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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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| US 07481100 | Ponziani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Louis Ponziani (West Chester, Ohio); Sridhar Adibhatla (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring a gas turbine engine operating parameter is provided. The method includes providing at least one engine component and a plurality of sensors, positioning each of the plurality of sensors relative to an index location, defining a periodic gas flow operating parameter distribution profile to extend across an engine component or between engine components, obtaining a gas flow operating parameter reading from each of the plurality of sensors, and determining at least one operating parameter for defining a periodic gas flow operating parameter distribution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567080 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/112.10 |
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| US 07481176 | Pratt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N. Pratt (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Tommy L. Bevins (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Bob E. Walker (Vicksburg, Mississippi); James C. Ray (Clinton, Mississippi); Michael J. Plackett (Corvallis, Oregon); Donald T. Resio (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Frank E. Sargent (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Zeki Demirbilek (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Jimmy E. Fowler (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A transportable modular flotation system with sections incorporating a decked supporting structure that is buoyed by heavy duty flotation tubes. The sections are coupled together with pre-tensioned ropes, straps or cables of High Modulus Fiber. The system is suitable for off-loading items from cargo ships in small harbors and onto remote beaches. One embodiment is a heavy-duty lightweight modular causeway system (LMCS™) that is rapidly deployable and recoverable from a Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV). Other embodiments of the present invention may be deployable floating piers or docks; modular commercial causeways, and expedient means to cross environmentally sensitive areas such as marshes or wetlands without employing major earthmoving equipment. Embodiments may also be used for wet-gap crossings, such as currently served by modular bridges, such as the Army Dry Support Bridge (DSB). |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/806532 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/264 |
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| US 07481267 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guodong Zhan (Boulder, Colorado); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Amiya K. Mukherjee (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic materials are converted to materials with anisotropic thermal properties, electrical properties, or both, by forming the ceramics into composites with carbon nanotubes dispersed therein and uniaxially compressing the composites in a direction in which a lower thermal or electrical conductivity is desired. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136951 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/185 |
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| US 07481337 | Luharuka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Luharuka (Atlanta, Georgia); Chi-Fu Wu (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter Hesketh (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic pumps, methods of fabrication thereof, and methods of use thereof, as well as method of pumping a fluid, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922015 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dispensing 222/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07481855 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Kenneth Rogers (Wheeling, West Virginia); Janusz Wladyslaw Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a “carbide precursor” powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, results in a carbon foam that exhibits significantly enhanced abrasive characteristics typical of those required in the polishing of, for example glass, in the manufacture of cathode ray tubes. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810844 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/620 |
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| US 07481989 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to cutting fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for preparation of homogeneous populations of short fullerene nanotubes by cutting and annealing (reclosing) the nanotube pieces followed by fractionation. The cutting and annealing processes may be carried out on a purified nanotube bucky paper, on felts prior to purification of nanotubes or on any material that contains fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, oxidative etching with concentrated nitric acid is employed to cut fullerene nanotubes into shorter lengths. The annealed nanotubes may be disbursed in an aqueous detergent solution or an organic solvent for the fractionation. Closed tubes can also be derivatized to facilitate fractionation, for example, by adding solubilizing moieties to the end caps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507972 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
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| US 07481997 | Hardy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele E. Hardy (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Snow Mountain Virus (SMV) belongs to the Norovirus genus of the Caliciviridae family. SMV is a genogroup II (GII) reference strain of human enteric caliciviruses associated with epidemic gastroenteritis. The positive sense RNA genome sequence of SMV was determined to be 7,537 nucleotides in length excluding the 3′ polyadenylated tract. The genome is organized into three open reading frames. Pairwise sequence alignments showed SMV ORF1 is highly conserved with other GII noroviruses, and most closely related to GII strains Melksham and Hawaii viruses. Comparative sequence analyses showed the SMV is a recombinant norovirus. VP1/NP2 proteins assembled into virus-like particles (VLPs) when expressed in insect cells by a recombinant baculovirus. Characterization of one clone that expressed VP1 but failed to assemble into VLPs, identified histidine residue 91 as important for particle assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058030 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482041 | Long et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P Long (Ashburn, Virginia); James G Kushmerick, Jr. (Owings, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device having a substrate, a pair of ferromagnetic leads on a surface of the substrate, laterally separated by a gap, and one or more ferromagnetic microparticles comprising a conductive coating at least partially within the gap. The conductive coating forms at least part of an electrical connection between the leads. A molecular junction may connect the leads to the microparticle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954279 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/547 |
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| US 07482057 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Princeton (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Lei Zhuang (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a lithographic method and apparatus for creating micrometer sub-micrometer patterns in a thin film coated on a substrate. The invention utilizes the self-formation of periodic, supramolecular pillar arrays (49) in a melt to form the patterns. The self-formation is induced by placing a plate or mask (35) a distance above the polymer films (33). The pillars bridge the plate and the mask, having a height equal to the plate-mask separation and preferably 2-7 times that of the film's initial thickness. If the surface of the mask has a protruding pattern, the pillar array is formed with the edge of the pillar array aligned to the boundary of the mask pattern. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731818 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/338 |
