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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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| US 07475532 | Corsmeier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Michael Corsmeier (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for channeling compressed air to a gas turbine engine augmentor is provided. The method includes coupling an annular slide valve to a gas turbine engine separation liner, coupling a valve seat to a gas turbine engine diffuser such that an airflow passage is defined between the annular slide valve and the valve seat, and channeling compressed air to the annular slide valve to facilitate regulating the quantity of fan bypass air channeled to the gas turbine engine augmentor. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214108 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07475550 | Seiner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Mississippi (University, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Seiner (Oxford, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device to reduce the noise produced by jet aircraft engines and/or other supersonic nozzles involves the use of corrugated engine seals (30) for the secondary internal divergent flaps (14) of the nozzle (10). Such corrugated seals (30) serve not only to eliminate shock-generated noise, but also generate a counter-rotating vorticity to force low speed mixing of surrounding ambient air with the high-speed jet exhaust. Lower exhaust velocities, combined with reduced levels of the turbulent Reynolds shear stress, lead to reduction of turbulence-generated noise, including Mach wave emission. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769539 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07475624 | Daily |
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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 M. Daily (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic pulse delivery system for delivering a sufficient amount of energy and waveform to induce a current in target electronic components that disrupt or damage those target electronic components and overwhelm any protective circuitry. The system includes a power source in communication with a capacitive discharge system capable of producing an electromagnetic pulse. A mechanical interface including a supply contact in communication with the capacitive discharge system and a return contact in communication with a path to earth ground is provided to deliver the electromagnetic pulse to the target object. Physical contact between the mechanical interface and the object closes a switch disposed between the capacitive discharge system and the supply contact for discharging the pulse into the target object. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444812 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07475651 | Dunn |
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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) | Paul M. Dunn (West Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural element includes an internal rib and mounting structure having end ribs joined by rails to a plurality of intermediate ribs. A cylindrical skin positioned about the cylindrical rib and mounting structure allows the structure to slide in and out of the skin. A cylindrical male end joint can be a fastening to the end rib of the mounting structure to retain the structure within the skin. Likewise, a female end joint is secured on the other end rib of the structure to complete the structural element. The end joints are sealed against the skin to prevent leakage. The rails can be provided as rail sections joining adjacent ribs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831304 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476345 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054962 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476390 | Apt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxygen, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doris Apt (San Jose, California); Juha Punnonen (Belmont, California); Alice M. Brinkman (Tustin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded therefrom having advantageous properties, including an ability to induce an immune response to flaviviruses. The polypeptides and polynucleotides of the invention are useful in methods of inducing immune response against flaviviruses, including dengue viruses. Compositions and methods for utilizing polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375932 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476450 | Maloney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Maloney (Marlborough, Connecticut); David A. Litton (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Venkatarama K. Seetharaman (Rocky Hill, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating suitable for use as a bondcoat for a thermal barrier coating system includes about 5 to about 10 weight percent of aluminum (Al), about 10 to about 18 weight percent of cobalt (Co), about 4 to about 8 weight percent of chromium (Cr), about 0 to about 1 weight percent of hafnium (Hf), about 0 to about 1 weight percent of silicon (Si), about 0 to about 1 percent of yttrium (Y), about 1.5 to about 2.5 weight percent of molybdenum (Mo), about 2 to about 4 weight percent of rhenium (Re), about 5 to about 10 weight percent of tantalum (Ta), about 5 to about 8 weight percent of tungsten (W), about 0 to about 1 weight percent of zirconium (Zr), and a remainder of nickel (Ni). |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/391766 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476453 | Rohrer Boutwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Allen Rohrer Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Ramgopal Darolia (West Chester, Ohio); Curtis Alan Johnson (Niskayuna, New York); Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Mark Daniel Gorman (West Chester, Ohio); Yan Gao (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a thermal barrier coating for inclusion in a thermal barrier coating system is provided. The thermal barrier coating comprises a compound having a rhombohedral phase. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a thermal barrier coating is provided that comprises a compound having the formula of: A4B3O12, wherein A is at least one rare earth element; and B is selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006367 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476510 | Kapur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cellomics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi Kapur (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Kenneth Giuliano (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and cassettes for cell-based toxin detection and organ localization are disclosed. The cassettes includes an array containing cells and a matrix of openings or depressions, wherein each region of the substrate enclosed by the opening or depression in the matrix forms a domain individually addressable by microfluidic channels in the device. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/650199 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07476566 | Farrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Farrell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Paul Jaynes (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Malcolm Taylor (Pepperell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A packaging method including assembling components on a substrate, manufacturing a lid assembly to include a plurality of integrated covers, and mating the lid assembly to the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101925 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476596 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yi Cui (Union City, California); Xiangfeng Duan (Mountain View, California); Yu Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A bulk-doped semiconductor that is at least one of the following: a single crystal, an elongated and bulk-doped semiconductor that, at any point along its longitudinal axis, has a largest cross-sectional dimension less than 500 nanometers, and a free-standing and bulk-doped semiconductor with at least one portion having a smallest width of less than 500 nanometers. At least one portion of such a semiconductor may a smallest width of less than 200 nanometers, or less than 150 nanometers, or less than 100 nanometers, or less than 80 nanometers, or less than 70 nanometers, or less than 60 nanometers, or less than 40 nanometers, or less than 20 nanometers, or less than 10 nanometers, or even less than 5 nanometers. Such a semiconductor may be doped during growth. Such a semiconductor may be part of a device, which may include any of a variety of devices and combinations thereof, and a variety of assembling techniques may be used to fabricate devices from such a semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543336 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476852 | Bonne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Bonne (Hopkins, Minnesota); Teresa M. Marta (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Karen M. Newstrom-Peitso (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to detector structures for use in a micro gas analyzer, preferably in a differential setup. The detector structures may comprise one or more detector types, such as photo-ionization (PID), electron capture (ECD), ion mobility (IMS), differential mobility (DMS), ion-trap mass spectrometer (ITMS), in which all are provided with ions and electrons from one vacuum ultra violet (VUV) source. This source may also provide ions for ion-based gas pumps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328735 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476982 | Autumn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon); Ronald S. Fearing (El Cerrito, California); Steven D. Jones (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit chip has one or more electrically conductive nano-fibers formed on one or more contact pads of the integrated circuit chip. The one or more electrically conductive nano-fibers are configured to provide an adhesive force by intermolecular forces and establish an electrical connection with one or more contact pads disposed on the surface of a chip package. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365094 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/783 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477017 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Kuo-Feng Chen (Urbana, Illinois); Nels P. Ostrom (Champaign, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating microcavity discharge devices and arrays of devices. The devices are fabricated by layering a dielectric on a first conducting layer. A second conducting layer or structure is overlaid on the dielectric layer. In some devices, a microcavity is created that penetrates the second conducting layer or structure and the dielectric layer. In other devices, the microcavity penetrates to the first conducting layer. The second conducting layer or structure together with the inside face of the microcavity is overlaid with a second dielectric layer. The microcavities are then filled with a discharge gas. When a time-varying potential of the appropriate magnitude is applied between the conductors, a microplasma discharge is generated in the microcavity. These devices can exhibit extended lifetimes since the conductors are encapsulated, shielding the conductors from degradation due to exposure to the plasma. Some of the devices are flexible and the dielectric can be chosen to act as a mirror. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042228 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477050 | Gambino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Gambino (Stony Brook, New York); Jon Longtin (Port Jefferson, New York); Sanjay Sampath (Setauket, New York); Szymon Tankiewicz (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential wireless sensing device includes a first resonant device impinged on a substrate having a predetermined natural frequency, the first resonant device having a changeable resonant frequency in response to an environmental condition, and a second resonant device impinged on the substrate having a predetermined static resonant frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/491689 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477398 | Lal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MetroLaser, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit K. Lal (Ladera Ranch, California); Cecil F. Hess (Irvine, California); L. Ernesto Hurtado (Laguna Niguel, California); Vladimir B. Markov (Irvine, California); Vyacheslav Aranchuk (Oxford, Mississippi); Valentina V. Doushkina (Aliso Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-beam heterodyne vibrometer for analyzing vibration of an object includes an optical system and a combining element. The optical system generates a plurality of object beams and a plurality of reference beams where one of the plurality of beams has a frequency that is shifted from a frequency of the other plurality of beams. The optical system focuses each of the plurality of object beams on the object and transmits the plurality of focused object beams to the object. A portion of each of the plurality of focused object beams is reflected off of a surface of the object as a modulated object beam. The optical system collects the modulated object beams. The combining element combines each of the modulated object beams with a respective one of the reference beams into a plurality of beam pairs. |
