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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 09, 2008
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| US 07462264 | Heller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Heller (Austin, Texas); Michael V. Pishko (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A small diameter flexible electrode designed for subcutaneous in vivo amperometric monitoring of glucose is described. The electrode is designed to allow “one-point” in vivo calibration, i.e., to have zero output current at zero glucose concentration, even in the presence of other electroreactive species of serum or blood. The electrode is preferably layered, with the layers serially deposited within a recess upon the tip of a polyamide insulated gold wire. A first glucose concentration-to-current transducing layer can be overcoated with an electrically insulating and glucose flux limiting layer (second layer) on which, optionally, an immobilized interference-eliminating horseradish peroxidase based film is deposited. An outer layer is preferably biocompatible. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182634 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.110 |
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| US 07462347 | Gray |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phanos Technologies, Inc. (Culver City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Gray (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a family of cyanine dyes which fluoresce in the far red and near infra red wavelengths of the spectrum and preferably possess lipophilic side chains. The dyes of the invention are soluble in commercially available membrane staining vehicles, are useful as probes for rapidly staining lipophilic structures such as membranes in cells or isolated from cells, and are well retained therein. Methods of using the dyes to detect stained cells both in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346554 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.600 |
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| US 07462349 | Kalderon |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nurit Kalderon (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is intended to adapt an already established clinical procedure for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS)—the use of beta interferon—to treat chronic human spinal cord injury. The present invention relates to the prevention of chronic inflammation and demyelination following spinal cord injury. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693042 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
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| US 07462356 | Lowy 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) | Douglas R. Lowy (Bethesda, Maryland); John T. Schiller (Silver Spring, Maryland); Heather Greenstone (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a papillomavirus-like particle, characterized as having conformational epitopes, comprising a papillomavirus L1 product and a papillomavirus L2 fusion product; and related synthetic DNA molecules, host cells, methods and vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/807004 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
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| US 07462446 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miqin Zhang (Bothell, Washington); Nathan Kohler (Providence, Rhode Island); Jonathan Whitney Gunn (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoparticle having a core comprising a magnetic material and surface to which are covalently coupled a plurality of silane moieties, wherein each silane moiety comprises a polyalkylene oxide moiety. The nanoparticle can further include a targeting agent, a targeting agent and a diagnostic agent, or a targeting agent and a therapeutic agent. Methods for using the nanoparticle to detect and treat tissues of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/386053 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07462447 | Tiziani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valdenize Tiziani (Fortaleza CE, Brazil); Ernst Reichenberger (West Hartford, Connecticut); Yasuyoshi Ueki (Needham, Massachusetts); Bjorn R. Olsen (Milton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides mutant SH3-binding protein (SH3BP2) nucleic acids, polypeptides, and agents which selectively bind to the mutant SH3BP2 molecules and which do not bind to the wild type SH3BP2 molecules. Methods for selecting agents which inhibit mutant SH3BP2 expression, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic methods which utilize the mutant SH3BP2 molecules for diagnosing and treating disorders of bone homeostasis, also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/467033 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07462449 | Quake |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for high speed, high throughput analysis of polynucleotide sequences, and apparatuses with which to carry out the methods are provided in the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845932 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07462452 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. K. Williams (Lincoln, Nebraska); Jon P. Anderson (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compositions, methods and apparatus for DNA sequencing that can be performed, e.g., in a two-electrode chamber. The present invention also provides a method for sequencing a nucleic acid comprising immobilizing a plurality of complexes comprising a target nucleic acid, a primer nucleic acid, and a polymerase onto a surface, contacting the surface with a plurality of charged particles comprising a nucleotide phosphate by applying an electric field, reversing the electric field to transport unbound charged particles away from the surface, and detecting the incorporation of a nucleotide phosphate into a single molecule of the primer nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118031 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07462455 | Acland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Acland (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Anna V. Kukekova (Ithaca, New York); Gustavo D. Aguirre (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Elaine Ostrander (Potomac, Maryland); Dayna Akey (Seattle, Washington); Orly Goldstein (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for identifying dogs which are genetically normal, heterozygous for, or homozygous for the mutation primarily responsible for Collie eye anomaly (CEA). The method comprises the steps of obtaining a biological sample from a dog and testing DNA in the biological sample for the presence or absence of a 7.8 kilobase deletion within chromosome 37 in which the CEA mutation is located. No deletion is indicative of a normal dog. A deletion on one allele of chromosome 37 is indicative of a dog that is heterozygous for the CEA mutation. A deletion in both alleles of chromosome 37 are indicative of a dog that is homozygous for the CEA mutation. Also provided is a kit for identifying a dog as normal, heterozygous for, or homozygous for the CEA mutation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255019 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07462468 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. K. Williams (Lincoln, Nebraska); Daniel R. Draney (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting incorporation of a labeled nucleotide triphosphate onto the growing end of a primer nucleic acid molecule. The method is used, for example, to genotype and sequence a nucleic acid. In a preferred embodiment, the method described herein detects individual NTP molecules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338990 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
