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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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| US 07448131 | Yoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oh-Kyu Yoon (Stanford, California); Richard N. Zare (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Bradbury-Nielson gate (BNG) includes a set of evenly spaced, co-planar, and parallel wires. The wires alternate in a repeating ABAB pattern, where all of the A wires are electrically connected to each other, all of the B wires are electrically connected to each other, and the set of A wires is electrically isolated from the set of B wires. Improved fabrication of Bradbury-Nielson gates is provided based on two key ideas. The first key idea is the use of wire positioning template surfaces having wire insertion features with enhanced spacing. Wire insertion features having enhanced spacing allow for non-microscopic assembly of finely spaced wire arrays. The second key idea is the use of two template surfaces, each having wires spaced by twice the eventual gate wire spacing. The use of two template surfaces facilitates making the alternating electrical contact required for a BNG. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701697 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/825 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448216 | McCaffrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. McCaffrey (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Stephen John Howell (West Newbury, Massachusetts); John Carl Jacobson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Barry Francis Barnes (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine. The method comprises coupling a combustor including a dome assembly and a combustor liner that extends downstream from the dome assembly to a combustor casing that is positioned radially outwardly from the combustor, coupling a ring support that includes a first radial flange, a second radial flange, and a plurality of beams that extend therebetween to the combustor casing, and coupling a primer nozzle including an injection tip to the combustor such that the primer nozzle extends axially through the dome assembly such that fuel may be discharged from the primer nozzle into the combustor during engine start-up operating conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428761 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448287 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jürgen H. Daniel (San Francisco, California); Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method extracts/deposits fluid and includes a pipette having a pipette body portion and a pipette tip. A stirring/agitation mechanism including a fiber or a rod extends through the interior of the pipette tip, wherein a fiber end or rod end of the fiber or rod, extends out of a narrowed end of the pipette tip, and the fiber end or rod end is configured to stir or agitate the fluid. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537700 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448527 | Ford |
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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) | Kenneth Ford (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastener device has a body member for welding and securing structural members together. The body member has a lateral bore extending between an upper flat side and a lower flat side. The sides each have a pattern of externally facing grooves communicating with the lateral bore and an exothermic material fills the patterns of grooves, the lateral bore and a radially extending bore communicating with the lateral bore. A fuse in the radial bore produces intense heat in the exothermic material to initiate an exothermic reaction to melt at least some of the body member, exothermic material, and structural members and weld the body member and structural members together. The man-portable, self-contained, reliable, fastener device permits a relatively unskilled workman to securely interconnect the structural members together at a primitive work site without requiring ancillary equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416513 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448577 | Sadeck |
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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 Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for dissipating shock load in a parachute delivery system has at least one strip of material having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a predetermined length. The apparatus also has a piercing member having a first portion for piercing through the strip of material and a second portion that defines an opening. The strip of material passes through the opening in the piercing member. The first end of the strip of material is configured to be attached to parachute suspension lines. In a preferred embodiment, the strip of material is a strip of woven webbing. When a predetermined tensile force acts upon the strip of material and the piercing member such that the first end of the strip of woven webbing is pulled in one direction and the piercing member is pulled in an opposite direction, tension is produced which causes the piercing member to stretch and break the lateral fibers of the strip of woven webbing. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a lanyard that has a first end attached to the piercing member and a second end adapted for attachment to a payload. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217848 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448597 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quoin International, Inc. (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Jacobson (Dayton, Nevada); Tim Walter (Carson City, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A powered rope ascender that supports a person or a load while ascending a vertical rope. The rope ascender has a motor driven capstan drum that engages the rope. A pinch roller grips the rope against the capstan drum. A load limiting assembly releases the grip by the pinch roller when the load supported by the ascender exceeds a predetermined amount. A centrifugal clutch reduces starting torque required by the motor and the outer drum of the centrifugal clutch interacts with a brake to hold position on the rope. For heavy loads a motion activated brake is used. Hand controls provide a freewheeling, a braking and an ascending mode of operation. A harmonic drive or planetary reduction gears provide speed reduction from the motor to the capstan drum. The powered rope ascender can be threaded on the rope without access to a rope end. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772659 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force 254/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448835 | Forrester, Jr. 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) | Robert M. Forrester, Jr. (Oak Ridge, New Jersey); Michael Selk (Rockaway, New Jersey); Allen Brokaw (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic pallet to platform locking system enables pallets of supplies or cargoes to automatically be locked down onto the top of a transportation platform, thus avoiding the use of tie down straps and allowing for automated material handling equipment (MHE) such as a forklift. The present system replaces older, difficult to reconfigure, mostly manual loading and unloading systems and methods with a mechanical interface that allows for relatively easy reconfiguration for different pallet sizes, and that can simplify the task of loading and unloading pallets. The mechanical interface between a pallet and a transportation platform or flatbed is a metal to metal interface. It eliminates the need to tie and secure a strap, which is a time consuming and manual process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/308109 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448855 | Carbaugh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Carbaugh (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Steven J. Spear (Chalfont, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A droop stop mechanism for a helicopter rotor blade includes a pair of opposing stops disposed on opposite sides of the blade's flap hinge. An interposer is mounted at the end of an arm on a rotatable shaft for rotation in a plane perpendicular to the hinge. A torsion spring disposed concentrically about the shaft has a first end that is fixed and a second end coupled to the shaft to bias the interposer to a position disposed between the stops, thereby limiting blade droop. A weight is attached to the shaft such that, with rotation of the rotor, centrifugal forces acting on the weight cause the shaft and arm to rotate so as to overcome the bias of the spring and urge the interposer out from between the stops, thereby allowing greater blade droop. The spring and shaft are sealed in a canister for protection from the elements. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356498 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07448941 | Drew |
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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) | Christopher P. Drew (Dracut, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method to test the abrasion resistance of materials. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a conduit network, a primary air stream generating device to generate a primary air stream in the conduit network, a secondary air stream generating device to produce a secondary air stream in the conduit network, and a particulate handling device to deposit particulate into the conduit network so that the particulate enters the secondary air stream. The conduit network merges the secondary air stream into the primary air stream to allow the particulate to enter the primary air stream, and allow the primary air stream to blow the particulate at a test sample positioned within the conduit network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799581 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449035 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Kenneth Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia); Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection of: starting materials, thermal treatment conditions and/or mold materials combined in at least some instances with segregation of different starting materials in different regions of a forming mold and/or the use of fibrous carbonaceous layers to obtain selected reinforcement to enhance bending and/or impact resistance. Carbon foams of a homogeneous composition comprising at least fibrous carbonaceous mat as a reinforcing element are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810843 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449072 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TPL, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randal Johnson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Catherine Malins (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for removing solid or semi-solid material from within a container, for example removing an energetic material from the casing of an explosive shell. The method is applicable to the demilitarization of aged or obsolete explosive ordnance, for example mortar rounds, and uses ultrasonic energy rather than heat like previous methods. An item to be demilitarized and cleaned is immersed in a fluid contained within a vessel. An ultrasonic probe or wand is inserted into the submerged item, in proximity with the material to be removed. The fluid is the medium for transmitting sonic energy from the probe to the material to fracture and mobilize the material. Mobilized particulates are expelled from the casing, and settle to the bottom of the fluid vessel for collection. At the conclusion of the process, the emptied container shell, now relatively clean, is retrieved from the vessel and salvaged as desired. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/458971 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449238 | Villalobos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo R. Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Shyam Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Woohong Kim (Lorton, Virginia); Bryan Sadowski (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention includes a particle. The particle includes a first yttria core; and a fluoride salt coating on the first yttria core. The coating is sufficiently continuous to prevent a large number of sites where a second yttria core may come into contact with the first yttria core. Optionally, the particle has been heated in an oxidizing atmosphere to a temperature in the range of about 400° C. to about 750° C. Optionally, the particle is substantially free of at least one of carbon-containing species and water. Optionally, the fluoride salt is lithium fluoride. Optionally, the fluoride salt is aluminum fluoride. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861498 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449246 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tae Won Kim (Clifton Park, New York); Christian Maria Anton Heller (Albany, New York); Marc Schaepkens (Medina, Ohio); Ahmet Gun Erlat (Clifton Park, New York); Min Yan (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A barrier coating of organic-inorganic composition, the barrier coating having optical properties that are substantially uniform along an axis of light transmission, said axis oriented substantially perpendicular to the surface of the coating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879468 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449254 | Spitsberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Christine Govern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); David Joseph Mitchell (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An article comprising a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material, such as an article exposed to the hostile thermal environment of a gas turbine engine. The article further comprises an environmental barrier layer, e.g., an alkaline earth metal aluminosilicate, and a physical barrier layer overlying the environmental barrier layer. The physical barrier layer comprises zirconia or hafnia stabilized with an oxide of a metal selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium, scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metals; and a low CTE oxide selected from the group consisting of niobia and tantala; and mixtures thereof. A method for preparing an environmental barrier coating system on a substrate formed of a silicon-comprising material is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040855 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449263 | Hendrickson 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) | Mary A. Hendrickson (Forked River, New Jersey); Edward J. Plichta (Howell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A more efficient LiPF6 lithium-ion electrochemical system composed of a phosphate free, borate lithium salt electrolyte LiTPTB composed of LiBC32F24H12 in a ternary mixed organic solvent containing a 1:1:1 volume ratio of EC, DMC and EMC is provided. The borate salt of the LiTPTB electrolyte decomposes at temperatures above 110° C. and does not react with water and also has an oxidation potential of about 4.4 V versus lithium, making it suitable for use in high voltage lithium-ion cells and batteries. A 0.3 to 1.0 M molar concentration of LiTPTB composed of LiBC32F24H12 in a ternary mixed organic solvent containing a 1:1:1 volume ratio of EC, DMC and EMC is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058711 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449525 | Palmese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giuseppe Raffaello Palmese (Hainesport, New Jersey); John Joseph La Scala (Bel Air, Maryland); James Matthew Sands (Kingsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-modal vinyl ester resins having one or more of good fracture toughness, good processing viscosity, and low volatile organic compound emissions are provided. The multi-modal vinyl ester resins are the reaction product of a liquid or crystalline epoxy and an amorphous, solid epoxy, as determined at 25° C., with a vinyl carboxylic acid. The multi-modal vinyl ester resins may contain a reactive diluent, though generally, lower reactive diluent contents are required for such resins than for similar, commercially available vinyl ester resins. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/568600 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449535 | Keller 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) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A carborane-siloxane compound is provided having the repeat unit Q contains any of —SiR2—, —SiR2—O—, —C≡C—C≡C—, carboranyl, and U′. Each R and R′ is alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl, or mixtures thereof. Each U′ is derivable from hydrosilation of an alkenyl or alkynyl group. Each T is alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl, mixtures thereof, —(O—SiR′2)xH, or the repeat unit. Each x and x′ is a positive integer. The compounds may be made be reacting a carborane-siloxane precursor having unsaturated end groups with a siloxane crosslinker in the presence of a hydrosilation catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688317 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449576 | Pennell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M.K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); James B. Aggen (Burlingame, California); J.J. Kim Wright (Redwood City, California); Subrabrata Sen (Sunnyvale, California); Brian E. McMaster (Mountain View, California); Daniel Joseph Dairaghi (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR1 receptor, and which have been further confirmed in animal testing for inflammation, one of the hallmark disease states for CCR1. The compounds are generally aryl piperazine derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR1-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of competitive CCR1 antagonists. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491540 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449858 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Chang (Newbury Park, California); Kirby Keller (Chesterfield, Missouri); Anhua Wang (Thousand Oaks, California); Jiajia Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a diagnostics methodology and embedded electronic system that allows optimized low-frequency data sampling for EMA motoring subsystems in an operating vehicle. Each of the EMA motoring subsystems includes: an EMA; at least one motor for driving the EMA; and power controls for operating the motor, wherein the power controls includes a DSP controller for sampling and processing data at low-frequency sampling rates. The diagnostic methodology includes a method that has the steps of: determining an operational mode of the EMA motoring subsystem; selecting a sampling rate optimized for the determined operational mode; acquiring and processing data at the selected sampling rate; and analyzing the processed data to identify and classify a fault of the EMA motoring subsystem. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422287 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/636 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449979 | Koh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sophia Wireless, Inc. (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Koh (Centreville, Virginia); David T. Nemeth (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator filter assembly is provided having a first wafer (102), a second wafer (104) and a third wafer (106). A plurality of pits are etched in the first and second wafer (102, 104) and arranged such that a plurality of resonant cavities (108) are formed with a coupling cavity (110) disposed between the resonant cavities (108). By altering the dimensions of the resonant and coupling cavities (108, 110), the frequency characteristics of the filter can be adjusted as desired. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/534289 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450079 | Baldauf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Baldauf (Redondo Beach, California); Eric D. Lee (Sherman Oaks, California); Joel R. Dixon (Torrance, California); David Bressler (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a gimbaled reflector antenna is provided that includes only four reflectors comprising: a first flat plate reflector, a second flat plate reflector, and an ellipsoidal reflector, and a parabolic reflector. By rotating some or all of the reflectors with respect to a fixed feed, a projected beam may be scanned across a hemispherical field of regard. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296106 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/781.CA0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450227 | Dwight et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Dwight (Roalsburg, Pennsylvania); David L. Allara (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved substrate for Raman spectroscopy of an analyte comprises a porous metal film. Enhancement factors and uniformity of the substrate can be enhanced by electrochemical roughening of the film. Improved sensors and spectrometers using such substrates are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/231177 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
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| US 07450234 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. White (Arlington, Massachusetts); Christopher L. Templeman (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael B. Frish (Andover, Massachusetts); Peter E. Nebolsine (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A light scattering sensor is provided with a cylindrical lens focusing received light along substantially parallel lines, or bands, that correspond to a range of scattering angles and a linear detector that detects the light intensity along the substantially parallel lines. By using a cylindrical lens, the lens serves as an auto-collimator, whereby light scattered at a specific angle from the collimated light beam strikes the linear detector at a corresponding specific location regardless of the location from where the light was scattered. Embodiments of the cylindrical lens-based light sensor can be applied to a number of different applications and industries that analyze light scattering intensity as a function of scattering angle. For example, embodiments of the cylindrical lens-based light scattering sensor can be used for monitoring a target fluid for contaminants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264744 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450235 | Said et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali A. Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Philippe Bado (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark Allen Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an apparatus and a method to monitor the condition of a fluid by measuring multiple optical properties of the fluid. The apparatus comprises of a body 105, at least one fluidic cavity 110 to capture a fluid sample, at least one light source 115 to emit an optical signal and at least one optical detector 120 to detect the optical signal. The fluid sample is collected continuously from a path of a fluid flow and multiple optical properties are measured in real time to determine the condition of the fluid. The apparatus is installed in-line with the path of the fluid flow in the system for which the fluid is being used and monitored. The apparatus avoids environmental contamination and wastage of the fluid sample by returning the fluid sample back into the fluid flow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037625 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450474 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry G. Klein (New York, New York); Anthony L. Scoca (Hicksville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a diagnostic method for use with multi-element transducers includes determining an acoustic center of a transducer and determining an offset of the determined acoustic center from a theoretical acoustic center of the transducer. In some embodiments, the method also quantifies the impact that the offset has on performance of a transducer array. In some embodiments, the offset is used to correct signal processing calculations that rely on assumptions about the acoustic center of each transducer in the transducer array. A diagnostic system for use with multi-element transducers includes a projector, wherein the projector generates a sound; and a mechanical fixture, wherein the fixture aligns the projector with the transducing elements in the transducer so that in combination, the projector selectively ensonifies each of the transducing elements in the transducer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786497 |
| 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 367/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450537 | Peterson |
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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) | Edward Douglas Peterson (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An intermixing communication modes on a TDMA network system. The system includes a relay, at least one AC channel controller, at least one DC channel controller, at least two AC users and at least one DC user. The at least one AC channel controller is capable of transmitting a master channel frame and receiving data on a master channel. The at least one DC channel controller is capable of transmitting data on a slave channel frame and receiving data on a slave channel associated with the master channel. The at least two AC users are capable of transmitting and receiving signals via the relay. The at least one DC user is capable of receiving information regarding reserved DC time slots in the slave channel frame from a CCOW of the master channel frame. A method for an intermixing communication modes on a TDMA network is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108142 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450670 | Lui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gee L. Lui (Westminster, California); Kuang Tsai (Santa Ana, California); Milton K. Sue (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved AGC subsystem for preferred use in quadrature amplitude modulation receivers offers improved automatic gain control of received signals in fading channels by generating an error signal only from constellation signal points having large signal-to-noise ratios for increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the gain control error signal for lowering dispersion of symbol signals in the constellation signal space for improving data detection of symbol signals with the improved performance with as much as one dB in the signal-to-noise ratio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153629 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450790 | Jalali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles, California); Chia-Jen Hsu (Los Angeles, California); Bijan Houshmand (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-electronic all-dielectric (NEAD) or non-electronic RF (NERF) front-end that exploits isolation features of photonics to eliminate metal electrodes, interconnects and the antenna. An electro-optic (EO) modulator is integrated with a dielectric resonance antenna to exploit unique isolation features of photonics. A doubly (RF and optical) resonant device design maximizes the receiver sensitivity. High-Q optical disk resonators and dielectric resonant antennas are integrated to create an efficient mixing of light and RF fields. The resulting non-electronic RF technology produces an all-dielectric RF front-end which provides complete isolation between the air interface and the ensuing electronic circuitry, enabling the creation of an RF receiver that is immune to high-power electro-magnetic pulses (EMP) and High Power Microwave (HPM) pulses. The device can also be configured as a non-intrusive field probe that co-exists with a conventional receiver and detects a EMP or HPM attack. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535781 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07448441 | Hendricks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry Joseph Hendricks (Arvada, Colorado); Michael J. Heben (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon nanotube heat-exchange system (10) and method for producing the same. One embodiment of the carbon nanotube heat-exchange system (10) comprises a microchannel structure (24) having an inlet end (30) and an outlet end (32), the inlet end (30) providing a cooling fluid into the microchannel structure (24) and the outlet end (32) discharging the cooling fluid from the microchannel structure (24). At least one flow path (28) is defined in the microchannel structure (24), fluidically connecting the inlet end (30) to the outlet end (32) of the microchannel structure (24). A carbon nanotube structure (26) is provided in thermal contact with the microchannel structure (24), the carbon nanotube structure (26) receiving heat from the cooling fluid in the microchannel structure (24) and dissipating the heat into an external medium (19). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/492483 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449114 | Sorenson, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRP Technologies, Inc. (Erie, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent S. Sorenson, Jr. (Windsor, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for enhancing bioremediation of ground water contaminated with nonaqueous halogenated solvents are disclosed. An illustrative method includes adding an electron donor for microbe-mediated anaerobic reductive dehalogenation of the halogenated solvents, which electron donor enhances mass transfer of the halogenated solvents from residual source areas into the aqueous phase of the ground water. Illustrative electron donors include C2-C4 carboxylic acids and hydroxy acids, salts thereof, esters of C2-C4 carboxylic acids and hydroxy acids, and mixtures thereof, of which lactic acid, salts of lactic acid—such as sodium lactate, lactate esters, and mixtures thereof are particularly illustrative. The microbes are either indigenous to the ground water, or such microbes can be added to the ground water in addition to the electron donor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931800 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449165 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); UTRF (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Georges A. Guiochon (Farragut, Tennessee); Chengdu Liang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon monolith includes a robust carbon monolith characterized by a skeleton size of at least 100 nm, and a hierarchical pore structure having macropores and mesopores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/770734 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449319 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Daniaco A/S, Genencor Division (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl7, and the corresponding EGVII amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVII, recombinant EGVII proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329498 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449404 | Creighton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Randall Creighton (Albuquerque, New Mexico); George T. Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for improving Mg doping of Group III-N materials grown by MOCVD preventing condensation in the gas phase or on reactor surfaces of adducts of magnesocene and ammonia by suitably heating reactor surfaces between the location of mixing of the magnesocene and ammonia reactants and the Group III-nitride surface whereon growth is to occur. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115685 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449550 | Adney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); John O. Baker (Golden, Colorado); Stephen R. Decker (Berthoud, Colorado); Yat-Chen Chou (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado); Shi-You Ding (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Purified cellobiohydrolase I (glycosyl hydrolase family 7 (Cel7A) enzymes from Penicillium funiculosum demonstrate a high level of specific performance in comparison to other Cel7 family member enzymes when formulated with purified EIcd endoglucanase from A. cellulolyticus and tested on pretreated corn stover. This result is true of the purified native enzyme, as well as recombinantly expressed enzyme, for example, that enzyme expressed in a non-native Aspergillus host. In a specific example, the specific performance of the formulation using purified recombinant Cel7A from Penicillium funiculosum expressed in A. awamori is increased by more than 200% when compared to a formulation using purified Cel7A from Trichoderma reesei. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/557589 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449569 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ziyu Dai (Richland, Washington); Linda L. Lasure (Fall City, Washington); Jon K. Magnuson (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses isolated gene regulatory elements and gene transcription terminators that are differentially expressed in a native fungus exhibiting a first morphology relative to the native fungus exhibiting a second morphology. The invention also encompasses a method of utilizing a fungus for protein or chemical production. A transformed fungus is produced by transforming a fungus with a recombinant polynucleotide molecule. The recombinant polynucleotide molecule contains an isolated polynucleotide sequence linked operably to another molecule comprising a coding region of a gene of interest. The gene regulatory element and gene transcription terminator may temporally and spatially regulate expression of particular genes for optimum production of compounds of interest in a transgenic fungus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920625 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449579 | McElhanon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. McElhanon (Manteca, California); Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A “real time” method for detecting electrophilic and nucleophilic species generally by employing tunable, precursor sensor materials that mimic the physiological interaction of these agents to form highly florescent berberine-type alkaloids that can be easily and rapidly detected. These novel precursor sensor materials can be tuned for reaction with both electrophilic (chemical species, toxins) and nucleophilic (proteins and other biological molecules) species. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416667 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449699 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Adams (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael B. Sinclair (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas M. Mayer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael J. Vasile (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus whereby an optical interferometer is utilized to monitor and provide feedback control to an integrated energetic particle column, to create desired topographies, including the depth, shape and/or roughness of features, at a surface of a specimen. Energetic particle columns can direct energetic species including, ions, photons and/or neutral particles to a surface to create features having in-plane dimensions on the order of 1 micron, and a height or depth on the order of 1 nanometer. Energetic processes can include subtractive processes such as sputtering, ablation, focused ion beam milling and, additive processes, such as energetic beam induced chemical vapor deposition. The integration of interferometric methods with processing by energetic species offers the ability to create desired topographies at surfaces, including planar and curved shapes. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/478573 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449877 | Umans |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Reliance Electric Technologies LLC (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Umans (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are provided for a system for measurement of a current in a conductor such that the conductor current may be momentarily directed to a current measurement element in order to maintain proper current without significantly increasing an amount of power dissipation attributable to the current measurement element or adding resistance to assist in current measurement. The apparatus and methods described herein are useful in superconducting circuits where it is necessary to monitor current carried by the superconducting elements while minimizing the effects of power dissipation attributable to the current measurement element. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241835 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450023 | Muralidharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Charles L. Britton (Alcoa, Tennessee); James Pearce (Lenoir City, Tennessee); Usha Jagadish (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vinod K. Sikka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-power shock sensing system includes at least one shock sensor physically coupled to a chemical storage tank to be monitored for impacts, and an RF transmitter which is in a low-power idle state in the absence of a triggering signal. The system includes interference circuitry including or activated by the shock sensor, wherein an output of the interface circuitry is coupled to an input of the RF transmitter. The interface circuitry triggers the RF transmitting with the triggering signal to transmit an alarm message to at least one remote location when the sensor senses a shock greater than a predetermined threshold. In one embodiment the shock sensor is a shock switch which provides an open and a closed state, the open state being a low power idle state. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346867 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450081 | Punnoose |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ratish J. Punnoose (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna is disclosed that comprises a pair of conductive, orthogonal arches and a pair of conductive annular sector plates, wherein adjacent legs of each arch are fastened to one of the annular sector plates and the opposite adjacent pair of legs is fastened to the remaining annular sector plate. The entire antenna structure is spaced apart from a conductive ground plane by a thin dielectric medium. The antenna is driven by a feed conduit passing through the conductive ground plane and dielectric medium and attached to one of the annular sector plates, wherein the two orthogonal arched act as a pair of crossed dipole elements. This arrangement of elements provides a radiation pattern that is largely omni-directional above the horizon. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/717295 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/797 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450222 | Wang 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) | Zhehui Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Shengnian Luo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cris W. Barnes (Arlington, Virginia); Stephen F. Paul (West Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A velocimetry apparatus and method comprising splitting incoming reflected laser light and directing the laser light into first and second arms, filtering the laser light with passband filters in the first and second arms, one having a positive passband slope and the other having a negative passband slope, and detecting the filtered laser light via light intensity detectors following the passband filters in the first and second arms. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772391 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/28.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450292 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anoop Agrawal (Tucson, Arizona); John P. Cronin (Tucson, Arizona); Juan C. L. Tonazzi (Tucson, Arizona); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrolyte solutions for electrochromic devices such as rear view mirrors and displays with low leakage currents are prepared using inexpensive, low conductivity conductors. Preferred electrolytes include bifunctional redox dyes and molten salt solvents with enhanced stability toward ultraviolet radiation. The solvents include lithium or quaternary ammonium cations, and perfluorinated sulfonylimide anions selected from trifluoromethylsulfonate (CF3SO3−), bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3SO2)2N−), bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3CF2SO2)2N−) and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide ((CF3SO2)3C−). Electroluminescent, electrochromic and photoelectrochromic devices with nanostructured electrodes include ionic liquids with bifunctional redox dyes. Some of the electrolyte solutions color to red when devices employing the solutions are powered, leading to red or neutral electrooptic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/526416 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450293 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McClesky (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrochromic salts. Electrochromic salts of dicationic viologens such as methyl viologen and benzyl viologen associated with anions selected from bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide, and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide are produced by metathesis with the corresponding viologen dihalide. They are highly soluble in molten quarternary ammonium salts and together with a suitable reductant provide electrolyte solutions that are used in electrochromic windows. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997483 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07450352 — Fabrication of magnetic tunnel junctions with epitaxial and textured ferromagnetic layers
| US 07450352 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Y. Austin Chang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jianhua Joshua Yang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to magnetic tunnel junctions and methods for making the magnetic tunnel junctions. The magnetic tunnel junctions include a tunnel barrier oxide layer sandwiched between two ferromagnetic layers both of which are epitaxial or textured with respect to the underlying substrate upon which the magnetic tunnel junctions are grown. The magnetic tunnel junctions provide improved magnetic properties, sharper interfaces and few defects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169320 |
| 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 07450388 | Beihoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce C. Beihoff (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Dennis L. Kehl (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Lee A. Gettelfinger (Brown Deer, Wisconsin); Steven C. Kaishian (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Mark G. Phillips (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Lawrence D. Radosevich (Muskego, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | EMI shielding is provided for power electronics circuits and the like via a direct-mount reference plane support and shielding structure. The thermal support may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support forms a shield from both external EMI/RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as improved terminal configurations. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663172 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451173 | Van Benthem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Van Benthem (Middletown, Delaware); Michael R. Keenan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A fast combinatorial algorithm can significantly reduce the computational burden when solving general equality and inequality constrained least squares problems with large numbers of observation vectors. The combinatorial algorithm provides a mathematically rigorous solution and operates at great speed by reorganizing the calculations to take advantage of the combinatorial nature of the problems to be solved. The combinatorial algorithm exploits the structure that exists in large-scale problems in order to minimize the number of arithmetic operations required to obtain a solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/938444 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451342 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, program product and method logically divides a group of nodes and causes node pairs comprising a node from each section to communicate. Results from the communications may be analyzed to determine performance characteristics, such as bandwidth and proper connectivity. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052663 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07449170 | Regnier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West LaFayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred E. Regnier (West Lafayette, Indiana); Roujian Zhang (Newberry Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for controlling or eliminating isotope effects during fractionation of chemically equivalent but isotopically distinct compounds. Isotope coding agents contain heavy isotopes other than deuterium. The invention facilitates intelligent data acquisiton. After sample fractionation, isotope abundance ratios are calculated using mass spectrometry, and analytes of interest are identified in real time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/256326 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449180 | Kisiday et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Kisiday (Watertown, Massachusetts); Alan Grodzinsky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Shuguang Zhang (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features peptide scaffolds that are useful in the repair and replacement of various tissues. The invention also provides methods for making these scaffolds and methods for using them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/778200 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449186 | Masinovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Masinovsky (Bellevue, Washington); William Michael Gallatin (Mercer Island, Washington); Paul J. Simmons (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A therapeutic method of modulating the immune response, by administering to a patient an amount of IL-4 effective to promote peripheral blood lymphocyte adhesion to microvascular endothelial cells in lymphoid organs. The IL-4 is preferably coadministered with IL-1β. An improved method of screening a cell line for the production of a binding partner that binds with a cell adhesion molecule, by contacting the binding partner with IL4-activated and nonactivated microvascular endothelial cells, and selecting binding partners that bind to the IL4-activated microvascular endothelial cells but not to the nonactivated microvascular endothelial cells. The selected binding partners may thereafter be tested for the ability to block lymphocyte binding to cytokine-activated endothelial cells. The binding partners are preferably also characterized by binding to human VCAM-1 and to IL4- or TNFα-activated bone marrow stromal cells. A representative embodiment is mAb 6G10 produced by hybridoma ATTC No. HB10519. A therapeutic method of modulating the immune response in a patient, by administering to the patient an agent that specifically binds to IL4-activated microvascular endothelial cells, in an amount effective to impede transmigration of lymphocytes that specifically bind to VCAM-1 from blood across postcapillary venules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/448649 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/152.