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| US 07482168 | Sailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); William C Trogler (Del Mar, California); Honglae Sohn (Gwangju, South Korea); Rebecca M. Calhoun (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to develop inexpensive inorganic polymeric sensors that can provide a sensitivity and selectivity for explosive nitroaromatic compounds. Selectivity is provided by the arrays of 12 different reactive fluorescent sensors to mimic the human olfactory system. The sensors are based on photoluminescence quenching of polymers containing metalloid-metalloid backbones such as Si—Si, Si—Ge, or Ge—Ge. The sensor employs a thin film of photoluminescent copolymers, which is stable in air, water, acids, common organic solvents, and even seawater containing bioorganisms. The detection method involves measurement of the quenching of photoluminescence of the polysilole by the analyte. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244053 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
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| US 07482273 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy R. Klein (Dayton, Ohio); Stanley Rogers (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Radiant electromagnetic energy beam steering method achieved following antenna conversion from electrical current and voltage characterized signals to radiant wave characterized signals by way of the influence of gaseous plasma of controlled plasma density and electron density on the electromagnetic energy. Reflection and refraction mechanisms are used to impose plasma influence on the steered electromagnetic energy. The employed plasma properties are determined by an electrically energized array of electrodes disposed along the plasma extent. Adaptation of the method to widely differing wavelength parts of the electromagnetic energy spectrum is included. A plurality of prior art patents is identified in supplement of present disclosure of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518742 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/676 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482332 | Kool |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric T Kool (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Telomere-encoding nucleic acid nanocircles, methods for their preparation, and methods for their use are disclosed. The nanocircles can be constructed containing multiple repeats of the complement of telomere repeat sequences. The telomere-encoding nanocircles are useful for extending telomeres both in vitro and in vivo, for treating macular degeneration, the effects of skin aging, liver degeneration, and cancer. The nanocircles are further useful for treating cell cultures to produce long-lived non-cancerous cell populations. This use has wide applicability in scientific research, tissue engineering, and transplantation. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/336265 |
| 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 07482451 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim Hills, California); Peter Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Jian Li (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds that produce electroluminescence and organic light emitting devices employing such emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are provided. More specifically the present invention is directed to novel primarily non-emitting ligands which produce a blue shift in emitted light when associated with a cyclometallated ligand. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643697 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482503 | Gregory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health System-Oregon (Portland, Oregon); Kenton W Gregory (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenton W Gregory (Portland, Oregon); Simon McCarthy (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to advanced hemorrhage control wound dressings, and methods of using a producing same. The subject wound dressing is constructed from a non-mammalian material for control of severe bleeding. The wound dressing is formed of a biomaterial comprising chitosan for controlling severe bleeding. The kind of severe, life-threatening bleeding contemplated by this invention is typically of the type not capable of being stanched when a conventional gauze wound dressing is applied with conventional pressure to the subject wound. The wound dressing being capable of substantially stanching the flow of the severe life-threatening bleeding from the wound by adhering to the wound site, to seal the wound, to accelerate blood clot formation at the wound site, to reinforce clot information at the wound site and prevent bleed out from the wound site, and to substantially prohibit the flow of blood out of the wound site. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/480827 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482621 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Liping Ma (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bistable electrical device that is convertible between a low resistance state and a high resistance state. The device includes at least one layer of organic low conductivity material that is sandwiched between two electrodes. A buffer layer is located between the organic layer and at least one of the electrodes. The buffer layer includes particles in the form of flakes or dots of a low conducting material or insulating material that are present in a sufficient amount to only partially cover the electrode surface. The presence of the buffer layer controls metal migration into the organic layer when voltage pulses are applied between the electrodes to convert the device back and forth between the low and high resistance states. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/542843 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482674 | Freitas 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) | Jaime A. Freitas (Burke, Virginia); Larry B. Rowland (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture having a substrate having a top surface and a first layer on the top surface. The top surface contains titanium carbide, vanadium carbide, zirconium carbide, niobium carbide, hafnium carbide, tantalum carbide, tungsten carbide, chromium nitride, molybdenum nitride, tungsten nitride, titanium nitride, vanadium nitride, zirconium nitride, or a combination thereof. The first layer contains one or more group III-V metal nitrides. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957544 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482727 | Bratkovski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre Bratkovski (Palo Alto, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Ekaterina V. Ponizovskaya (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material exhibiting at least one of a negative effective permittivity and a negative effective permeability for incident radiation at an operating wavelength is described. The composite material comprises a dielectric layer generally parallel to a dielectric layer plane, and further comprises a first plurality of nanowire pairs disposed in the dielectric layer. Each of the first plurality of nanowire pairs comprises substantially parallel conductive nanowires of short length and separation relative to the operating wavelength. Each of the first plurality of nanowire pairs is substantially coplanar with a first plane substantially parallel to the dielectric layer plane. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580641 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/300 |
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| US 07482750 | 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); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment plasma extraction microcavity plasma device generates a spatially-confined plasma in a gas or vapor, or gas and vapor mixture, including, for example, atmospheric pressure air. A microcavity plasma device is excited by a potential applied between excitation electrodes of the microcavity plasma device, and a probe electrode proximate the microcavity is maintained at the potential of one of the electrodes, extracts plasma from the microcavity plasma device. In preferred embodiments, the excitation electrodes of the microcavity plasma device are isolated from the plasma by dielectric, and time-varying (AC, RF, bipolar or pulsed DC, etc.) potential excites a plasma that is then extracted by the probe electrode. In alternate embodiments, the microcavity plasma device has an excitation electrode that contacts the plasma. A DC potential excites a plasma that is then extracted by the probe electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/344514 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/582 |
