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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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| US 07490476 | Max |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marine Desalination Systems, LLC (St. Peterburg, 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 | 11/797833 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07490539 | Ma |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MKP Structural Design Associates, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng-Dong Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved composite armor designs use optimally shaped ceramic pellets and a web system for patterning the pellets, improving manufacturability, and providing additional structural reinforcement. The result is lightweight, composite hybrid structures for ballistic protection particularly suited to tactical ground vehicles. The preferred embodiment is a combination of three major components: 1) an optimally designed web system that allows armor tiles to be attached to it and that can be easily integrated with existing vehicle structures; 2) an advanced composite armor unit using a patent-pending BTR (Bio-mimetic Tendon-Reinforced) material as the supporting structure; and 3) optimally placed “waiting materials” which can provide enhanced ballistic impact resistance, energy absorption capability and structural integrity. These “waiting materials” are structural members that are not active at the beginning of the ballistic impact, but become active when needed or the active members have failed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187378 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07490552 | Jean 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) | Daniel Jean (Odenton, Maryland); Michael Beggans (Waldorf, Maryland); Gerald Laib (Olney, Maryland); David Olson (Chesapeake Beach, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS apparatus having a substrate layer, a device layer and an intermediate oxide layer joining them. A slider is formed in the device layer and includes an enlarged end portion. A walled chamber having a hollow interior in which is positioned a microdetonator is formed in the substrate layer beneath the enlarged end portion and is secured to it by the oxide layer. A drive is operable to move the slider, and with it, the walled chamber, from an initial position to a final position. When in the final position an initiator is operable to initiate the microdetonator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894629 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07490573 | Dickinson |
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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) | Stuart C. Dickinson (Fairhaven, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fairing assembly is provided for a towed body having multiple sections that are flexibly joined together. For each pair of sections, a fairing is joined to the first section and positioned over the space between the pairs of sections. The fairing has discrete tabs that extend from the first section across the space between the sections. The tabs are separated to allow angular displacement of the first section with respect to the second section. Two layers of overlapping tabs are provided for reducing hydrodynamic forces in between the sections. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833552 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07490725 | Pinnau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo Pinnau (Palo Alto, California); Jennifer H. Ly (San Jose, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reverse osmosis membrane, and methods for making and using the membrane. The membrane has a continuous, defect-free, non-porous, hydrophilic coating that reduces the susceptibility to fouling. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/682727 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491024 | Heinrichs 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) | Mark Anthony Heinrichs (Brielle, New Jersey); Donald Edmund Fabula (Hazlet, New Jersey); Eric Robert Boyd (Ramsey, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Shipping and storage containers, racks, and pallets including interlocking mechanisms are provided. An embodiment of the pallet includes openings, interface fittings aligned with the openings, respectively, and sized to fit into openings of identical sizes and configurations as the first and second openings, respectively, locking components operatively connected to one another, and an actuator for moving concomitantly the locking components into and out of the openings, respectively. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387082 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491067 | 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 | 11/865383 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491068 | 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 | 11/865436 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491279 | Baker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Baker (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An emulsion explosive including a discontinuous phase dispersed in a liquid fuel continuous phase and is provided. The discontinuous phase contains a liquid oxidizer other than an inorganic oxidizer salt. Also provided are articles of manufacture containing the emulsion explosive. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009846 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491307 | Hsieh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H Ben Hsieh (Mountain View, California); Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Bryan T. Preas (Palo Alto, California); Armin R. Volkel (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable apparatus for extracting and concentrating bioagents within a fluid medium includes a container with sample solution inlet port and traveling wave grids patterned on surfaces of the container. The traveling wave grids cause bioagents to migrate to a specified surface within the container and then to an extraction port. The traveling wave grids include a substrate, across which extend a collection of closely spaced and parallel electrically conductive electrodes, and a collection of buses providing electrical communication with the collection of conductive electrodes. A voltage controller provides a multiphase electrical signal to the collection of buses and electrodes of the traveling wave grids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838937 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491370 | Salan 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) | Jerry S. Salan (Hughesville, Maryland); John