example, electrical, thermal, mechanical, morphological, optical, magnetic, chemical, or other properties. Thus, the present invention provides methods for the parallel synthesis and analysis of novel materials having useful properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/772894 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442669 | Wickham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Wickham (Boulder, Colorado); Ronald Cook (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides metal-exchanged hexaaluminate catalysts that exhibit good catalytic activity and/or stability at high temperatures for extended periods with retention of activity as combustion catalysts, and more generally as oxidation catalysts, that make them eminently suitable for use in methane combustion, particularly for use in natural gas fired gas turbines. The hexaaluminate catalysts of this invention are of particular interest for methane combustion processes for minimization of the generation of undesired levels (less than about 10 ppm) of NOx species. Metal exchanged hexaaluminate oxidation catalysts are also useful for oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOC), particularly hydrocarbons. Metal exchanged hexaaluminate oxidation catalysts are further useful for partial oxidation, particularly at high temperatures, of reduced species, particularly hydrocarbons (alkanes and alkenes). |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/382132 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/303 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443066 | Salamah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samir A. Salamah (Niskayuna, New York); Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre (Rexford, New York); Jivtesh Garg (Schenectady, New York); Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli (Niskayuna, New York); Patrick Lee Jansen (Alplaus, New York); Ralph James Carl, Jr. (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind turbine generator includes a stator having a core and a plurality of stator windings circumferentially spaced about a generator longitudinal axis. A rotor is rotatable about the generator longitudinal axis, and the rotor includes a plurality of magnetic elements coupled to the rotor and cooperating with the stator windings. The magnetic elements are configured to generate a magnetic field and the stator windings are configured to interact with the magnetic field to generate a voltage in the stator windings. A heat pipe assembly thermally engaging one of the stator and the rotor to dissipate heat generated in the stator or rotor. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193882 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444009 | Kieper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Arthur Kieper (Newport News, Virginia); Stanislaw Majewski (Yorktown, Virginia); Benjamin L. Welch (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for enhancing the contrast between background and lesion areas of a breast undergoing dual-head scintimammographic examination comprising: 1) acquiring a pair of digital images from a pair of small FOV or mini gamma cameras compressing the breast under examination from opposing sides; 2) inverting one of the pair of images to align or co-register with the other of the images to obtain co-registered pixel values; 3) normalizing the pair of images pixel-by-pixel by dividing pixel values from each of the two acquired images and the co-registered image by the average count per pixel in the entire breast area of the corresponding detector; and 4) multiplying the number of counts in each pixel by the value obtained in step 3 to produce a normalization enhanced two dimensional contrast map. This enhanced (increased contrast) contrast map enhances the visibility of minor local increases (uptakes) of activity over the background and therefore improves lesion detection sensitivity, especially of small lesions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/961552 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444385 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton-On-Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Gerard V. Kopcsay (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow (Mount Kisco, New York); Todd E. Takken (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for generating global asynchronous signals in a computing structure. Particularly, a global interrupt and barrier network is implemented that implements logic for generating global interrupt and barrier signals for controlling global asynchronous operations performed by processing elements at selected processing nodes of a computing structure in accordance with a processing algorithm; and includes the physical interconnecting of the processing nodes for communicating the global interrupt and barrier signals to the elements via low-latency paths. The global asynchronous signals respectively initiate interrupt and barrier operations at the processing nodes at times selected for optimizing performance of the processing algorithms. In one embodiment, the global interrupt and barrier network is implemented in a scalable, massively parallel supercomputing device structure comprising a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by multiple independent networks, with each node including one or more processing elements for performing computation or communication activity as required when performing parallel algorithm operations. One multiple independent network includes a global tree network for enabling high-speed global tree communications among global tree network nodes or sub-trees thereof. The global interrupt and barrier network may operate in parallel with the global tree network for providing global asynchronous sideband signals. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468997 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reactive Nanotechnologies (Hunt Valley, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Van Heerden (Baltimore, Maryland); Jesse Newson (Timonium, Maryland); Timothy Rude (Timonium, Maryland); Omar M. Knio (Timonium, Maryland); Timothy P. Weihs (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a method of joining two components. The method includes providing at least two components to be joined, a reactive multilayer foil, and a compliant element, placing the reactive multilayer foil between the at least two components, applying pressure on the two components in contact with the reactive multilayer foil via a compliant element, and initiating a chemical transformation of the reactive multilayer foil so as to physically join the at least two components. The invention also includes two components joined using the aforementioned method. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976877 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442284 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Wen (Newton, Massachusetts); Jinghua Chen (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Zhongping Huang (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dezhi Wang (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) electrode materials comprising aligned CNT substrates coated with an electrically conducting polymer, and the fabrication of electrodes for use in high performance electrical energy storage devices. In particular, the present invention provides conductive CNTs electrode material whose electrical properties render them especially suitable for use in high efficiency rechargeable batteries. The present invention also provides methods for obtaining surface modified conductive CNT electrode materials comprising an array of individual linear, aligned CNTs having a uniform surface coating of an electrically conductive polymer such as polypyrrole, and their use in electrical energy storage devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595561 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442352 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Chun Lu (Newark, Delaware); Xiaoqun Wu (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for removing sulfur oxides, mercury vapor, and fine particulate matters from industrial flue gases that contain such pollutants. Pollutants are removed by modules, which contain microporous adsorbent (i.e., sorbent) material held within a polymer matrix. The composite material that contains the microporous absorbent material held within a polymer matrix removes sulfur oxides by converting them into high concentration sulfuric acids. SULFURIC acid produced inside the composite material is automatically expelled onto the external surfaces of the composite material and is drained into an acid reservoir together with the fine particulate mailers which are washed from the external surfaces of the composite material by the constant dripping of the sulfuric acid along the external surfaces of the composite material. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872288 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442414 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifen Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Guo Wen (Newton, Massachusetts); Jing Y. Lao (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Wenzhi Li (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing reinforced carbon nanotubes having a plurality of microparticulate carbide or oxide materials formed substantially on the surface of such reinforced carbon nanotubes composite materials are disclosed. In particular, the present invention provides reinforced carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having a plurality of boron carbide nanolumps formed substantially on a surface of the reinforced CNTs that provide a reinforcing effect on CNTs, enabling their use as effective reinforcing fillers for matrix materials to give high-strength composites. The present invention also provides methods for producing such carbide reinforced CNTs. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987257 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442515 | Ratner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Buddy D. Ratner (Seattle, Washington); Xuanhong Cheng (Seattle, Washington); Karl Bohringer (Seattle, Washington); Yanbing Wang (Seattle, Washington); Yael Hanein (Tel-Aviv, Israel); Ashutosh Shastry (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides devices for binding cells or molecules, wherein each device includes (a) a body defining a first surface and a second surface that is located opposite to the first surface; (b) a heater disposed upon the first surface; and (c) a temperature-responsive layer disposed upon the second surface. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods for binding molecules or living cells to a temperature-responsive material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630235 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442529 | Imperiali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eugenio Vazquez (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides fluorescent compounds of formula (I) and methods monitoring protein-protein interactions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106349 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442573 | Hutchison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Scott M. Reed (Eugene, Oregon); Martin N. Wybourne (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming arrays of metal, alloy, semiconductor or magnetic clusters is described. The method comprises placing a scaffold on a substrate, the scaffold comprising, for example, polynucleotides and/or polypeptides, and coupling the clusters to the scaffold. Methods of producing arrays in predetermined patterns and electronic devices that incorporate such patterned arrays are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094049 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442574 | Baldo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Peumans (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic semiconductor device is provided. The device has a first electrode and a second electrode, with an organic semiconductor layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. An electrically conductive grid is disposed within the organic semiconductor layer, which has openings in which the organic semiconductor layer is present. At least one insulating layer may be disposed adjacent to the electrically conductive grid, preferably such that the electrically conductive grid is completely separated from the organic semiconductor layer by the insulating layer. Methods of fabricating the device, and the electrically conductive grid in particular, are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114715 |
| ART UNIT | 4122 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442629 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mengyan Shen (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides semiconductor substrates having submicron-sized surface features generated by irradiating the surface with ultra short laser pulses. In one aspect, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed that includes placing at least a portion of a surface of the substrate in contact with a fluid, and exposing that surface portion to one or more femtosecond pulses so as to modify the topography of that portion. The modification can include, e.g., generating a plurality of submicron-sized spikes in an upper layer of the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196929 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442798 | Pesci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Everett C. Pesci (Greenville, North Carolina); Barbara H. Iglewski (Fairport, New York); Jared B. J. Milbank (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James P. Pearson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrew S. Kende (Pittsford, New York); Everett P. Greenberg (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel bacterial quinolone signal molecules and, more particularly, pseudomonas quinolone signal (“PQS”) molecules, e.g., 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4-quinolone, and analogs and derivatives thereof are described. Therapeutic compositions containing the molecules, and therapeutic methods, methods of for regulating gene expression, methods for identifying modulators of the autoinducer molecules, and methods of modulating quorum sensing signaling in bacteria using the compounds of the invention are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844037 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442931 | Zewail et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Zewail (Pasadena, California); Vladimir Lobastov (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrafast system (and methods) for characterizing one or more samples. The system includes a stage assembly, which has a sample to be characterized. The system has a laser source that is capable of emitting an optical pulse of less than 1 ps in duration. The system has a cathode coupled to the laser source. In a specific embodiment, the cathode is capable of emitting an electron pulse less than 1 ps in duration. The system has an electron lens assembly adapted to focus the electron pulse onto the sample disposed on the stage. The system has a detector adapted to capture one or more electrons passing through the sample. The one or more electrons passing through the sample is representative of the structure of the sample. The detector provides a signal (e.g., data signal) associated with the one or more electrons passing through the sample that represents the structure of the sample. The system has a processor coupled to the detector. The processor is adapted to process the data signal associated with the one or more electrons passing through the sample to output information associated with the structure of the sample. The system has an output device coupled to the processor. The output device is adapted to output the information associated with the structure of the sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/643008 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07443319 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moshe Schwartz (Pasadena, California); Jehoshua Bruck (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A coding scheme for data is presented in which data is encoded and decoded such that a sequence of unconstrained input binary symbols, such as 1's and 0's, is encoded into a representation according to an alphabet comprising allowable time intervals between adjacent input binary symbols according to a precision parameter p, a minimum resolution parameter α, and resolution restriction functions L(t) and R(t), thereby defining a precision-resolution (PR) constrained code, and is modulated into an output signal comprising a waveform having signal peaks corresponding to the representation and separated according to the PR-constrained code for transmission of the output signal over the data channel. In this discussion, the minimum resolution parameter is denoted as a and is not limited to integer values. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623736 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444318 | Sahni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Haibin Lu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to improve the performance of dynamic router-table designs. Specifically, the invention relates to a method and system for partitioning prefixes at each node of a partitioning tree into 2s+1 partitions using the next s bits of the prefixes. Prefixes that have a length less than s are placed into partition −1, with the remaining prefixes falling into the remaining partitions that correspond to the value of their first s bits. Prefix partitioning may be controlled using either static rule tables or by dynamic rule tables. In one embodiment, binary tree on binary tree (BOB) data structures are applied to a partition of the present invention. In another embodiment, prefix binary tree on binary tree (PBOB) data structures are applied to a partition of the present invention. In a further embodiment, a dynamic longest-matching prefix binary tree on binary tree-table (LMPBOB) is applied to a partition of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719914 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444374 | Baker |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Baker (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic mail software includes a main email component and a number of installable components which communicate bidirectionally with the email component through an application programming interface (API). The installable components include authoring/reading components and a mailbox browser/editor component. The main email component provides an underlying graphical user interface (GUI) for functions directly associated with the storage and transfer of electronic mail messages and also handles all data bundling and unbundling that may be required to transform a message created by an authoring component into a fully MIME compliant message. In addition, the main email component includes “hooks” (an application programming interface or API) for the attachment of the installable components. The authoring/reading components each provide functionality particular to the type of document the component is designed to create/display. Some modular components, or messages created by them, have assigned “roles” whereby senders and recipients of certain email documents are provided different kinds of access to the documents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/604428 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07442577 | Fitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency The United (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Leslie Fitz (Baltimore, Maryland); Harris Turk (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of fabricating a patterned device using a sacrificial spacer layer. The first step in this process is to select an appropriate substrate and form a step thereon. The sacrificial layer is then applied to the substrate and a blocking layer is deposited on the sacrificial layer. The blocking layer is etched back to define the mask for the semiconductor structure and the sacrificial layer is removed. The substrate is then etched using the gap created by removal of the sacrificial layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357459 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444128 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Nelson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of estimating the carrier frequency of a signal is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of initializing a time average vector to zero, selecting a user-selectable time segment to divide a received signal into. A signal is received, and divided into the user-selectable time segments. A spectral peak vector is calculated by performing a spectral estimation process on the user-selectable time segment divided signal. A first correlation vector is calculated on the spectral peak vector, and a second correlation vector is calculated from the spectral peak vector and the first correlation vector. The time average vector is appended with the result from the second correlation vector, and the process repeats for each time segment the received signal was broken into. The carrier is estimated using the most commonly occurring frequency in the time average vector. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340820 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07442352 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Chun Lu (Newark, Delaware); Xiaoqun Wu (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for removing sulfur oxides, mercury vapor, and fine particulate matters from industrial flue gases that contain such pollutants. Pollutants are removed by modules, which contain microporous adsorbent (i.e., sorbent) material held within a polymer matrix. The composite material that contains the microporous absorbent material held within a polymer matrix removes sulfur oxides by converting them into high concentration sulfuric acids. SULFURIC acid produced inside the composite material is automatically expelled onto the external surfaces of the composite material and is drained into an acid reservoir together with the fine particulate mailers which are washed from the external surfaces of the composite material by the constant dripping of the sulfuric acid along the external surfaces of the composite material. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872288 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07444374 | Baker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Baker (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic mail software includes a main email component and a number of installable components which communicate bidirectionally with the email component through an application programming interface (API). The installable components include authoring/reading components and a mailbox browser/editor component. The main email component provides an underlying graphical user interface (GUI) for functions directly associated with the storage and transfer of electronic mail messages and also handles all data bundling and unbundling that may be required to transform a message created by an authoring component into a fully MIME compliant message. In addition, the main email component includes “hooks” (an application programming interface or API) for the attachment of the installable components. The authoring/reading components each provide functionality particular to the type of document the component is designed to create/display. Some modular components, or messages created by them, have assigned “roles” whereby senders and recipients of certain email documents are provided different kinds of access to the documents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/604428 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07441663 | Osborn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Osborn (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A tray assembly has a tray and a divider assembly removably connected to the tray. The tray has a base, a first side fixedly attached to the base, a second side fixedly attached to the base and the first side, a third side opposite the first side and fixedly attached to the base and the second side, and a fourth side opposite the second side and pivotally connected to the base. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830297 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07442897 | Avant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Lee Avant (Silver Spring, Maryland); Ralph William Boldt, Jr. (Monrovia, Maryland); Bruce A. Brandt (Gainesville, Virginia); Jay David Fadely (Palmetto, Florida); Michael Ray Little (Fairfax, Virginia); Simon Franklin Reidel (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for identifying and processing mail using an identification code on a mailpiece as a redundant source of identification information in a mail sorting system. In one embodiment, this information is stored in a temporary database and used for the identification and processing of mail in a Remote Bar Code System (RBCS). In this embodiment, the identification code enables the automation of mail sorting and other processing tasks, reducing costs and delays in mail delivery services. In another embodiment, the identification and processing of mail occurs in an Identification Code Sorting (ICS) system. In this embodiment, a long-term database allows for mail sorting and other processing tasks on a national or global level. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581485 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07442528 | Leathers 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) | Timothy D. Leathers (Peoria, Illinois); Melinda S. Nunnally (Washburn, Illinois); Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Four new Penicillium spp. isolates (NRRL 21966, NRRL 21967, NRRL 21968, and NRRL 21969) are capable of essentially quantitative conversion of native alternan to a polymeric modified form having a lower apparent molecular weight than native alternan. A fifth isolate (NRRL 30489) obtained from a survey of deposited organisms and classified as a Penicillium subgenus Biverticillium has the same ability. The modified alternan has rheological properties similar to ultrasonicated alternan and is produced without the expense of ultrasonication. It would have utility as a substitute for gum arabic for uses such as bulking agents and extenders in foods and cosmetics. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387313 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07443027 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus composed of: (a) a substrate; and (b) a deposited composition comprising a liquid and a plurality of metal nanoparticles with a covalently bonded stabilizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265935 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/734 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07443965 | Blossom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent L. Blossom (Wilmington, North Carolina); George Forshay (Waxhaw, North Carolina); Louis Charles Foss (Frederick, Maryland); Paul E. Leuba (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Tapas K. Som (Germantown, Maryland); John C. Wyatt (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a communication server that includes a message transfer unit that transfers messages sent between a first user communicating under a first communication system and a second user communicating under a second communication system. For example, the communication systems could each comprise a plurality of mobile wireless transceivers and a plurality of land-based transceivers that are used by emergency-response organizations. These communication systems may be incapable of communicating directly with each other. The communication server also includes a translator connected to the message transfer unit. The translator translates messages sent from the first communication system into a format compatible with the second communication system and vice versa. The communication server also has a voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) unit connected to the message transfer unit, so that messages are transmitted through the communication server in a VoIP format. Thus, messages are transferred between the communication systems using discrete Internet protocol addresses. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605925 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/88.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07442352 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Chun Lu (Newark, Delaware); Xiaoqun Wu (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for removing sulfur oxides, mercury vapor, and fine particulate matters from industrial flue gases that contain such pollutants. Pollutants are removed by modules, which contain microporous adsorbent (i.e., sorbent) material held within a polymer matrix. The composite material that contains the microporous absorbent material held within a polymer matrix removes sulfur oxides by converting them into high concentration sulfuric acids. SULFURIC acid produced inside the composite material is automatically expelled onto the external surfaces of the composite material and is drained into an acid reservoir together with the fine particulate mailers which are washed from the external surfaces of the composite material by the constant dripping of the sulfuric acid along the external surfaces of the composite material. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872288 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07443090 | Geis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Geis (Acton, Massachusetts); Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Sandra J. Deneault (Waltham, Massachusetts); Keith E. Krohn (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Theodore M. Lyszczarz (Concord, Massachusetts); Michael F. Marchant (N. Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-emission cathode formed on an insulating surface having cantilevered, i.e. “undercut,” electrodes. Suitable insulating surfaces include negative electron affinity (NEA) insulators such as glass or diamond. The cathode can operate in a comprised vacuum (e.g., 10−7 Torr) with no bias on the electrodes and low vacuum electric fields (e.g., at least 10 V cm−1). Embodiments of the present invention are inexpensive to fabricate, requiring lithographic resolution of approximately 10 micrometers. These cathodes can be formed over large areas for use in lighting and displays and are suitable for satellite applications, such as cathodes for tethers, thrusters and space-charging neutralizers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237637 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07442573 | Hutchison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hutchison (Eugene, Oregon); Scott M. Reed (Eugene, Oregon); Martin N. Wybourne (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming arrays of metal, alloy, semiconductor or magnetic clusters is described. The method comprises placing a scaffold on a substrate, the scaffold comprising, for example, polynucleotides and/or polypeptides, and coupling the clusters to the scaffold. Methods of producing arrays in predetermined patterns and electronic devices that incorporate such patterned arrays are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094049 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07442688 | Zoghbi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huda Y. Zoghbi (Houston, Texas); Hugo Bellen (Houston, Texas); Nessan Bermingham (Houston, Texas); Bassem Hassan (Houston, Texas); Nissim Ben-arie (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are disclosed for the therapeutic use of an atonal-associated nucleic acid or amino acid sequence. Also, an animal heterozygous for an atonal-associated gene inactivation is also disclosed having at least one atonal-associated nucleic acid sequence replaced by insertion of a heterologous nucleic acid sequence used to detect expression driven by an atonal-associated promoter sequence, wherein the inactivation of the atonal-associated nucleic acid sequence prevents expression of the atonal-associated gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860373 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 28, 2008.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
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)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
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)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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