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449190 | Nabel 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) | Gary Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia); Yue Huang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to assays for the identification of compounds that inhibit assembly of NP, VP35, and VP24, or inhibit the glycosylation of NP, required for nucleocapsid formation, for use as anti-viral agents. The invention also relates to assays for the identification of compounds that block glycosylation of proteins having a glycosylation domain that is substantially homologous to a glycosylation domain of NP required for polymerization. The invention further relates to pseudoparticles for presentation of antigens or antigenic epitopes for immunogenic or vaccination purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031921 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449291 | Chance et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip F. Chance (Seattle, Washington); Valerie A. Street (Seattle, Washington); Jeff D. Goldy (Seattle, Washington); Thomas D. Bird (Lake Forest Park, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods of identifying genetic mutations that are associated with peripheral neurological disease. The methods comprise identifying a difference between a nucleic acid sequence of a small integral protein of the lysosome/late endosome (“SIMPLE”) gene from a mammalian subject exhibiting peripheral neuropathy and a nucleic acid sequence of a SIMPLE gene from a subject which is not exhibiting peripheral neuropathy, wherein the difference is a genetic mutation associated with peripheral neurological disease. In another aspect, isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding SIMPLE missense mutations are provided. In another aspect, a method of screening a subject to determine if the subject has a genetic predisposition to develop Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1C neuropathy is provided. In another aspect, the invention provides kits for determining susceptibility or presence of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1C neuropathy in a mammalian subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/756194 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449292 | Liggett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Bryant Liggett (Cincinnati, Ohio); Lynne Elizabeth Wagoner (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the detection, diagnosis, and prevention of cardiac conditions are provided. Polymorphisms of β1-adrenergic receptor are provided. The Gly389 β1-adrenergic receptor variants are not as responsive to treatment β blockers such as carvedilol, metoprolol or bisoprol. Thus, genotyping β1-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms is useful for predicting relative responsiveness to treatment with beta blockers. The Gly389 polymorphism also may be used, alone or in conjunction with other adrenergic receptor polymorphisms, to predict relative risk of developing cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure or to predict relative survival rate in patients with heart failure or other cardiovascular diseases. Also provided are transgenic mice and transgenic cells expressing the β1-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms, and their use in identifying therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941063 |
| 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 07449308 | Gerngross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlycoFi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tillman U. Gerngross (Hanover, New Hampshire); Stefan Wildt (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Byung-Kwon Choi (Norwich, Vermont); Juergen Hermann Nett (Grantham, New Hampshire); Piotr Bobrowicz (White River Junction, Vermont); Stephen R. Hamilton (Enfield, New Hampshire); Robert C. Davidson (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to eukaryotic host cells having modified oligosaccharides which may be modified further by heterologous expression of a set of glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases to become host-strains for the production of mammalian, e.g., human therapeutic glycoproteins. The invention provides nucleic acid molecules and combinatorial libraries which can be used to successfully target and express mammalian enzymatic activities such as those involved in glycosylation to intracellular compartments in a eukaryotic host cell. The process provides an engineered host cell which can be used to express and target any desirable gene(s) involved in glycosylation. Host cells with modified oligosaccharides are created or selected. N-glycans made in the engineered host cells have a Man5GlcNAc2 core structure which may then be modified further by heterologous expression of one or more enzymes, e.g., glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases, to yield human-like glycoproteins. For the production of therapeutic proteins, this method may be adapted to engineer cell lines in which any desired glycosylation structure may be obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371877 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449309 | Longley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Jack Longley (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject contact dermatitis which comprises administering to the subject an amount of a compound capable of inhibiting the stem cell factor signaling pathway effective to prevent or treat contact dermatitis so as to thereby prevent or treat contact dermatitis in the subject. This invention also provides a method of preventing or treating in a subject hyperpigmentation, asthma, cutaneous inflammation, anaphylaxis and bronchospasm, mastocytosis, tumors which express activated kit, and conception. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314421 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449334 | 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, gamma amino butyric acid, pipecholic acid, lithium and transforming growth factor beta are added to the medium in which the stem cells are cultured, the stem cells will remain undifferentiated indefinitely through multiple passages, even without feeder cells or conditioned medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221457 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449442 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhigang He (Boston, Massachusetts); Vuk Koprivica (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for promoting neural regeneration in a patient determined to have a lesion in a mature CNS neuron are disclosed. The method comprises the step of contacting the neuron with an EGFR inhibitor sufficient to promote regeneration of the neuron. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180070 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449444 | Warne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey); The Regent of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas W. Warne (Andover, Massachusetts); Rebecca L. Koval (Billerica, Massachusetts); John Carpenter (Littleton, Colorado); Theodore W. Randolph (Longmont, Colorado); Suchart Chongpraset (Bangkok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions containing hydroxyethyl starch and polypeptides, including therapeutic polypeptides such as interleukin-11, that provide for enhanced stability of the polypeptide following storage at room temperature or elevated temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/236213 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449557 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pramod K. Srivastava (Avon, Connecticut); Robert J. Binder (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to complexes of alpha (2) macroglobulin associated with antigenic molecules for use in immunotherapy. The invention relates to methods for using such compositions in the diagnosis and treatment of immune disorders, proliferative disorders, and infectious diseases. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/873403 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449561 | Sommer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve S. Sommer (Duarte, California); Jinong Feng (Arcadia, California); Carolyn Buzin (Arcadia, California); Jin Yan (Duarte, California); Jeffrey Towbin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of human genetics. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods and materials used to detect a human sporadic DCM predisposing gene, specifically the dystrophin gene, some mutant alleles of which cause susceptibility to sporadic DCM. More specifically, the invention relates to germline mutations in the dystrophin gene and their use in the diagnosis of predisposition to sporadic DCM. The invention also relates to the prophylaxis and/or therapy of sporadic DCM associated with a mutation in the dystrophin gene. The invention further relates to the screening of drugs for sporadic DCM therapy. Finally, the invention relates to the screening of the dystrophin gene for mutations/alterations, which are useful for diagnosing the predisposition to sporadic DCM. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371222 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449565 | Fisher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B Fisher (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric molecules comprising portions of rat PEG-3 (“rPEG-3”) and human GADD34 (“hGADD34”) having apoptotic activity. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that a chimeric protein comprising amino acids 1-347 of rat PEG-3 fused with residues 418-674 of human GADD34 exhibited anti-proliferative activity when expressed in transformed cells. The present invention provides for this and other rPEG3/hGADD34 chimeras, and the use of such proteins in inhibiting cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and tumor growth. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040219 |