R. Luense (Accokeek, Maryland); Jim R. Griffenhagen (Springfield, Virginia); Michael A. Lateulere (Marbury, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system and method for using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a processing fluid additive for safely and effectively treating water-wet hogout propellant as well as any other water-wet propellants, explosives and hazardous wastes (solids and liquids) to make them compatible with the MSO process. The method includes the step of applying liquid PEG to the hazardous waste to create a slurry or feedstock that when fed directly into the MSO reactor vessel prevents the occurrence of smelt-water explosions due to the accumulation of dangerous levels of sodium chloride, and/or sodium sulfide in the molten salt bath. The PEG possesses special qualities that make it ideal for this purpose. It is a low cost, low viscosity, commercially available, non-hazardous (per OSHA standards), water soluble, low toxicity chemical that burns cleanly leaving little or no residue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345680 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491469 | Guidotti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Nanocorp, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Guidotti (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hui Ye (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); David E. Reisner (Bristol, Connecticut); Daniel H. Doughty (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin cathodes are presented, For example, a cathode includes a substrate; and a layer of a nanostructured pyrite active material deposited on the substrate, wherein the layer of the nanostructured pyrite has a thickness in the range from about 1 to about 1000 microns. The cathodes find particular utility in thermal batteries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/963067 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491494 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zev J. Gartner (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christopher T. Calderone (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nature evolves biological molecules such as proteins through iterated rounds of diversification, selection, and amplification. The power of Nature and the flexibility of organic synthesis are combined in nucleic acid-templated synthesis. The present invention provides a variety of template architectures for performing nucleic acid-templated synthesis, methods for increasing the selectivity of nucleic acid-templated reactions, methods for performing stereoselective nucleic acid-templated reactions, methods of selecting for reaction products resulting from nucleic acid-templated synthesis, and methods of identifying new chemical reactions based on nucleic acid-templated synthesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643752 |
| 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 07491690 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas); Elia Beniash (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide-amphiphilic compositions capable of self-assembly into useful nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294114 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — 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 07491700 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Xiao-kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Bin Guo (Fargo, North Dakota); Bingzhen Lin (La Jolla, California); Siva Kumar Kolluri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that modulate the function of anti-apoptotic proteins such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL are identified. These compounds have the ability to convert the activity of Bcl-2-family member proteins from anti-apoptotic to pro-apoptotic. Methods for inducing apoptosis are described, together with methods for identifying molecules that induce apoptosis through interaction with Bcl-2-family members. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619965 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491938 | Geneczko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeannie Geneczko (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Richard Blackwell (Andover, Massachusetts); Margaret Kohin (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and system for a medium wave infrared (MWIR) uncooled microbolometer focal plane array (FPA). One embodiment is for a single MWIR band uncooled IR detector, wherein the design and fabrication utilizes standard silicon processing techniques reducing manufacturing costs and preserving existing manufacturing capabilities. Another embodiment is a two color uncooled microbolometer IR detector providing broadband detection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/589525 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492022 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberley C. Hall (Halifax, Canada); Wayne H. Lau (Goleta, California); Kenan Gündo{hacek over (g)}du (Iowa City, Iowa); Michael E. Flatté (Iowa City, Iowa); Thomas F. Boggess (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonmagnetic semiconductor device which may be utilized as a spin resonant tunnel diode (spin RTD) and spin transistor, in which low applied voltages and/or magnetic fields are used to control the characteristics of spin-polarized current flow. The nonmagnetic semiconductor device exploits the properties of bulk inversion asymmetry (BIA) in (110)-oriented quantum wells. The nonmagnetic semiconductor device may also be used as a nonmagnetic semiconductor spin valve and a magnetic field sensor. The spin transistor and spin valve may be applied to low-power and/or high-density and/or high-speed logic technologies. The magnetic field sensor may be applied to high-speed hard disk read heads. The spin RTD of the present invention would be useful for a plurality of semiconductor spintronic devices for spin injection and/or spin detection. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068562 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492073 | Qu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronghai Qu (Clifton Park, New York); James William Bray (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine includes a stator assembly that includes a stator yoke, a pair of armature coils mechanically coupled to the stator yoke, and a stationary superconducting field coil. The stator yoke comprises a magnetic material. The machine further includes a shaft rotatably mounted in the stator yoke, the shaft comprising a non-magnetic material. The machine further includes a rotor assembly rotationally engaged with the shaft. The rotor assembly includes a rotor disk extending between the armature coils, the rotor disk having an inner portion and an outer portion. The outer portion of the rotor disk includes a number of circumferentially-spaced, magnetic poles. The rotor disk is coupled to the shaft for rotation about the shaft and generation of a rotating permeance wave. The stationary superconducting field coil is disposed between the stator yoke and the rotor disk, and the stationary superconducting field coil is configured as a stationary magneto-motive force (MMF) source for the rotating permeance wave produced by the rotor assembly to produce a rotating magnetic field. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/479586 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492240 | Cho 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) | Chahee P. Cho (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); William A. Lynch (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Thong N. Ly (Sicklerville, New Jersey); Richard A. McConnell (Mullica Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated capacitor and inductor device for separate use as a capacitor and inductor. The device has a four-terminal arrangement having separate capacitor and inductor terminals, which allows connection as two independent circuit elements within one physical package. The device includes a hollow vessel having an exposed integrated capacitor element, in which the exposed integrated capacitor element comprises at least a portion of the hollow vessel. The device also includes a coil winding at least partially within the hollow vessel, electrically communicating with the integrated capacitor element. The integrated capacitor and inductor device may be configured in a plurality of shapes, using different materials to maximize the effects of electric and magnetic fields. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543283 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492241 | Piazza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gianluca Piazza (Lodi, Italy); Philip J. Stephanou (Berkeley, California); Albert P. Pisano (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A contour mode micromechanical piezoelectric resonator. The resonator has a bottom electrode; a top electrode; and a piezoelectric layer disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The piezoelectric resonator has a planar surface with a cantilevered periphery, dimensioned to undergo in-plane lateral displacement at the periphery. The resonator also includes means for applying an alternating electric field across the thickness of the piezoelectric resonator. The electric field is configured to cause the resonator to have a contour mode in-plane lateral displacement that is substantially in the plane of the planar surface of the resonator, wherein the fundamental frequency for the displacement of the piezoelectric resonator is set in part lithographically by the planar dimension of the bottom electrode, the top electrode or the piezoelectric layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145552 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492400 | El Gamal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abbas El Gamal (Palo Alto, California); Sam Kavusi (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new adaptive pixel architecture, folded-multiple-capture (FMC), integrates synchronous self-reset and multiple capture schemes and advantageously eliminates the requirement of a high-frame-rate sensor array, which is essential for conventional image sensors with high dynamic range. The FMC comprises a per-pixel analog-front-end (AFE), a fine analog-digital convertor (ADC) stage, and a digital-signal-processor/controller (DSPC) stage. The AFE performs programmable gain control, synchronous self-reset, sample-and-hold, and enables disturbance detection. In the AFE, a comparator compares an integrator output with a threshold voltage and produces a binary sequence accordingly. The ADC utilizes the binary sequence and the folded multiple capture signals to estimate photocurrent. An image sensor embodying the present invention adapts integration time to signal level, has minimal per-pixel hardware requirement, provides a very high dynamic range, about 120 dB or more, at high speed, about 1,000 frames/s or more, detects and corrects subframe disturbances, and consumes significantly less power. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/858944 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492530 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong Koo Kim (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Zhijun Sun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher C. Capelli (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A nano-optic device comprises a plurality of subwavelength apertures in a metal film or between metal islands. The device is adapted to shape a radiation beam transmitted there through. For example, beam shaping includes at least one of beam focusing, beam bending and beam collimating. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761040 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492622 | Parkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Parkin (San Jose, California); Luc Thomas (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure for depinning a domain wall that is in spatial confinement by a pinning potential to within a local region of a magnetic device. At least one current pulse applied to the domain has a pulse length sufficiently close to a precession period of the domain wall motion and the current pulses are separated by a pulse interval sufficiently close to the precession period such that: the at least one current pulse causes a depinning of the domain wall such that the domain wall escapes the spatial confinement; and each current pulse has an amplitude less than the minimum amplitude of a direct current that would cause the depinning if the direct current were applied to the domain wall instead of the at least one current pulse. The pulse length and pulse interval may be in a range of 25% to 75% of the precession period. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/622644 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492628 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jae-Joon Kim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for a computer-readable medium encoding a memory using a back-gate controlled asymmetrical memory cell. In one aspect, the cell includes five transistors and can be employed for static random access memory (SRAM) applications. An encoded inventive memory circuit can include a plurality of bit line structures, a plurality of word line structures that intersect the plurality of bit line structures to form a plurality of cell locations, and a plurality of cells located at the plurality of cell locations. Each cell can be selectively coupled to a corresponding one of the bit line structures under control of a corresponding one of the word line structures. Each cell can include a first inverter having first and second field effect transistors (FETS) and a second inverter with third and fourth FETS that is cross-coupled to the first inverter to form a storage flip-flop. One of the FETS in the first inverter can be configured with independent front and back gates and can function as both an access transistor and part of one of the inverters. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933505 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492666 | Scoca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony L. Scoca (Hicksville, New York); Jerry G. Klein (New York, New York); James G. Huber (N. Babylon, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sonar system comprises a transmitter adapted to provide pulse sequences, wherein each of the pulse sequences includes pulses that reflect off an object, a receiver adapted to receive the reflected pulses, and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a first pulse sequence via the transmitter to obtain a first distance to the object in a first distance range and to transmit a second pulse sequence via the transmitter to obtain a second distance to the object in a second distance range. The processor is configured to transmit the second pulse sequence in response to being unable to obtain the first distance to the object in the first distance range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/940477 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492726 | Gandham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shashidhar Rao Gandham (Richardson, Texas); Ying Zhang (Richardson, California); Qingfeng Huang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that optimizes packet transmissions during a convergecast operation in a convergecast network. During operation, the system receives a request to perform the convergecast operation in the convergecast network. In response to the request, the system constructs a convergecast-tree, which includes the base-station and the plurality of nodes, based on hop counts from the plurality of nodes to the base-station. Next, the system linearizes the convergecast-tree so that the convergecast-tree contains a plurality of linear branches. The system then schedules packet transmission for each of the linear branches and each node in each branch based on a set of predetermined criteria to obtain a scheduled order. Finally, the system performs packet transmissions in the convergecast-tree using the scheduled order. Note that performing the convergecast operation in this way substantially optimizes the convergecast operation by reducing a total number of timeslots required to complete the convergecast operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314616 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492727 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York); Haixun Wang (Irvington, New York); Hao He (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method for determining reachability between any two nodes within a graph. The inventive method utilizes a dual-labeling scheme. Initially, a spanning tree is defined for a group of nodes within a graph. Each node in the spanning tree is assigned a unique interval-based label, that describes its dependency from an ancestor node. Non-tree labels are then assigned to each node in the spanning tree that is connected to another node in the spanning tree by a non-tree link. From these labels, reachability of any two nodes in the spanning tree is determined by using only the interval-based labels and the non-tree labels. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/396502 |
| 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 07492821 | Berman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven T. Berman (New York, New York); Paul F. Greier (Carmel, New York); Kenneth C. Ho (Yorktown Heights, New York); Richard I. Kaufman (Somers, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Michael P. Mastro (Yorktown Heights, New York); Steven Edward Millman (Spring Valley, New York); Ron Ridgeway (New Milford, Connecticut); Kai Schleupen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Steven Lorenz Wright (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A video processing method and system for generating a foveated video display with sections having different resolutions uses a network channel for communicating video images having video sections of different resolutions, and includes a video transmission system for processing and transmitting the received video images over the network channel. The system assigns a larger portion of the network channel's bandwidth to a video section with higher resolution. Further, the system includes a video receiving system for receiving and seamlessly combining the first and second video sections of different resolutions to form an output video image on a display device, and a control unit for sending one or more video control parameters to the video transmission system to control capturing, transmitting and processing of the video images. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053648 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492943 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fayin Li (Burke, Virginia); Harry Wechsler (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An open set recognition system utilizing transductive inference including capture device(s), a basis, quality checker(s), feature extractor(s), a gallery, a rejection threshold, a storage mechanism, and a recognition stage. The basis encodes sample(s) and is derived using training samples. The feature extractor(s) generates signature(s) from sample(s) using the basis. The rejection threshold is created using a rejection threshold learning mechanism that calculates the rejection threshold using sample(s) by: swapping a sample identifier with other sample identifier(s); computing a credibility value for the swapped sample identifiers; deriving a peak-to-side ratio distribution using the credibility values; and determining the rejection threshold using the peak-to-side ratio distribution. The open set recognition stage authenticates or reject as unknown the identity of unknown sample(s) using derived credibility values, derived peak-to-side ratios for the unknown sample and the rejection threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/075982 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493080 | Scaglione et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Scaglione (Ithaca, New York); Yao-Win Hong (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems that enable a cooperative form of