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| US 07482890 | Tsuzuki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Genichi Tsuzuki (Ventura, California); Matthew P. Hernandez (Santa Barbara, California); Balam A. Willemsen (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and apparatus for filter design, analysis and adjustment are provided. Various embodiments may include, for example, methods, systems and apparatus for electric signal filter tuning. Embodiments may also include design techniques for planar electric signal (e.g., RF signals) filter tuning. In at least an embodiment of the present invention a technique for filter tuning is provided which may include parameter extraction, optimization and tuning recipes techniques that may require only a single permanent filter tuning. In at least another embodiment a system and method of filter design, analysis and adjustment according to the present invention includes use of tuning that may be set using a mechanical scribing tool or a laser trimming device. In at least one other embodiment, a filter tuning technique may be provided and include providing trimming tabs on a resonator edge that may be disconnected or trimmed for filter tuning. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/289463 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/17.100 |
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| US 07482893 | Itoh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatsuo Itoh (Rolling Hills, California); Kevin M. K. H. Leong (Los Angeles, California); Alexandre Dupuy (Nice, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Power combining methods and devices for tunnel diode oscillators using the infinite wavelength phenomenon observed in composite right/left-handed (CRLH) meta-material lines are described. One implementation utilizes a series combiner composed of zero degree lines, with each oscillator output port connected directly to the line and combined in-phase, to equally combine the power in phase. In a second implementation, a section of zero degree transmission line implements a stationary wave resonator with oscillators loosely coupled to the resonator, where the wave amplitude and phase are constant along the line. In one test of this second implementation a maximum power combining efficiency of 131% was obtained with the zeroth order resonator with two tunnel diodes oscillators at 2 GHz. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744160 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/110 |
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| US 07482951 | Brungart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Brungart (Bellbrook, Ohio); Brian D. Simpson (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An auditory attitude indicator for aircraft that includes an audio source providing an audible signal, a′ stereo headset with a left side and a right side, an aircraft avionics system that provides at least aircraft pitch data and roll data to an audio processor unit. The audio processor unit includes at least one lookup table of coefficients corresponding to a plurality of possible aircraft pitch and roll orientations and at least two selectable multipoint finite impulse response filters. The first selectable multipoint finite impulse response filter having a first coefficient selected by the audio processing unit from the lookup table based upon the aircraft pitch data and roll data for varying the audible signal to the stereo headset left side. The second selectable multipoint impulse response filter for varying the audible signal to the stereo headset right side having a second coefficient selected by the audio processing unit from the lookup table based upon the aircraft pitch data and roll data. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543280 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/975 |
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| US 07483248 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Robert J. Drost (Mountain View, California); Arthur R. Zingher (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects changes in power-supply current within an integrated circuit (IC) chip. During operation, the system monitors an induced current through a detection loop. This detection loop is situated at least partially within the IC chip in close proximity to a power-supply current for the IC chip, so that a change in the power-supply current changes a magnetic field passing through the detection loop, thereby inducing a corresponding current through the detection loop. The system then generates a control signal based on the induced current, so that changes in the power-supply current cause the control signal to change. In addition, the system uses the control signal to control circuits within the IC chip. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134799 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483392 | Redi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a multinode arrangement that utilizes a plurality of nodes that communicate with each other by RF transmissions and hardwire communications. The use of both hardwire and RF transmission provides the advantages obtained with both forms of transmission. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804375 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/254 |
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| US 07483501 | Michaels, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Michaels, Jr. (Neptune, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of estimating radio frequency (RF) background noise in a radio receiver system comprises determining a total receiver front-end noise based on a noise equivalent receiver bandwidth; estimating external noise associated with the radio receiver system; determining internal noise associated with the radio receiver system from a known noise value; combining the external noise with the internal noise; determining an absolute external (RF) background noise floor associated with the radio receiver system; estimating an out of band noise contribution based on radio receiver selectivity and known received noise levels of out of band sources; and generating a (RF) noise estimate in the radio receiver system based on the above steps. The invention utilizes the (RF) noise estimate to form a (RF) receiver signal to noise ratio enabling an estimate performance of (RF) radio links in the radio receiver system operating in a benign and hostile (RF) environment. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/778705 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/346 |
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| US 07483671 | Corbett 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) | Blaise L. Corbett (King George, Virginia); Michael L. Workman (Ruther Glen, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In one general aspect, a communications system as described herein provides a wide-band jamming signal that is digitally created, conditioned, and modified by a processing based system to provide open data channels to authorized parties within a jammed communications band. The communications system modifies and maintains the open data channels to sustain communications between authorized devices. In addition, the communications system provides frequency hopping using the open data channels to supply secure data links to authorized devices within the jammed communications band while denying service to unauthorized communication nodes or devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134608 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484008 | Gelvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Borgia/Cummins, LLC (Willington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Gelvin (Escondido, California); Lewis D. Girod (Los Angeles, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); Fredric Newberg (San Diego, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Vehicle internetworks provide for communications among diverse electronic devices within a vehicle, and for communications among these devices