| FILED | Monday, August 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507882 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477567 | Abraham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Abraham (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Philip L. Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory storage device is provided that includes a storage cell having a changeable magnetic region. The changeable magnetic region includes a material having a magnetization state that is responsive to a change in temperature. The memory storage device also includes a heating element. The heating element is proximate to the storage cell for selectively changing the temperature of the changeable magnetic region of said storage cell. By heating the storage cell via the heating element, as opposed to heating the storage cell by directly applying current thereto, more flexibility is provided in the manufacture of the storage cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/615147 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/230.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477670 | Abeles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Abeles (Middlesex, New Jersey); Alan M. Braun (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Viktor Borisovitch Khalfin (Hightstown, New Jersey); Martin H. Kwakernaak (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Ramon U. Martinelli (Hightstown, New Jersey); Hooman Mohseni (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power laser system including: a plurality of emitters each including a large area waveguide and a plurality of quantum well regions optically coupled to the large area waveguide, wherein each of the quantum well regions exhibits a low modal overlap with the large area waveguide; a collimator optically coupled to the emitters; a diffraction grating optically coupled through the collimator to the emitters; and, an output coupler optically coupled through the diffraction grating to the emitters. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140602 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477672 | Sinha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Supriyo Sinha (Menlo Park, California); Michel J. F. Digonnet (Palo Alto, California); Robert L. Byer (Stanford, California); Jens Limpert (Jena, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Photodarkening in active fiber or waveguide devices (e.g. lasers, amplifiers, and incoherent sources such as ASE sources) can be reduced by altering the dopant concentration along the length of the doped fiber. A fiber or waveguide device includes two or more intentionally doped fiber or waveguide sections having different concentrations of one or more dopants. The dopants provide optical gain responsive to pump radiation provided to the fiber device by a pump source. A first optical intensity in a first of the fiber or waveguide sections is greater than a second optical intensity in a second of the fiber or waveguide sections. A first dopant concentration in the first fiber or waveguide section is lower than a second dopant concentration in the second fiber or waveguide section. Thus the dopant concentration is reduced in sections of the fiber or waveguide device having a higher optical intensity. The optical intensity can be due to pump radiation and/or signal radiation. Reduced dopant concentration in regions of high optical intensity reduces photodarkening. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508550 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477802 | Milanfar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, California); Sina Farsiu (Santa Cruz, California); Michael Elad (Haifa, Israel); Michael D. Robinson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method of creating a super-resolved grayscale image from lower-resolution images using an L1 norm data fidelity penalty term to enforce similarities between low and a high-resolution image estimates is provided. A spatial penalty term encourages sharp edges in the high-resolution image, the data fidelity penalty term is applied to space invariant point spread function, translational, affine, projective and dense motion models including fusing the lower-resolution images, to estimate a blurred higher-resolution image and then a deblurred image. The data fidelity penalty term uses the L1 norm in a likelihood fidelity term for motion estimation errors. The spatial penalty term uses bilateral-TV regularization with an image having horizontal and vertical pixel-shift terms, and a scalar weight between 0 and 1. The penalty terms create an overall cost function having steepest descent optimization applied for minimization. Direct image operator effects replace matrices for speed and efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601518 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477806 | Williams |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morgan Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marty R. Williams (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for winding a crossover-free fiber optic coil sensor comprising: attaching a fiber optic cable to an outer edge of a coil form, wherein the coil form comprises a first side and a second side; forming a first outside-in coil layer on the first side of the coil form using a first winding head; attaching a first inside-out separator on top of the first outside-in coil layer; forming a first inside-out coil layer on top of the first inside-out separator using the first winding head; forming a second outside-in coil on the second side of the coil form using a second winding head; attaching a second inside-out separator on top of the second outside-in coil layer; and forming a second inside-out coil layer on top of the second inside-out separator using the second winding head. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/741089 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07478021 | Shih |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chun-Ching Shih (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for generating very-high-order Hermite functions needed for accurately simulating operation of various devices and structures involving propagation of electromagnetic waves. By using modified recursion formulas, the technique generates asymptotic Hermite functions, smooth Hermite functions or optimized smooth Hermite functions, allowing for very high orders of the functions to be generated without the intermediate function values becoming so large as to exceed the capacity of conventional computers. The disclosed method for generating smooth Hermite functions provides for generation of well-behaved functions of order 30,000 or higher. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074455 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07478090 | Aparicio, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saffron Technology, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel Aparicio, IV (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yen-min Huang (Cary, North Carolina); David R. Cabana (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Analogies among entities may be detected by obtaining associative counts among the entities and computing similarity measures among given entities and other entities, using the associative counts. First and second entities are then identified as being analogies if the first entity has a strongest similarity measure with respect to the second entity and the second entity also has a strongest similarity measure with respect to the first entity. The similarity measures may be calculated using a normalized entropy inverted among a given entity and other entities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/035472 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07478197 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Man Cheuk Ng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aaron Christoph Sawdey (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a computer system with a memory hierarchy, when a high-level cache supplies a data copy to a low-level cache, the shared copy can be either volatile or non-volatile. When the data copy is later replaced from the low-level cache, if the data copy is non-volatile, it needs to be written back to the high-level cache; otherwise it can be simply flushed from the low-level cache. The high-level cache can employ a volatile-prediction mechanism that adaptively determines whether a volatile copy or a non-volatile copy should be supplied when the high-level cache needs to send data to the low-level cache. An exemplary volatile-prediction mechanism suggests use of a non-volatile copy if the cache line has been accessed consecutively by the low-level cache. Further, the low-level cache can employ a volatile-promotion mechanism that adaptively changes a data copy from volatile to non-volatile according to some promotion policy, or changes a data copy from non-volatile to volatile according to some demotion policy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/458192 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07478218 | Bruening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek L. Bruening (Troy, New York); Saman P. Amarasinghe (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A runtime code manipulation system is provided that supports code transformations on a program while it executes. The runtime code manipulation system uses code caching technology to provide efficient and comprehensive manipulation of an application running on an operating system and hardware. The code cache includes a system for automatically keeping the code cache at an appropriate size for the current working set of an application running. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356599 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07476204 | Parks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pressure Profile Systems, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Parks (Hermosa Beach, California); Jae S. Son (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for visually indicating, in real time or post hoc, values of a physical property detected over a period of time along a dimension of an organism to a user on a temporal plot and a profile plot, either individually or concurrently. The detected values may be visually indicated on the temporal plot using any of a variety of techniques, including, but not limited to, a contour technique, a line trace technique or a mesh plot technique. Further, the detected values may be visually indicated on the profile plot using any of a variety of techniques, including, but not limited to a contour technique, a line trace technique or a histogram technique. To provide a finer spatial resolution, values may be interpolated for locations between the locations at which values were detected, and these values may be displayed on the temporal plot and the profile plot. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/281068 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/593 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476383 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama); William J. Koopman (Indian Springs, Alabama); Albert F. Lobuglio (Birmingham, Alabama); Donald J. Buchsbaum (Montevallo, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An antibody of the invention interacts with human DR5 or with human DR4 to produce agonistic or antagonistic effects downstream of the receptor including inhibition of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Nucleic acid sequences and amino acid sequences of DR5 and DR4 antibodies have been elucidated and vectors and cells containing and expressing these sequences have been generated. Methods and uses for the antibodies are detailed including treatment of apoptosis-related disease and treatment of dysregulated cell growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/286132 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476499 | Kirkegaard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karla A. Kirkegaard (Palo Alto, California); Scott M. Crowder (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of identifying candidate anti-viral agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762607 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Willey (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for assaying one or more analytes in a sample with improved sensitivity, reproducibility and/or lower detection limits, as well as applications employing such compositions and methods. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for assaying one or more non-nucleic acid analytes with one or more other nucleic acid and/or non-nucleic acid analytes that serve as controls. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103397 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476535 | Khong 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) | Hung Khong (Bethesda, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new and potent tumor antigen capable of causing T cells to elicit an immune response and methods of its use in the detection, prevention, and treatment of cancer, preferably melanoma, in mammals. More specifically, this invention relates to the identification of a novel tyrosinase-related protein 2(TRP2), specifically TRP2-6b protein, and peptides derived from said protein. The present invention therefore also relates to nucleic acid seciuences that encode the TRP2-6b protein or peptide fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468665 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476650 | Crews et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig M. Crews (New Haven, Connecticut); Mikael Elofsson (Umea, Sweden); Ute Splittgerber (Le Mesa, California); Kyung Bo Kim (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide-based compounds including