transmission performed by a set of asynchronous transceivers operating as a distributed joint communication system. In an embodiment of the method of this invention, information is transmitted from one or more predetermined nodes (the source nodes) in the network. The information is received at the other nodes (the receiving nodes) in the network. For every information symbol/codeword each of the receiving nodes receives an accumulation of signals from nodes transmitting an earlier stage. At each of the receiving nodes a predetermined criterion is utilized to decide whether to retransmit the received information. If retransmission is indicated, the signal modulating the information symbol is retransmitted from the receiving nodes and delivered to an increasing number of downstream nodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946439 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493224 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Eliot Levine (Austin, Texas); Milena Milenkovic (Madison, Alabama); Robert J. Urquhart (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a trace event, a determination is made as to whether identifiers for the trace event match recorded identifiers for a record in a set of previously recorded trace events. Location information for the record is placed in the trace data if a match between identifiers for the trace event and recorded identifiers for the record in the set of previously recorded trace events. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/944657 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/79 |
| 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) | Ariel F. Garcia (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual curve fitting method for mathematically modeling the thermal response of an item based upon the generic thermal response equation T2=T1+(Tenv.−T1)×F. Using a spreadsheet application with a graphical user interface (GUI), a graph is displayed with a set of generic thermal response curves and a set of actual thermal response data curves. By manipulating a series of slide bars displayed on the GUI, values are selected and input into the generic equation in order to change the shape and position of the generic curve set. Manipulating the slide bars in combination until the generic curve set overlays the actual curve set results in a set of equations (thermal model) that accurately characterizes the thermal behavior of the item under a reasonable range of temperature changes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985068 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493406 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa D. Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Anshul Sehgal (New York, New York); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method, upstream processing node, and computer readable medium for processing data packets. The method includes receiving an allocation for at least one computing resource. At least one data packet at one or more upstream processing elements in an upstream processing node is received. The method also includes determining if at least one output queue of the upstream processing elements includes available space for processing of the data packet. The data packet is processed in response to the output queue including available space to form a resulting data packet. The method further includes determining that an input queue of at least one downstream processing element of a plurality of downstream processing elements includes available space for receiving the resulting data packet In response to the determining, the resulting data packet is transmitted from the upstream processing element to the downstream processing element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451775 |
| ART UNIT | 2141 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493436 | Blackmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Rama K. Govindaraju (Hopewell Junction, New York); Peter H. Hochschild (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing interrupts. The method includes placing at least one physical processor of an information processing system in a simultaneous multi-threading mode. At least a first logical processor and a second logical processor associated with the at least one physical processor are partitioned. The first logical processor is assigned to manage interrupts and the second logical processor is assigned to dispatch runnable user threads. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553229 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493486 | Jacobs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Laboratories, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J. Jacobs (Hudson, Massachusetts); Francis Leo Mannix, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas William Christoffel (Concord, Massachusetts); Scott Andrew Belgard (Randolph, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a node (110) communicating with other nodes in a network (150), a system and method for performing cryptographic-related functions is provided. The node (110) receives and transmits inputs and outputs requiring cryptographic-related processing. When cryptographic processing is required, the node (110) transmits a predefined message to a cryptographic processing component in the node (110) that then performs the desired cryptographic-related processing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/591708 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493523 | Bose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jude A. Rivers (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Victor Zyuban (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preventing soft error accumulation. A number of cycles between references to a register are counted. Instructions are injected that reference the register for preventing soft error accumulation in response to a determination that the number of cycles is greater than a threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374871 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493595 | Simonoff 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) | Adam J Simonoff (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Julian B. Hebert, Jr. (Warsaw, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple-user graphical programming and analysis environment is disclosed that includes graphically represented code objects, graphically represented inter-code object connections, application programs, and a graphical white board area. Each code object may be created by a user, and accessible by other users in an asynchronous fashion, in accordance with the security privileges of the other users. Each inter-code object connection represents data transfer between a pair of code objects. Each application program is made up of one or more chains of the code objects, interconnected via the inter-code object connections. The code objects are definable and movable within the graphical white board area, and the inter-code object connections are creatable within this area. The application programs are executable within the graphical white board area. The code objects, as well as the environment itself, may be developed in an architecture-independent and Internet web browsing program-independent computer programming technology, such as Java. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750632 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Reasearch Foundation, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Scott (Gainesville, Florida); Maria Grant (Archer, Florida); W. Stratford May (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Hemangioblasts in adult bone marrow participate in new blood vessel formation. By modulating the differentiation of hemangioblasts into blood vessel cells, angiogenesis in a particular tissue can be increased or decreased. Intravitreal injection of antibodies that block SDF-1 activity inhibited induced retinal neovascularization mediated by hemangioblasts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/392439 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491394 | Chakrabarty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ananda M. Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois); Tapas K. Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Vasu Punj (Chicago, Illinois); Olga Zaborina (Brookfield, Illinois); Yoshinori Hiraoka (Chicago, Illinois); Tohru Yamada (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Cytotoxic factors having use in modulating cell death, and their use in methods of treating necrosis or apoptosis-related conditions are disclosed. The invention also relates to methods for identifying active agents useful in treating conditions related to cell death or uncontrolled growth. The present inventors have found that different microorganisms produce different cytotoxic factor(s) having anticancer activity. The substantially pure cytotoxic factors can be used in a method of treating an infectious disease or a cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/720603 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491398 | Nataro |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Nataro (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) are provided. In particular, Aap and the five gene cluster (aat) of the AA probe region of the pAA plasmid of EAEC 042 have been identified, sequenced, and further characterized. The use of these novel proteins and their corresponding nucleotide sequences for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of EAEC infections is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409017 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491414 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gaia Herbs, Inc. (Brevard, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiping Wang (Brevard, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An Echinacea composition containing the immunosuppressive components of an Echinacea extract but not the immunostimulatory components is disclosed. A process for isolating Echinacea immunosuppressive components by extraction with lipophilic compounds is also disclosed. The Echinacea composition can be used for treatment of colds, flu, and other upper respiratory tract infections, inflammatory diseases, and immunomodulatory disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248517 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491490 | Compton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa Compton (Madison, Wisconsin); Adam Lloyd Feire (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for inhibiting the entry of viruses, such as herpesviruses into a host cell. A conserved viral integrin-binding gB disintegrin-like domain has been identified that engages integrins and facilitates viral internalization into the host cell. Therefore, methods and compositions, such as antiviral agents encompassing the conserved gB disintegrin-like domain and antibodies thereto are described. These active agents interfere with the interaction between virions and cellular integrins, thereby inhibiting viral infection of a host cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/127601 |
| 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 07491501 | Wooten |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marie W. Wooten (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for modulating the formation of intracellular aggregates are provided, in particular TRAF6 mediated intracellular aggregate formation. Additionally, methods and compositions for identifying modulators of intracellular aggregate formation are provided, for example methods for identifying compositions that inhibit or reduce the formation of intracellular aggregate formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991197 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P. Lin (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and systems for performing in vivo flow cytometry. In one embodiments, selected circulating cells of interest of a subject are labeled with fluorescent probe molecules. The labeled cells are irradiated in vivo so as to excite the fluorescent probes, and the radiation emitted by the excited probes is detected, preferably confocally. The detected radiation is then analyzed to derive desired information, such as relative cell count, of the cells of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/015334 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491506 | Karin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Karin (La Jolla, California); Uwe Senftleben (Obereldingen, Germany); Yixue Cao (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for the inhibition of B-cell maturation and antibody production without interfering with innate or T-cell mediated immunity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330582 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491530 | Dessain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott K. Dessain (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Robert A. Weinberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides in one aspect novel fusion partner cells that ectopically express one or more genes that alter the phenotype of a hybrid cell made from a fusion of the fusion partner cell and a fusion cell, hybrid cell lines produced using the fusion partner cells. The invention in another aspect provides antibodies produced by certain hybrid cell lines, and compositions containing one or a combination of such antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof. The