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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 03, 2009
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| US 07484272 | Raevis 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) | Joseph J. Raevis (Fair Haven, New Jersey); Charles A. Domino (Toms River, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An attachable handle for a rope including a rope attachment portion with a duct passing through the attachment portion. The duct holds the handle to the rope and the duct includes a first end having a first diameter to permit passage of a length of rope and a collar around the length of rope through the first end of the duct. A collar diameter is greater than the rope diameter. The duct also includes a second end opposite the first end with a second diameter larger than the rope diameter but smaller than the collar diameter. The second end permits passage of the rope through the second end but prevent passage of the length of rope containing the collar. At least one slot is provided running along at least a portion of a length of the duct. A handle portion extends from the rope attachment portion. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444815 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous hardware 016/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484447 | Portmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmut Portmann (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A mine clearing device comprises a substantially hollow body forming a cavity. An eccentric ballast is disposed within the cavity and is rotated by a motor powered by an internal power source, thereby imparting rotational motion to the device. A plurality of anti-axial projections of varying lengths and sizes are mounted on the outer surface of the body to interact with the terrain and, thus, impart unbiased motion to the body as it rotates and traverses a mine field. The outer surface of the body is made of blast resistant material. A shock absorbent material, disposed within the cavity, absorbs the explosive force of mines. Circuitry or a marker substance may be used to record or mark the path traveled by the device. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254121 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484467 | Bottomy |
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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) | Chris Bottomy (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A control pendant for raising and lowering an object in water by hoist machinery allows control by a diver viewing the submerged object. The pendant has an elongate sheath defining an elongate interior extending between bitter and distal ends. The bitter end is coupled to the hoist machinery and the sheath has a length to extend below to the object. Control lines extend within the length of the elongate sheath and a first end of each control line is connected to the hoist machinery. The remainder of the sheath is filled with filler material. A watertight control housing is connected to the sheath at the distal end and contains a pair of switches that are each connected to a separate one of second ends of the lines. Sealed control buttons extend from the switches for selectively raising and lowering of said object by a percipient diver. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152727 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484646 | Holmes 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) | Charles Holmes (Southport, Florida); Dennis Gallagher (Lynn Haven, Florida); William D. Olstad (Panama City, Florida); William W. Hughes, III (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An index bracket assembly positions an external apparatus on a facemask having top and side portions extending to lower corners. A U-shaped frame connected to the external apparatus has top and side openings and a U-shaped bearing surface having orthogonally extending feet at its opposite ends. The U-shaped bearing surface extends along the top and side portions and the feet abut against the lower corners of the facemask. A three-point harness has a top strap connected to the top opening and side straps are connected to the side openings. The top strap and side straps each have a separate adjustable buckle component connected together for tightening them and pulling the U-shaped bearing surface against the top and side portions of the facemask. A layer of compliant material on the U-shaped surface elastically yields to the top and side portions of the facemask to prevent slippage. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956518 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Package and article carriers 224/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484716 | Ford Morie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacquelyn Ford Morie (Los Angeles, California); Donat-Pierre Luigi (Santa Monica, California); Corinna Lathan (Wheaton, Maryland); Matthew Pettersen (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Jack Maxwell Vice (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge for releasing scents through a digital trigger mechanism. Also disclosed is a portable, wearable, lightweight necklace or “collar,” capable of holding 1 to 12 cartridges. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107493 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas and liquid contact apparatus 261/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484749 | Doyle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida); Steven F. Naud (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A tow-bar adapter for towing a loaded trailer behind a combat vehicle permits opening of a rear ramp door on the vehicle and supporting the open door on the adapter as the vehicle proceeds forward. Longitudinal legs each have first ends provided with a lateral bore axially aligned with each other. Pins extend through each lateral bore and through bosses mounted on the vehicle, allowing rotational movement of the legs about the pins. Cross members extend between and are connected to the legs and a caster assembly is connected to the cross members to provide vertical support for the tow-bar adapter and any carried load. A towing pintle on a cross member connects to a trailer, and the caster assembly rotates about a vertical axis to allow the tow-bar adapter to slew and follow along behind the vehicle as it turns. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417280 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/460.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484857 | Bozler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); W. Gregory Lyons (Concord, Massachusetts); Jeremy B. Muldavin (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A deformable reflector includes a plurality of MEMS devices, each having an electrode membrane having a reflective surface thereon, a flat surface, and a pulldown electrode formed in the flat substrate. The electrode membrane has substantially a same flatness of the flat substrate when the electrode membrane comes into contact with the flat substrate across a majority of its surface area in response to a voltage being applied to the pulldown electrode. The electrode membrane has a two-dimensional curvature when no voltage is applied to the pulldown electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000427 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484899 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Y Chan (Mercer Island, Washington); Dennis G Koshinz (Bellevue, Washington); Yuing Huang (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic transceiver module having built-in test capability is packaged in a housing to meet small-form-factor (SFF) requirements. The module has a first optical fiber having an angled end that defines an acute angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the first optical fiber. A second optical fiber also has an angled end that defines an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the second optical fiber. The first optical fiber and the second optical fiber are aligned with one another. An optical source emits an optical signal propagated along the first optical fiber in which a portion of the optical signal is received at the second optical fiber and is propagated along the second optical fiber. An optical detector receives a return optical signal transmitted through the angled end of the second optical fiber in response to reflection from a discontinuity in the optical path of the second optical fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/555354 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484935 | Heitland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory B. Heitland (Mesa, Arizona); Costas Vogiatzis (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a turbine rotor having a contoured hub comprising a cambered surface extending from a leading edge of the rotor hub to a trailing edge of the rotor hub along an axial direction of the rotor hub. A turbine rotor and a gas turbine engine comprising a turbine rotor flow path having a cambered surface are also disclosed, together with a method providing a turbine rotor flow path for a turbine rotor hub. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144472 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/193.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484940 | O'Neill |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kinetic Ceramics, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conal O'Neill (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, high capacity pump for pumping fluid. A first one-way valve is between an inlet port and the pump's fluid chamber. A second one-way valve is between the pump's fluid chamber and an outlet port. A diaphragm separates a piezoelectric stack from the fluid chamber. A power source provides power to the piezoelectric stack causing it to expand and contract. The expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric stack causes fluid to be pumped from the inlet port to the fluid chamber through the first one-way valve and causes fluid to be pumped from the fluid chamber to the outlet port through the second one-way valve. In one preferred embodiment, both one-way valves are disc valves. In another preferred embodiment both one-way valves are MEMS valves. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833838 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/413.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484966 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and at least one interposer mounted on a first surface of said carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. A plurality of electrically-conductive elements are arranged about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extend radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. Provided is also a method of producing the land grid array interposer structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865458 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485100 | Garcia-Webb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Garcia-Webb (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ian W. Hunter (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Andrew J. Taberner (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnetic apparatus, comprises a conductive loop comprising two parallel conductive legs joined at a free end by a sample contacting member and a magnetic circuit that imposes a magnetic field in opposite directions across the respective legs. A method of mechanically characterizing a sample, comprises imposing a magnetic field in opposite directions in each of two parallel conductive legs of a conductive loop, the legs joined at a free end by a sample contacting member. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006359 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485222 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, LLC (St. Petersberg, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael David Max (St. Pete Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Desalination apparatus based on porous restraint panels fabricated from a number of different layers of metal, thermoplastic, or other substances are used as sophisticated heat exchangers to control the growth of gas hydrate. The gas hydrate is produced after infusion of liquid hydrate-forming material into water to be treated, which liquid hydrate-forming material can also be used to carry out all the refrigeration necessary to cool seawater to near the point of hydrate formation and to cool the porous restraint panels. Hydrate forms on and dissociates through the porous restraints. The composite restraint panels can also be used in gaseous atmospheres where, for instance, it is desired to remove dissolved water. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/797832 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/170.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485224 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Gavin Jones (Huntsville, Texas); Gordon Alf Plishker (The Woodlands, Texas); Joshua Richard Quinn (Huntsville, Texas); Ralph Edward Holm (Texas City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, a system may reduce contaminants in water. A system may include a biofilm in a container. The biofilm may be formed from one or more bacteria coupled to one or more substrates. The bacteria may be selected to maximize the reduction of contaminants in water. The system may include one or more bacteria generators to provide bacteria to the biofilm and/or one or more air sources to provide an air bubble stream to the container and/or the bacteria generator. In some embodiments, bacteria may be preserved in a starvation phase. Bacteria may be incubated until they reach a starvation phase. The bacteria may then be preserved as beads or immobilized on a substrate. The preserved bacteria may be used in a system for the reduction of contaminants in water. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368282 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485234 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, LLC (St. Petersberg, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael David Max (St. Pete Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Desalination apparatus based on porous restraint panels fabricated from a number of different layers of metal, thermoplastic, or other substances are used as sophisticated heat exchangers to control the growth of gas hydrate. The gas hydrate is produced after infusion of liquid hydrate-forming material into water to be treated, which liquid hydrate-forming material can also be used to carry out all the refrigeration necessary to cool seawater to near the point of hydrate formation and to cool the porous restraint panels. Hydrate forms on and dissociates through the porous restraints. The composite restraint panels can also be used in gaseous atmospheres where, for instance, it is desired to remove dissolved water. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785033 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/712 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485279 | Pfefferle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Pfefferle (Branford, Connecticut); Gary Haller (New Haven, Connecticut); Dragos Ciuparu (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Transition metal-substituted MCM-41 framework structures with a high degree of structural order and a narrow pore diameter distribution were reproducibly synthesized by a hydrothermal method using a surfactant and an anti-foaming agent. The pore size and the mesoporous volume depend linearly on the surfactant chain length. The transition metals, such as cobalt, are incorporated substitutionally and highly dispersed in the silica framework. Single wall carbon nanotubes with a narrow diameter distribution that correlates with the pore diameter of the catalytic framework structure were prepared by a Boudouard reaction. Nanostructures with a specified diameter or cross-sectional area can therefore be predictably prepared by selecting a suitable pore size of the framework structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/726394 |