heteroatom-containing, three-membered rings efficiently and selectively inhibit specific activities of N-terminal nucleophile (Ntn) hydrolases. The activities of those Ntn having multiple activities can be differentially inhibited by the compounds described. For example, the chymotrypsin-like and PGPH activities of the 20S proteasome can be selectively inhibited with the inventive compounds. The peptide-based compounds include an electron withdrawing group adjacent to the ring functionality, and the peptide include at least three peptide units. Among other therapeutic utilities, the peptide-based compounds exhibit anti-inflammatory and inhibition of cell proliferation, involving therapeutic applications for these compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/871752 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476651 | Schimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schimmel (La Jolla, California); Keisuke Wakasugi (Shizuok, Japan); Martin Friedlander (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for inhibiting ocular neovascularization in a patient. The method comprises administering to a patient an ocular neovascularization inhibiting amount of a water-soluble polypeptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 12, SEQ ID NO: 7, and an ocular neovascularization inhibiting fragment thereof, which includes at least one of amino acid residue signature sequences HVGH (SEQ ID NO:10) and KMSAS (SEQ ID NO:11). A method for assaying the angiogenesis inhibiting activity of a composition is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/903030 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jawaharlal M. Patel (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides materials and methods useful in regulating blood flow. In a preferred embodiment, the subject invention provides peptides that are able to enhance nitric oxide (NO) activity and/or elevate cellular guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). Through these mechanisms, the subject invention can be used advantageously to effect vasorelaxation, thereby providing therapeutic benefit in a variety of contexts. In a specific embodiment the subject invention provides novel peptides that have been found to enhance the activity of endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). These peptides have also been found to reduce the cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase activity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433113 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476692 | Gupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanker Gupta (Rockville, Maryland); C. Patrick Reynolds (Sherman Oaks, California); Barry J. Maurer (Sylmar, California); B. Rao Vishnuvajjala (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stable aqueous solutions consisting essentially of: (a) a sphingolipid; (b) lactic acid; and (c) optionally a stabilizing agent; wherein the solution has a molar ratio of lactic acid to sphingolipid of 1:1 to 10:1. The present invention further provides an emulsion formulation consisting essentially of: (a) lactic acid; (b) a sphingolipid, wherein the sphingolipid is present in an amount of about 0.1 to about 30 mg/ml of emulsion; (b) optionally an isotonic agent; and (c) a phospholipid present in an amount of about 0.2 to about 200 mg/ml of emulsion. Methods of making and using the compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782459 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476733 | Carvalho 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) | Maria da Gloria Carvalho (Decatur, Georgia); Jacquelyn S. Sampson (College Park, Georgia); Edwin W. Ades (Atlanta, Georgia); George Carlone (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Karen McCaustland (Snellville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for detecting a specific sequence of the psaA gene using real-time PCR for diagnosis of Pneumococcal Disease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089938 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476740 | Blundell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Organix, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Blundell (Winchester, Massachusetts); Peter C. Meltzer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bertha K. Madras (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel tropane compounds and methods for their use. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400825 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477720 | Pack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jed Douglas Pack (Schenectady, New York); Frédéric Noo (Midvale, Utah); Rolf Clackdoyle (Chamboeuf, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention include a method and apparatus for accurate cone beam reconstruction with source positions on a curve (or set of curves). The inversion formulas employed by embodiments of the method of the present invention are based on first backprojecting a simple derivative in the projection space and then applying a Hilbert transform inversion in the image space. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371718 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477770 | Wehrli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix W. Wehrli (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Bryon R. Gomberg (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present indention comprises a system and method for analyzing trabecular bone structure. A means for scanning the trabecular bone using a magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanner generates bone image data, which is then processed including correcting, deshadi4 and reducing noise in the image data. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/497747 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07476257 | Sah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Sah (San Diego, California); Kelvin W. Li (San Diego, California); Travis J. Klein (San Diego, California); Barbara L. Schumacher (Cardiff by the Sea, California); Koichi Masuda (Wilmette, Illinois); Eugene J-M. A. Thonar (Lockport, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a cultured, stratified cartilage tissue that comprises a tissue-engineered, cohesive cartilage construct comprised of two or more cartilage layers, wherein each cartilage layer comprises chondrogenic cells having a chondrocytic phenotype corresponding to chondrocytes present in: a superficial-tangential zone of natural cartilage; a middle-transitional zone of natural cartilage; a deep-radial zone of natural cartilage; or a calcified cartilage zone of natural cartilage. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244035 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/23.