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| US 07462472 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Boston Biomedical Research Institute (Watertown, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Jen Tang (Chicago, Illinois); Andrew Bohm (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The structures of Edema Factor alone and Edema Factor bound to calmodulin without substrate has been crystallized and its structure determined by x-ray crystallography. Based upon these crystal structures, a method assaying for inhibitors of infection by a bacteria is presented which comprises obtaining a potential inhibitor, obtaining a calmodulin activated adenylyl cyclase exotoxin, obtaining calmodulin, admixing the potential inhibitor, the exotoxin, and the calmodulin, and assaying to determine whether or not the potential inhibitor inhibits production of cAMP by exotoxin. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/286452 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 07462483 | Scadden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Tao Cheng (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The expansion of a population of stem cells or progenitor cells, or precursors thereof, may be accomplished by disrupting or inhibiting p21cip1/waf1 and/or p27, cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors. In the absence of p27 activity, progenitor cells move into the cell cycle and proliferate; whereas in the absence of p21 activity, stem cells move into the cell cycle and proliferate without losing their pluripotentiality (i.e., their ability to differentiate into the various cell lines found in the blood stream). Any type of stem cell or progenitor cell, or precursor thereof, including, but not limited to, hematopoietic, gastrointestinal, lung, neural, skin, muscle, cardiac muscle, renal, mesenchymal, embryonic, fetal, or liver cell may be used in accordance with the invention. The present invention provides a method of expanding a cell population, cells with decreased p27 and/or p21 activity, transgenic animals with a disrupted p27 and/or p21 gene, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the cells of the invention, and methods of using these cells in gene therapy (e.g., stem cell gene therapy) and bone marrow transplantation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/803687 |
| 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 435/372 |
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| US 07462486 | Vandenbark |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed to identify a T cell receptor (TCR) variable (V) peptide of use as a therapeutic agent in a subject. A method is also disclosed for monitoring the efficacy of a T Cell Receptor (TCR) V peptide for the treatment of a subject. In another embodiment, a method is disclosed for selecting a TCR V peptide of use in therapy for a subject having an autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438729 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07462488 | Madsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernest L. Madsen (Madison, Wisconsin); Gary R. Frank (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Tissue mimicking materials for elastography phantoms have elastic, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance characteristics that are characteristic of human soft tissues and well suited for the calibration and performance assessment of elastography imaging systems. In one embodiment, the material is formed from a base material containing an oil dispersed within a gel matrix and at least one inclusion formed from a gel. In another embodiment, the material is formed from a gel-forming material suffused throughout an open-cell reticulated mesh matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140400 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/8 |
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| US 07462491 | Thompson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Thompson (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Serum cav-1 is disclosed as a biomarker for prostate cancer that has the power to differentiate between prostate cancer and BPH patients. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941747 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/64 |
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| US 07462598 | Selsted et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Selsted (Irvine, California); Dat Q. Tran (Anaheim, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides theta defensin analogs having antimicrobial activity. The invention also provides a method of reducing or inhibiting growth or survival of a microorganism in an environment capable of sustaining the growth or survival of the microorganism, comprising administering an effective amount of a theta defensin analog to the environment, thereby reducing or inhibiting the growth or survival of the microorganism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512883 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07462602 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Schultz (Gainesville, Florida); Alfred S. Lewin (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy D. Blalock (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for treating scarring conditions associated with increased expression of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF). Aspects of the invention include ribozymes that cleave mRNA targets required for CTGF expression, cells containing anti-CTGF ribozymes and vectored anti-CTGF ribozymes suitable for delivery to cellular targets capable of CTGF expression. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/836670 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07462609 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides prodrugs derived from the sparingly soluble anticancer isocarbostyril narciclasine, a component of various Narcissus species, said prodrugs having potential for use against animal and human cancers. Also disclosed is an efficient procedure for the synthetic conversion of narciclasine to several more soluble cyclic phosphate compounds, including “narcistatin”. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/537968 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/80 |
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| US 07462625 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun-Fei Zhu (San Diego, California); Chen Chen (San Diego, California); Fabio C. Tucci (San Diego, California); Zhiqiang Guo (San Diego, California); Timothy D. Gross (San Diego, California); Martin Rowbottom (La Jolla, California); R. Scott Struthers (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein A, Q, R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4, R5, R6 and n are as defined herein, including stereoisomers, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound of this invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for antagonizing gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520022 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/269 |
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| US 07462646 | Aggarwal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat B. Aggarwal (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of reducing or inhibiting osteoclast development induced by the receptor for activation of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL), comprising the step of contacting said osteoclast, or a precursor of the osteoclast, with a pharmacologically effective dose of compounds such as diferuloylmethane, guggulsterone, 1′-Acetoxychavicol or analogues thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925608 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/679 |