| 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 07485345 | Renn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optomec Design Company (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Renn (Hudson, Wisconsin); Bruce H. King (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marcelino Essien (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Gregory J. Marquez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Manampathy G. Giridharan (Mason, Ohio); Jyh-Cherng Sheu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and processes for maskless deposition of electronic and biological materials. The process is capable of direct deposition of features with linewidths varying from the micron range up to a fraction of a millimeter, and may be used to deposit features on substrates with damage thresholds near 100° C. Deposition and subsequent processing may be carried out under ambient conditions, eliminating the need for a vacuum atmosphere. The process may also be performed in an inert gas environment. Deposition of and subsequent laser post processing produces linewidths as low as 1 micron, with sub-micron edge definition. The apparatus nozzle has a large working distance—the orifice to substrate distance may be several millimeters—and direct write onto non-planar surfaces is possible. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/317457 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/421.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485366 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinqing Ma (Storrs, Connecticut); Yide Zhang (Storrs, Connecticut); Shihui Ge (Lanzhou, China PRC); Zongtao Zhang (Unionville, Connecticut); Dajing Yan (Allen, Texas); Danny T. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Thick film magnetic/insulating nanocomposite materials, with significantly reduced core loss, and their manufacture are described. The insulator coated magnetic nanocomposite comprises one or more magnetic components, and an insulating component. The magnetic component comprises nanometer scale particles (about 1 to about 100 nanometers) coated by a thin-layered insulating phase. While the intergrain interaction between the immediate neighboring magnetic nanoparticles separated by the insulating phase provides the desired soft magnetic properties, the insulating material provides high resistivity, which reduces eddy current loss. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846440 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485427 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts); Sanjay M. Sonar (Boston, Massachusetts); Jerzy Olejnik (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to agents and conjugates that can be used to detect and isolate target components from complex mixtures such as nucleic acids from biological samples, cells from bodily fluids, and nascent proteins from translation reactions. Agents comprise a detectable moiety bound to a photoreactive moiety. Conjugates comprise agents coupled to substrates by covalent bounds which can be selectively cleaved with the administration of electromagnetic radiation. Targets substances labeled with detectable molecules can be easily identified and separated from a heterologous mixture of substances. Exposure of the conjugate to radiation releases the target in a functional form and completely unaltered. Using photocleavable molecular precursors as the conjugates, label can be incorporated into macromolecules, the nascent macromolecules isolated and the label completely removed. The invention also relates to targets isolated with these conjugates which may be useful as pharmaceutical agents or compositions that can be administered to humans and other mammals. Useful compositions include biological agents such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and cytokines. Conjugates can also be used to monitor the pathway and half-life of pharmaceutical composition in vivo and for diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. The invention also relates to kits comprised of agents and conjugates that can be used for the detection of diseases, disorders and nearly any individual substance in a complex background of substances. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879077 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485437 | Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Rosen (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald E. Meyers (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting bacterial endospores in a sealed container. The device has a suction tube connected to an aerosol concentrator containing a lanthanide salt solution, a suction pump engaged to the aerosol concentrator, an excitation energy source and an optical set-up for directing the excitation energy source to the lanthanide salt solution and collecting photoluminescence generated by the excited lanthanide salt solution. A method for detecting bacterial endospores is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294644 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485847 | Degertekin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Decatur, Georgia); Wook Lee (Atlanta, Georgia); Neal Allen Hall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical sensors, and methods for operating optical sensors, are disclosed. One such sensor may include: a reflector positioned a distance from a reflective diffraction grating and a light source for providing light. A first portion of the light can be reflected from the reflective diffraction grating and a second portion of the light passes through the grating to the reflector and is reflected back through the diffraction grating. The sensor may further include a detector for sensing an intensity of light in an interference pattern formed by the first portion of the light reflected from the diffraction grating and the second portion of the light reflected from the reflector. The sensor includes a controller configured to modulate an emission of the light. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/297097 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/237.G00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485849 | Sonstroem |
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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) | Jaime Sonstroem (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A light sensor protection system and method protects a light sensor system from a laser threat. The light sensor system has a sensor housing which contains optical elements disposed within the sensor housing and at a first end of the housing to converge light rays entering the housing at a focal plane. A focal plane array is disposed within the sensor housing substantially coincident with the focal plane. A means for protecting the light sensor system from a laser threat is disposed within the housing remote from the optical elements, the light rays, and the focal plane array. The method includes the steps of (a) providing a light sensor system as described above; and (b) protecting the light sensor system from a laser threat in the presence of a laser threat or upon a warning thereof with the means for protecting the light sensor system from a laser threat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/381377 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485908 | Anwar 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) | Abul F Anwar (Storrs, Connecticut); Richard T. Webster (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulated gate silicon nanowire transistor amplifier structure is provided and includes a substrate formed of dielectric material. A patterned silicon material may be disposed on the substrate and includes at least first, second and third electrodes uniformly spaced on the substrate by first and second trenches. A first nanowire formed in the first trench operates to electrically couple the first and second electrodes. A second nanowire formed in the second trench operates to electrically couple the second and third electrodes. First drain and first source contacts may be respectively disposed on the first and second electrodes and a first gate contact may be disposed to be capacitively coupled to the first nanowire. Similarly, second drain and second source contacts may be respectively disposed on the second and third electrodes and a second gate contact may be disposed to be capacitively coupled to the second nanowire. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208127 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485977 | Annen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerodyne Research, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt D. Annen (Rowely, Massachusetts); Jaime Woodroffe (North Reading, Massachusetts); Michael Agnese (Brookline, Massachusetts); David B. Stickler (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a power generating system particularly suitable for field use in remote locations, which is fuel-efficient, relatively quiet, tolerant of dust, capable of operating on low grade logistics and diesel-like fuels and capable of generating between 500 W and 2 KW of continuous electrical power. This generator employs a miniature internal combustion engine/generator (MICE) having a piston moving within a cylinder arranged for two-cycle operation, and an interconnected, axially arranged piston shaft that oscillates an alternator coil within a magnetic core. The piston shaft is opposed by a strong, multiple-helix spring. The cylinder head, in which the piston operates, is cooled by moving (electrically pumped) fluid in a cooling head, or by another heat-transfer mechanism. The MICE generator's intake arrangement includes a preheater heated by a heated fluid flow thereon. The MICE generator is vibration-isolated using a base that supports the MICE on a plurality of soft coil springs. The MICE generator is encased in an acoustic enclosure having a shell composed of sheet metal or another stiff material extending from the base plate and being covered by a top side. Holes in the enclosure top are covered by porous discs that allow exhaust gasses from the internal muffler to pass therethrough. The acoustic enclosure resides in a large, typically portable, external package enclosure. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326704 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485978 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Scott E. Stanford (Mountain View, California); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Seajin Oh (Palo Alto, California); Jonathan Heim (Pacifica, California); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustion devices described herein comprise a compliant combustion chamber wall or segment. The compliant segment deforms during combustion in the combustion chamber. Some devices may include a compliant wall configured to stretch responsive to pressure generated by combustion of a fuel in the combustion chamber. A coupling portion translates deformation of the compliant segment or wall into mechanical output. One or more ports are configured to inlet an oxygen source and fuel into the combustion chamber and to outlet exhaust gases from the combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/763148 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486002 | Pulskamp |
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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) | Jeffrey S. Pulskamp (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS device comprising a substrate; an anchored end connected to the substrate; and an actuator comprising a first electrode; a piezoelectric layer over the first electrode; and multiple sets of second electrodes over the piezoelectric layer, wherein each of the sets of second electrodes being defined by a transverse gap there between, and wherein one of the sets of second electrodes are actuated asymmetrically with respect to a first plane resulting in a piezoelectrically induced bending moment arm in a lateral direction that lies in a second plane. The device further comprises an end effector opposite to the anchored end and connected to the actuator; a ferromagnetic core support structure connected to the end effector; a movable ferromagnetic inductor core on top of the ferromagnetic core support structure; and a MEMS inductor coiled around the ferromagnetic core support structure and the movable ferromagnetic inductor core. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936959 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/316.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486141 | Do et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ky-Hein Do (Kihei, Hawaii); James Schellenberg (Kihei, Hawaii); Kevin Miyashiro (Makawao, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A wide bandwidth, high power amplifier system for amplifying a signal in a radio frequency (RF) system in a specific bandwidth within the frequency range from 1 MHz to 100 GHz. The system includes a number of amplifier modules and an equal number of input transformers connected in series, with each input transformer providing an input signal to one amplifier module. It also includes an equal number of output transformers connected in series with each output transformer receiving an input signal from one amplifier module. The series of input transformers, the series of output transformers and the amplifier modules each provide an impedance matched approximately to the impedance of the RF system. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644402 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486145 | Floyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Floyd (Mahopac, New York); Sergey V. Rylov (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuits and methods are provided for implementing programmable sub-integer N frequency dividers for use in, e.g., frequency synthesizer applications, providing glitch free outputs signals with minimal fractional spurs. Phase-rotating sub-integer N frequency dividers are programmable to provide multi-modulus division with a wide range of arbitrary sub-integer division ratios. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/621879 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/1.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486224 | Ghaleb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sam Ghaleb (Ridgecrest, California); Floyd A. Kinder (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bistatic passive radar system for tracking at least one target utilizing means for transmitting radar signals from at least one satellite platform in a geosynchronous orbit with the earth, means for receiving radar signals from a reflection from each target, means for tracking a position of each target over time, and means for computation of a fire control solution of each target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877836 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486227 | Mitchell 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) | Douglas A Mitchell (Tomball, Texas); William J Teague (Slidell, Louisiana); Kirk R Whitmer (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for correcting bias in altimetry data for ascending satellite tracks and descending satellite tracks. For satellites operating in tandem, calculate ascending track bias between the height measurement made by the first and the second satellites for the ascending tracks in a region, calculate an ascending bias correction by least squares fitting a polynomial to the bias as a function of significant wave height for the ascending tracks, and apply a portion of the ascending track bias to the sea surface height measurements. The correction can be calculated based on only one track and its crossover points. Another embodiment uses data from only one satellite, estimates the sea state bias at the crossover points separately for the ascending and descending tracks, and apportions a percentage of the difference at the crossover points to the tracks based on minimizing the rms differences between the ascending and descending tracks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466561 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486229 | Govoni |
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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) | Mark A. Govoni (Long Branch, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) target detection accuracy test system receives, compares and analyzes GMTI test data that is formatted according to the NATO-EX (v.2.01) Standard. The GMTI target detection accuracy test system also uses Global Positioning System (GPS) data from the objective target and target reports generated by the GMTI sensor to display the simulation test results. At the conclusion of the GMTI sensor test, both the GPS and GMTI data are collected and compared using a computer processor and the results are displayed using the MATLAB® program to better indicate detection accuracy and provide a higher level of target detection accuracy. A method for testing artillery target detection accuracy method is also provided for characterizing the performance of any GMTI adhering to the NATO-EX Standard and testing against an objective target outfitted with GPS instrumentation. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713836 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486513 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn A. Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Shurong Tian (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); John P. Karidis (Ossining, New York); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Robert W. Guernsey, Jr. (Garrison, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for cooling, preferably within an enclosure, a diversity of heat-generating components, with at least some of the components having high-power densities and others having low-power densities. Heat generated by the essentially relatively few high-power-density components, such as microprocessor chips for example, is removed by direct liquid cooling, whereas heat generated by the more numerous low-power or low-watt-density components, such as memory chips for example, is removed by liquid-assisted air cooling in the form of a closed loop comprising a plurality of heating and cooling zones that alternate along the air path. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/862289 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486525 | Knickerbocker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A temporary chip attach carrier for and a method of testing an integrated circuit chip. The carrier includes: a substrate, a first array of interconnects disposed on a bottom surface and a second array of interconnects disposed on a top surface of the substrate, corresponding interconnects of the first and second arrays of interconnects electrically connected by wires in the substrate; an interposer, a first array of pads disposed on a top surface of the interposer and a second array of pads disposed on a bottom surface of the interposer, corresponding pads of the first and second arrays of pads electrically connected by wires in the interposer, and pads of the second array in direct physical and electrical contact with corresponding interconnects of the second set of interconnects; and wherein the interposer includes an interposer substrate of the same material as a substrate of the integrated circuit chip. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499573 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486627 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Zhang (Cupertino, California); Markus P. J. Fromherz (Palo Alto, California); Sergei Vassilvitskii (Kensington, Maryland); Yi Shang (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented for a time-aware strategy utilized within message-initiated constraint-based routing for digital message communication among nodes in an ad-hoc network, in which each node includes attributes. The method includes determining local attributes for each of the nodes and defining constraints on the attributes. Each node is provided access to the attributes of each neighboring node, with a neighboring node being a node that is one hop away. Each message transmitted over the network has a message type, which includes a destination specification, route specification, and objective specification. Constraint checking and cost estimation checking are performed for each message type. The message that is routed within the network includes the address of a sending node, address of the source node, route constraints, destination constraints specified with a time bound, the number of route constraints, the number of destination constraints, message identification number, sequence identification number, and routing objectives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453750 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486758 | Turchi |
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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) | Peter J. Turchi (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel arrangement that combines in a single compact embodiment a plasma flow switch source of ultrahigh speed plasma and an electromagnetically-imploded cylindrical shell. The shell, known as a liner, forms the wall of a cavity that receives and stagnates the plasma flow. The plasma and the liner are connected electrically in series so that a single multi-megampere current serves both elements and operates from the same power source and switch. The operation is timed so that the plasma is injected into the cavity once the liner has attained sufficient implosion speed. The liner then continues to implode, reducing the cavity volume and compressing the plasma further to very high temperatures and densities, thereby creating a compact, intense pulsed neutron source generated by thermonuclear reactions in the compressed plasma. Such a neutron source has application for neutralizing bio/chemical warfare agents, radiography, and material processing. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/554088 |
| 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 376/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486795 | Eschenauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurent Eschenauer (Ougree, Belgium); Virgil D. Gligor (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In a distributed sensor network, a method of key management is carried out in several phases, particularly key pre-distribution phase, shared key discovery phase, and as needed, a path key establishment phase. In the key pre-distribution phase, prior to DSN deployment, a ring of keys is distributed to each sensor node, each key ring consisting of randomly chosen keys from a large pool of keys which is generated off-line. A shared key exists between each two key rings with a predetermined probability. In the shared key discovery phase, which takes place upon deployment of the DSN, every sensor node discovers its neighbors in wireless communication range with which it shares keys, and the topology of the sensor array is established by forming secure communication links between respective sensor nodes. The path key establishment phase assigns a path key to selected pairs of sensor nodes in wireless communication range that do not share a key but are connected by two or more links at the end of the shared key discovery phase. The key management scheme also assumes a revocation phase for removal of the key ring of the compromised sensor node from the network. Also, re-keying phase is assumed for removal of those keys with the expired lifetime. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/666207 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487014 | Houlberg |
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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) | Christian Lauritz Houlberg (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A protocol converter that translates the ARINC-429 protocol output of an Inertial Navigation System to the National Marine Electronics Association 0183 protocol. The protocol converter includes an ARINC-429 interface board with cable and software operating in a computer with at least one serial communications port. The software includes a protocol conversion program which is capable of outputting the NMEA-0183 protocol to as many as four serial communications ports simultaneously. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499983 |
| 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 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487015 | Houlbert |
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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) | Christian Lauritz Houlbert (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An emulator, which is a computer program, for simulating 32 bit ARINC-429 data output by an Inertial Navigation System on board a P-3 aircraft. The value for each word output by the emulator is adjustable by user. The user adjusts each value by using the computer's mouse to engage slider controls located on a computer applications window. ARINC-429 data which the user adjusts includes aircraft latitude, longitude and altitude data as well as pitch and roll data for the aircraft, and time and distance to a destination by the aircraft. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527664 |
| 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 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487167 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Ossining, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for classifying data from a test data stream is provided. A stream of training data having class labels is received. One or more class-specific clusters of the training data are determined and stored. At least one test instance of the test data stream is classified using the one or more class-specific clusters. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/756227 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487206 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for performing load diffusion to process data stream pairs. A data stream pair is received for correlation. The data stream pair is partitioned into portions to meet correlation constraints for correlating data in the data stream pair to form a partitioned data stream pair. The partitioned data stream pair is sent to a set of nodes for correlation processing to perform the load diffusion. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183149 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487297 | El-Essawy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wael R. El-Essawy (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Redmond, Washington); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for performing just-in-time data prefetching within a data processing system comprising a processor, a cache or prefetch buffer, and at least one memory storage device. The apparatus comprises a prefetch engine having means for issuing a data prefetch request for prefetching a data cache line from the memory storage device for utilization by the processor. The apparatus further comprises logic/utility for dynamically adjusting a prefetch distance between issuance by the prefetch engine of the data prefetch request and issuance by the processor of a demand (load request) targeting the data/cache line being returned by the data prefetch request, so that a next data prefetch request for a subsequent cache line completes the return of the data/cache line at effectively the same time that a demand for that subsequent data/cache line is issued by the processor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422459 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487374 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Liu (Austin, Texas); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Power-gated circuitry is put in a “sleep mode” that selectively gates both the power supply rails for static power control and the clock distribution for dynamic power control. A time interval M is established following a wake-up signal that includes the time to power-up, perform a computation, and return a result to the following circuitry. Likewise, a time interval N is established that indicates how long to wait after a result is returned before the power-gated circuitry is returned to the sleep mode to assure a desired performance. When a power-gated circuit is going to be needed for a future computation, it is issued a wake-up signal and a predetermined estimated time K for receipt of a next wake-up signal. A decision is made by analyzing the times M, N, and K as to when to return a power-gated circuit to the sleep mode following activation by a wake-up signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/034556 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487544 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (NY, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew G. Schultz (Ithaca, New York); Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Erez Zadok (Middle Island, New York); Manasi Bhattacharyya (Flushing, New York); Stolfo J. Salvatore (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for detecting malicious executable attachments at an email processing application of a computer system using data mining techniques. The email processing application may be located at the server or at the client or host. The executable attachments are filtered from said email, and byte sequence features are extracted from the executable attachment. The executable attachments are classified by comparing the byte sequence feature of the executable attachment to a classification rule set derived from byte sequence features of a data set of known executables having a predetermined class in a set of classes, e.g., malicious or benign. The system is also able to classify executable attachments as borderline when the difference between the probability that the executable is malicious and the probability that the executable is benign are within a predetermined threshold. The system can notify the user when the number of borderline attachments exceeds the threshold in order to refine the classification rule set. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/208432 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | William Reason (Lexington Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for mitigating the effects of shock loading on occupants, cargo and gear the apparatus located in a watercraft the apparatus having a deck positioned and arranged in said watercraft for supporting thereon said occupants, cargo and gear, a hinge communicating with said deck and said watercraft and supporting the forwardly portion of said deck and permitting said deck to move and rotate about said hinge and prevent said deck from substantial side to side movement, a dampener communicating with said deck and said hull of said watercraft the dampener positioned and arranged to move in response to said moving and rotating deck and said dampener absorbing at least a portion of the energy of said moving deck as said deck moves and rotates, and a spring communicating with said deck and said hull of said watercraft the spring positioned and arranged to support the rearwardly portion on said deck and to move in response to said moving and rotating deck the spring absorbing at lease a portion of the energy of said moving and rotating deck and releasing said absorbed energy to raise the deck after said impacts. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805263 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07485181 | Neeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rechovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michal Neeman (Mazkeret-Batya, Israel); Liora Shiftan (Gedera, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition-of-matter is provided. The composition-of-matter comprising a chelator moiety-hyaluronan complex bound to a solid support. Also provided are methods of in-situ assessing hyaluronidase activity using such compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959417 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/162.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485260 | Tamari |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Yehuda Tamari (Oyster Bay, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Venous reservoirs are interposed between the patient and the arterial pump and serve to remove air bubbles and provide compliance that accommodates variations in the volume of blood circulating in the extracorporeal circuit during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The invention is a reservoir that incorporates automated means to remove air bubbles from the venous line prior to the blood entering the arterial blood pump. In another form, the reservoir includes means that handles foam prior to the blood entering the blood pump. In yet another form, the invention is means that improve air removal in a soft shell venous reservoir. These features are applicable to CPB circuits using gravity drainage or vacuum assisted venous drainage. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/554490 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485306 | Valenzuela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) (Manguinbos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesus G Valenzuela (Rockville, Maryland); Jose M. C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland); Aldina Barral (Bahia, Brazil); Manoel Netto (Bahia, Brazil); Claudia Brodskyn (Bahia, Brazil); Regis Gomes (Bahia, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Substantially purified salivary Lu. longipalpis polypeptides, and polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides are disclosed. Vectors and host cells including the Lu. longipalpis polynucleotides are also disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for inducing an immune response to sand fly saliva. In other embodiments, methods for treating, diagnosing, or preventing Leishmaniasis are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533811 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 07485307 | Kraus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan P. Kraus (Littleton, Colorado); Jana Oliveriusova (Morrison, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Human cystathionine β-synthase variants are disclosed, as well as a method to produce recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase and variants thereof. More particularly, the role of both the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of human CBS has been studied, and a variety of truncation mutants and modified CBS homologues are described. In addition, a method to express and purify recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) and variants thereof which have only one or two additional amino acid residues at the N-terminus are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/464811 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485311 | Lue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom F. Lue (Hillsborough, California); Ching-Shwun Lin (San Mateo, California); Yuet W. Kan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to the field of urology. In particular, the invention provides a method for preventing or treating male erectile dysfunction or female sexual arousal disorder, which method comprises administering an effective amount of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), or a functional derivative or fragment thereof, or a nucleic acid encoding said VEGF, BDNF or bFGF, or functional derivative or fragment thereof, or an agent that enhances production and/or erection or sexual arousal stimulating function of said VEGF or BDNF or bFGF to a mammal, wherein such prevention or treatment is desirable, thereby preventing or treating said male erectile dysfunction or female sexual arousal disorder in said mammal. Combinations, combinatorial methods and kits for preventing or treating male erectile dysfunction or female sexual arousal disorder are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806515 |
| 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 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485415 | Buonagurio 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) | Deborah A. Buonagurio (Rye, New York); Alice F. Georgiu (Montgomery, New York); Robert A. Lerch (New Hempstead, New York); Bruce B. Mason (Downington, Pennsylvania); Shridhara C. Murthy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ruth S. Rappaport (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Mohinder S. Sidhu (New City, New York); Stephen A. Udem (New York, New York); Timothy J. Zamb (Nyack, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising a gene segment from a rhesus rotavirus (RRV) or from one of three rhesus: human reassortant viruses are disclosed, including isolated nucleic acid molecules having a sequence selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NO: 1-14, inclusive, and isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding a protein having a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 15-28, inclusive, as well as variants of the isolated nucleic acid molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/505818 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485416 | Ott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melanie Ott (San Francisco, California); Eric M. Verdin (San Francisco, California); Manfred Jung (Freiburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides treatment methods involving modulating a sirtuin activity and/or a sirtuin mRNA and/or a sirtuin polypeptide level. In some embodiments, the present invention provides treatment methods involving modulating SIRT1 activity and/or SIRT mRNA and/or polypeptide level. The present invention provides methods of inhibiting SIRT1 Tat deacetylase activity. Methods of inhibiting SIRT1 Tat deacetylase activity are useful for treating immunodeficiency virus infections, particularly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Thus, the present invention provides methods of treating an immunodeficiency virus infection, generally involving inhibiting SIRT1 Tat deacetylase activity. The present invention further provides methods of identifying agents that modulate sirtuin activity (e.g., SIRT1 activity), particularly ability of sirtuins to interact with (e.g., bind and/or deacetylate) a substrate, e.g., a viral substrate such as a Tat polypeptide. The present invention further provides active agents that modulate sirtuin activity or expression; and compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising the active agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022192 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485420 | Markowitz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve university (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes methods and compositions for detecting and treating vimentin-associated neoplasia. Differential methylation of the vimentin nucleotide sequences has been observed in vimentin-associated neoplasia such as colon neoplasia. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920119 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485424 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid, i.e. the activity of a nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme on the template nucleic acid molecule to be sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing complementary strand of the target nucleic acid by the catalytic activity of the nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme at each step in the sequence of base additions. A polymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex is provided in a position suitable to move along the target nucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primer at an active site. A plurality of labelled types of nucleotide analogs are provided proximate to the active site, with each distinguishable type of nucleotide analog being complementary to a different nucleotide in the target nucleic acid sequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotide analog being added is complementary to the nucleotide of the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The steps of providing labelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growing nucleic acid strand, and identifying the added nucleotide analog are repeated so that the nucleic acid strand is further extended and the sequence of the target nucleic acid is determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277114 |
| 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 07485427 | Rothschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Rothschild (Newton, Massachusetts); Sanjay M. Sonar (Boston, Massachusetts); Jerzy Olejnik (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to agents and conjugates that can be used to detect and isolate target components from complex mixtures such as nucleic acids from biological samples, cells from bodily fluids, and nascent proteins from translation reactions. Agents comprise a detectable moiety bound to a photoreactive moiety. Conjugates comprise agents coupled to substrates by covalent bounds which can be selectively cleaved with the administration of electromagnetic radiation. Targets substances labeled with detectable molecules can be easily identified and separated from a heterologous mixture of substances. Exposure of the conjugate to radiation releases the target in a functional form and completely unaltered. Using photocleavable molecular precursors as the conjugates, label can be incorporated into macromolecules, the nascent macromolecules isolated and the label completely removed. The invention also relates to targets isolated with these conjugates which may be useful as pharmaceutical agents or compositions that can be administered to humans and other mammals. Useful compositions include biological agents such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and cytokines. Conjugates can also be used to monitor the pathway and half-life of pharmaceutical composition in vivo and for diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. The invention also relates to kits comprised of agents and conjugates that can be used for the detection of diseases, disorders and nearly any individual substance in a complex background of substances. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879077 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485439 | Folkman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Judah Folkman (Newton, Massachusetts); Michael S. O'Reilly (Houston, Texas); Yihai Cao (Stockholm, Sweden); Kim Lee Sim (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid sequence encoding kringle region fragment of plasminogen vectors comprising such nucleic acid, and methods of use of such nucleic acids, Ribonucleic and deoxyribonucleic acid sequence that encode for kringle region fragments are useful for gene therapy or recombinant expression for the treatment of angiogenesis-related diseases, specifically angiogenesis-dependent cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/127066 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07485440 | Collins 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) | Peter L. Collins (Kensington, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Alison Bermingham (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are provided in which expression of the second translational open reading frame encoded by the M2 gene (M2ORF2) is reduced or ablated to yield novel RSV vaccine candidates. Expression of M2 ORF2 is reduced or ablated by modifying a recombinant RSV genome or antigenome to incorporate a frame shift mutation, or one or more stop codons in M2 ORF2. Alternatively, M2 ORF2 is deleted in whole or in part to render the M2-2 protein partially or entirely non-functional or to disrupt its expression altogether. M2 ORF2 deletion and knock out mutants possess highly desirable phenotypic characteristics for vaccine development. These changes specify one or more desired phenotypic changes in the resulting virus or subviral particle. Vaccine candidates are generated that show a change in mRNA transcription, genomic or antigenomic RNA replication, viral growth characteristics, viral antigen expression, viral plaque size, and/or a change in cytopathogenicity. In addition, M2-2 knock out or deletion virus exhibits increased levels of synthesis of viral proteins in cell culture, providing an enriched source of viral antigen or protein for purification and use as a noninfectious subunit vaccine. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/011502 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485441 | Pomerantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel L. Pomerantz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Phillip A. Sharp (Newton, Massachusetts); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric proteins containing composite DNA-binding regions are disclosed together with DNA constructs encoding them, compositions containing them and applications in which they are useful. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/369889 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485455 | Makielski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Mayo Clinic Health Solutions (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan C. Makielski (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Bin Ye (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael J. Ackerman (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses four groups of SCN5A variants that represent the most common SCN5A variants in humans. A specific mutation in one of the variants has been shown to display a different phenotype in relation to a human heart disease than other variants and known human sodium channel α subunits with corresponding mutations. The present invention provides new tools to study mutations and to design or identify new diagnostic and treatment strategies or agents for sodium channel related diseases or conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632342 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485460 | Prockop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tulane University Health Sciences Center (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darwin Prockop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ichiro Sekiya (Tokyo, Japan); Carl Gregory (New Orleans, Louisiana); Jeffrey Spees (New Orleans, Louisiana); Jason Smith (New Orleans, Pennsylvania); Radhika Pochampally (Marrero, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods and compositions for enhancing the growth of adult marrow stromal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/442506 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485616 | Solomon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Solomon (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan Stuart Wall (Knoxville, Tennessee); Rudi Hrncic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Maria Schell (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a therapeutic method for removing amyloid fibrils from a patient. The present invention also provides a transgenic animal that develops systemic AA amyloidosis within three weeks for use as a tool to investigate AA amyloidosis and to evaluate agents that may be potentially useful in preventing and treating amyloid-related disorders. Further, the present invention provides diagnostic assays for monitoring immunoglobulin light chain fibrillogenesis in real-time and for identification of the chemical nature of the protein in amyloid deposits which enables the determination of the type of amyloidosis for therapeutic and prognostic purposes. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/825872 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07485627 | Raz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eyal Raz (Del Mar, California); Daniel Rachmilewitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for ameliorating gastrointestinal inflammation, particularly chronic gastrointestinal inflammation such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), in a subject. In one embodiment, the method comprises administering an immunomodulatory nucleic acid to a subject suffering from or susceptible to gastrointestinal inflammation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/412151 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485631 | Razler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Razler (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Amos B. Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P. Ciavarri (Reading, Massachusetts); Tomoyasu Hirose (Kawasaki, Japan); Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Ohtsu, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel macrolactone compounds, their methods of preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods for their pharmaceutical use are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the macrolactone compounds may be useful, inter alia, for treating various cancers, inducing apoptosis in malignant cells, or inhibiting cancer cell division. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408573 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 07485706 | Graef et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isabella A. Graef (Woodside, California); Gerald R. Crabtree (Woodside, California); Jason E. Gestwicki (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for reducing aggregation of neurodegenerative proteins associated with neurotoxicity or other proteins. The compounds comprise a first domain or targeting element for binding to the target proteins linked to a second domain or recruiting element that binds to an aggregation inhibiting protein, e.g. a prolyl isomerase. By associating the aggregating forming proteins or neuronal cells under conditions where aggregating proteins are produced with the compound and the aggregation inhibiting protein, aggregation is reduced. The subject agents can be used in assays, investigating the etiology of the neuronal diseases and for prophylaxis and therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901848 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/797 |
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| US 07485708 | Burks, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Wesley Burks, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Gary A. Bannon (Wentzville, Missouri); Hugh A. Sampson (Larchmont, New York); Ricki M. Helm (Little Rock, Arkansas); J. Steven Stanley (North Little Rock, Arkansas); Patrick A. Rabjohn (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been determined that allergens, which are characterized by both humoral (IgE) and cellular (T cell) binding sites, can be modified to be less allergenic by modifying the IgE binding sites. The IgE binding sites can be converted to non-IgE binding sites by masking the site with a compound that prevents IgE binding or by altering as little as a single amino acid within the protein, most typically a hydrophobic residue towards the center of the IgE binding epitope, to eliminate IgE binding. The method allows the protein to be altered as minimally as possible, other than within the IgE-binding sites, while retaining the ability of the protein to activate T cells, and, in some embodiments by not significantly altering or decreasing IgG binding capacity. The examples use peanut allergens to demonstrate alteration of IgE binding sites. The critical amino acids within each of the IgE binding epitopes of the peanut protein that are important to immunoglobulin binding have been determined. Substitution of even a single amino acid within each of the epitopes led to loss of IgE binding. Although the epitopes shared no common amino acid sequence motif, the hydrophobic residues located in the center of the epitope appeared to be most critical to IgE binding. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/228806 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485709 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura S. Schmidt (Mt. Airy, Maryland); Michelle Warren (New Market, Maryland); Jorge P. Toro (Washington, District of Columbia); Berton Zbar (Garrett Park, Maryland); Michael L. Nickerson (Shepherdston, West Virginia); W. Marston Linehan (North Bethesda, Maryland); Maria L. Turner (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, nucleic acids encoding the BHD gene, and methods of using the nucleic acids and proteins encoded thereby. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods of diagnosing BHD disease and related conditions, such as spontaneous pneumothorax and kidney cancer, and methods of treating BHD skin lesions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/514744 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07485711 | Weinshilboum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric O. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Oreste Salavaggione (St. Louis, Missouri); Araba A. Adjei (Rochester, Minnesota); Linda Pelleymounter (Rochester, Minnesota); Josefa Coronel (Union City, California); Liewei Wang (Rochester, Minnesota); Bruce Eckloff (Oronoco, Minnesota); Daniel Schaid (Rochester, Minnesota); Cynthia X. Ma (Ladue, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated CYP19A1 nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as CYP19A1 allozymes. Methods for determining the aromatase status of an individual also are provided, as are methods for determining if a subject is predisposed to certain clinical conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206251 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07486073 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huanzhou Yu (Mountain View, California); Charles A. McKenzie (London, Canada); Jean H. Brittain (Middleton, Wisconsin); Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California); Scott B. Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating dynamic magnetic resonance images is provided. A cyclical magnetic resonance imaging excitation is applied for a plurality of cycles at a cycle rate. A plurality of magnetic resonance image echoes is acquired for each cycle. A plurality of frames of images is generated from the acquired plurality of magnetic resonance echoes at a frame rate that is at least twice the cycle rate, wherein each frame of the plurality of frames is generated from a plurality of echoes and wherein some of the plurality of frames are generated from magnetic resonance image echoes of adjacent cycles. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/738347 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07486074 — Self-calibration methods for parallel imaging and multipoint water-fat separation methods
| US 07486074 | McKenzie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. McKenzie (London, Canada); Anja Brau (Menlo Park, California); Huanzhou Yu (Mountain View, California); Scott B. Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jean H. Brittain (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ann Shimakawa (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating a self-calibrating parallel multiecho magnetic resonance image is provided. A magnetic resonance imaging excitation is applied. A first echo at a first echo time in a first pattern is acquired. A second echo at a second echo time different from the first echo phase in a second pattern different from the first pattern is acquired. The acquired first echo and acquired second echo are used to generate an image in an image pattern, wherein none of the acquired echoes for generating the image have the same pattern as the image pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/738340 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07486075 | Brau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anja C. S. Brau (Menlo Park, California); Philip James Beatty (Menlo Park, California); Stefan Skare (Palo Alto, California); Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system and method for parallel imaging that performs auto-calibrating reconstructions with a 2D (for 2D imaging) or 3D kernel (for 3D imaging) that exploits the computational efficiencies available when operating in certain data “domains” or “spaces”. The reconstruction process of multi-coil data is separated into a “training phase” and an “application phase” in which reconstruction weights are applied to acquired data to synthesize (replace) missing data. The choice of data space, i.e., k-space, hybrid space, or image space, in which each step occurs is independently optimized to reduce total reconstruction time for a given imaging application. As such, the invention retains the image quality benefits of using a 2D k-space kernel without the computational burden of applying a 2D k-space convolution kernel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867186 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486766 | Nagarkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek V Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts); Sameer V Tipnis (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides internal gain charge coupled devices (CCD) and CT scanners that incorporate an internal gain CCD. A combined positron emission tomography and CT scanner is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/037018 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486865 | Foquet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu Foquet (Redwood City, California); Paul Peluso (Hayward, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California); Daniel Bernardo Roitman (Menlo Park, California); Geoffrey Otto (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Substrates, including zero mode waveguide substrates that have been fabricated to provide additional functional elements and/or components including increased volumes for positioning of active surfaces and/or components for the mitigation of negative electrochemical properties of the underlying substrates. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761251 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07484583 | Akasam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivaprasad Akasam (Peoria, Illinois); Kris W. Johnson (Peoria, Illinois); Matthew D. Johnson (Peoria, Illinois); Larry M. Slone (Washington, Illinois); James Milton Welter (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system is provided having at least one traction device and a primary power source configured to power the at least one traction device. In addition, the power system includes an auxiliary power source also configured to power the at least one traction device. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529514 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/65.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484626 | Judkins |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roddie R. Judkins (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A water filter includes a porous support characterized by a mean porosity in the range of 20 to 50% and a mean pore size of 2 to 5 μm; and a carbon filter medium membrane disposed thereon which is characterized by a mean particle size of no more than 50 μm and a mean pore size of no more than 7.2 μm. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277246 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07484956 | Kobayashi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praxair Technology, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hisashi Kobayashi (Putnam Valley, New York); Lawrence E. Bool (East Aurora, New York); William J. Snyder (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustion of hydrocarbon fuel is achieved with less formation of NOx by feeding the fuel into a slightly oxygen-enriched atmosphere, and separating air into oxygen-rich and nitrogen-rich streams which are fed separately into the combustion device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/662372 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485161 | Toseland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Allen Toseland (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Guido Peter Pez (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Pushpinder Singh Puri (Emmaus, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an improved process for the storage and delivery of hydrogen by the reversible hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of an organic compound wherein the organic compound is initially in its hydrogenated state. The improvement in the route to generating hydrogen is in the dehydrogenation step and recovery of the dehydrogenated organic compound resides in the following steps: introducing a hydrogenated organic compound to a microchannel reactor incorporating a dehydrogenation catalyst; effecting dehydrogenation of said hydrogenated organic compound under conditions whereby said hydrogenated organic compound is present as a liquid phase; generating a reaction product comprised of a liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound and gaseous hydrogen; separating the liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound from gaseous hydrogen; and, recovering the hydrogen and liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029059 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485277 | Shepodd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California); George M. Buffleben (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for removing hydrogen from an atmosphere, comprising a mixture of a polyphenyl ether and a hydrogenation catalyst, preferably a precious metal catalyst, and most preferably platinum, is disclosed. This composition is stable in the presence of oxygen, will not polymerize or degrade upon exposure to temperatures in excess of 200° C., or prolonged exposure to temperatures in the range of 100-300° C. Moreover, these novel hydrogen getter materials can be used to efficiently remove hydrogen from mixtures of hydrogen/inert gas (e.g., He, Ar, N2), hydrogen/ammonia atmospheres, such as may be encountered in heat exchangers, and hydrogen/carbon dioxide atmospheres. Water vapor and common atmospheric gases have no adverse effect on the ability of these getter materials to absorb hydrogen. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/142975 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485279 | Pfefferle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Pfefferle (Branford, Connecticut); Gary Haller (New Haven, Connecticut); Dragos Ciuparu (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Transition metal-substituted MCM-41 framework structures with a high degree of structural order and a narrow pore diameter distribution were reproducibly synthesized by a hydrothermal method using a surfactant and an anti-foaming agent. The pore size and the mesoporous volume depend linearly on the surfactant chain length. The transition metals, such as cobalt, are incorporated substitutionally and highly dispersed in the silica framework. Single wall carbon nanotubes with a narrow diameter distribution that correlates with the pore diameter of the catalytic framework structure were prepared by a Boudouard reaction. Nanostructures with a specified diameter or cross-sectional area can therefore be predictably prepared by selecting a suitable pore size of the framework structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/726394 |
| 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 07485343 | Branson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Branson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Pratik B. Shah (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Seema Singh (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); C. Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing a hydrophobic coating by preparing a precursor sol comprising a metal alkoxide, a solvent, a basic catalyst, a fluoroalkyl compound and water, depositing the precursor sol as a film onto a surface, such as a substrate or a pipe, heating, the film and exposing the film to a hydrophobic silane compound to form a hydrophobic coating with a contact angle greater than approximately 150°. The contact angle of the film can be controlled by exposure to ultraviolet radiation to reduce the contact angle and subsequent exposure to a hydrophobic silane compound to increase the contact angle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104917 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485386 | Zafred et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paolo Zafred (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Thomas Prevish (Trafford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid oxide fuel cell generator (10) contains stacks of hollow axially elongated fuel cells (36) having an open top end (37), an oxidant inlet plenum (52), a feed fuel plenum (11), a combustion chamber (94) for combusting reacted oxidant/spent fuel; and, optionally, a fuel recirculation chamber (106) below the combustion chamber (94), where the fuel recirculation chamber (94) is in part defined by semi-porous fuel cell positioning gasket (108), all within an outer generator enclosure (8), wherein the fuel cell gasket (108) has a laminate structure comprising at least a compliant fibrous mat support layer and a strong, yet flexible woven layer, which may contain catalytic particles facing the combustion chamber, where the catalyst, if used, is effective to further oxidize exhaust fuel and protect the open top end (37) of the fuel cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854915 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485419 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system for detecting an effector or cofactor comprises (a) a nucleic acid enzyme; (b) a substrate for the nucleic acid enzyme, comprising a first polynucleotide; (c) a first set of particles comprising a second polynucleotide at least partially complementary to the substrate, where the polynucleotide is attached to the particles at its 3′ terminus; and (d) a second set of particles comprising a third polynucleotide at least partially complementary to the substrate, where the polynucleotide is attached to the particles at its 5′ terminus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/756825 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485424 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid, i.e. the activity of a nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme on the template nucleic acid molecule to be sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing complementary strand of the target nucleic acid by the catalytic activity of the nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme at each step in the sequence of base additions. A polymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex is provided in a position suitable to move along the target nucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primer at an active site. A plurality of labelled types of nucleotide analogs are provided proximate to the active site, with each distinguishable type of nucleotide analog being complementary to a different nucleotide in the target nucleic acid sequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotide analog being added is complementary to the nucleotide of the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The steps of providing labelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growing nucleic acid strand, and identifying the added nucleotide analog are repeated so that the nucleic acid strand is further extended and the sequence of the target nucleic acid is determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277114 |
| 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 07486078 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A Compact Orthogonal Field Sensor for emitting two orthogonal electro-magnetic fields in a common space. More particularly, a replacement inductor for existing NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) sensors to allow for NMR imaging. The Compact Orthogonal Field Sensor has a conductive coil and a central conductor electrically connected in series. The central conductor is at least partially surrounded by the coil. The coil and central conductor are electrically or electro-magnetically connected to a device having a means for producing or inducing a current through the coil and central conductor. The Compact Orthogonal Field Sensor can be used in NMR imaging applications to determine the position and the associated NMR spectrum of a sample within the electro-magnetic field of the central conductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/555416 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486166 | Humphries et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Humphries (El Cerrito, California); Martin J. Pollard (El Cerrito, California); Christopher J. Elkin (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a high performance hybrid magnetic structure made from a combination of permanent magnets and ferromagnetic pole materials which are assembled in a predetermined array. The hybrid magnetic structure provides means for separation and other biotechnology applications involving holding, manipulation, or separation of magnetic or magnetizable molecular structures and targets. Also disclosed are further improvements to aspects of the hybrid magnetic structure, including additional elements and for adapting the use of the hybrid magnetic structure for use in biotechnology and high throughput processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595827 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486399 | Reichardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Reichardt (Livermore, California); Amy Khai Luong (Dublin, California); Thomas J. Kulp (Livermore, California); Sanjay Devdas (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is described that is suitable for use in determining the location of leaks of gases having a background concentration. The system is a point-wise backscatter absorption gas measurement system that measures absorption and distance to each point of an image. The absorption measurement provides an indication of the total amount of a gas of interest, and the distance provides an estimate of the background concentration of gas. The distance is measured from the time-of-flight of laser pulse that is generated along with the absorption measurement light. The measurements are formatted into an image of the presence of gas in excess of the background. Alternatively, an image of the scene is superimposed on the image of the gas to aid in locating leaks. By further modeling excess gas as a plume having a known concentration profile, the present system provides an estimate of the maximum concentration of the gas of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012670 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486687 | Abel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francois Abel (Rueschlikon, Switzerland); Ilias Iliadis (Rueschlikon, Switzerland); Cyriel J. A. Minkenberg (Adliswil, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for allocating pending requests for data packet transmission at a number of inputs to a number of outputs of a switching system in successive time slots, including a matching method including the steps of providing a first request information in a first time slot indicating data packets at the inputs requesting transmission to the outputs of the switching system, performing a first step in the first time slot depending on the first request information to obtain a first matching information, providing a last request information in a last time slot successive to the first time slot, performing a last step in the last time slot depending on the last request information and depending on the first matching information to obtain a final matching information, and assigning the pending data packets at the number of inputs to the number of outputs based on the final matching information. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789234 |