and networks external to the vehicle. The vehicle internetwork comprises specific devices, software, and protocols, and provides for security for essential vehicle functions and data communications, ease of integration of new devices and services to the vehicle internetwork, and ease of addition of services linking the vehicle to external networks such as the Internet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/684490 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jen Liou (Mountain View, California); Tobias Meyer (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions for determining states of intracellular calcium stores in a eukaryotic cell. Also provided are methods for identifying an agent (e.g., a gene product or small molecule compound) that modulates intracellular calcium store levels (e.g., by modulating store operated calcium (SOC) influx), as well as kits and systems for practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446010 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07481997 | Hardy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele E. Hardy (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Snow Mountain Virus (SMV) belongs to the Norovirus genus of the Caliciviridae family. SMV is a genogroup II (GII) reference strain of human enteric caliciviruses associated with epidemic gastroenteritis. The positive sense RNA genome sequence of SMV was determined to be 7,537 nucleotides in length excluding the 3′ polyadenylated tract. The genome is organized into three open reading frames. Pairwise sequence alignments showed SMV ORF1 is highly conserved with other GII noroviruses, and most closely related to GII strains Melksham and Hawaii viruses. Comparative sequence analyses showed the SMV is a recombinant norovirus. VP1/NP2 proteins assembled into virus-like particles (VLPs) when expressed in insect cells by a recombinant baculovirus. Characterization of one clone that expressed VP1 but failed to assemble into VLPs, identified histidine residue 91 as important for particle assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058030 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482007 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps, Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (Carmel, New York); David A. Cheresh (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods for inhibition angiogenesis in tissues using vitronectin αvβ3 antagonists, and particularly for inhibiting angiogenesis in inflamed tissues and in tumor tissues and metastases using therapeutic compositions containing αvβ3 antagonists. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892745 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/152.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482016 | Doerr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California); Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander P. Doerr (Geneva, Switzerland); Melanie Ott (San Francisco, California); Eric Verdin (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, including immunogenic compositions, comprising acetylated Tat protein of an immunodeficiency virus. The present invention further provides antibodies that specifically bind an acetylated Tat polypeptide. The present invention further provides methods of inducing an immune response to an immunodeficiency virus Tat protein in an individual. The present invention further provides methods of inhibiting transcriptional activation of an immunodeficiency virus in a cell of an individual. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799854 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482017 | Barrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. T. Barrett (Galveston, Texas); Robert B. Tesh (Galveston, Texas); C. Todd Davis (Decatur, Georgia); David W. C. Beasley (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns isolated attenuated flaviviruses , such as West Nile viruses, having modifications that provide phenotypic varation, particularly in comparison to a more virulent reference strains. The invention encompasses the isolated viruses and immunogenic compositions thereof, in addition to methods to produce and utilize same. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/223729 |
| 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 07482025 | Badylak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Badylak (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tissue graft composition comprising liver basement membrane is described. The graft composition can be implanted to replace or induce the repair of damaged or diseased tissues. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775386 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482123 | Paris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela L. Paris (San Francisco, California); Colin C. Collins (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides genomic markers for determining the predisposition of prostate cancer to become metastasized. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/267461 |
| 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 07482125 | Namsaraev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugeni Namsaraev (Menlo Park, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California); George Karlin-Neumann (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods and compositions for the renaturation, hybridization, association, or reassociation of nucleic acids that combines both acceleration of the reaction rate and improved specificity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590281 |
| 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 07482133 | Qasba 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) | Pradman Qasba (Bethesda, Maryland); Boopathy Ramakrishnan (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and compositions that can be used to synthesize oligosaccharides; mutants of galactosyltransferases having altered donor and acceptor specificity; methods for increasing the immunogenicity of an antigen; and polypeptide stem regions that can be used to promote in vitro folding of polypeptides, such as the catalytic domain from a galactosyltransferase. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178230 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482138 | Minden |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Audrey Minden (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides nucleic acids encoding human PAK5-related proteins, and provides the encoded proteins. This invention also provides vectors, cells and compositions. Finally, this invention provides methods of inducing and inhibiting various cellular processes using the instant nucleic acids and proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/331095 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482141 | Stafford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrel W. Stafford (Carrborro, North Carolina); Tao Li (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of identifying a human subject having increased or decreased sensitivity to warfarin, comprising detecting in the subject the presence of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the VKOR gene, wherein the single nucleotide polymorphism is correlated with increased or decreased sensitivity to warfarin, thereby identifying the subject having increased or decreased sensitivity to warfarin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699930 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482146 | Thomae et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bianca A. Thomae (Chicago, Illinois); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Yuan Ji (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated PNMT nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as PNMT allozymes. Methods for determining if a subject is predisposed to multiple sclerosis, early-onset Alzheimer's disease, or Parkinson's disease also are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/023364 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482323 | Hasty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen A. Hasty (Memphis, Tennessee); Arnold Postlethwaite (Eads, Tennessee); Sivadasan Kanangat (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Matrix metalloproteinases are major mediators of tissue destruction in various chronic inflammatory disorders. The present invention demonstrates that over-expression of intracellular isoform of IL-1 receptor antagonist confers to recipient cells resistance to signaling pathways of proinflammatory cytokines (such as tumor necrosis factor alpha and IL-1 beta) that induce matrix metalloproteinase and subsequent tissue degradation. Hence, over-expression of intracellular IL-1 receptor antagonist may inhibit tissue destruction in various inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, other arthritides, degenerative intervertebral disc disease and chronic skin ulcers that occurs in diabetes mellitus and bed-ridden patients. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072170 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482331 | Bristow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Bristow (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Leslie A. Leinwand (Boulder, Colorado); Wayne Minobe (Golden, Colorado); Koichi Nakao (Kumamoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating myocardial failure in a human. The method comprises administering an effective amount of transgene encoding α-MHC that directly causes an increase in the quantity of α-MHC in the myocardial tissue of the heart. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/558472 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482379 | Powers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Powers (Atlanta, Georgia); Juliana Asgian (Fullerton, California); Özlem Dogan Ekici (Columbus, Ohio); Marion Gabriele Gotz (Hirschau, Germany); Karen Ellis James (Cumming, Georgia); Zhao Zhao Li (Norcross, Georgia); Brian Rukamp (Greenleaf, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions for inhibiting proteases, methods for synthesizing the compositions, and methods of using the disclosed protease inhibitors. Aspects of the disclosure include a peptidyl propenoyl hydrazide compositions that inhibit proteases, for example cysteine proteases, either in vivo or in vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062017 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482467 | Turos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Turos (Tampa, Florida); Rajesh Kumar Mishra (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes the discovery and synthesis of N-thiolated 2-oxazolidinones as a new class of anti bacterial agents. These compounds can be synthesized from 2-oxazolidinones by Ndeprotection and N-sulfenylation. These new substances were found to exhibit potent anti-bacterial activity, including bacteriostatic properties against Staphylococcus spp., including methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Bacillus spp., including Bacillus anthracis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/948073 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482483 | Sebti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guildford, Connecticut); Rishi Jain (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Growth factor binding compounds having a plurality of acyclic isophthalic acid groups attached to a non-peptide organic scaffold and pharmaceutical compositions of the same are disclosed. Methods of administering and using the growth factor binding compounds or the growth factor binding compositions are also taught. These novel growth factor binding compounds are useful for treating angiogenesis, excessive cellular proliferation, tumor growth, and a combination thereof as well as inhibiting growth factor binding to cells and phosphorylation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/044980 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482506 | Pledger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Jack Pledger (Odessa, Florida); Rosalind J. Jackson (Tampa, Florida); Jalila Adnane (Madison, Connecticut); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to a transgenic animal model for tumorigenesis having a genome comprising a ras transgene and which is heterozygous or homozygous for a null p27 gene, and methods of using such animal to screen compounds or evaluate treatments for oncogenic and antitumor activity. The subject invention further concerns a transgenic mouse comprising a ras transgene and which has a genome that is wild-type p27+/+, and wherein the mouse has an FVB/N and C57BL/6X 129 genetic background; and methods of using such transgenic mice to screen compounds or evaluate treatments for oncogenic or antitumor activity. Advantageously, the female animals of the subject invention are fertile and capable of nursing their young. The subject invention also pertains to in vitro systems including isolated cells or tissues of animal models for tumorigenesis, which can be used to screen compounds and treatments for oncogenic and antitumor activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472057 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482507 | Serbedzija et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Serbedzija (Woburn, Massachusetts); Carlos Semino (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Deanna M. Frost (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of screening an agent for activity using teleosts. Methods of screening an agent for angiogenesis activity, toxic activity and an effect cell death activity in teleosts are provided. The invention further provides high throughput methods of screening agents in multi-well plates. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114712 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482957 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongqing Dai (Castaic, California); James S. Little (Saugus, California); Kea-Tiong Tang (Temple City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a DAC constructed from a series of floating gate devices which are programmable to a series of predetermined values. Addressing one or more of the programmed floating gate devices will select from a wide variety of analog outputs. Reprogramming the floating gate devices, can provide a different variety of analog outputs. For example, the floating gate devices can be preprogrammed to a different range of outputs matching a range of perceptible signals. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901808 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/136 |
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| US 07483750 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark Humayan (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A retinal implant device to stimulate a retina of an eye thereby producing a specific effect in an eye, such as vision or drug treatment of a chronic condition is described. The retinal device is made of a retinal implant that is positioned subretinally and that contains a multitude of stimulation sites that are in contact with the retina. A connection carries the stimulating electrical signal or drug. The connection passes transretinally through the retina and into the vitreous cavity of the eye, thereby minimizing damage to the nutrient-rich choroid. The lead is attached to a source of drugs or electrical energy, which is located outside the eye. The lead passes through the sclera at a point near the front of the eye to avoid damage to the retina. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393887 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483751 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard Williamson (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of automatically adjusting an electrode array to the neural characteristics of an individual patient. By recording neural response to a predetermined input stimulus, one can alter that input stimulus to the needs of an individual patient. A minimum input stimulus is applied to a patient, followed by recording neural response in the vicinity of the input stimulus. By alternating stimulation and recording at gradually increasing levels, one can determine the minimum input that creates a neural response, thereby identifying the threshold stimulation level. One can further determine a maximum level by increasing stimulus until a predetermined maximum neural response is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864590 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard R. MacGillivray (Iowa City, Iowa); Giannis S. Papaefstathiou (Ilioupoli Attikis, Greece) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a porous metal-organic framework that can be used to store gases, such as hydrogen. Also provided is metal-organic framework comprising bifunctional metallic bridging groups and organic nodes having three or more points of connection, wherein the framework has one or more cavities suitable for containing one or more storage gas molecules. The invention further provides a metal-organic framework comprising organic functional groups directed into the one or more cavities that are capable of reacting with a storage gas. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465535 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