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| US 07462746 | Petasis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Ilia A. Zavialov (Princeton, New Jersey); Zubin D. Patel (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic methods provide for the simple, efficient preparation of amino polyols and derivatives. The methods include a three-component reaction of a carbohydrates with organoboron compounds and primary or secondary amine derivatives. The resulting amino polyols can be transformed into amino sugars. In one implementation, the amine moiety is protected, and an alkenyl, aryl or heteroaryl moiety is cleaved to form the amino sugar. Amino polyols and amino sugars prepared according to the methods are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405922 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/507 |
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| US 07463362 | Lasker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Lasker (Brooklyn, New York); Andreas Hielscher (Brooklyn, New York); James M. Masciotti (Hartsdale, New York); Christoph H. Schmitz (Brooklyn, New York); Mathew Schoenecker (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems, methods and apparatuses that perform digital detection for use in optical tomography. Methods and systems are provided in which digital lock-in detection is performed using an algorithm that employs a phase-independent quadrature technique. Methods and systems are provided in which a unique manipulation of an ordinary averaging filter optimized for sources discrimination and the consequent sampling constraints is presented as a novel filtering scheme for the lock-in detection. Systems and apparatuses are provided which include a digital signal processor which performs digital lock-in detection and an integrated complex programmable logic device for timing control. Apparatuses are provided which include an instrument having an integrated digital signal processor for performing digital processing and detection for use in optical tomography. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106348 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
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| US 07463712 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Stanford, California); Rebecca Fahrig (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Scatter radiation in an x-ray imaging system including an x-ray source and an x-ray detector is separated by using amplitude modulation to translate the spatial frequency of a detected x-ray beam to a higher frequency and provide separation from low frequency scatter signal. The low frequency content of the detected x-ray beam is then obtained by demodulating the detected modulated signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/557440 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/7 |
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| US 07461610 | Czepizak 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) | Kurt M. Czepizak (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Norman Toplosky (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Donald E. Cressman (Saunderstown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention as disclosed is a towline guide clip, an apparatus that can hold a towline in place as it is dragged behind a large host marine vessel attempting to recover a small marine vessel. The towline guide clip is designed to gradually release the towline when a small marine vessel grabs hold of the line. The additional dragging force of the small marine vessel pulls the towline out of the towline guide clip so that the towline can then be reeled in by a winch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830927 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/218 |
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| US 07461726 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary F. Hawkins (Torrance, California); Ching-Yao Tang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Force diversion apparatus, methods and devices including the same result in rotational motion being imparted to an impacting object. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066109 |
| ART UNIT | 3683 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Brakes 188/371 |
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| US 07462035 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang Lee (Woodland Hills, California); Thomas Forrester (Westminster, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California); Andrew Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California); Eugene Levin (Los Angeles, California); Gajendra Savant (Rolling Hills Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An entirely wearable electrical connector for power/data connectivity. The principal element of a modular network is the wearable electrical connector, which is integrated into a personal area network with USB compatibility. Several wearable connector embodiments are disclosed. The first, an O-ring based version, was subsequently replaced by a more mature second version, which is based on anisotropic pressure sensitive conductive elastomer. Both are snap-style, low-profile, 360°-moving, round, blind operable plug-and-play, reconfigurable wearable connectors with power/data daisy-lattice-style connectivity. A third embodiment comprises a non-conductive elastomeric environmental seal. A fourth embodiment utilizes a self-acting, automatic shutter-type environmental seal. A fifth embodiment comprises a smaller version that resembles a conventional snap fastener commonly used on clothing. The inventive technology will benefit the military and public safety personnel such as police, fire, EMT and other services that require special protective clothing integrated with multiple electronic devices. Other applications include special clothing for the disabled, prisoners, the mentally ill and children. A non-wearable embodiment is used to provide evidence of tampering of a container. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/190697 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/37 |
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| US 07462039 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865353 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462088 | Cathey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Cathey (Boise, Idaho); Jimmy J. Browning (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for forming and associating a lower section of a large-area field emission device (“FED”) that is sealed under a predetermined level of vacuum pressure with an upper section of a large-area FED. The upper section of the FED includes a faceplate. A first conductive layer is disposed on a surface of the faceplate. A matrix member is disposed on a surface of the first conductive layer, and cathodoluminescent material is disposed on the first conductive layer in areas not covered by the matrix member. The method includes disposing a plurality of spacers between the upper and lower sections of the FED to provide a predetermined separation between the upper and lower sections, with the spacers having cross-sectional shapes commensurate with stresses exerted on the spacers and/or heights commensurate with stresses exerted on the spacers. Resulting FED structures are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405112 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462419 | LaFollette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bipolar Technologies, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. LaFollette (Provo, Utah); Linton G. Salmon (Shaker Heights, Ohio); John N. Harb (Orem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Microscopic batteries, integratable or integrated with and integrated circuit, including a MEMS microcircuit, and methods of microfabrication of such microscopic batteries are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982270 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462480 | Sowers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland); Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Sowers (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold May (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for the anaerobic microbial dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Polyhalogenated ethenes are used to stimulate the growth and dechlorinating activity of PCB dechlorinating bacteria in a contaminated soil or sediment. This method may be further coupled with aerobic microbial degradation of PCBs for the complete destruction of PCBs in soils and sediments. Polyhalogenated ethenes are also used in growth media for the culturing of PCB dechlorinating bacteria. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/502920 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462483 | Scadden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Tao Cheng (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The expansion of a population of stem cells or progenitor cells, or precursors thereof, may be accomplished by disrupting or inhibiting p21cip1/waf1 and/or p27, cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors. In the absence of p27 activity, progenitor cells move into the cell cycle and proliferate; whereas in the absence of p21 activity, stem cells move into the cell cycle and proliferate without losing their pluripotentiality (i.e., their ability to differentiate into the various cell lines found in the blood stream). Any type of stem cell or progenitor cell, or precursor thereof, including, but not limited to, hematopoietic, gastrointestinal, lung, neural, skin, muscle, cardiac muscle, renal, mesenchymal, embryonic, fetal, or liver cell may be used in accordance with the invention. The present invention provides a method of expanding a cell population, cells with decreased p27 and/or p21 activity, transgenic animals with a disrupted p27 and/or p21 gene, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the cells of the invention, and methods of using these cells in gene therapy (e.g., stem cell gene therapy) and bone marrow transplantation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/803687 |
| 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 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462646 | Aggarwal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat B. Aggarwal (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of reducing or inhibiting osteoclast development induced by the receptor for activation of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL), comprising the step of contacting said osteoclast, or a precursor of the osteoclast, with a pharmacologically effective dose of compounds such as diferuloylmethane, guggulsterone, 1′-Acetoxychavicol or analogues thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925608 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/679 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462651 | Cao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation (New Castle, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Cao (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Donald E. Herr (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation-curable desiccant-filled adhesive/sealant composition comprising a radiation-curable resin, one or more desiccant fillers, one or more photoinitiators or photosensitizers, and optionally, one or more inorganic or organic fillers. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/393496 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462681 | Guenthner 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) | Andrew J. Guenthner (Ridgecrest, California); Gregory R. Yandek (Ridgecrest, California); David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polycyanurate composition (I), wherein “n” is a positive integer of about 1 to about 10, and wherein R, R′, and R″ comprising at least one of C, H, N, O, F, Si, P, S, Cl, Br, I, and any combination thereof. A method of making a polycyanurate composition (I) including, providing at least one semi-aliphatic polycarbonate (V), wherein R comprises at least one of C, H, N, O, F, Si, P, S, Cl, Br, I, providing at least one uncured reactive thermoset monomer, dissolving the polycarbonate in a solvent with a high vapor pressure or suspending the polycarbonate directly into the reactive monomer, mixing the liquefied polycarbonate with the uncured reactive thermoset monomer into a homogeneous liquid component, curing the liquid component into a viscous component, and exposing the cured component to temperatures of about 50° C. to about 400° C. forming tricyanurate linkages in the polycyanurate composition (I). |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239443 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462809 | DiMarzio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald DiMarzio (Northport, New York); John Douglas Weir (Huntington, New York); Steven Chu (Ronkonkoma, New York); Nils Jakob Fonneland (Lake Grove, New York); Dennis John Leyble (Great River, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system for visual inspection of substrates coated with paints and polymers is disclosed. Painted substrates can be inspected for environmental and physical damage such as corrosion and cracks without removing the paint. The present invention provides the ability to maximize paint thickness penetration. This is accomplished with a spectral bandpass filter that rejects reflected light from the coating opaque bands, while allowing light in the paint window to pass to an IR detector such as an IR camera focal plane. The narrow bandpass range enhances the ability for IR imaging to see through thicker paint layers and improves the contrast over standard commercial IR mid-wave cameras. The bandpass may be adjusted to coincide with the full spectral window of the paint, consistent with the ability of the imaging focal plane to detect light in the spectral region. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506701 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462859 | Croke, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward T. Croke, III (Thousand Oaks, California); Mark F. Gyure (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spin coherent, single photon detector has a body of semiconductor material with a quantum well region formed in barrier material in the body. The body has a first electrode forming an isolation electrode for defining, when negatively energized, an extent of the quantum well in the body and a second electrode positioned above a location where an electrostatic quantum dot is defined in said quantum well when positively energized. The quantum well occurs in three layers of material: a central quantum well layer and two outer quantum well layers, the two outer quantum well layers having a relatively low conduction band minimum and the barrier having a relatively high conduction band minimum while the central quantum well layer having a conduction band minimum between the relatively high and relatively low conduction band minimums. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542322 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463040 | Qi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Santa Fe Science and Technology, Inc. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baohua Qi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Benjamin R. Mattes (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes the use of conducting polymers as sensors in distributed sensing systems, as sensors and operating elements in multifunctional devices, and for conducting-polymer based multifunctional sensing fabrics suitable for monitoring humidity, breath, heart rate, blood (location of wounds), blood pressure, skin temperature, weight and movement, in a wearable, electronic embedded sensor system, as examples. A fabric comprising conducting polyaniline fibers that can be used to distribute energy for resistive heating as well as for sensing the fabric temperature is described as an example of a multifunctional sensing fabric. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/910169 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/693 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463123 | Weller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); Thomas Ketterl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes nano-scale fabrication technique used to create a sub-micron wide gap across the center conductor of a coplanar waveguide transmission line configured in a fixed-fixed beam arrangement, resulting in a pair of opposing cantilever beams that comprise an electro-mechanical switch. Accordingly, a nanometer-scale mechanical switch with very high switching speed and low actuation voltage has been developed. This switch is intended primarily for application in the RF/microwave/wireless industry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561952 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463228 | Golovin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrii Golovin (Kent, Ohio); Sergij Shiyanovskii (Kent, Ohio); Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fast switching a dual frequency (FIG. 3) liquid crystal cell is disclosed. The liquid crystal cell has opposed substrates (12) with a dual frequency liquid crystal material (18) disposed therebetween. Each substrate has an electrode that is connected to a power supply (20) that is able to apply different voltage magnitudes at different frequencies. And each substrate (12) has an alignment layer that imparts a high pretilt angle to the liquid crystal material, wherein no application of voltage results in the material exhibiting an initial state. A transition driving pulse (104) of a first magnitude is applied to the material at a first frequency to accelerate a transition into a first state from the initial state. A holding pulse (102) of a second magnitude is applied to the material at the first frequency to maintain the first state, wherein the second magnitude is less than the first magnitude. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/472677 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463258 | Drury 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) | Todd P. Drury (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Douglas B. Maxwell (Woodworth, Louisiana); Richard R. Shell (Riverside, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for extracting and rendering data from digital charting databases. The software method integrates and combines bathymetric/topographic data from several sources into a stream of three-dimensional data points, creating a triangle surface mesh, and dividing it into pieces along arbitrary lines to create regularly sized and shaped areas for efficient storing and rendering. The method works by forming an initial triangle mesh of the area and then refining the mesh by incrementally adding each point to the mesh, until a full mesh representation is achieved. The large single file is then broken down into discrete geographic regions, and the region data is converted into a standard file format for viewing and/or processing. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185084 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463329 | Ballato et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Anderson, South Carolina); United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Ballato (Oceanport, New Jersey); John Ballato (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Recent theoretical investigations have predicted the existence of axially frozen modes that arise when light is incident upon an anisotropic two-dimensional photonic crystal. Such electromagnetic modes are of interest since they suggest a near-zero group velocity with extraordinary amplitudes. The present invention addresses the crystal physics associated with realizing such effects and provides for the development of materials suitable for use in the forming photonic crystals that can exhibit such effects. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336397 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463403 | Gaalema et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silicon Light Machines Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Gaalema (Portola Valley, Colorado); Douglas Webb (Los Altos, California); Alexander Payne (Ben Lomond, California); Josef Berger (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A driver is provided for use with a MEMS device. Generally, the driver includes: (i) a high voltage circuit electrically coupled to a movable actuator of the MEMS to apply a HV pulse thereto; and (ii) a charge control circuit coupled to a base electrode formed in a substrate underlying the actuator to control a potential applied to the base electrode. The charge control circuit can include a capacitance divider having a plate capacitor defined by the actuator and the base electrode, and a charge storage capacitor electrically coupled to the base electrode and in series with the plate capacitor. The charge storage capacitor can include a variable, voltage controlled capacitor, the capacitance of which is controlled by an input signal or voltage to the driver. Other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408561 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463956 | Einthoven et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pieter G. Einthoven (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Channing S. Morse (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the concept of managing the rate of change of energy in a helicopter or other aeronautical vehicle. The invention uses energy management calculations to determine the maximum longitudinal and lateral inputs that can be made while still enabling the vehicle to maintain a desired vertical state. The results of the calculations can be cued to the pilot either tactilely, aurally, or visually, or used for internal software limiting. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613253 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Levi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a semiconductor device so as to cause the device to have a desired transfer characteristic. Computations may be performed that predict a transfer characteristic of the semiconductor device for each of a plurality of different sets of values of available control parameters that may be used during the fabrication of the semiconductor device. A set of values of available control parameters that the computations predict will cause the semiconductor device to substantially provide the desired transfer characteristic may be identified, and the semiconductor device may be fabricated based on these identified values. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/673319 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07464031 | Axelrod et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott E. Axelrod (Mount Kisco, New York); Sreeram Viswanath Balakrishnan (Los Altos, California); Stanley F. Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Yuging Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Ramesh A. Gopinath (Millwood, New York); Hong-Kwang Kuo (Pleasantville, New York); Benoit Maison (White Plains, New York); David Nahamoo (White Plains, New York); Michael Alan Picheny (White Plains, New York); George A. Saon (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Geoffrey G. Zweig (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In a speech recognition system, the combination of a log-linear model with a multitude of speech features is provided to recognize unknown speech utterances. The speech recognition system models the posterior probability of linguistic units relevant to speech recognition using a log-linear model. The posterior model captures the probability of the linguistic unit given the observed speech features and the parameters of the posterior model. The posterior model may be determined using the probability of the word sequence hypotheses given a multitude of speech features. Log-linear models are used with features derived from sparse or incomplete data. The speech features that are utilized may include asynchronous, overlapping, and statistically non-independent speech features. Not all features used in training need to appear in testing/recognition. |
| FILED | Friday, November 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/724536 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malcolm Caplan (Fremont, California); Sergel Evge'evich Vinogradov (St. Peterburg, Russian Federation); Valeri Vasil'evich Ribin (St. Peterburg, Russian Federation); Valentin Ivanovich Shekalov (St. Peterburg, Russian Federation); Philip Grigor'evich Rutberg (St. Peterburg, Russian Federation); Alexi Anatol'evich Safronov (St. Peterburg, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Material for electrodes of low temperature plasma generators. The material contains a porous metal matrix impregnated with a material emitting electrons. The material uses a mixture of copper and iron powders as a porous metal matrix and a Group IIIB metal component such as Y2O3 is used as a material emitting electrons at, for example, the proportion of the components, mass %: iron: 3-30; Y2O3:0.05-1; copper: the remainder. Copper provides a high level of heat conduction and electric conductance, iron decreases intensity of copper evaporation in the process of plasma creation providing increased strength and lifetime, Y2O3 provides decreasing of electronic work function and stability of arc burning. The material can be used for producing the electrodes of low temperature AC plasma generators used for destruction of liquid organic wastes, medical wastes, and municipal wastes as well as for decontamination of low level radioactive waste, the destruction of chemical weapons, warfare toxic agents, etc. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818625 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462222 | Sellers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl L. Sellers (Peoria, Illinois); Daniel S. Nordyke (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Richard A. Crandell (Morton, Illinois); Gregory Tomlins (Peoria, Illinois); Dong Fei (Peoria, Illinois); Alexander Panov (Dunlap, Illinois); William H. Lane (Chillicothe, Illinois); Craig F. Habeger (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for removing matter from a filtering device includes a gas pressurization assembly. An element of the assembly is removably attachable to a first orifice of the filtering device. The system also includes a vacuum source fluidly connected to a second orifice of the filtering device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/958226 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462518 | Maghribi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariam N. Maghribi (Livermore, California); Peter Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Julie Hamilton (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing metal features on silicone comprising providing a silicone layer on a matrix and providing a metal layer on the silicone layer. An electronic apparatus can be produced by the system. The electronic apparatus comprises a silicone body and metal features on the silicone body that provide an electronic device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586271 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462685 | 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 resin recycling method that produces essentially contaminant-free synthetic resin material in an environmentally safe and economical manner. The method includes receiving the resin in container form. The containers are then ground into resin particles. The particles are exposed to a solvent, the solvent contacting the resin particles and substantially removing contaminants on the resin particles. After separating the particles and the resin, a solvent removing agent is used to remove any residual solvent remaining on the resin particles after separation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426503 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/480 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462970 | Hoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Hoff (East Peoria, Illinois); Marcelo C. Algrain (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system includes an engine, a motor/generator operatively connected to the engine, and a starter operatively connected to at least one of the engine and the motor/generator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740519 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463353 | Yershov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennadiy M. Yershov (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular, micro-scale, optical array and biodetection device for quantifying fluorescence intensities of a plurality of substantially separated, and dimensionally uniform elements of a bioarray that are located at known positions on a plain support includes a light guide that directs bioarray illumination light from a respective light source to opposing sides of the plain support. An optical module collecting light individually from the bioarray elements includes an optical member, a filter, and a sensor, such as a CCD chip. The optical member collects and transfers emitted light from the bioarray elements via the filter to the sensor. The filter transfers light from the elements having a predefined wavelength spectrum and blocks light outside the predefined wavelength spectrum. The sensor receives transferred light from the elements and produces a signal corresponding to respective elements of the bioarray. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444241 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463660 | Hackel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd A. Hackel (Livermore, California); Thomas F. Soules (Livermore, California); Scott N. Fochs (Livermore, California); Mark D. Rotter (San Ramon, California); Stephan A. Letts (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method and apparatus for suppressing ASE and parasitic oscillation modes in a high average power laser is introduced. By roughening one or more peripheral edges of a solid-state crystal or ceramic laser gain media and by bonding such edges using a substantially high index bonding elastomer or epoxy to a predetermined electromagnetic absorbing arranged adjacent to the entire outer surface of the peripheral edges of the roughened laser gain media, ASE and parasitic oscillation modes can be effectively suppressed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984565 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463690 | Candy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James V. Candy (Danville, California); David H. Chambers (Livermore, California); Brian L. Guidry (Tracy, California); Andrew J. Poggio (Livermore, California); Christopher L. Robbins (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system for transmitting a signal through a channel medium comprising digitizing the signal, time-reversing the digitized signal, and transmitting the signal through the channel medium. In one embodiment a transmitter is adapted to transmit the signal, a multiplicity of receivers are adapted to receive the signal, a digitizer digitizes the signal, and a time-reversal signal processor is adapted to time-reverse the digitized signal. An embodiment of the present invention includes multi bit implementations. Another embodiment of the present invention includes 1-bit implementations. Another embodiment of the present invention includes a multiplicity of receivers used in the step of transmitting the signal through the channel medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271334 