| ART UNIT | 2619 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07485282 | Pinnavaia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Pinnavaia (East Lansing, Michigan); Seong-Su Kim (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is described for the synthesis of metal oxides in a nanometric particle form that cannot be easily obtained by conventional bulk synthesis techniques. The method makes use of Colloid Occluded Carbons (COC) and Colloid Imprinted Carbons (CIC) as reagents and as templating agents for the preparation of metal oxides in nanometric particle form. The nanometric particles are suitable useful in the field of chemical catalysis, particularly for petroleum refining when in porous form, and as sensors, optical wave guides, and coatings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087841 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485419 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system for detecting an effector or cofactor comprises (a) a nucleic acid enzyme; (b) a substrate for the nucleic acid enzyme, comprising a first polynucleotide; (c) a first set of particles comprising a second polynucleotide at least partially complementary to the substrate, where the polynucleotide is attached to the particles at its 3′ terminus; and (d) a second set of particles comprising a third polynucleotide at least partially complementary to the substrate, where the polynucleotide is attached to the particles at its 5′ terminus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/756825 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485424 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid, i.e. the activity of a nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme on the template nucleic acid molecule to be sequenced is followed in real time. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing complementary strand of the target nucleic acid by the catalytic activity of the nucleic acid polymerizing enzyme at each step in the sequence of base additions. A polymerase on the target nucleic acid molecule complex is provided in a position suitable to move along the target nucleic acid molecule and extend the oligonucleotide primer at an active site. A plurality of labelled types of nucleotide analogs are provided proximate to the active site, with each distinguishable type of nucleotide analog being complementary to a different nucleotide in the target nucleic acid sequence. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand at the active site, where the nucleotide analog being added is complementary to the nucleotide of the target nucleic acid at the active site. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The steps of providing labelled nucleotide analogs, polymerizing the growing nucleic acid strand, and identifying the added nucleotide analog are repeated so that the nucleic acid strand is further extended and the sequence of the target nucleic acid is determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277114 |
| 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 07485441 | Pomerantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel L. Pomerantz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Phillip A. Sharp (Newton, Massachusetts); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric proteins containing composite DNA-binding regions are disclosed together with DNA constructs encoding them, compositions containing them and applications in which they are useful. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/369889 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485616 | Solomon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Solomon (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan Stuart Wall (Knoxville, Tennessee); Rudi Hrncic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Maria Schell (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a therapeutic method for removing amyloid fibrils from a patient. The present invention also provides a transgenic animal that develops systemic AA amyloidosis within three weeks for use as a tool to investigate AA amyloidosis and to evaluate agents that may be potentially useful in preventing and treating amyloid-related disorders. Further, the present invention provides diagnostic assays for monitoring immunoglobulin light chain fibrillogenesis in real-time and for identification of the chemical nature of the protein in amyloid deposits which enables the determination of the type of amyloidosis for therapeutic and prognostic purposes. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/825872 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485772 | Yanofsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin F. Yanofsky (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a transgenic plant characterized by suppressed flowering. The transgenic plant contains a nucleic acid molecule including a floral organ selective regulatory element operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a cytotoxic gene product, wherein the nucleic acid molecule is heritable by progeny thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241551 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485854 | Hartonen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Helsinki, Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry (Helsinki, Finland); University of Helsinki, Department of Physical Science, division of Atmospheric Sciences (Helsinki, Finland); Finnish Meteorological Instutute (Helsinki, Finland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kari Hartonen (Vantaa, Finland); Kari Kuuspalo (Helsinski, Finland); Heikki Lihavainen (Porvoo, Finland); Pasi Aalto (Helsinki, Finland); Markku Rasilainen (Helsinki, Finland); Marja-Liisa Riekkola (Espoo, Finland); Markku Kulmala (Helsinki, Finland); Yrjo Viisanën (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | A sampling device, for example a sampling valve, is disclosed for introduction of samples into an analysis system. The sampling device comprises a turning element provided with a sampling area. The sampling area is configured to retain samples to be analysed. The turning element is arranged for movement between a first position where the sampling area is exposed to material to be sampled for collection of samples and a second position where samples are released for use by the analysis system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438689 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485872 | Frisch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry J. Frisch (Chicago, Illinois); Harold Sanders (Chicago, Illinois); Fukun Tang (Chicago, Illinois); Tim Credo (Highland Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector for detecting a particle is disclosed. The detector includes a charge emitter that emits a charge in response to receipt of the particle, an anode for receiving the emitted charge, and electronics for determining whether there is received charge on the anode. The anode may include a pad for receiving the charge and a plurality of conduits (such as transmission lines) for transmitting the charge to the electronics. The anode may be designed to reduce the variance in the path length from the pad of the anode to the electronics. For example, the plurality of conduits in the anode may be constructed such that the transit time of the charge from the pad varies less than a predetermined time. Further, a capacitive element may be included in the detector in order to capacitively couple with the charge emitter. The capacitive element may include a grid that is in the same layer as the pads of the anode in order to provide a short and less variable circuit return path to the charge emitter. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/583299 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485901 | 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 wide bandgap semiconductor material is heavily doped to a degenerate level. Impurity densities approaching 1% of the volume of the semiconductor crystal are obtained to greatly increase conductivity. In one embodiment, a layer of AlGaN is formed on a wafer 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. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082070 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486406 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myung K. Kim (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of holograms is recorded by synchronizing a camera with laser pulses under the control of a digital delay generator. Amplitude and phase images are calculated while image distances are adjusted for the best focus on the object under observation. The amplitude and phase images are reconstructed while adjusting the image distances over a predetermined range to maintain the object in focus. Numerical superposition of a plurality of holographic fields taken with varying wavelengths provides high resolution microscopic three-dimensional imaging. Numerical reconstruction is based on an angular spectrum method that enables calculation of the image at any distance from the hologram plane. Wavelength scanning digital interference holography also enables image reconstruction along an arbitrarily tilted plane. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/967661 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07486240 | Chintala |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Chintala (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide devices and methods for securely retaining an antenna to a communications device. The disclosed embodiments include an antenna assembly connectable with a housing. The antenna assembly may include a connector having a connector body extending from a first end to a second end and thereby defining a longitudinal axis. The first end and the housing include at least one set of corresponding, irreversible engagement members movable one way from an unlocked position and a locked position. In the unlocked position the antenna assembly is movable along the longitudinal axis relative to the communications device, while in the locked position the antenna assembly is not movable along the longitudinal axis relative to the communications device. An antenna is securable relative to the connector body and is connectable with the communications device through an electrical conductor. A retainer mechanism having a retainer body may be fixedly positioned relative to the first engagement member to secure the antenna assembly in the locked position. Methods of retaining an antenna assembly in a communications device are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964403 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486525 | Knickerbocker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A temporary chip attach carrier for and a method of testing an integrated circuit chip. The carrier includes: a substrate, a first array of interconnects disposed on a bottom surface and a second array of interconnects disposed on a top surface of the substrate, corresponding interconnects of the first and second arrays of interconnects electrically connected by wires in the substrate; an interposer, a first array of pads disposed on a top surface of the interposer and a second array of pads disposed on a bottom surface of the interposer, corresponding pads of the first and second arrays of pads electrically connected by wires in the interposer, and pads of the second array in direct physical and electrical contact with corresponding interconnects of the second set of interconnects; and wherein the interposer includes an interposer substrate of the same material as a substrate of the integrated circuit chip. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499573 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487167 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Ossining, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for classifying data from a test data stream is provided. A stream of training data having class labels is received. One or more class-specific clusters of the training data are determined and stored. At least one test instance of the test data stream is classified using the one or more class-specific clusters. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/756227 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487206 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for performing load diffusion to process data stream pairs. A data stream pair is received for correlation. The data stream pair is partitioned into portions to meet correlation constraints for correlating data in the data stream pair to form a partitioned data stream pair. The partitioned data stream pair is sent to a set of nodes for correlation processing to perform the load diffusion. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183149 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07485430 | Sutovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Sutovsky (Columbia, Missouri); Antonio Miranda-Vizuete (Sevilla, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions and methods for evaluating fertility in humans and animals. The invention may also be used to identify reproductive cancers such as testicular cancer. In various embodiments of the invention, an Sptrx-3 enzyme is used as a fertility marker. Sptrx-3 may be detected in accordance with the invention in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/106796 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485451 | VanderGheynst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean S. VanderGheynst (Davis, California); Herbert B. Scher (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Storage stable compositions of biological materials, including bioactive biological materials are provided in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion, comprising: (a) cellular material selected from living and/or dormant prokaryotic and/or eukaryotic cells and tissues, the cellular material being compatible with water-in-oil emulsions; (b) one or more oils selected from vegetable oils and fish oils; (c) an oil-soluble nonionic polymeric surfactant having a molecular weight of from about 2500 to about 15000; and (d) water. The compositions may also contain a thickener such as a hydrophobic fumed silica or bentonite. Compositions may be used for various purposes, depending on the contained biological material. Specific examples include compositions containing Fusarium lateritium control of Eutypa lata in plant wounds made by cutting or pruning, and compositions containing Lagenidium giganteum for control of mosquitoes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993942 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/257.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485771 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Schmidt (Gainesville, Florida); Philip Miller (Salem, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Amino acid and nucleotide sequences relating to the glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) enzyme are described. The GDH enzymes described herein were discovered in the alga Chlorella sorokiniana in the form of seven different inducible isoenzymes. These isoenzymes are found in the algae as chloroplast-localized hexamers composed of alpha- and beta-subunits. Plants transformed with nucleotide sequences encoding the alpha- or beta-subunits of the enzyme show improved properties, for example, increased growth and improved stress tolerance. A heterohexamer having both α- and β-subunits can have higher aminating:deaminating activity ratio than α-homohexamers or β-homohexamers. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627886 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07484930 | Hutcheson 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) | Florence V. Hutcheson (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Thomas F. Brooks (Seaford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A reduction in noise radiating from a side of a deployed aircraft flap is achieved by locating a slot adjacent the side of the flap, and then forcing air out through the slot with a suitable mechanism. One, two or even three or more slots are possible, where the slot is located at one or more locations selected from a group of locations comprising a top surface of the flap, a bottom surface of the flap, an intersection of the top and side surface of the flap, an intersection of the bottom and side surfaces of the flap, and a side surface of the flap. In at least one embodiment the slot is substantially rectangular. A device for adjusting a rate of the air forced out through the slot can also be provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169256 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485366 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinqing Ma (Storrs, Connecticut); Yide Zhang (Storrs, Connecticut); Shihui Ge (Lanzhou, China PRC); Zongtao Zhang (Unionville, Connecticut); Dajing Yan (Allen, Texas); Danny T. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Thick film magnetic/insulating nanocomposite materials, with significantly reduced core loss, and their manufacture are described. The insulator coated magnetic nanocomposite comprises one or more magnetic components, and an insulating component. The magnetic component comprises nanometer scale particles (about 1 to about 100 nanometers) coated by a thin-layered insulating phase. While the intergrain interaction between the immediate neighboring magnetic nanoparticles separated by the insulating phase provides the desired soft magnetic properties, the insulating material provides high resistivity, which reduces eddy current loss. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846440 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486236 | Sarehraz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Sarehraz (Fargo, North Dakota); Kenneth A. Buckle (Tampa, Florida); Elias Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida); Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); D. Yogi Goswami (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna apparatus for the reception of, and or transmission of, electromagnetic energy, the apparatus including a non-radiating dielectric waveguide aperture coupled to at least one dielectric rod antenna, which is electromagnetically coupled to a transmission line element. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534800 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07485260 | Tamari |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Yehuda Tamari (Oyster Bay, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Venous reservoirs are interposed between the patient and the arterial pump and serve to remove air bubbles and provide compliance that accommodates variations in the volume of blood circulating in the extracorporeal circuit during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The invention is a reservoir that incorporates automated means to remove air bubbles from the venous line prior to the blood entering the arterial blood pump. In another form, the reservoir includes means that handles foam prior to the blood entering the blood pump. In yet another form, the invention is means that improve air removal in a soft shell venous reservoir. These features are applicable to CPB circuits using gravity drainage or vacuum assisted venous drainage. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/554490 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485977 | Annen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerodyne Research, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt D. Annen (Rowely, Massachusetts); Jaime Woodroffe (North Reading, Massachusetts); Michael Agnese (Brookline, Massachusetts); David B. Stickler (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a power generating system particularly suitable for field use in remote locations, which is fuel-efficient, relatively quiet, tolerant of dust, capable of operating on low grade logistics and diesel-like fuels and capable of generating between 500 W and 2 KW of continuous electrical power. This generator employs a miniature internal combustion engine/generator (MICE) having a piston moving within a cylinder arranged for two-cycle operation, and an interconnected, axially arranged piston shaft that oscillates an alternator coil within a magnetic core. The piston shaft is opposed by a strong, multiple-helix spring. The cylinder head, in which the piston operates, is cooled by moving (electrically pumped) fluid in a cooling head, or by another heat-transfer mechanism. The MICE generator's intake arrangement includes a preheater heated by a heated fluid flow thereon. The MICE generator is vibration-isolated using a base that supports the MICE on a plurality of soft coil springs. The MICE generator is encased in an acoustic enclosure having a shell composed of sheet metal or another stiff material extending from the base plate and being covered by a top side. Holes in the enclosure top are covered by porous discs that allow exhaust gasses from the internal muffler to pass therethrough. The acoustic enclosure resides in a large, typically portable, external package enclosure. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326704 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07487019 | Estes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacquelynn Estes (Warrenton, Virginia); William Wayne Corey (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for intelligent vehicle fleets are disclosed. An intelligent vehicle may function as a mobile office reducing the need for users to perform work functions in a brick-and-mortar building. Methods or systems consistent with the invention may manage vehicle fleets, or provide intelligent vehicle subsystems, or acquire address information using an intelligent vehicle. A method to manage vehicle fleets may include receiving at a remote computer communicated maintenance data from information collection devices installed in the intelligent vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956212 |
| 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 71/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487113 | Ray |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine R. L. Ray (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing item sales and delivery service (see FIG. 1) consistent with the invention includes arranging over a communications system (170) a sales transaction of an item (110) between a seller (105) and a buyer (155), sending the item through a delivery system directed toward the buyer, and making a payment for at least one of the following: a purchase price of the item, a delivery fee, and a fee for any other buyer-selected delivery-related services. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344993 |
| ART UNIT | 3625 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07487066 | Sundermeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry Neil Sundermeyer (Dunlap, Illinois); Nitin R. Patel (Peoria, Illinois); Ryan Paul Allgaier (East Peoria, Illinois); Don Sit (Peoria, Illinois); Timothy Allen Vik (Sparland, Illinois); Jeffrey Dale Baskett (Peoria, Illinois); Hiroko Kyuba (Peoria, Illinois); Daniel Kimsey Dunn, III (Dunlap, Illinois); Byron Edwin Truax (Dunlap, Illinois); Burton Roland Clarke (Cuba, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing the use of a work machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method may include providing a computer with a neural network on the work machine. Further, the method may include inputting data to the computer, at least a portion of the data associated with a load experienced by one of the components of the work machine. The neural network, when executed by the computer may then classify a current operation of the work machine into one of a plurality of types of operations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227155 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07485366 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinqing Ma (Storrs, Connecticut); Yide Zhang (Storrs, Connecticut); Shihui Ge (Lanzhou, China PRC); Zongtao Zhang (Unionville, Connecticut); Dajing Yan (Allen, Texas); Danny T. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Thick film magnetic/insulating nanocomposite materials, with significantly reduced core loss, and their manufacture are described. The insulator coated magnetic nanocomposite comprises one or more magnetic components, and an insulating component. The magnetic component comprises nanometer scale particles (about 1 to about 100 nanometers) coated by a thin-layered insulating phase. While the intergrain interaction between the immediate neighboring magnetic nanoparticles separated by the insulating phase provides the desired soft magnetic properties, the insulating material provides high resistivity, which reduces eddy current loss. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/846440 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07485457 | Eaton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Miami (Coral Gables, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary J. Eaton (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Human cells isolated and/or cloned from human NT2 cells for expressing serotonin (5HT) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are disclosed. These cells can be used as cellular minipumps to release serotonin and/or GABA to treat various neurological diseases, conditions, or disorders, particularly neurodegenerative disorders and the consequences of brain and spinal cord injuries (pain/spasticity). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/553291 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07485233 | Vane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leland Morris Vane (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ravi Prasad Ponangi (Modesto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer-ceramic mixed matrix compositions contain one or more organic polymers and a nano-sized dispersion of inorganic metal oxide particles which are dispersed throughout the composition. Materials have use in making membranes that act as transfer agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052894 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07484857 | Bozler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl O. Bozler (Waltham, Massachusetts); W. Gregory Lyons (Concord, Massachusetts); Jeremy B. Muldavin (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A deformable reflector includes a plurality of MEMS devices, each having an electrode membrane having a reflective surface thereon, a flat surface, and a pulldown electrode formed in the flat substrate. The electrode membrane has substantially a same flatness of the flat substrate when the electrode membrane comes into contact with the flat substrate across a majority of its surface area in response to a voltage being applied to the pulldown electrode. The electrode membrane has a two-dimensional curvature when no voltage is applied to the pulldown electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000427 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07484925 | Carlson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMP Advanced Development, LLC (Escanaba, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy S. Carlson (Gladstone, Michigan); Nicholas T. Pipkorn (Gladstone, Michigan); Todd R. Stevens (Marquette, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a rotary axial fan and a stator fan for moving air through a heat exchanger for an internal combustion engine cooling system. The fan includes a hub and primary fan blades extending radially from the hub. An annular shroud is attached to the primary fan blades and supported coaxially with the central axis to limit the radial flow of air along the primary fan blades. A plurality of secondary fan blades are interposed between the primary fan blades and each have a first end attached to the annular shroud and terminate in a second end that is not attached to the hub. The stator fan includes a shroud with an array of stator fan blades supporting a hub for the radial axial fan. The size, orientation and material characteristics of the stator fan blades improve sound reduction and heat transfer of the rotary axial fan assembly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125557 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07485887 | Savoia |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Savoia (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A fixturing system and microscope/video camera setup enables an operator to manipulate a photodiode into position optically using known good targets for the X and Y location and using microscope focus/defocus/refocus for locating the active area of the avalanche photodiode exactly at the focal point of the lens. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811530 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/559.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07486299 | Debevec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina del Rey, California); Timothy S. Hawkins (Marina del Rey, California); Chris D. X. N. Tchou (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A high dynamic range image editing system for editing an image file having pixels spanning a first range of light intensity levels in an image editing system that only displays differences in the light intensity levels of pixels within a second range of light intensity levels that is less than the first range of light intensity levels, without reducing the range of light intensity levels in the image file. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/049834 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07487016 | Fowell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Fowell (Rolling Hills Estates, California); Rongsheng Li (Hachienda Heights, California); Yeong-Wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling an actuator of a vehicle comprises providing a dynamic condition sensor generating a vehicle movement signal and a position sensor for generating a reported position. A processor is coupled to the inertial sensor and the position sensor and comprises an estimator, a position measurement predictor having a filter, a comparator and a control shaping block, said estimator generating a vehicle position based upon the dynamic condition sensor, said position measurement predictor generating an estimated position measurement in response to the reported vehicle position and a matched frequency response to the movement signal, said control shaping block generating an actuator control signal in response to a comparison of the estimated position measurement and the reported vehicle position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221646 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, February 03, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
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
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