invention also provides in another aspect methods of using the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof for diagnosis and treatment of diseases characterized by the antigens specifically bound by the antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/324114 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07491543 | Barzilai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nir Barzilai (Hartsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of using of the sizes and levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles, the -641 allele of the promoter of the gene encoding apolipoprotein C-3 (APOC-3), the 405 allele of the gene encoding cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), and plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), adiponectin, CETP and APOC-3, for determining and increasing an individual's likelihood of longevity and of retaining cognitive function during aging, and for determining and decreasing an individual's likelihood of developing a cardiovascular-, metabolic- or age-related disease. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229327 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71 |
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| US 07491544 | Canary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Canary (New York, New York); Zhaohua Dai (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Zn(II) is selectively detected in a sample by contacting the sample with a tripodal ligand with a piperidine or quinuclidine scaffold, one of which acts as a zinc sensor, in which the rigidity of the ligand scaffold is increased. The rigidity of the ligand scaffold can be increased by adding aromatic groups or cyclic hydrocarbon groups. Examples of aromatic groups include naphthalene and the like. Examples of cyclic groups include nitrogen-substituted cyclohexane and cyclohexene such as piperidine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441262 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/81 |
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| US 07491552 | McDevitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. McDevitt (Austin, Texas); Eric V. Anslyn (Austin, Texas); Jason B. Shear (Austin, Texas); Dean P. Neikirk (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for the rapid characterization of multi-analyte fluids, in one embodiment, includes a light source, a sensor array, and a detector. The sensor array is formed from a supporting member into which a plurality of cavities may be formed. A series of chemically sensitive particles are, in one embodiment positioned within the cavities. The particles may be configured to produce a signal when a receptor coupled to the particle interacts with the analyte. Using pattern recognition techniques, the analytes within a multi-analyte fluid may be characterized. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039054 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491700 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Xiao-kun Zhang (San Diego, California); Bin Guo (Fargo, North Dakota); Bingzhen Lin (La Jolla, California); Siva Kumar Kolluri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that modulate the function of anti-apoptotic proteins such as Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL are identified. These compounds have the ability to convert the activity of Bcl-2-family member proteins from anti-apoptotic to pro-apoptotic. Methods for inducing apoptosis are described, together with methods for identifying molecules that induce apoptosis through interaction with Bcl-2-family members. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619965 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491743 | Cuny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory D. Cuny (Somerville, Massachusetts); Junying Yuan (Newton, Massachusetts); Prakash Jagtap (Beverly, Massachusetts); Alexei Degterev (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutical preparations and their use in therapy for preventing or treating trauma, ischemia, stroke and degenerative diseases associated with cell death. Methods and compositions of the invention are particularly useful for treating neurological disorders associated with cellular necrosis. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/930690 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491744 | Marnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence J. Marnett (Nashville, Tennessee); Jeffery J. Prusakiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Andrew S. Felts (Nashville, Tennessee); Chuan Ji (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides derivatives of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that are characterized by substantially reduced cyclooxygenase inhibiting activity, yet retain the ability to interact with and modulate the activities of other polypeptides such as the class of peroxisome proliferators-activated receptors (PPARs) and γ-secretase. Also provided are methods of using the derivatives to treat pathological disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114921 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491798 | Boyd 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) | Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama); Heidi R. Bokesch (Frederick, Maryland); Barry R. O'Keefe (Frederick, Maryland); Tawnya C. McKee (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated or purified antiviral protein of SEQ ID NO: 1, nucleic acids encoding the antiviral protein, cells comprising the nucleic acids, and methods of inhibiting viral infection comprising contacting the virus with the antiviral protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/513961 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491811 | Meagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Meagher (Athens, Georgia); Rebecca S. Balish (Oxford, Ohio); Kim Tehryung (Athens, Georgia); Elizabeth C. McKinney (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant tissue specific gene expression by way of repressor-operator complexes, has enabled outcomes including, without limitation, male sterility and engineered plants having root-specific gene expression of relevant proteins to clean environmental pollutants from soil and water. A mercury hyperaccumulation strategy requires that mercuric ion reductase coding sequence is strongly expressed. The actin promoter vector, A2pot, engineered to contain bacterial lac operator sequences, directed strong expression in all plant vegetative organs and tissues. In contrast, the expression from the A2pot construct was restricted primarily to root tissues when a modified bacterial repressor (LacIn) was coexpressed from the light-regulated rubisco small subunit promoter in above-ground tissues. Also provided are analogous repressor operator complexes for selective expression in other plant tissues, for example, to produce male sterile plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038900 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491812 | Roychowdhury et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiranya S. Roychowdhury (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Maria Ordaz (El Paso, Texas); Kristina Dominguez-Trujillo (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Glenn D. Kuehn (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a copper-inducible promoter system of yeast for the controlled expression of recombinant genes. The invention comprises a promoter element comprising at least two tandemly-repeated MRE sequences and a minimal TATA element from the 35S-promoter of the cauliflower mosaic virus. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/120009 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491865 | Vasioukhin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valeri Vasioukhin (Seattle, Washington); Robert J. Matusik (Brentwood, Tennessee); Olga Klezovitch (Seattle, Washington); John Chevillet (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic, non-human animal model of cancer, methods of making such animals and methods of using such animals to screen test compounds are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208257 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491866 | Hammer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hammer (Dallas, Texas); Franklin Kent Hamra (Keller, Texas); Jennifer T. Cronkhite (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic rat expresses a gene of interest, such as EGFP, exclusively in the germ cells of both males and females. From such a transgenic rat one can isolate a line of spermatogonial stem cells, which can renew and proliferate in culture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/557434 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491868 | Takahashi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kazue Takahashi (Boston, Massachusetts); R. Alan Ezekowitz (Princeton, New Jersey); Lei Shi (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic non-human animal with alterations in the MBL gene is prepared by introduction of a gene encoding an altered MBL protein into a host non-human animal. Methods for using transgenic mice so generated to screen for agents that effect MBL's cellular modulating activity are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/568295 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492949 | Jamieson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick William Jamieson (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Document templates could improve the speed, cost, and quality of documentation if appropriate templates could be located without undue selection burden. Semantic retrieval (IR) can greatly improve the precision of finding relevant document templates. The present invention discloses a process which implements a semantic information retrieval system to locate template documents, using as search vectors the semantic content of sentences from a new partially completed document. The system enables the author to quickly and easily transfer sentences from template documents into the new document. The system provides options for the author to match against specialized template collections and subsets of template documents. A significant advantage of the present invention over other template based methods is ability to retrieve a relevant template document when there are many thousands of exemplar documents without having to construct a formal query. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/231225 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493169 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard Williamson (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of automatically adjusting an electrode array to the neural characteristics of an individual patient is disclosed. By recording neural response to a predetermined input stimulus, one can alter that input stimulus to the needs of an individual patient. A minimum input stimulus is applied to a patient, followed by recording neural response in the vicinity of the input stimulus. By alternating stimulation and recording at gradually increasing levels, one can determine the minimum input that creates a neural response, thereby identifying the threshold stimulation level. One can further determine a maximum level by increasing stimulus until a predetermined maximum neural response is obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498414 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07491341 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan T. Kelly (West Richland, Washington); Jason S. Page (Kennewick, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming electrospray ionization emitter tips are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an end portion of a capillary tube can be immersed into an etchant, wherein the etchant forms a concave meniscus on the outer surface of the capillary. Variable etching rates in the meniscus can cause an external taper to form. While etching the outer surface of the capillary wall, a fluid can be flowed through the interior of the capillary tube. Etching continues until the immersed portion of the capillary tube is completely etched away. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394840 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491423 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia Hsu (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controllably forming zinc oxide nanostructures on a surface via an organic template, which is formed using a stamp prepared from pre-defined relief structures, inking the stamp with a solution comprising self-assembled monolayer (SAM) molecules, contacting the stamp to the surface, such as Ag sputtered on Si, and immersing the surface with the patterned SAM molecules with a zinc-containing solution with pH control to form zinc oxide nanostructures on the bare Ag surface. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/414894 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491690 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas); Elia Beniash (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide-amphiphilic compositions capable of self-assembly into useful nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294114 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — 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 07491811 | Meagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Meagher (Athens, Georgia); Rebecca S. Balish (Oxford, