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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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| US 07451639 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Mark D Windoloski (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vladimir B Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Darrell E Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Todd M Dunford (Waltham, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of curved components, such as the dovetail region of engine blades, are inspected by mounting each component into a circular carousel in a vertical orientation and rotating the carousel to move each component toward and away from an inspection site. The inspection site clamps a flexible eddy current sensor array to the curved material surface, scans the array over the surface, records the sensor position. A rigid element having a surface geometry similar to the surface shape of the component can be attached to the component to facilitate scanning of the sensor array over a component edge. The response of each sense element in the array may be converted into an effective material property and sense element proximity to the component material surface to verify the quality of the inspection scan and the presence of a defect such as a crack. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715288 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/112.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451646 | Cleland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew N. Cleland (Santa Barbara, California); Hyongsok T. Soh (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonant high-speed microscopic impedance probe useful for small scale impedance measurements and/or cell and particle counting. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460965 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/335.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451680 | Pelto |
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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) | John H. Pelto (Swansea, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A steam generator missile ejection system has a vessel that contains water that becomes the pressurized steam source for missile ejection. A heating system within the vessel heats the water to steam and to the desired launch pressure. The heater is controlled to sequence operation and heat generation with a command from a controller shortly before initiation of a firing valve. A valve controls piping from the vessel to direct steam to a piping header and onto the ejection chamber of a launch tube. This event provides the launch pulse required to eject the payload from the missile tube. The launch energy requirements can be modulated by varying the pre-launch temperature of the water in the pressure vessel and can be controlled by an opening rate and length of open duration of the valve. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584116 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.810 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451702 | Dindl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dindl (Newton, New Jersey); Peter Georgantzis (East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania); Hugh MacMillan (Stanhope, New Jersey); Kenneth Jones (Wayne, New Jersey); Richard Beckman (Randolph, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically-fired round includes a case sized to fit in a conventional large caliber gun; a launch tube disposed in the case; a plurality of projectiles axially stacked in the launch tube; each projectile comprising a cylindrical body having a circular lid that closes the forward end and a circular base that closes the rear end, the circular lid and the circular base defining a payload volume therebetween, the circular base including a cavity formed therein, a propellant charge disposed in the cavity, and an igniter disposed in the propellant charge; a case base plate that closes a rear end of the case; and electrical connections between the case base plate and each igniter. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279583 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451703 | Dabiri |
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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) | Shahram Dabiri (Flanders, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for venting munitions exposed to high ambient temperatures. The munition includes a casing having a nose end and an opening in the nose end; a lifting plug disposed in the opening in the nose end, the lifting plug including a bore therethrough; and a seal disposed in the bore in the lifting plug, the seal comprising an ionomer. The munition may further include a fuze well disposed in the casing, the opening in the nose end leading into the fuze well; and a second seal disposed in the fuze well. The seals will rupture and vent the munition's explosive to the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/306264 |
| ART UNIT | 4165 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451704 | Gold 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) | Vladimir Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey); William J. Poulos (River Vale, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosive fragmentation munition having a longitudinal axis which includes a cylindrical shell portion having a thickness and an interior; a rounded shell portion having a thickness and an interior, the rounded shell portion being disposed at a front end of the cylindrical shell portion; an explosive disposed in the interiors of the cylindrical shell portion and the rounded shell portion; wherein the thickness of the rounded shell portion equals the thickness of the cylindrical shell portion where the rounded shell portion joins the cylindrical shell portion, and wherein the thickness of the rounded shell portion increases in a forward direction along the longitudinal axis. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162470 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451714 | Redfern 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) | Robert Redfern (Media, Pennsylvania); Constantine Pappas (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Luke Cassario (Waterford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for sealing a doorway, more particularly, an all purpose gasket structure capable of sealing a doorway against the entry of water, smoke, and fire. The gasket is primarily an elongated silicone rubber structure having a ridged rectangular cross section for mounting to a gasket retainer. The gasket also includes a crush zone which collapses inwardly when pressure is applied to the gasket surface, resulting in improved sealing and the blockage of water intrusion paths. The gasket may further include an intumescent section within the elongated silicone rubber structure. In the sealing arrangement, the gasket is arranged within a gasket retainer that surrounds the doorway, thereby sealing boundaries between areas of personal egress. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586748 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07451719 | Fitzpatrick 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) | Brian K. Fitzpatrick (Swedesboro, New Jersey); Thomas H. Fikse (West Chester, Pennsylvania); William A. Lynch (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for degaussing a water vessel. The invention involves the use of a light-weight reduced-size degaussing system that comprises a plurality of degaussing coils arranged in a plurality of axes. An electrical current is passed through the plurality of coils to create a degaussing field. The degaussing coils comprise a high temperature superconductor material, the coils cooled by a single-phase gaseous cryogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788331 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/240.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452212 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York); Ali Afzali (Ossining, New York); Steven Allen Cordes (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Matthew J. Farinelli (Riverdale, New York); Sherif A. Goma (White Plains, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Daniel Peter Morris (Purchase, New York); Joanna Rosner (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Nisha Yohannan (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for forming enhanced electrical connections are provided. In one aspect, an electrical connecting device comprises an electrically insulating carrier having one or more contact structures traversing a plane thereof. Each contact structure comprises an elastomeric material having an electrically conductive layer running along at least one surface thereof continuously through the plane of the carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/718279 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452452 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Yuehe Lin (Richland, Washington); Wassana Yantasee (Richland, Washington); Guodong Liu (Fargo, North Dakota); Fang Lu (Burlingame, California); Yi Tu (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microelectode arrays (MEAs), and more particularly to carbon nanotube nanoelectrode arrays (CNT-NEAs) for chemical and biological sensing, and methods of use. A nanoelectrode array includes a carbon nanotube material comprising an array of substantially linear carbon nanotubes each having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the carbon nanotubes are attached to a catalyst substrate material so as to form the array with a pre-determined site density, wherein the carbon nanotubes are aligned with respect to one another within the array; an electrically insulating layer on the surface of the carbon nanotube material, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the electrically insulating layer; a second adhesive electrically insulating layer on the surface of the electrically insulating layer, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the second adhesive electrically insulating layer; and a metal wire attached to the catalyst substrate material. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017480 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452572 | Bocian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Zhiming Liu (Riverside, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel methods for the formation of redox-active polymers attached to surfaces. In certain embodiments, the methods involve providing redox-active molecules bearing at least a first reactive site or group and a second reactive site or group; and contacting the surface with the redox-active molecules where the contacting is under conditions that result in attachment of said redox-active molecules to said surface via the first reactive site or group and attachment of redox-active molecules via the second reactive site or group, to the redox-active molecules attached to the surface thereby forming a polymer attached to said surface where the polymers comprise at least two of said redox-active molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/800147 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452721 | Martin |
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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) | Samuel K. Martin (Nairobi, Kenya) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the diagnosis of visceral, cutaneous and canine leishmaniasis in a subject suspected of being infected with the parasitic protozoa Leishmania is disclosed. Disclosed are antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the detection of antibodies to Leishmania parasite soluble antigens and antigen-capture ELISAs for the detection of Leishmania parasite soluble antigens in host samples. Also disclosed are immunodiagnostic kits for the detection of Leishmania parasite circulating antigens or IgM and IgG antibodies in a sample from subject having visceral, cutaneous or canine leishmaniasis. In these methods and kits, detection may be done photometrically or visually. The methods and kits also allow the visualization of Leishmania amastigotes or promastigotes in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/990971 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452741 | Aksyuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir A. Aksyuk (Westfield, New Jersey); Nagesh R. Basavanhally (Skillman, New Jersey); Omar D. Lopez (Summit, New Jersey); Chien-Shing Pai (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a process for manufacturing an apparatus. The process, in one embodiment, includes providing a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device, the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device including an actuator coupled to a movable feature, sacrificial material fixing the actuator and movable feature with respect to one another, and a layer of material located over the actuator, movable feature and sacrificial material. The process may further include removing only a portion of the layer of material to expose the sacrificial material, and subjecting the exposed sacrificial material to an etchant to release the movable feature. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/425100 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452800 | Sosnowchik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Sosnowchik (Walnut Creek, California); Liwei Lin (Castro Valley, California); Albert P. Pisano (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bonding technique suitable for bonding a non-metal body, such as a silicon MEMS sensor, to a metal surface, such a steel mechanical component is rapid enough to be compatible with typical manufacturing processes, and avoids any detrimental change in material properties of the metal surface arising from the bonding process. The bonding technique has many possible applications, including bonding of MEMS strain sensors to metal mechanical components. The inventive bonding technique uses inductive heating of a heat-activated bonding agent disposed between metal and non-metal objects to quickly and effectively bond the two without changing their material properties. Representative tests of silicon to steel bonding using this technique have demonstrated excellent bond strength without changing the steel's material properties. Thus, with this induction bonding approach, silicon MEMS devices can be manufacturably bonded to mechanical steel components for real time monitoring of the conditions/environment of a steel component. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/598244 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452951 | Wynne 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) | James H Wynne (Alexandria, Virginia); Joanne M Jones-Meehan (Laurel, Maryland); Arthur W Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Leonard J Buckley (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating having an adhesive hydrophilic polymer and an amphiphilic additive. The amphiphilic additive has a hydrophilic chain, a biocidal functional group bonded to the hydrophilic chain, and a hydrophobic moiety bonded to the hydrophilic chain or to the biocidal functional group. A method of forming a biocidal surface by providing an article, and coating the article with the above coating. A compound having the formula: Y—(O—CH2—CH2)n—R—(CH2)m—CH3. Y is CH3 or H. R is X is a halogen, and m and n are independently selected positive integers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970543 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452959 | 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); Dawn D. Dominguez (Temple Hills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An aromatic ether oligomer or polyaromatic ether comprising the formula: wherein Ar is an independently selected divalent aromatic radical; formed by reacting a dihydroxyaromatic with a dihaloaromatic; and wherein the reaction is performed in the presence of a copper compound and cesium carbonate. The polyaromatic ether is formed when neither the dihydroxyaromatic nor the dihaloaromatic is present in an excess amount. The aromatic ether oligomer is formed by using an excess of either dihydroxyaromatic or dihaloaromatic. A phthalonitrile monomer comprising the formula: formed by reacting a 3- or 4-nitrophthalonitrile with a hydroxy-terminated aromatic ether oligomer. A thermoset formed by curing the phthalonitrile monomer. Processes for forming all the above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808266 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453646 | Lo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluidic adaptive lens devices, and systems employing such lens devices, along with methods of fabricating and operating such lens devices, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a lens material is optimally selected to provide one or more desired characteristics for a variety of applications related to adaptive lens devices. In another embodiment, a fluidic medium is optimally chosen to provide one or more desired characteristics for a variety of applications related to adaptive lens devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/683141 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453747 | Abraham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David William Abraham (Croton, New York); Philip Louis Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for minimizing errors that may occur when writing information to a magnetic memory cell array with an operating write current due to changes in the local magnetic fields and. A test write current is sent to a reference memory cell and the effect of the test current on the orientation of the magnetization in the reference cell is monitored. The write current is then modified to compensate for any changes in the optimum operating point that have occurred. Arrays of reference magnetic memory cells having varying properties may be used to more accurately characterize any changes that have occurred in the operating environment. A phase difference between a time varying current used to drive the reference cell and the corresponding variations in the orientation of the magnetization in the reference cell may also be used to further characterize changes in the operating environment. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865517 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453917 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher B. Cooper (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gerald C. Manke (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gordon D. Hager (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Timothy J. Madden (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous wave laser based on the electronic I*(2P½)−I(2P 3/2) transition of atomic iodine at 1.315 microns from the NCl(a1Δ)+I(2P 3/2) energy transfer reaction using a transverse flow device having gas flow from an upstream subsonic combustor section through a converging-diverging supersonic slit nozzle to a downstream supersonic section and an intersecting optical resonator. Laser operation is achieved through the transformation of the gas phase chemical reagents, D2 (deuterium), F2 (fluorine), NF3 (nitrogen trifluoride), DCl (deuterium chloride) HI (hydrogen iodide) in the subsonic section and HN3 (hydrogen azide) in the supersonic section. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179187 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453918 | Laughman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lanny Laughman (Bolton, Connecticut); Vernon Seguin (Windsor, Connecticut); Peter P. Chenausky (Avon, Connecticut); Robert Henschke (East Hampton, Connecticut); Eric R. Mueller (West Suffield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved laser system includes a sealed-off, RF excited, diffusion cooled, high pressure, short pulsed, high peak power waveguide and slab CO2 laser that avoids problems typically associated with obtaining a diffused discharge at high gas pressures, without arcing and without corona, while maintaining the unsaturated gain and gas temperature experienced at low pressures and scaling to higher pressures. Such a system has a long operating life-time, and is capable of operation at high gas pressures to obtain relative fast rise and fall time pulses. The system emits relatively short pulse widths, with pulse energies up to and exceeding 30 mJ, with reasonably high pulse repetition rates. The system also has a low pulsed RF power duty cycle, thereby enabling the generation of high peak power pulses, as well as reasonable average power and reasonably high peak powers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484916 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453987 | Richardson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex D Richardson (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods described herein automatically detect, highlight and identify high-Z materials in volume concentrations of approximately 100 cm3 or greater utilizing single and/or dual energy sources with x-ray and neutron detectors. The methods and systems described herein are applied to the imaging of containerized cargo and cargo vehicles. Pursuant to the described systems and methods, radiation powers are orders of magnitude lower than those used in the conventional systems. By reducing the radiation power by a factor of, for example, 100 or more, the shielding requirements for the system are greatly reduced, alignment requirements can be significantly relaxed and system components can be lighter weight and more modular. Consequently, system costs are reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634218 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454095 | Baehr-Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Baehr-Jones (Pasadena, California); Michael J. Hochberg (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal waveguide is coupled to a dielectric waveguide to obtain transmission of light in a plasmon mode along an edge of the metal waveguide. Efficient, broadband light transmission is obtained, achieving a low insertion loss, using standard processing tools. An efficient integrated optical circuit is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116110 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454110 | Zhou |
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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) | Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for constructing a reconfigurable photonic band gap device having a substrate and a crystal membrane with a lattice structure having its ends attached to a substrate so that a midportion of the lattice membrane is spaced upwardly from the substrate and forms a chamber therebetween. A bridge is disposed in the chamber between and separated from both the lattice membrane midportion and the substrate. At least one post is attached to the bridge and aligned with at least one hole in the lattice so that movement of the bridge relative to the lattice varies the degree of insertion of the post relative to its associated hole to vary the photonic band gap behavior of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642678 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454112 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Kai Chen (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Andreas Bertold Leven (Gillette, New Jersey); Yang Yang (Gillette, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus including: a substrate layer having a substantially planar top surface; an optically conductive peak located and elongated on, and spanning a first thickness measured in a direction generally away from, the top surface; the optically conductive peak having first and second lateral walls each including distal and proximal lateral wall portions, the proximal lateral wall portions intersecting the top surface; and first and second sidewall layers located on the distal lateral wall portions, the sidewall layers not intersecting the top surface and spanning a second thickness that is less than the first thickness measured in the same direction. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394780 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454326 | Marcu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California); William Wong (Mission Viejo, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California); Philipp Koehn (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine translation (MT) system may utilize a phrase-based joint probability model. The model may be used to generate source and target language sentences simultaneously. In an embodiment, the model may learn phrase-to-phrase alignments from word-to-word alignments generated by a word-to-word statistical MT system. The system may utilize the joint probability model for both source-to-target and target-to-source translation applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402350 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454573 | Buyuktosunoglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alper Buyuktosunoglu (Putnam Valley, New York); Zhigang Hu (Ossining, New York); Jude A. Rivers (Cortlandt Manor, New York); John T. Robinson (Yorktown Heights, New York); Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hardware based method for determining when to migrate cache lines to the cache bank closest to the requesting processor to avoid remote access penalty for future requests. In a preferred embodiment, decay counters are enhanced and used in determining the cost of retaining a line as opposed to replacing it while not losing the data. In one embodiment, a minimization of off-chip communication is sought; this may be particularly useful in a CMP environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/035350 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454597 | Kailas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishnan K. Kailas (Tarrytown, New York); Ravi Nair (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Sumedh W. Sathaye (Cary, North Carolina); Wolfram Sauer (Austin, Texas); John-David Wellman (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor core and method of executing instructions, both of which utilizes schedules, are presented. Each of the schedules includes a sequence of instructions, an address of a first of the instructions in the schedule, an order vector of an original order of the instructions in the schedule, a rename map of registers for each register in the schedule, and a list of register names used in the schedule. The schedule exploits instruction-level parallelism in executing out-of-order instructions. The processor core includes a schedule cache that is configured to store schedules, a shared cache configured to store both I-side and D-side cache data, and an execution resource for requesting a schedule to be executed from the schedule cache. The processor core further includes a scheduler disposed between the schedule cache and the cache. The scheduler creating the schedule using branch execution history from a branch history table to create the instructions when the schedule requested by the execution resource is not found in the schedule cache. The processor core executes the instructions according to the schedule being executed. The method includes requesting a schedule from a schedule cache. The method further includes fetching the schedule, when the schedule is found in the schedule cache; and creating the schedule, when the schedule is not found in the schedule cache. The method also includes renaming the registers in the schedule to avoid false dependencies in a processor core, mapping registers to renamed registers in the schedule, and stitching register values in and out of another schedule according to the list of register names and the rename map of registers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/618948 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07451651 | Woychik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Gerard Woychik (Niskayuna, New York); Rayette Ann Fisher (Niskayuna, New York); David Martin Mills (Niskayuna, New York); Scott Cogan (Niskayuna, New York); David Richard Esler (Mayfield, New York); Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Niskayuna, New York); Jeffrey Scott Erlbaum (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular sensor assembly and methods of fabricating a modular sensor assembly are provided. The modular sensor assembly includes a sensor array coupled to an electronics array in a stacked configuration. The sensor array comprises a plurality of sensor modules, each comprising a plurality of sensor sub-arrays. The electronics array comprises a plurality of integrated circuit modules, each comprising a plurality of integrated circuit chips. The sensor modules may be coupled to the electronics modules via flip chip technology. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/636822 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/641 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452452 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Yuehe Lin (Richland, Washington); Wassana Yantasee (Richland, Washington); Guodong Liu (Fargo, North Dakota); Fang Lu (Burlingame, California); Yi Tu (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microelectode arrays (MEAs), and more particularly to carbon nanotube nanoelectrode arrays (CNT-NEAs) for chemical and biological sensing, and methods of use. A nanoelectrode array includes a carbon nanotube material comprising an array of substantially linear carbon nanotubes each having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the carbon nanotubes are attached to a catalyst substrate material so as to form the array with a pre-determined site density, wherein the carbon nanotubes are aligned with respect to one another within the array; an electrically insulating layer on the surface of the carbon nanotube material, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the electrically insulating layer; a second adhesive electrically insulating layer on the surface of the electrically insulating layer, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the second adhesive electrically insulating layer; and a metal wire attached to the catalyst substrate material. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017480 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452542 | Denison |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Denison (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed live, attenuated coronavirus vaccines. The vaccine comprises a viral genome encoding a p59 protein having at mutation at a specific tyrosine residue, and may include other attenuating mutations. Such viruses show reduced growth and pathogenicity in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135603 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/221.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452670 | Muchowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Muchowski (Kenmore, Washington); Susan L. Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tiago Outeiro (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of screening candidate agents to identify lead compounds for the development of therapeutic agents for the treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, such as Huntington's Disease and Parkinson's Disease and methods for identifying a mutation in, or changes in expression of, a gene associated with neurodegenerative disease, such as Huntington's Disease and Parkinson's Disease, are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/003216 |
| 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 07452681 | Amaral et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Okaland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G Amaral (Davis, California); Judy Van de Water (Capay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of identifying markers indicative of the risk of developing a neurodevelopmental disorder caused in part by antibody- or autoantibody-mediated damage of neural tissue, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The invention further provides methods of diagnosing whether an individual has a neurodevelopmental disorder, including an ASD, and methods for determining the risk that a mother's future offspring will develop an a neurodevelopmental disorder, including an ASD. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/381943 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452693 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben Shen (Verona, Wisconsin); Yi-Qiang Cheng (Madison, Wisconsin); Gong-Li Tang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic and biochemical characterization of the leinamycin biosynthesis gene cluster from Streptomyces atroolivaceus S-140 revealed two PKS genes, lnmI and lnmJ, that encode six PKS modules, none of which contains a cognate AT domain. The AT activity is provided in trans by a discrete protein, LnmG, which loads the malonyl coenzyme A extender unit onto the ACP domains of all six PKS modules. This finding provides a basis for methods of engineering modular polyketide synthases and polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550703 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452694 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California); Jon Elliot Adler (Sherwood, Oregon); Mark Hoon (Kensington, Maryland); Nick Ryba (Bethesda, Maryland); Ken Mueller (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of taste cell specific G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of taste cell specific G-protein coupled receptors. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364861 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452701 | Frey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry A. Frey (Madison, Wisconsin); Frank J. Ruzicka (Lodi, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Purified β-amino acids are of considerable interest in the preparation of pharmacologically active compounds and industrial precursors. Although enantiomerically pure β-amino acids can be produced by standard chemical synthesis, this traditional approach is time consuming, requires expensive starting materials, and results in a racemic mixture which must be purified further. However, DNA molecules encoding lysine 2,3-aminomutase can be used to prepare β-amino acids by methods that avoid the pitfalls of chemical synthesis. The present invention provides a method of producing enantiomerically pure β-amino acids from α-amino acids comprising catalyzing the conversion of an α-amino acid to a corresponding β-amino acid by utilizing a lysine 2,3-aminomutase as the catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/235939 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452705 | Kazmierczak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krystyna M. Kazmierczak (Park Ridge, Illinois); Elena K. Davydova (Chicago, Illinois); Lucia B. Rothman-Denes (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A histidine-tagged, deletion mutant of bacteriophage N4-coded, virion RNA polymerase (mini-vRNAP) which is active has been developed. The his-tagged mini-vRNAP has been cloned under the control of the pBAD promoter, is stable and is purified in a single step yielding large amounts (10 mg/liter of E. coli expressing cells). This RNA polymerase uses single-stranded DNA containing 17 bases (the promoter) upstream of the transcribed regions as a template. In the presence of E. coli SSB protein, it transcribes this template efficiently, providing a unique system to synthesize RNAs of the desired sequence using single-stranded DNA templates. The enzyme incorporates derivatized nucleoside triphosphates with high efficiency. A mutant of mini-vRNAP has been generated that incorporates deoxynucleoside triphosphates. In addition, the inventors have developed an in vivo system to express RNAs and proteins under mini vRNA polymerase promoter control. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/153219 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452717 | Danks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary K. Danks (Memphis, Tennessee); Philip M. Potter (Memphis, Tennessee); Peter J. Houghton (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding carboxylesterase enzymes and polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides which are capable of metabolizing a chemotherapeutic prodrug and inactive metabolites thereof to active drug are provided. Compositions and methods for sensitizing tumor cells to a prodrug chemotherapeutic agent and inhibiting tumor growth with this enzyme are also provided. In addition, screening assay for identification of drugs activated by this enzyme are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/858271 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452884 | Ruggeri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Ruggeri (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Margie L. Clapper (Harleysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods for inhibiting angiogenesis and treating diseases associated with angiogenesis are described. The methods may comprise administering to a patient an effective amount of a 1,2-dithiol-3-thione derivative or metabolite thereof. Preferred compounds for use in the methods include 5-(2-pyrazinyl)-4methyl-1,2-dithiol-3-thione (Oltipraz) and its metabolites. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522238 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452898 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Ganesh D. Kini (Bristow, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to phosphonate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use for treating a variety of medical disorders, e.g., osteoporosis and other disorders of bone metabolism, cancer, viral infections, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506292 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Cooke (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Endothelial nitric oxide production is enhanced by administration of arginine or lysine as a dietary supplement. Enhanced nitric oxide production from arginine supplementation improves vascular function and structure. Additional compounds may be administered with arginine or lysine to further enhance nitric oxide activity, including calcium, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin C, vitamin B, coenzyme Q, carotene, or glutathione. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/019118 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/565 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452964 | Pasqualini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas); Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Mikhail G. Kolonin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions comprising and methods of identification and use of targeting peptides for placenta or adipose tissue. In certain embodiments, the targeting peptides comprise part or all of SEQ ID NO:5-11, SEQ ID NO:13-22 OR SEQ ID NO:144. The peptides may be attached to various therapeutic agents for targeted delivery. Adipose-targeting peptides may be used in methods for weight control, inducing weight loss and treating lipodystrophy syndrome. Adipose-targeting may also be accomplished using other binding moieties selectively targeted to adipose receptors, such as a prohibitin receptor protein complex. Placenta-targeting peptides may be used to interfere with pregnancy, induce labor and/or for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to placenta and/or fetus. In other embodiments, receptors identified by binding to placenta-targeting peptides may be used to screen compounds for potential teratogenicity. An exemplary placental receptor is FcRn/β2M, and compounds that bind to FcRn/β2M are potential teratogens. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/489071 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452971 | Vitetta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ellen S. Vitetta (Dallas, Texas); Victor F. Ghetie (Dallas, Texas); Joan E. Smallshaw (Irving, Texas); Roxana G. Baluna (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods to produce immunotoxins (ITs) and cytokines with a reduced ability to promote vascular leak syndrome (VLS). The invention also provides ITs and cytokines which have been mutated to lack amino acid sequences which induce VLS. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263537 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 07452973 | Raines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen M. Fuchs (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for designing novel fluorescent proteins, preferably to a green fluorescent proteins (GFP). The engineered GFPs are modified by substituting negatively charged amino acids with positively charged amino acids on the exterior of the protein making the protein cell permeable. The ability of the engineered fluorescent proteins to permeate cells obviates the need for transfections, allowing these novel proteins to be used in numerous biological applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593664 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 07453977 | DiBianca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank A. DiBianca (Memphis, Tennessee); Lawrence M. Jordan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Variable-Resolution X-ray (VRX) techniques boost spatial resolution of a Computed Tomographic (CT) scanner in the scan plane by two or more orders of magnitude by reducing the angle of incidence of the x-ray beam with respect to the detector surface. A multi-arm multi-angle VRX detector for targeted CT scanning allows for “target imaging” in which an area of interest is scanned at higher resolution than the remainder of the subject, yielding even higher resolution for the target area than that obtained from prior VRX techniques. In one embodiment, the VRX-CT detector comprises four quasi-identical arms, each containing six 24-cell modules made of individual custom CdWO4 scintillators optically-coupled to custom photodiode arrays. The maximum scan field is 40 cm for a magnification of 1.4. A significant advantage of the four-arm geometry is that it can transform quickly to a two-arm or single-arm geometry for comparison studies and other applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672071 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
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| US 07453978 | DiBianca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank A. DiBianca (Memphis, Tennessee); Lawrence M. Jordan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable-resolution x-ray (VRX) scanner apparatus forms Computed Tomographic (CT) x-ray images of a subject. The detector array comprises a plurality of detector cells that detect the x-ray radiation at a spatial resolution that is dependent at least in part on cell-to-cell spacing in the array and the orientation of the array with respect to the X-axis and Z-axis. The detector array is operable to be tilted with respect to the Z-axis. The tilt angle of the array, which is preferably 45 degrees, defines an angular relationship between the Z-axis and a pivot axis of the array, where the pivot axis passes through the origin of the XYZ coordinate system. The detector array is operable to be pivoted about the pivot axis and positioned at a pivot angle with respect to the X-axis. The pivot angle defines an angular relationship between the detector array and the X-axis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/767613 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
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| US 07454045 | Yao 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) | Jianhua Yao (Laurel, Maryland); Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual anatomical structure can be analyzed to determine enclosing three-dimensional boundaries of features therein. Various techniques can be used to determine tissue types in the virtual anatomical structure. For example, tissue types can be determined via an iso-boundary between lumen and air in the virtual anatomical structure and a fuzzy clustering approach. Based on the tissue type determination, a deformable model approach can be used to determine an enclosing three-dimensional boundary of a feature in the virtual anatomical structure. The enclosing three-dimensional boundary can be used to determine characteristics of the feature and classify it as of interest or not of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779210 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07452407 | Golden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Christopher Golden (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Thomas Stephen Farris (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vacuum swing adsorption processes that produce an essentially carbon monoxide-free hydrogen or helium gas stream from, respectively, a high-purity (e.g., pipeline grade) hydrogen or helium gas stream using one or two adsorber beds. By using physical adsorbents with high heats of nitrogen adsorption, intermediate heats of carbon monoxide adsorption, and low heats of hydrogen and helium adsorption, and by using vacuum purging and high feed stream pressures (e.g., pressures of as high as around 1,000 bar), pipeline grade hydrogen or helium can purified to produce essentially carbon monoxide -free hydrogen and helium, or carbon monoxide, nitrogen, and methane-free hydrogen and helium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365780 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452452 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Yuehe Lin (Richland, Washington); Wassana Yantasee (Richland, Washington); Guodong Liu (Fargo, North Dakota); Fang Lu (Burlingame, California); Yi Tu (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microelectode arrays (MEAs), and more particularly to carbon nanotube nanoelectrode arrays (CNT-NEAs) for chemical and biological sensing, and methods of use. A nanoelectrode array includes a carbon nanotube material comprising an array of substantially linear carbon nanotubes each having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the carbon nanotubes are attached to a catalyst substrate material so as to form the array with a pre-determined site density, wherein the carbon nanotubes are aligned with respect to one another within the array; an electrically insulating layer on the surface of the carbon nanotube material, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the electrically insulating layer; a second adhesive electrically insulating layer on the surface of the electrically insulating layer, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the second adhesive electrically insulating layer; and a metal wire attached to the catalyst substrate material. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017480 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452507 | Renzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald F. Renzi (Tracy, California); Karl Wally (Lafayette, California); Robert W. Crocker (Fremont, California); James F. Stamps (Livermore, California); Stewart K. Griffiths (Livermore, California); Julia A. Fruetel (Livermore, California); Brent A. Horn (Roy, Utah); Isaac R. Shokair (Livermore, California); Daniel D. Yee (Dublin, California); Victoria A. VanderNoot (Pleasanton, California); Boyd J. Wiedenman (Aiken, South Carolina); Jason A. A. West (Pleasanton, California); Scott M. Ferko (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Portable devices and methods for determining the presence of a target analyte using a portable device are provided. The portable device is preferably hand-held. A sample is injected to the portable device. A microfluidic separation is performed within the portable device and at least one separated component detected by a detection module within the portable device, in embodiments of the invention. A target analyte is identified, based on the separated component, and the presence of the target analyte is indicated on an output interface of the portable device, in accordance with embodiments of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633871 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452666 | Mariella, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing a desired double-stranded DNA of a predetermined length and of a predetermined sequence. Preselected sequence segments that will complete the desired double-stranded DNA are determined. Preselected segment sequences of DNA that will be used to complete the desired double-stranded DNA are provided. The preselected segment sequences of DNA are assembled to produce the desired double-stranded DNA. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/394911 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452679 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Mustafa O. Guler (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Branched peptide amphiphilic compounds incorporating one or residues providing a pendant amino group for coupling one or more epitope sequences thereto, such compounds and related compositions for enhanced epitope presentation. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005314 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452707 | Goedegebuur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco A/S, Genencor Division (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frits Goedegebuur (Rozenlaan, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Paulien Neefe (Zoetermeer, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a number of homologs and variants of Hypocrea jecorina Cel7A (formerly Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I or CBH1), nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The homologs and variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted and/or deleted. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804785 |
| 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 07452837 | Goretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC. (Chacago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth C. Goretta (Downers Grove, Illinois); Dileep Singh (Naperville, Illinois); Bryant J. Polzin (Mundelein, Illinois); Terry Cruse (Lisle, Illinois); John J. Picciolo (Lockport, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing composite ceramic material is provided wherein a core ceramic structure is produced and simultaneously enveloped with a sleeve of similar material. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/275537 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/95.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452920 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Michael P. Henry (Batavia, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically and ionically conductive porous material including a thermoplastic binder and one or more of anion exchange moieties or cation exchange moieties or mixtures thereof and/or one or more of a protein capture resin and an electrically conductive material. The thermoplastic binder immobilizes the moieties with respect to each other but does not substantially coat the moieties and forms the electrically conductive porous material. A wafer of the material and a method of making the material and wafer are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082468 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452962 | Bohnert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George W. Bohnert (Harrisonville, Missouri); Thomas E. Hand (Lee's Summit, Missouri); Gary M. DeLaurentiis (Jamestown, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for removing contaminants from synthetic resin material containers using a first organic solvent system and a second carbon dioxide system. The organic solvent is utilized for removing the contaminants from the synthetic resin material and the carbon dioxide is used to separate any residual organic solvent from the synthetic resin material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421271 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/480 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453183 | Zettl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Adam M. Fennimore (Berkeley, California); Thomas D. Yuzvinsky (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotational actuator/motor based on rotation of a carbon nanotube is disclosed. The carbon nanotube is provided with a rotor plate attached to an outer wall, which moves relative to an inner wall of the nanotube. After deposit of a nanotube on a silicon chip substrate, the entire structure may be fabricated by lithography using selected techniques adapted from silicon manufacturing technology. The structures to be fabricated may comprise a multiwall carbon nanotube (MWNT), two in plane stators S1, S2 and a gate stator S3 buried beneath the substrate surface. The MWNT is suspended between two anchor pads and comprises a rotator attached to an outer wall and arranged to move in response to electromagnetic inputs. The substrate is etched away to allow the rotor to freely rotate. Rotation may be either in a reciprocal or fully rotatable manner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/383904 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453674 | Kuehnle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry W. Kuehnle (Ammon, Idaho); Jeffrey B. Roberts (Ammon, Idaho); Ralph W. Folkers (Ammon, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for protecting an electrical generator which includes providing an electrical generator which is normally synchronously operated with an electrical power grid; providing a synchronizing signal from the electrical generator; establishing a reference signal; and electrically isolating the electrical generator from the electrical power grid if the synchronizing signal is not in phase with the reference signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688532 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454595 | Pedretti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Pedretti (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compute processor allocator architecture for allocating compute processors to run applications in a multiple processor computing apparatus is distributed among a subset of processors within the computing apparatus. Each processor of the subset includes a compute processor allocator. The compute processor allocators can share a common database of information pertinent to compute processor allocation. A communication path permits retrieval of information from the database independently of the compute processor allocators. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110466 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454790 | Potok |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing computer intrusion detection information that looks beyond known attacks and abnormal access patterns to the critical information that an intruder may want to access. Unique target identifiers and type of work performed by the networked targets is added to audit log records. Analysis using vector space modeling, dissimilarity matrix comparison, and clustering of the event records is then performed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135147 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jack Chen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for fabricating a microscale anemometer on a substrate. A sacrificial layer is formed on the substrate, and a metal thin film is patterned to form a sensing element. At least one support for the sensing element is patterned. The sacrificial layer is removed, and the sensing element is lifted away from the substrate by raising the supports, thus creating a clearance between the sensing element and the substrate to allow fluid flow between the sensing element and the substrate. The supports are raised preferably by use of a magnetic field applied to magnetic material patterned on the supports. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132144 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452196 | Khoshnevis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus may include a nozzle assembly configured to extrude material through an outlet; and a controllable robotic arm coupled to the nozzle assembly, the robotic arm having at one end a gripper configured to pick up an element and deposit the element at a desired position relative to the extruded material. The element may be one of: a reinforcement member for a structure being constructed; a segment of a plumbing pipe; an electric network component; and a tile. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040602 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452334 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenichi Takahata (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kensall D. Wise (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew D. DeHennis (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a stent device useful for maintaining the patency of a lumen while monitoring an intraluminal characteristic. The device includes a structure having a set of extendible bands that are capable of plastic deformation to form a scaffolding having an inductance, and further includes a capacitance coupled to the set of extendible bands and responsive to the intraluminal characteristic. The capacitance and the inductance form a tank circuit after the plastic deformation of the set of extendible bands to enable wireless transmission of an indication of the intraluminal characteristic. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/939684 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452420 | Hemley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Hemley (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ho-kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Chih-shiue Yan (Washington, District of Columbia); Yogesh K. Vohra (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing diamond in a deposition chamber including a heat-sinking holder for holding a diamond and for making thermal contact with a side surface of the diamond adjacent to an edge of a growth surface of the diamond, a noncontact temperature measurement device positioned to measure temperature of the diamond across the growth surface of the diamond and a main process controller for receiving a temperature measurement from the noncontact temperature measurement device and controlling temperature of the growth surface such that all temperature gradients across the growth surface are less than 20° C. The method for producing diamond includes positioning diamond in a holder such that a thermal contact is made with a side surface of the diamond adjacent to an edge of a growth surface of the diamond, measuring temperature of the growth surface of the diamond to generate temperature measurements, controlling temperature of the growth surface based upon the temperature measurements, and growing single-crystal diamond by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition on the growth surface, wherein a growth rate of the diamond is greater than 1 micrometer per hour. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785996 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452452 | Ren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Yuehe Lin (Richland, Washington); Wassana Yantasee (Richland, Washington); Guodong Liu (Fargo, North Dakota); Fang Lu (Burlingame, California); Yi Tu (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microelectode arrays (MEAs), and more particularly to carbon nanotube nanoelectrode arrays (CNT-NEAs) for chemical and biological sensing, and methods of use. A nanoelectrode array includes a carbon nanotube material comprising an array of substantially linear carbon nanotubes each having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the carbon nanotubes are attached to a catalyst substrate material so as to form the array with a pre-determined site density, wherein the carbon nanotubes are aligned with respect to one another within the array; an electrically insulating layer on the surface of the carbon nanotube material, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the electrically insulating layer; a second adhesive electrically insulating layer on the surface of the electrically insulating layer, whereby the distal end of the carbon nanotubes extend beyond the second adhesive electrically insulating layer; and a metal wire attached to the catalyst substrate material. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017480 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452693 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben Shen (Verona, Wisconsin); Yi-Qiang Cheng (Madison, Wisconsin); Gong-Li Tang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic and biochemical characterization of the leinamycin biosynthesis gene cluster from Streptomyces atroolivaceus S-140 revealed two PKS genes, lnmI and lnmJ, that encode six PKS modules, none of which contains a cognate AT domain. The AT activity is provided in trans by a discrete protein, LnmG, which loads the malonyl coenzyme A extender unit onto the ACP domains of all six PKS modules. This finding provides a basis for methods of engineering modular polyketide synthases and polyketide synthase/nonribosomal peptide synthetases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550703 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452958 | McCullough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania); Elena E. Sheina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mihaela C. Iovu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) and other polythiophenes can be prepared by living polymerization which have good solubility, processability and environmental stability. The polymerization method can afford regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) in high yields. Kinetic study of polymerization revealed the living character of this process. The molecular weight of poly(3-alkylthiophenes) is a function of the molar ratio of the monomer to nickel initiator, and conducting polymers with relatively narrow molecular weight distribution (PDI<1.5) are now readily available. Sequential monomer addition resulted in new block copolymers containing different poly(3-alkylthiophene) segments, which further confirms the “livingness” of this system. Other synthetic methods can be used as well to conduct living polymerization. Blends and electronic devices can be prepared. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394202 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452986 | Maliga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pal Maliga (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Daniel Silhavy (Piscataway, New Jersey); Priya Sriraman (Watchung, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides promoter elements useful for stably transforming the plastids of higher plants. The constructs described herein contain unique promoters that are transcribed by both nuclear encoded plastid RNA polymerases, plastid encoded plastid RNA polymerases or both. Use of the novel constructs of the invention facilitates transformation of a wider range of plant species and enables ubiquitous expression of a transforming DNA in plastids of multicellular plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/663241 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453187 | Richards et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Richards (Pullman, Washington); David F. Bahr (Pullman, Washington); Cecilia Richards (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Various micro-transducers incorporating piezoelectric materials for converting energy in one form to useful energy in another form are disclosed. In one embodiment, a piezoelectric micro-transducer can be operated either as a micro-heat engine, converting thermal energy into electrical energy, or as a micro-heat pump, consuming electrical energy to transfer thermal energy from a low-temperature heat source to a high-temperature heat sink. In another embodiment, a piezoelectric micro-transducer is used to convert the kinetic energy of an oscillating or vibrating body on which the micro-transducer is placed into useful electrical energy. A piezoelectric micro-transducer also is used to extract work from a pressurized stream of fluid. Also disclosed are a micro-internal combustion engine and a micro-heat engine based on the Rankine cycle in which a single fluid serves as a working fluid and a fuel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147031 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454326 | Marcu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California); William Wong (Mission Viejo, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California); Philipp Koehn (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine translation (MT) system may utilize a phrase-based joint probability model. The model may be used to generate source and target language sentences simultaneously. In an embodiment, the model may learn phrase-to-phrase alignments from word-to-word alignments generated by a word-to-word statistical MT system. The system may utilize the joint probability model for both source-to-target and target-to-source translation applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402350 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07451537 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jack Chen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for fabricating a microscale anemometer on a substrate. A sacrificial layer is formed on the substrate, and a metal thin film is patterned to form a sensing element. At least one support for the sensing element is patterned. The sacrificial layer is removed, and the sensing element is lifted away from the substrate by raising the supports, thus creating a clearance between the sensing element and the substrate to allow fluid flow between the sensing element and the substrate. The supports are raised preferably by use of a magnetic field applied to magnetic material patterned on the supports. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132144 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452189 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Shi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Stuart S. Ochs (Manchester, Connecticut); Kevin E. Green (Broad Brook, Connecticut); David C. Jarmon (Kensington, Connecticut); Michael K. Sahm (Avon, Connecticut); Lisa A. Prill (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A vane has an airfoil shell and a spar within the shell. The vane has an outboard shroud at an outboard end of the shell and an inboard platform at an inboard end of the shell. The spar has a first chamber essentially along the suction side and a second chamber along the pressure side opposite the first chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417972 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452519 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas); Joel L. Stevens (Houston, Texas); Gaelle Armelle Derrien (Montpellier, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a method of sidewall-functionalizing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) through C—N bond forming substitution reactions with fluorinated SWNTs (fluoronanotubes), and to the sidewall-functionalized SWNTs comprising C—N bonds between carbons of the SWNT sidewall and nitrogens of the functionalizing groups made by these methods. Furthermore, when diamine species are utilized as reactants, novel materials like crosslinked SWNTs and “nanotube-nylons” can be generated. In some embodiments, SWNTs with functional groups covalently attached to their side walls through C—N bonds are prepared by either the direct interaction of fluoronanotubes with terminal alkylidene diamines or diethanolamine, or by a two-step procedure involving consecutive treatments with Li3N in diglyme and RCl (R=H, n-butyl, benzyl) reagents. Evidence for sidewall attachment of amine-derived groups has been provided by Raman, FTIR, and UV-vis-NIR spectra, SEM/EDAX and TEM data, and thermal degradation studies. The demonstrated new C—N functionalization methods offer a wide range of further SWNT derivatizations, including their covalent binding to aminoacids, DNA, and polymer matrixes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714187 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454321 | Rai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Man Mohan Rai (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method system, and product from application of the method, for design of a subsonic airfoil shape, beginning with an arbitrary initial airfoil shape and incorporating one or more constraints on the airfoil geometric parameters and flow characteristics. The resulting design is robust against variations in airfoil dimensions and local airfoil shape introduced in the airfoil manufacturing process. A perturbation procedure provides a class of airfoil shapes, beginning with an initial airfoil shape. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173447 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07452746 | Mountain |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Uniteed States of America as represented by the Director of National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J Mountain (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of making an organic flexible integrated circuit includes providing a rigid substrate, such as a silicon wafer, and providing alternating layers of thin film conductors and dielectrics to thus yield interconnect layers including a flexible substrate on the rigid substrate to yield a high density interconnect. Further, the method includes fabricating an organic transistor, and connecting the organic transistor to the high density interconnect to form an organic integrated circuit including the flexible substrate. Then, the rigid substrate and the flexible substrate may be attached to a support. The integrated circuit attached to the rigid and flexible substrates may be tested prior to this attachment. Then the rigid substrate may be removed from the flexible substrate, such as by a destructive. The integrated circuit may be tested gain at this point. The organic integrated circuit may then be released from the support to yield a flexible integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417300 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07454063 — Method of optical character recognition using feature recognition and baseline estimation
| US 07454063 | Kneisl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle E Kneisl (Catonsville, Maryland); Jesse Otero (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of optical character recognition. First, text is received. Next all words in the text are identified and associated with the appropriate line in the document. The directional derivative of the pixellation density function defining the text is then taken, and the highest value points for each word are identified from this equation. These highest value points are used to calculate a baseline for each word. A median anticipated baseline is also calculated and used to verify each baseline, which is corrected as necessary. Each word is then parsed into feature regions, and the features are identified through a series of complex analyses. After identifying the main features, outlying ornaments are identified and associated with appropriate features. The results are then compared to a database to identify the features and then displayed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233218 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454337 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency, The (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Smith (Columbia, Maryland); Daniel J. Richman (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of modeling a single class of data from data containing multiple classes of data of the same type of data by first receiving a collection of data that includes data from multiple classes of data of the same type where the amount of data of the single class of data exceeds that of any other class of data. A first statistical model of the received collection of data is generated. The collection of data is divided into subsets. Each subset of the speech collection of data is scored using the first statistical model. A set of scores is selected. The subsets corresponding to the selected scores are identified. The identified subsets are combined. A second statistical model of the type of the first statistical model is generated for the combined subsets and used as the model of the single class of data. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/847677 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07452467 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Andigen, LLC (North Logan, Utah); Utah State University (North Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conly L. Hansen (Logan, Utah); Carl S. Hansen (Garland, Utah); Edward D. Watts (North Logan, Utah); Kevin D. Pack (North Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An induced sludge bed anaerobic reactor includes a vessel in which a septum or other partition is positioned to maintain solids in wastewater being treated toward a lower zone in the reactor. A gas trap, which may also comprise an overpressure protection device, may be arranged at an outlet of the vessel. A distribution plate may be located at an inlet. A central aperture is formed in the septum into which a plug control mechanism, such as an auger, may be positioned to force solids to the lower zone of the reactor or, alternatively, pull solids up above the septum so that they can be removed from the vessel, if desired. A mixer may be utilized in connection with the bioreactor to mix the contents and prevent a crust from forming at the top of the bioreactor. Still further, a wall may be positioned to extend above the septum around its perimeter to assist in separating solids from the wastewater. The various types of bacteria used in the anaerobic process may also be separated, according to the present invention, in either a single vessel or multiple vessels so that the conditions of each respective vessel can be altered as desired. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272293 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07452544 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman J. Stern (Athens, Georgia); Edward A. Svetoch (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Boris V. Eruslanov (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Larisa I. Volodina (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Yuri N. Kovalev (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Tamara Y. Kudryavtseva (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Vladimir V. Perelygin (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Victor D. Pokhilenko (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Vladimir P. Levchuk (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Valery N. Borzenkov (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Olga E. Svetoch (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Eugeni V. Mitsevich (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Irina P. Mitsevich (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel bacteriocins and/or the novel lactic acid-producing strains are used for at least reducing the levels of colonization by at least one target bacteria in animals, especially poultry. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499225 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/282.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07452519 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas); Joel L. Stevens (Houston, Texas); Gaelle Armelle Derrien (Montpellier, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a method of sidewall-functionalizing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) through C—N bond forming substitution reactions with fluorinated SWNTs (fluoronanotubes), and to the sidewall-functionalized SWNTs comprising C—N bonds between carbons of the SWNT sidewall and nitrogens of the functionalizing groups made by these methods. Furthermore, when diamine species are utilized as reactants, novel materials like crosslinked SWNTs and “nanotube-nylons” can be generated. In some embodiments, SWNTs with functional groups covalently attached to their side walls through C—N bonds are prepared by either the direct interaction of fluoronanotubes with terminal alkylidene diamines or diethanolamine, or by a two-step procedure involving consecutive treatments with Li3N in diglyme and RCl (R=H, n-butyl, benzyl) reagents. Evidence for sidewall attachment of amine-derived groups has been provided by Raman, FTIR, and UV-vis-NIR spectra, SEM/EDAX and TEM data, and thermal degradation studies. The demonstrated new C—N functionalization methods offer a wide range of further SWNT derivatizations, including their covalent binding to aminoacids, DNA, and polymer matrixes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714187 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07453626 | Lett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Lett (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Colin F. McCormick (Washington, District of Columbia); Vincent Boyer (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A four-wave mixing squeezed light source includes: a mixing medium having chi(3) non-linear characteristics including two atomic ground states coupled to each other by transitions through optically-excited states; a pump beam having a polarization and a frequency, said frequency being near the ground-to-excited atomic transition but far enough from the atomic transition such that the pump beam is substantially unabsorbed; and a probe beam having a polarization that is orthogonal with respect to the pump beam polarization, the probe beam having a frequency of the pump beam frequency plus or minus a frequency splitting of the two atomic ground states. The mixing medium, the pump beam and the probe beam interact to produce a phase conjugate beam having a polarization that is orthogonal to the pump beam polarization, such that the beams are non-degenerate with the pump beam, and the probe beam is amplified. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036791 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07453987 | Richardson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex D Richardson (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods described herein automatically detect, highlight and identify high-Z materials in volume concentrations of approximately 100 cm3 or greater utilizing single and/or dual energy sources with x-ray and neutron detectors. The methods and systems described herein are applied to the imaging of containerized cargo and cargo vehicles. Pursuant to the described systems and methods, radiation powers are orders of magnitude lower than those used in the conventional systems. By reducing the radiation power by a factor of, for example, 100 or more, the shielding requirements for the system are greatly reduced, alignment requirements can be significantly relaxed and system components can be lighter weight and more modular. Consequently, system costs are reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634218 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07454411 | Birdwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universtiy of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger D. Horn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Puneet Yadav (Fremont, California); David J. Icove (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel computer architecture, allowing scale up past previously feasible limits. Key benefits of the new method are logarithmic scale up and parallelization. These benefits are achieved by identification and utilization of naturally occurring patterns and clusters within stored data. The patterns and clusters enable the stored data to be partitioned into subsets of roughly equal size. The method can be applied recursively, resulting in a database tree that is balanced, meaning that all paths or branches through the tree have roughly the same length. The method achieves high performance by exploiting the natural structure of the data in a manner that maintains balanced trees. Implementation of the method maps naturally to parallel computer architectures, allowing scale up to very large databases. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767776 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07452865 | Schally et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Administrare's of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans, Louisiana); United States of America by Dept of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew V. Schally (Miami, Florida); Jozsef Varga (Metairie, Louisiana); Marta Zarandi (Szeged, Hungary); Ren Zhi Cai (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a novel series of synthetic antagonistic analogs of hGH-RH(1-29)NH2. These analogs inhibit the activity of endogenous hGH-RH on the pituitary GH-RH receptors, and therefore prevent the release of growth hormone. The analogs also inhibit the proliferation of human cancers through a direct effect on the cancer cells. The higher inhibitory potencies of the new analogs, as compared to previously described ones, results from replacement of various amino acids. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566776 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07452519 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas); Joel L. Stevens (Houston, Texas); Gaelle Armelle Derrien (Montpellier, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a method of sidewall-functionalizing single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) through C—N bond forming substitution reactions with fluorinated SWNTs (fluoronanotubes), and to the sidewall-functionalized SWNTs comprising C—N bonds between carbons of the SWNT sidewall and nitrogens of the functionalizing groups made by these methods. Furthermore, when diamine species are utilized as reactants, novel materials like crosslinked SWNTs and “nanotube-nylons” can be generated. In some embodiments, SWNTs with functional groups covalently attached to their side walls through C—N bonds are prepared by either the direct interaction of fluoronanotubes with terminal alkylidene diamines or diethanolamine, or by a two-step procedure involving consecutive treatments with Li3N in diglyme and RCl (R=H, n-butyl, benzyl) reagents. Evidence for sidewall attachment of amine-derived groups has been provided by Raman, FTIR, and UV-vis-NIR spectra, SEM/EDAX and TEM data, and thermal degradation studies. The demonstrated new C—N functionalization methods offer a wide range of further SWNT derivatizations, including their covalent binding to aminoacids, DNA, and polymer matrixes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714187 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07454326 | Marcu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California); William Wong (Mission Viejo, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California); Philipp Koehn (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine translation (MT) system may utilize a phrase-based joint probability model. The model may be used to generate source and target language sentences simultaneously. In an embodiment, the model may learn phrase-to-phrase alignments from word-to-word alignments generated by a word-to-word statistical MT system. The system may utilize the joint probability model for both source-to-target and target-to-source translation applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/402350 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07451915 | Chamberlain |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Chamberlain (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a method for performing electronic postmarking of data, including ancillary data is provided. The method includes receiving data from a sender. The method further includes selecting ancillary data. The method further includes generating an electronic postmark including the ancillary data. The method further includes forwarding the data with the electronic postmark including the ancillary data to a receiver. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451367 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07452664 | Guarente et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard Guarente (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Shin-ichiro Imai (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christopher Armstrong (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying agents which alter the NAD-dependent acetylation status and mono-ADP-ribosylation of nuclear proteins are disclosed. The methods further include identifying agents which alter the life span or aging of a cell or an organism by determining the level of NAD-dependent acetylation and/or ADP ribosylation of a nuclear protein. The invention also relates to a mammalian Sir2 protein which acetylates or deacetylates nuclear proteins in a NAD-dependent manner and has mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase activity. Host cells producing the Sir2 protein and antibodies to the Sir2 protein are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/461580 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07452730 | Dervan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Shane Foister (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Raymond Doss (Clark, New Jersey); Michael A. Marques (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for forming complexes between dsDNA and novel DNA-binding polymers comprising N-terminal thiophene-containing moieties which exhibit selectivity for T-A base pairs. By appropriate choice of target sequences and DNA-binding polymers, complexes comprising polymer-DNA are obtained with high association constants. The formation of complexes can be used for identification of specific dsDNA sequences, for inhibiting gene transcription, and as a therapeutic for inhibiting proliferation of undesired cells or modulation of expression of specific genes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038506 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07454272 | Burgess |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Burgess (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a stationkeeping method for a geostationary satellite includes determining a gravitational force of the sun on the satellite at a beginning of a stationkeeping operation and a gravitational force of the moon on the satellite at the beginning of the stationkeeping operation. An initial inclination vector of the satellite is determined at the beginning of the stationkeeping operation that accounts for a first set of one or more perturbations affecting the orbit of the satellite. A maneuver strategy is determined to correct for a second set of one or more perturbations affecting the orbit of the satellite without accounting for the first set of one or more perturbations affecting the orbit of the satellite. Finally, a maneuver is performed on the satellite according to the maneuver strategy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423893 |
| 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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