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476345 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054962 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476500 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zev Gartner (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Rosenbaum (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mathias Gruen (Jena, Germany); Jeffrey Doyon (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides in vivo systems in which activity of a biological cleavage enzyme, such as a site-specific recombinase, a homing endonuclease, or an intein, is linked to cell viability and therefore can be selected. The invention further provides methods of making cells in which the activity of a biological cleavage enzyme is linked to viability, as well as methods of identifying new biological cleavage enzymes, including enzymes having altered site specificity, using such cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/102056 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476596 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yi Cui (Union City, California); Xiangfeng Duan (Mountain View, California); Yu Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A bulk-doped semiconductor that is at least one of the following: a single crystal, an elongated and bulk-doped semiconductor that, at any point along its longitudinal axis, has a largest cross-sectional dimension less than 500 nanometers, and a free-standing and bulk-doped semiconductor with at least one portion having a smallest width of less than 500 nanometers. At least one portion of such a semiconductor may a smallest width of less than 200 nanometers, or less than 150 nanometers, or less than 100 nanometers, or less than 80 nanometers, or less than 70 nanometers, or less than 60 nanometers, or less than 40 nanometers, or less than 20 nanometers, or less than 10 nanometers, or even less than 5 nanometers. Such a semiconductor may be doped during growth. Such a semiconductor may be part of a device, which may include any of a variety of devices and combinations thereof, and a variety of assembling techniques may be used to fabricate devices from such a semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543336 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476851 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Wang (St. Paul, Minnesota); Peter H. McMurry (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Einar Kruis (Emmerich am Rhein, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Guidelines for designing lenses or systems for aerodynamic focusing of nanoparticle or cluster beams. The design process may involve obtaining a relationship between particle size, operating pressure and aperture size, and selecting the operating pressure to provide continuum flow of an aerosol beam through the aerodynamic lens. Particles having diameters less than 30 nanometer may be focused. Simulation techniques for evaluating designed lenses are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269932 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477802 | Milanfar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peyman Milanfar (Menlo Park, California); Sina Farsiu (Santa Cruz, California); Michael Elad (Haifa, Israel); Michael D. Robinson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method of creating a super-resolved grayscale image from lower-resolution images using an L1 norm data fidelity penalty term to enforce similarities between low and a high-resolution image estimates is provided. A spatial penalty term encourages sharp edges in the high-resolution image, the data fidelity penalty term is applied to space invariant point spread function, translational, affine, projective and dense motion models including fusing the lower-resolution images, to estimate a blurred higher-resolution image and then a deblurred image. The data fidelity penalty term uses the L1 norm in a likelihood fidelity term for motion estimation errors. The spatial penalty term uses bilateral-TV regularization with an image having horizontal and vertical pixel-shift terms, and a scalar weight between 0 and 1. The penalty terms create an overall cost function having steepest descent optimization applied for minimization. Direct image operator effects replace matrices for speed and efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601518 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07476765 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsing-Lin Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Wenguang Li (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An process of forming a chiral conducting polymer, e.g., polyaniline, is provided including reacting a monomer, e.g., an aniline monomer, in the presence of a chiral dopant acid to produce a first reaction mixture by addition of a solution including a first portion of an oxidizing agent, the first portion of oxidizing agent characterized as insufficient to allow complete reaction of the monomer, and further reacting the first reaction mixture in the presence of the chiral dopant acid by addition of a solution including a second portion of the oxidizing agent, the second portion of oxidizing agent characterized as insufficient to allow complete reaction of the monomer, and repeating the reaction by addition of further portions of the oxidizing agent until the monomer reaction is complete to produce a chiral conducting polymer, e.g., polyaniline. A preferred process includes addition of a catalyst during the reaction, the catalyst selected from among the group consisting of phenylene diamine, aniline oligomers and amino-capped aniline oligomers and metal salts. The processes of the present invention further provide a resultant polyaniline product having a chirality level defined by a molar ellipticity of from about 40×103 degree-cm2/decimole to about 700×103 degree-cm2/decimole. The processes of the present invention further provide a resultant polyaniline product having a nanofiber structure with a diameter of from about 30 nanometers to about 120 nanometers and from about 1 micron to about 5 microns in length. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/485044 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple pass optical cell and method comprising providing a pair of opposed cylindrical mirrors having curved axes with substantially equal focal lengths, positioning an entrance hole for introducing light into the cell and an exit hole for extracting light from the cell, wherein the entrance hole and exit hole are coextensive or non-coextensive, introducing light into the cell through the entrance hole, and extracting light from the cell through the exit hole. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896608 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477614 | Hansen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Hansen (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A switching system and method are provided to facilitate use of videoconference facilities over a plurality of security levels. The system includes a switch coupled to a plurality of codecs and communication networks. Audio/Visual peripheral components are connected to the switch. The switch couples control and data signals between the Audio/Visual peripheral components and one but nor both of the plurality of codecs. The switch additionally couples communication networks of the appropriate security level to each of the codecs. In this manner, a videoconferencing facility is provided for use on both secure and non-secure networks. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/834421 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/264 |