| 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 536/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449571 | Gold |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry I. Gold (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel synthetic monomers that have the capacity to be assembled into defined oligomers which bind with sequence specificity to duplex Watson-Crick DNA via a triple helix motif are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152510 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/29.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449617 | Dandekar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhaya Dandekar (Davis, California); Ryann M. Muir (Woodland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Gallic acid inhibits the synthesis by A. flavus of aflatoxin, a toxic carcinogen that can contaminate crops such as corn, peanuts and walnuts rendering them inedible. The present invention takes advantage of this inhibition to provide various methods and compositions useful for protecting crops from contamination. Gallic acid is also an intermediate in the production of hydrolyzable tannins, which may sequester protein in the rumen, prevent ammonia formation, and allow protein to be more efficiently absorbed in the post-ruminant digestive system. A second gene, polyphenol oxidase (PPO), also from walnut, may act to help sequester protein during ensiling, also protecting and improving nutritional value. The present invention includes non-naturally occurring plants that contain elevated levels of PPO or gallic acid as well as various methods of generating such plants. The present invention further provides methods of application of gallic acid to prevent contamination. In addition, the present invention provides certain genes and proteins that are be useful in making the non-naturally occurring plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482150 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449884 | Cukur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tolga Cukur (Stanford, California); Dwight G. Nishimura (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of collecting image data with selective spectral suppression for at least two species is provided. A sequence of RF excitation pulses is repeatedly applied, whereby a repeated sequence of at least two substantially different spectrally selective steady-state magnetizations is established. Magnetic gradients are applied between said RF pulses. A plurality of magnetic resonance image (MRI) signals is acquired. The plurality of MRI signals is combined using a weighted combination where the weights depend on a control parameter that adjusts a trade-off between selective spectral suppression and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800419 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07449308 | Gerngross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlycoFi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tillman U. Gerngross (Hanover, New Hampshire); Stefan Wildt (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Byung-Kwon Choi (Norwich, Vermont); Juergen Hermann Nett (Grantham, New Hampshire); Piotr Bobrowicz (White River Junction, Vermont); Stephen R. Hamilton (Enfield, New Hampshire); Robert C. Davidson (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to eukaryotic host cells having modified oligosaccharides which may be modified further by heterologous expression of a set of glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases to become host-strains for the production of mammalian, e.g., human therapeutic glycoproteins. The invention provides nucleic acid molecules and combinatorial libraries which can be used to successfully target and express mammalian enzymatic activities such as those involved in glycosylation to intracellular compartments in a eukaryotic host cell. The process provides an engineered host cell which can be used to express and target any desirable gene(s) involved in glycosylation. Host cells with modified oligosaccharides are created or selected. N-glycans made in the engineered host cells have a Man5GlcNAc2 core structure which may then be modified further by heterologous expression of one or more enzymes, e.g., glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases, to yield human-like glycoproteins. For the production of therapeutic proteins, this method may be adapted to engineer cell lines in which any desired glycosylation structure may be obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371877 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449715 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprising a polymer of Formula or structure (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen, halogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, or a heteroatom containing group; R2 is hydrogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; R3 and R4 are independently a suitable hydrocarbon, hydrogen, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; Ar is an aromatic component; x, y, a, b, and c represent the number of groups or rings, respectively; Z represents sulfur, oxygen, selenium, or NR wherein R is hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl; and n represents the number of repeating units. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399231 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449968 | Cioffi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Discera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Cioffi (San Jose, California); Didier Lacroix (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a signal generation technique based on a reference frequency provided by a MEMS resonator. The signal generation technique compensates for temperature- and fabrication process-induced frequency variations collectively. In some embodiments, a device implementing the disclosed signal generation technique includes a fractional-N synthesizer, a temperature sensor, calibration data, and a sigma-delta modulator to adjust the reference frequency of the MEMS resonator to a desired frequency value while compensating for the temperature variation of the MEMS resonator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417739 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07450353 | Pappas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Pappas (Louisville, Colorado); Fabio da Silva (Boulder, Colorado); Jose Aumentado (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetoresistive sensing apparatus is disclosed, comprising a magnetic film having a zig-zag shaped structure, a central axis, and a magnetization associated with the magnetic film, wherein the zig-zag shaped structure biases the magnetization direction alternately at positive and negative angles thereof, thereby permitting the magnetoresistive sensing apparatus to be sensitive to a magnetic field parallel to the axis of the magnetoresistive sensing apparatus and insensitive to magnetic fields perpendicular to the axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246322 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07449237 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YinThai Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microparticle can include a central region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region can include a nanoparticle, such as a metal nanoparticle, a metal oxide nanoparticle, or a semiconductor nanocrystal. The microparticle can be a member of a monodisperse population of particles. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/808476 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449509 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois); Qinglan Huang (Libertyville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Hole transport layer compositions comprising a silylated aryl amine and a polymeric component, to enhance performance of an associated electroluminescent device. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009883 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449738 | Eom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Beom Eom (Madison, Wisconsin); Kyung-Jin Choi (Madison, Wisconsin); Darrell G. Schlom (State College, Pennsylvania); Long-Qing Chen (College Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A strained thin film structure includes a substrate layer formed of a crystalline scandate material having a top surface, and a strained layer of crystalline ferroelectric epitaxially grown with respect to the crystalline substrate layer so as to be in a strained state and at a thickness below which dislocations begin to occur in the crystalline ferroelectric layer. An intermediate layer may be grown between the top surface of the substrate layer and the ferroelectric layer wherein the intermediate layer carries the lattice structure of the underlying substrate layer. The properties of the ferroelectric film are greatly enhanced as compared to the bulk ferroelectric material, and such films are suitable for use in applications including ferroelectric memories. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977335 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451144 | Koudas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AT and T Corp. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaos Koudas (Springfield, New Jersey); Divesh Srivastava (Summit, New Jersey); Jignesh M. Patel (Sylvania, Ohio); Shurug Ali Al-Khalifa (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hosagrahar V. Jagadish (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yuqing Wu (Windsor, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Structural join mechanisms provide efficient query pattern matching. In one embodiment, tree-merge mechanisms are provided. In another embodiment, stack-tree mechanisms are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/748832 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07449150 | Hutchens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T William Hutchens (Mountain View, California); Tai-Tung Yip (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for desorption and ionization of analytes for the purpose of subsequent scientific analysis by such methods, for example, as mass spectrometry or biosensors. More specifically, this invention relates to the field of mass spectrometry, especially to the type of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization, time-of-flight mass spectrometry used to analyze macromolecules, such as proteins or biomolecules. Most specifically, this invention relates to the sample probe geometry, sample probe composition, and sample probe surface chemistries that enable the selective capture and desorption of analytes, including intact macromolecules, directly from the probe surface into the gas (vapor) phase without added chemical matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/347495 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449617 | Dandekar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhaya Dandekar (Davis, California); Ryann M. Muir (Woodland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Gallic acid inhibits the synthesis by A. flavus of aflatoxin, a toxic carcinogen that can contaminate crops such as corn, peanuts and walnuts rendering them inedible. The present invention takes advantage of this inhibition to provide various methods and compositions useful for protecting crops from contamination. Gallic acid is also an intermediate in the production of hydrolyzable tannins, which may sequester protein in the rumen, prevent ammonia formation, and allow protein to be more efficiently absorbed in the post-ruminant digestive system. A second gene, polyphenol oxidase (PPO), also from walnut, may act to help sequester protein during ensiling, also protecting and improving nutritional value. The present invention includes non-naturally occurring plants that contain elevated levels of PPO or gallic acid as well as various methods of generating such plants. The present invention further provides methods of application of gallic acid to prevent contamination. In addition, the present invention provides certain genes and proteins that are be useful in making the non-naturally occurring plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482150 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP19434 | Vorsa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholi Vorsa (Atco, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cranberry variety distinguished by significantly higher yields, higher anthocyanin content (red pigment), higher stolon vigor, and earlier flowering phenology. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483065 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07449065 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio Aerospace Institute (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Anthony Powell (North Olmsted, Ohio); Philip G. Neudeck (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Andrew J. Trunek (Chargin Falls, Ohio); David J. Spry (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and the benefits resulting from the product thereof are disclosed for the growth of large, low-defect single-crystals of tetrahedrally-bonded crystal materials. The process utilizes a uniquely designed crystal shape whereby the direction of rapid growth is parallel to a preferred crystal direction. By establishing several regions of growth, a large single crystal that is largely defect-free can be grown at high growth rates. This process is particularly suitable for producing products for wide-bandgap semiconductors, such as SiC, GaN, AlN, and diamond. Large low-defect single crystals of these semiconductors enable greatly enhanced performance and reliability for applications involving high power, high voltage, and/or high temperature operating conditions. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633111 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451021 | Wilson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Wilson (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for detecting and isolating fault modes in a system having a model describing its behavior and regularly sampled measurements. The models are used to calculate past and present deviations from measurements that would result with no faults present, as well as with one or more potential fault modes present. Algorithms that calculate and store these deviations, along with memory of when said faults, if present, would have an effect on the said actual measurements, are used to detect when a fault is present. Related algorithms are used to exonerate false fault modes and finally to isolate the true fault mode. This invention is presented with application to detection and isolation of thruster faults for a thruster-controlled spacecraft. As a supporting aspect of the invention, a novel, effective, and efficient filtering method for estimating the derivative of a noisy signal is presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841675 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07449118 | Kennard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAR Systems, LLC. (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claude Kennard (Cleveland, Ohio); Michael A. Gonzalez (Wyoming, Ohio); David C. Szlag (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the use of used alumina to reduce the level of inorganic contaminants, such as mercury and arsenic, from waste fluid streams. The invention further provides a process for reducing the level of mercury or arsenic in fluid streams by contacting the fluid stream with used alumina, such as used Claus catalyst. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024377 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07448109 | Brewer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ultreo, Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald K. Brewer (Redmond, Washington); James Christopher McInnes (Seattle, Washington); Daniel Bayeh (Seattle, Washington); Frederick Jay Bennett (Kirkland, Washington); Richard K. Taylor (Fall City, Washington); David A. Ballard (Sammamish, Washington); George A. Barrett (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An oral hygiene device having an ultrasound transducer 22 and an acoustic waveguide 24 facilitating the transmission of ultrasonic acoustic energy to fluids in the oral cavity is disclosed. Preferred ultrasound operating parameters for operation in aqueous environments and in dental slurries are disclosed. Devices may incorporate a drive motor 16 for oscillating a device head 23, acoustic waveguide 24 and one or more bristle tuft(s) 26 at sonic frequencies, and preferred sonic operating parameters are also provided. Multi-element piezoelectric transducer assemblies 30, 40, and various control and communications features are disclosed. Oral hygiene devices disclosed herein achieve improved plaque and stain removal from the teeth as well as interproximal and subgingival regions, while enhancing the user experience, massaging the gums, stimulating dental tissue, and disrupting biofilm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613994 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning 015/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07451118 | McMeen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan McMeen (Burke, Virginia); Gregory Moore (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for creating response pieces. The response piece system authenticates a user, generates a standardized address based on address code information received from the user, and generates a response piece mailpiece based on the standardized address and the information received from the user. In additional embodiments, including an embodiment for prepaid response pieces, the response piece system generates a response piece permit based on permit information received from the user, generates a unique address code based on address code information received from the user, received payment of an identified fee, and generates the response piece mailpiece based on the permit and the unique address code. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884920 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07448753 | Chinnock |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Randal B. Chinnock (Southbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held digital camera for obtaining images of a portion of a patient's body and having a hand-held housing, a visible light source located within the housing for providing light along an illumination path from the housing aperture to the patient's body, an image sensor located within the housing that detects light returning from the patient's body along an imaging path that passes into the housing aperture, an optical system located within the housing with separate illumination and imaging paths, an external optical aperture common to the illumination and imaging systems, wherein the illumination and imaging sub-apertures are wholly contained within the common external aperture, are longitudinally coincident, and are laterally separated and non-overlapping, a digital memory device for storing captured images, an output display carried by the housing, and the ability to electronically transmit stored images. The camera can be used for retinal imaging and for otoscopy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/458610 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07449870 | Cebry |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George L. Cebry (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuitry (20) and a method are provided for limiting peak current while supplying a constant voltage to a load (42). The circuit (20) comprises an input terminal (32) for coupling to the voltage supply, current sense circuitry (26) coupled to the input terminal (32), a capacitor (30) coupled to an output terminal (40), a converter power stage (22) coupled between the current sense circuitry (26) and the output terminal (40); and a converter controller (24) having inputs coupled to the output terminal (40) and the current sense circuitry (26), and an output coupled to the converter power stage (22) for switching the converter power stage (22) from a voltage mode to a current mode. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/349369 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/285 |
| 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, November 11, 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.
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FUNDED BY
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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)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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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)
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