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| US 07481989 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to cutting fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for preparation of homogeneous populations of short fullerene nanotubes by cutting and annealing (reclosing) the nanotube pieces followed by fractionation. The cutting and annealing processes may be carried out on a purified nanotube bucky paper, on felts prior to purification of nanotubes or on any material that contains fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, oxidative etching with concentrated nitric acid is employed to cut fullerene nanotubes into shorter lengths. The annealed nanotubes may be disbursed in an aqueous detergent solution or an organic solvent for the fractionation. Closed tubes can also be derivatized to facilitate fractionation, for example, by adding solubilizing moieties to the end caps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507972 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482168 | Sailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); William C Trogler (Del Mar, California); Honglae Sohn (Gwangju, South Korea); Rebecca M. Calhoun (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to develop inexpensive inorganic polymeric sensors that can provide a sensitivity and selectivity for explosive nitroaromatic compounds. Selectivity is provided by the arrays of 12 different reactive fluorescent sensors to mimic the human olfactory system. The sensors are based on photoluminescence quenching of polymers containing metalloid-metalloid backbones such as Si—Si, Si—Ge, or Ge—Ge. The sensor employs a thin film of photoluminescent copolymers, which is stable in air, water, acids, common organic solvents, and even seawater containing bioorganisms. The detection method involves measurement of the quenching of photoluminescence of the polysilole by the analyte. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244053 |
| 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 07482191 | Schaff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Schaff (Ithaca, New York); Jeonghyun Hwang (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a highly doped layer of AlGaN, is practiced by first removing contaminants from a MBE machine. Wafers are then outgassed in the machine at very low pressures. A nitride is then formed on the wafer and an AlN layer is grown. The highly doped GaAlN layer is then formed having electron densities beyond 1×1020 cm−3 at Al mole fractions up to 65% are obtained. These levels of doping application of n-type bulk, and n/p tunnel injection to short wavelength UV emitters. Some applications include light emitting diodes having wavelengths between approximately 254 and 290 nm for use in fluorescent light bulbs, hazardous materials detection, water purification and other decontamination environments. Lasers formed using the highly doped layers are useful in high-density storage applications or telecommunications applications. In yet a further embodiment, a transistor is formed utilizing the highly doped layer as a channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082378 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482319 | Rome et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Sujna Raval-Fernandes (West Hills, California); Phoebe L. Stewart (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using vaults as carrier molecules to deliver one or more than one substance to an organism, or to a specific tissue or to specific cells, or to an environmental medium. A vault-like particle. A method of preventing damage by one or more than one substance to an organism, to a specific tissue, to specific cells, or to an environmental medium, by sequestering the one or more than one substance within a vault-like particle. A method of delivering one or more than one substance or a sensor to an organism, to a specific tissue, to specific cells, or to an environmental medium. According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of making vault-like particles, and making vault-like particles comprising one or more than one substance, or one or more than one sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/547530 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482844 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philomena Cleopha Brady (Garland, Texas); Paul Edward Hasler (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are discussed for using a floating-gate MOSFET as a programmable reference circuit. One example of the programmable reference circuit is a programmable voltage reference source, while a second example of a programmable reference circuit is a programmable reference current source. The programmable voltage reference source and/or the reference current source may be incorporated into several types of circuits, such as comparator circuits, current-mirror circuits, and converter circuits. Comparator circuits and current-mirror circuits are often incorporated into circuits such as converter circuits. Converter circuits include analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326832 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483493 | Bar-Ness et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeheskel Bar-Ness (Marlboro, New Jersey); Ye Hoon Lee (Suwon, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Practical transmission power adaptation in multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) communications is using either a frequency domain technique or a time domain technique or a combined frequency and time domain technique in response to channel variations. With frequency domain power adaptation, the transmission power is allocated over the N′ (1≦N′≦N) strongest subcarriers rather than over all possible N subcarriers, where the strongest subcarriers are understood to exhibit the highest channel gains. A substantially optimal N′ can be chosen so that the average bit error rate (BER) is minimized. In the time domain power adaptation technique, transmission power is adapted so that the desired signal strength at the receiver output is maintained at a fixed level. In the combined time and frequency domain adaptation technique, the transmission power is first allocated over the N′ (1≦N′≦N) strongest subcarriers rather than over all possible N subcarriers and then it is adapted so that the desired signal strength at the receiver output is maintained at a fixed level. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077435 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483767 | Montaser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar Montaser (Potomac, Maryland); Kaveh Jorabchi (Arlington, Virginia); Kaveh Kahen (Kleinburg, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Nozzles and nebulizers able to produce aerosol with optimum and reproducible quality based on feedback information obtained using laser imaging techniques. Two laser-based imaging techniques based on particle image velocimetry (PTV) and optical patternation map and contrast size and velocity distributions for indirect and direct pneumatic nebulizations in plasma spectrometry. Two pulses from thin laser sheet with known time difference illuminate droplets flow field. Charge coupled device (CCL)) captures scattering of laser light from droplets, providing two instantaneous particle images. Pointwise cross-correlation of corresponding images yields two-dimensional velocity map of aerosol velocity field. For droplet size distribution studies, solution is doped with fluorescent dye and both laser induced florescence (LIF) and Mie scattering images are captured simultaneously by two CCDs with the same field of view. Ratio of LIF/Mie images provides relative droplet size information, then scaled by point calibration method via phase Doppler particle analyzer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247596 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07482195 | Salzman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rhonda F. Salzman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of purifying small molecule organic material, performed as a series of operations beginning with a first sample of the organic small molecule material. The first step is to purify the organic small molecule material by thermal gradient sublimation. The second step is to test the purity of at least one sample from the purified organic small molecule material by spectroscopy. The third step is to repeat the first through third steps on the purified small molecule material if the spectroscopic testing reveals any peaks exceeding a threshold percentage of a magnitude of a characteristic peak of a target organic small molecule. The steps are performed at least twice. The threshold percentage is at most 10%. Preferably the threshold percentage is 5% and more preferably 2%. The threshold percentage may be selected based on the spectra of past samples that achieved target performance characteristics in finished devices. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529367 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482427 | Zamora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioSurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. (College Park, Maryland); Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul O. Zamora (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Louis A. Pena (Poquott, New York); Xinhua Lin (Plainview, New York); Kazuyuki Takahashi (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of the present invention of formula I and formula II are disclosed in the specification and wherein the compounds are modulators of Bone Morphogenic Protein activity. Compounds are synthetic peptides having a non-growth factor heparin binding region, a linker, and sequences that bind specifically to a receptor for Bone Morphogenic Protein. Uses of compounds of the present invention in the treatment of bone lesions, degenerative joint disease and to enhance bone formation are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064039 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482532 | Yi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasha Yi (Somerville, Massachusetts); Lionel C. Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts); Xiaoman Duan (Amesbury, Massachusetts); Lirong Zeng (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell includes a photoactive region that receives light. A photonic crystal is coupled to the photoactive region, wherein the photonic crystal comprises a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) for trapping the light. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194717 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482814 | Schill, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents University Community College System of Nevada on Behalf of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Schill, Jr. (Henderson, Nevada); Marc Popek (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A UNLV novel electric/magnetic dot sensor includes a loop of conductor having two ends to the loop, a first end and a second end; the first end of the conductor seamlessly secured to a first conductor within a first sheath; the second end of the conductor seamlessly secured to a second conductor within a second sheath; and the first sheath and the second sheath positioned adjacent each other. The UNLV novel sensor can be made by removing outer layers in a segment of coaxial cable, leaving a continuous link of essentially uncovered conductor between two coaxial cable legs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/213628 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483143 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Sanders (Madison, Wisconsin); Joachim W. Walewski (Unterhaching, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method are provided for conducting heterodyne frequency-comb spectroscopy. The apparatus includes a first and second frequency-comb generators for generating corresponding first and second continuous wave laser beams, respectively. The first beam defines a spectrum of light having a plurality of modes spaced by a first frequency. The second beam defines a spectrum of light having a plurality of modes spaced by a second frequency that is greater than the first frequency. The first and second beams are combined and the optical power of the combined beam is monitored with a data acquisition system to record a time trace. The recorded time trace is Fourier transformed such that each of spectrums of the first and second beams will exhibit a low-frequency comb. By superimposing the two combs, a beat frequency in a low-frequency region is assigned to an optical frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447631 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483509 | Norman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Norman (Oakland, California); Stanley G. Prussin (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system for detecting the presence of special nuclear materials in a suspect container. The system and its method include irradiating the suspect container with a beam of neutrons, so as to induce a thermal fission in a portion of the special nuclear materials, detecting the gamma rays that are emitted from the fission products formed by the thermal fission, to produce a detector signal, comparing the detector signal with a threshold value to form a comparison, and detecting the presence of the special nuclear materials using the comparison. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871846 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483767 | Montaser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar Montaser (Potomac, Maryland); Kaveh Jorabchi (Arlington, Virginia); Kaveh Kahen (Kleinburg, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Nozzles and nebulizers able to produce aerosol with optimum and reproducible quality based on feedback information obtained using laser imaging techniques. Two laser-based imaging techniques based on particle image velocimetry (PTV) and optical patternation map and contrast size and velocity distributions for indirect and direct pneumatic nebulizations in plasma spectrometry. Two pulses from thin laser sheet with known time difference illuminate droplets flow field. Charge coupled device (CCL)) captures scattering of laser light from droplets, providing two instantaneous particle images. Pointwise cross-correlation of corresponding images yields two-dimensional velocity map of aerosol velocity field. For droplet size distribution studies, solution is doped with fluorescent dye and both laser induced florescence (LIF) and Mie scattering images are captured simultaneously by two CCDs with the same field of view. Ratio of LIF/Mie images provides relative droplet size information, then scaled by point calibration method via phase Doppler particle analyzer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247596 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07482131 | Acevedo-Duncan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mildred Acevedo-Duncan (Plant City, Florida); Rekha Patel (Valrico, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting brain tumorigenesis in a subject, the method including the steps of (a) obtaining a sample from the brain of the human subject, (b) detecting quantitatively or semi-quantitatively in the sample a level of expression for PKC-iota and (c) comparing the expression level in (b) to a level of expression in a normal control, wherein overexpression of PKC-iota, with respect to the control, indicates the presence of a glioma or meningioma in the subject. The present invention is based upon the discovery that PKC-iota levels are elevated during brain tumorigenesis. Furthermore, the proliferation rate of the tumor correlates with the level of PKC-iota. The invention also provides methods of treating gliomas and meningiomas by administering to the subject a compound that inhibits the expression of PKC-iota. The compound can be a small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecule. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560030 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482323 | Hasty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen A. Hasty (Memphis, Tennessee); Arnold Postlethwaite (Eads, Tennessee); Sivadasan Kanangat (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Matrix metalloproteinases are major mediators of tissue destruction in various chronic inflammatory disorders. The present invention demonstrates that over-expression of intracellular isoform of IL-1 receptor antagonist confers to recipient cells resistance to signaling pathways of proinflammatory cytokines (such as tumor necrosis factor alpha and IL-1 beta) that induce matrix metalloproteinase and subsequent tissue degradation. Hence, over-expression of intracellular IL-1 receptor antagonist may inhibit tissue destruction in various inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, other arthritides, degenerative intervertebral disc disease and chronic skin ulcers that occurs in diabetes mellitus and bed-ridden patients. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072170 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07483229 | Rausch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Rausch (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Patrick Breckow Chu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In a recording transducer, radiant energy is incident to be coupled to a recording head via a path defined in the support (e.g., slider) for the head. The radiant energy may be directed via a fiber or lens (e.g., MEMS lens) through a channel defined in the slider. The slider may be keyed to accept the fiber or lens. The process for fabricating the channel in the slider the channel may include wafer level processing to form holes in the slider, to accept the fiber or lens. Wafer level MEM optical processing may be deployed to form integrated MEMS lens structures for an array of sliders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007959 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Dehn (Damascus, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computationally efficient method and system of finding intersections of a three-dimensional path (e.g., an airpath) through a three-dimensional space (e.g., an airspace) partitioned into multiple volumes. In one embodiment, such a method includes determining whether a current point of a current segment of the path is included within one of the volumes, establishing such volume as a current volume, determining whether a boundary of the current volume is intersected by the current segment, setting the intersection point as an exit point of the path, adjusting the current point of the current segment to the exit point, identifying a volume adjacent to the current volume that includes the exit point, changing the current volume to the adjacent volume, and setting the current point of the current segment as an entry point of the path. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331525 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — 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 71/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07480984 | Sakamoto 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) | Jeffrey S. Sakamoto (San Gabriel, California); Thierry Caillat (Pasadena, California); Jean-Pierre Fleurial (Altadena, California); G. Jeffrey Snyder (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of applying a physical barrier to suppress thermal decomposition near a surface of a thermoelectric material including applying a continuous metal foil to a predetermined portion of the surface of the thermoelectric material, physically binding the continuous metal foil to the surface of the thermoelectric material using a binding member, and heating in a predetermined atmosphere the applied and physically bound continuous metal foil and the thermoelectric material to a sufficient temperature in order to promote bonding between the continuous metal foil and the surface of the thermoelectric material. The continuous metal foil forms a physical barrier to enclose a predetermined portion of the surface. Thermal decomposition is suppressed at the surface of the thermoelectric material enclosed by the physical barrier when the thermoelectric element is in operation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863835 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/611 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07482197 | Furman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce K. Furman (Poughquag, New York); Yves C. Martin (Ossining, New York); Theodore G. Van Kessel (Millbrook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for chip cooling. One embodiment of an inventive method for bonding a liquid metal to an interface surface (e.g., a surface of an integrated circuit chip or an opposing surface of a heat sink) includes applying an adhesive to the interface surface. A metal film is then bonded to the adhesive, thereby easily adapting the interface surface for bonding to the liquid metal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/220878 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07484088 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions with a third party. A proofing workstation receives a request from a third party to validate the digital certificate. The proofing workstation communicates with a proofing server that maintains a list of valid certificates and a list of revoked certificates. The proofing server sends a response to the proofing workstation, where it is received by the third party. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/809325 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07482083 | Iqbal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zafar Iqbal (Morristown, New Jersey); Dave Narasimahan (Flemington, New Jersey); James V. Guiheen (Madison, New Jersey); Timothy Rehg (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A corrosion resistant coated fuel cell plate and method of making the same are embodied in a metal plate provided with a multilayered conductive coating and then with an overcoat which fills in fine scale porosities in the coating. In one preferred embodiment, the overcoating is amorphous graphite applied through a deposition process. In another preferred embodiment, overcoating is a thin layer of oxide created by chemical anodization process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/605035 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07482965 | Coker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Coker (Rochester, Minnesota); Robert A. Kertis (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A chirp waveform generator for producing a chirp waveform ƒ(t)=sin (t2 modulus m) where modulus m is represented by n submoduli and/or factored submoduli m1-mn. Sequence generators generate digital sequence values representative of sequences of quadratic residues for each submoduli and/or factored submoduli m1-mn. Sine and cosine digital-to-analog converters (DACs) connected to the sequence generators receive the digital sequence values for each submoduli and/or factored submoduli m1-mn and produce sequences of corresponding analog sine and cosine signals. An analog processor including adders and multipliers connected to the DACs combines the sine and cosine signals to produce the chirp waveform. The argument (t2 modulus m) is an implemented phase argument that approximates a desired phase argument (πrt2). Programmable inputs on the sequence generators enable control over waveform parameters including starting phase, ramp rate and frequency. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305819 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07483271 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Miller (Manchester, New Hampshire); Adam D. Wachsman (Salem, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-part, high-density card retention system includes a tapered channel in a chassis or housing and a mating wedge that runs the length of the housing, with the lead wedge being cammed towards a flat channel surface by drawing the wedge inwardly and locating the edge of the board to be mounted between the wedge and the opposing straight channel wall. The mounting provides continuous high-pressure contact between the board and the straight channel wall for maximal thermal transfer and robust anti-vibration and anti-shock mounting of the board to the chassis. Because no additional assemblies are mounted to the edge of the board, the boards may be spaced apart by a fine pitch, thus to minimize the size of the module into which the boards are mounted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/632592 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/704 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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