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| US 07478278 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Todd Alan Inglett (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for a template based parallel checkpoint save for a massively parallel super computer system using a parallel variation of the rsync protocol, and network broadcast. In preferred embodiments, the checkpoint data for each node is compared to a template checkpoint file that resides in the storage and that was previously produced. Embodiments herein greatly decrease the amount of data that must be transmitted and stored for faster checkpointing and increased efficiency of the computer system. Embodiments are directed to a parallel computer system with nodes arranged in a cluster with a high speed interconnect that can perform broadcast communication. The checkpoint contains a set of actual small data blocks with their corresponding checksums from all nodes in the system. The data blocks may be compressed using conventional non-lossy data compression algorithms to further reduce the overall checkpoint size. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106010 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07475588 | Dimeo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Danbury, Connecticut); Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (Wolcott, Connecticut); Michele Stawacz (New Milford, Connecticut); Thomas H. Baum (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Mackenzie E. King (Southbury, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey F. Roeder (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas detector and process for detecting a fluorine-containing species in a gas containing same, e.g., an effluent of a semiconductor processing tool undergoing etch cleaning with HF, NF3, etc. The detector in a preferred structural arrangement employs a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based device structure and/or a free-standing metal element that functions as a sensing component and optionally as a heat source when elevated temperature sensing is required. The free-standing metal element can be fabricated directly onto a standard chip carrier/device package so that the package becomes a platform of the detector. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057734 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476636 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme A Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance pour l'Etude et l'Exploration des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir S. Kulkarni (Wilmington, Delaware); David J. Hasse (Bel Air, Maryland); Dean W. Kratzer (Warwick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Mixed matrix composite (MMC) membranes with minimal macrovoids and defects are provided by the current invention. MMC Membranes are needed that have minimal macrovoids and defects, provide consistent and good selectivity and permeability performance, provide the mechanical strength required to withstand high membrane differential pressures, and exhibit sufficient flexibility and can easily be formed into desirable membrane forms. MMC Membranes made from a spinning dope that is stabilized with an electrostabilizing additive, particularly an acid additive, results in membranes, particularly hollow fiber membranes that have minimal macrovoids and defects. Thus, membranes of the current invention are particularly suitable for high trans-membrane pressure applications, particularly for separating oxygen/nitrogen, hydrogen/hydrocarbon, and carbon dioxide/hydrocarbon components of a stream. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091619 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07477377 | Silver |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple pass optical cell and method comprising providing a pair of opposed cylindrical mirrors having curved axes with substantially equal focal lengths, positioning an entrance hole for introducing light into the cell and an exit hole for extracting light from the cell, wherein the entrance hole and exit hole are coextensive or non-coextensive, introducing light into the cell through the entrance hole, and extracting light from the cell through the exit hole. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896608 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07477741 | Oakley |
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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) | Ernest C. Oakley (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for encoding and decoding data words including an anti-analysis encoder unit for receiving an original plaintext and producing a recoded data, a data compression unit for receiving the recoded data and producing a compressed recoded data, and an encryption unit for receiving the compressed recoded data and producing an encrypted data. The recoded data has an increased non-correlatable data redundancy compared with the original plaintext in order to mask the statistical distribution of characters in the plaintext data. The system of the present invention further includes a decryption unit for receiving the encrypted data and producing a decrypted data, a data decompression unit for receiving the decrypted data and producing an uncompressed recoded data, and an anti-analysis decoder unit for receiving the uncompressed recoded data and producing a recovered plaintext that corresponds with the original plaintext. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956712 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07476655 | Patel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jawaharlal M. Patel (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides materials and methods useful in regulating blood flow. In a preferred embodiment, the subject invention provides peptides that are able to enhance nitric oxide (NO) activity and/or elevate cellular guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). Through these mechanisms, the subject invention can be used advantageously to effect vasorelaxation, thereby providing therapeutic benefit in a variety of contexts. In a specific embodiment the subject invention provides novel peptides that have been found to enhance the activity of endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). These peptides have also been found to reduce the cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase activity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433113 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07478192 | Fleming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saffron Technology, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Fleming (Apex, North Carolina); Brian J. McGiverin (Richmond, Virginia); Manuel Aparicio, IV (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Associative memory systems, methods and/or computer program products include a network of networks of associative memory networks. A network of entity associative memory networks is provided, a respective entity associative memory of which includes associations among a respective observer entity and observed entities that are observed by the respective observer entity, based on input documents. A network of feedback associative memory networks includes associations among observed entities for a respective positive and/or negative evaluation for a respective task of a respective user. A network of document associative memory networks includes associations among observed entities in a respective observed input source, such as a respective input document. A network of community associative memory networks includes associations among a respective observer entity, observed entities that are observed by the respective observer entity, and observed tasks of users in which the observer entity was queried. Associations may be observed into and imagined from the network of networks of associative memory networks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/980520 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07477377 | Silver |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple pass optical cell and method comprising providing a pair of opposed cylindrical mirrors having curved axes with substantially equal focal lengths, positioning an entrance hole for introducing light into the cell and an exit hole for extracting light from the cell, wherein the entrance hole and exit hole are coextensive or non-coextensive, introducing light into the cell through the entrance hole, and extracting light from the cell through the exit hole. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896608 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
| US 07476693 | Doncel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gustavo F. Doncel (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of inhibiting STDs by topically administering suramin or a derivative thereof to actual or potential sites of infection, and methods of preventing pregnancy by topically applying suramin or a derivative thereof intravaginally. Suramin compositions that include an antimicrobial agent and/or a sperm-function inhibitor are also provided and may advantageously be used in the methods of the invention. A method of simultaneously inhibiting STDs and preventing pregnancy is also provided. Devices impregnated or coated with the topical suramin compositions are further disclosed and may be used to apply the compositions described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/508566 |
| ART UNIT | 1609 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07475549 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Rockford, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Alexander (San Diego, California); Gordon Jewess (San Diego, California); Patrick Lydon (San Marcos, California); Tammy Lane (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a cooling airflow which enters through an air filter portion of a forward cover for filtration of particulate which may result in FOD to a rotational system of the engine. Filtered cooling airflow flows along a rotor shaft over and through a forward bearing, over and through a permanent magnet generator, then over and through an aft bearing to provide thermal management. Commensurate therewith, the cooling airflow atomizes and communicates a lubricant to the bearings. From the aft bearing, the cooling airflow merges with a primary airflow path from an intake which generally surrounds the forward cover. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197248 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07476956 | Parikh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | New Group III based diodes are disclosed having a low on state voltage (Vf) and structures to keep reverse current (Irev) relatively low. One embodiment of the invention is Schottky barrier diode made from the GaN material system in which the Fermi level (or surface potential) of is not pinned. The barrier potential at the metal-to-semiconductor junction varies depending on the type of metal used and using particular metals lowers the diode's Schottky barrier potential and results in a Vf in the range of 0.1-0.3V. In another embodiment a trench structure is formed on the Schottky diodes semiconductor material to reduce reverse leakage current. and comprises a number of parallel, equally spaced trenches with mesa regions between adjacent trenches. A third embodiment of the invention provides a GaN tunnel diode with a low Vf resulting from the tunneling of electrons through the barrier potential, instead of over it. This embodiment can also have a trench structure to reduce reverse leakage current. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445130 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07478298 | Jaworski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Jaworski (St. Petersburg, Florida); Daniel W. Snider (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A test system for testing a backplane comprising an adapter assembly and a generic boundary-scan test unit. The adapter assembly includes an application-specific mating connector to communicatively couple the adapter assembly to an application-specific port of a backplane and an adapter generic connector. The generic boundary-scan test unit includes a test card generic connector to communicatively couple the generic boundary-scan test unit to the adapter generic connector of the adapter assembly and boundary-scan functionality to transmit at least one output test signal. The backplane is tested by communicating the output test signal from the generic boundary-scan test unit to the application-specific mating connector for testing the backplane and communicating at least one input test signal received from the backplane via the application-specific mating connector to the boundary-scan functionality of the generic boundary-scan test unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340286 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/727 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, January 13, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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