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463982 | Seglke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent W. Seglke (San Ramon, California); Timothy P. Lekin (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of establishing liquid classes of complex mixtures for liquid handling equipment. The mixtures are composed of components and the equipment has equipment parameters. The first step comprises preparing a response curve for the components. The next step comprises using the response curve to prepare a response indicator for the mixtures. The next step comprises deriving a model that relates the components and the mixtures to establish the liquid classes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/186281 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07461543 | Degertekin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and unit for determining alignment in a layered device such as a semiconductor device includes providing a first layer having detectable surface and subsurface material properties and positioning a patterned photoresist layer over the first layer, patterned photoresist layer having detectable surface and subsurface material properties. The layers are imaged with a FIRAT probe to detect the material properties, and the detectable material properties are compared for mapping an alignment of the compared detectable material properties. The first layer may be a substrate or have a previously processed layer formed thereon. A surface topography may be included over the substrate and an etchable layer formed over the substrate or first layer. The FIRAT probe may be a single tip probe or a dual tip probe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/548531 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462270 | Naughton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments discloses a cantilever probe comprising a first electrode and a second electrode engaged to a substrate and a branched cantilever wherein the cantilever comprises a nanostruture. Furthermore, the probe comprises a first arm of the cantilever engaged to the first electrode and a second arm of the cantilever engaged to the second electrode. Additionally, the cantilever probe comprises an electrical circuit coupled to the cantilever wherein the electrical circuit is capable of measuring a change in piezoresistance of the cantilever resulting from an atomic force and/or a magnetic force applied to the cantilever. Additionally, the invention discloses a method of performing atomic force microscopy, magnetic force microscopy, or magnetic resonance force microscopy. The nanostructures may comprise carbon or non-carbon materials. Additionally, the nanostructures may include nanotubes, nanowire, nanofibers and various other types of nanostructures. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800598 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462492 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Paul Maksymiuk (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Sol-gel beds and deposits are utilized for SERS analysis of liquid analytes. Measurements are made at multiple points along the length of a column or channel to increase, very significantly, the speed of analysis, and use of the same medium to both separate the chemicals and also for SERS greatly reduces the complexity of such apparatus and enhances the efficiency of the method. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193894 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07462493 — Apparatus for effecting chemical separation and SERS detection using metal-doped sol-gels
| US 07462493 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Paul Maksymiuk (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Sol-gel beds and deposits are utilized for SERS analysis of liquid analytes. The use of the same medium to both separate the chemicals and also for SERS greatly reduces the complexity of such apparatus and enhances the efficiency of the method. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193895 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462688 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Jiang Xia (Stanford, California); Matthew John Siegel (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Detection of toxic gluten oligopeptides refractory to digestion and antibodies and T cells responsive thereto can be used to diagnose Celiac Sprue. Analogs of such oligopeptides are useful in the inhibition of immune responses. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198068 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462694 | Tumer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nilgun E. Tumer (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Katalin A. Hudak (Toronto, Canada); Bijal Parikh (Union, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are PAP mutants that are less toxic than wild type PAP and that exhibit depurination activity. Also disclosed are transgenic plants that procedure the PAP mutants, and methods for preparing the plants. Further disclosed are bioconjugates containing the PAP mutants, pharmaceutical compositions containing the bioconjugates, and methods of administering the compositions to treat disease. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/467009 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463680 | Buckwalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Buckwalter (Pasadena, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Behnam Analui (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer for serial data communications can be configured to compensate for the effects of deterministic jitter. The equalizer can be configured to compensate a received serial data stream for the effects of data-dependent jitter as well as duty cycle distortion jitter. The equalizer can be configured to determine the value of one or more previously received symbols and compare them to a recovered symbol. The equalizer can adjust a variable delay positioned in the serial data path to introduce a delay into the data path that is based in part on the received data stream. The equalizer can be configured to vary the delay when any of the one or more previously received symbols is different from the recovered symbol, and can be configured to maintain a constant delay if the one or more previously received symbols is the same as the recovered symbol. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/012857 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07464253 | Veidenbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Veidenbaum (Irvine, California); Marco Antonio Ramirez Salinas (Barcelona, Spain); Adrian Cristal Kestelman (Barcelona, Spain); Mateo Valero Cortes (Barcelona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for improving the operation of an out-of order computer processor by utilizing and managing instruction wakeup using pointers with an instruction queue payload random-access memory, a mapping table, and a multiple wake-up table. Instructions allocated to the instruction queue are identified by association with a physical destination register used to index in the mapping table to provide dependent instruction information for instruction wakeup for scalable instruction queue design, reduced power consumption, and fast branch mis-prediction recovery, without the use of content-addressable memory cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538016 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07461512 | Sakamoto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff S. Sakamoto (San Gabriel, California); G. Jeffrey Snyder (Altadena, California); Thierry Calliat (Pasadena, California); Jean-Pierre Fleurial (Altadena, California); Steven M. Jones (LaCrescenta, California); Jong-Ah Palk (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a castable, aerogel-based, ultra-low thermal conductivity opacified insulation to suppress sublimation. More specifically, the present invention relates to an aerogel opacified with various opacifying or reflecting constituents to suppress sublimation and provide thermal insulation in thermoelectric modules. The opacifying constituent can be graded within the aerogel for increased sublimation suppression, and the density of the aerogel can similarly be graded to achieve optimal thermal insulation and sublimation suppression. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977276 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07462141 | Raboin et al. |
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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) | Jasen L. Raboin (League City, Texas); Jason Niebuhr (League City, Texas); Santana F. Cruz (Houston, Texas); Christopher D. Lamoreaux (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an exercise device, which includes a vacuum cylinder and a flywheel. The flywheel provides an inertial component to the load, which is particularly well suited for use in space as it simulates exercising under normal gravity conditions. Also, the present invention relates to an exercise device, which has a vacuum cylinder and a load adjusting armbase assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031942 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07464006 | Huang |
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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) | Norden E. Huang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, computer program product and method of analyzing non-stationary time varying phenomena. A representation of a non-stationary time varying phenomenon is recursively sifted using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) to extract intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). The representation is filtered to extract intrinsic trends by combining a number of IMFs. The intrinsic trend is inherent in the data and identifies an IMF indicating the variability of the phenomena. The trend also may be used to detrend the data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963470 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07462706 | Dubcovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge Dubcovsky (Davis, California); Liuling Yan (Davis, California); Artem Loukoianov (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Winter wheats require several weeks at low temperature to flower. This process called vernalization is controlled mainly by a pair of genes, VRN1 and VRN2. The present invention includes the sequences of the VRN1 and VRN2 genes, proteins and promoter regions, transgenic plants containing the genes and/or promoters and uses of the foregoing. Of particular interest are temperate cereals with modified vernalization responses or flowering times. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723947 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07462486 | Vandenbark |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed to identify a T cell receptor (TCR) variable (V) peptide of use as a therapeutic agent in a subject. A method is also disclosed for monitoring the efficacy of a T Cell Receptor (TCR) V peptide for the treatment of a subject. In another embodiment, a method is disclosed for selecting a TCR V peptide of use in therapy for a subject having an autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438729 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 07462349 | Kalderon |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nurit Kalderon (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is intended to adapt an already established clinical procedure for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS)—the use of beta interferon—to treat chronic human spinal cord injury. The present invention relates to the prevention of chronic inflammation and demyelination following spinal cord injury. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/693042 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Library of Congress (LOC)
| US D582430 | Pepin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Technologies Humanware Canada, Inc. (Québec, Canada); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); United States Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gilles Pepin (St-Charles de Drummondville, Canada); Alain Paré (Kirkland, Canada); Dominic R. Labbé (McMasterville, Canada); Gerard M. Chevalier (Edmonton, Canada); Joseph A. Juratovac (Columbus, Ohio); Jeffrey R. Held (Columbus, Ohio); Michael Scott Ulrich (Columbus, Ohio); Gregg Charles Vanderheiden (Madison, Wisconsin); David Paul Kelso (Madison, Wisconsin); Frank Kurt Cylke (Great Falls, Virginia); Jean Marie Moss (Glendale, Maryland); Michael Gilbert Katzmann (Washington, District of Columbia); Robert Edward Fistick (Charlotte Hall, Maryland); Michael Montfort Moodie (Bethesda, Maryland); Alice Kathryn Baker (Washington, Washington); Donald Lee Pieper (Arroyo Grande, California) |
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| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 29/273867 |
| ART UNIT | 2912 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Recording, communication, or information retrieval equipment D14/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07462609 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides prodrugs derived from the sparingly soluble anticancer isocarbostyril narciclasine, a component of various Narcissus species, said prodrugs having potential for use against animal and human cancers. Also disclosed is an efficient procedure for the synthetic conversion of narciclasine to several more soluble cyclic phosphate compounds, including “narcistatin”. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/537968 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07462354 | Sette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pharmexa Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Sette (La Jolla, California); Robert Chesnut (Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California); Brian D. Livingston (San Diego, California); Denise Marie Baker (San Diego, California); Mark J. Newman (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the field of biology. In particular, the invention relates to a method and system for designing optimized multi-epitope vaccines having selected combinations of amino acid insertions at the junctions of the multi-epitope constructs so as to minimize the number of junctional epitopes and provide vaccines with increased immunogenicity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/894018 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07463210 | Rawnick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Rawnick (Palm Bay, Florida); Christopher Trent (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A phased array antenna includes a substrate that is segmented into a plurality of array tiles. An array of dipole antenna elements is formed on the substrate with each dipole antenna element positioned on a respective one of the array tiles. Each dipole antenna element includes a medial feed portion and a pair of legs extending outwardly therefrom. Adjacent legs of adjacent dipole antenna elements include respective spaced apart end portions forming a gap between the respective end portions and defined by separate tiles. A capacitor coupler is positioned at each respective spaced apart end portion of adjacent legs and bridging a gap for capacitive coupling respective spaced apart end portions of respective adjacent dipole antenna elements together. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/696933 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/795 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2008/fedinvent-patents-20081209.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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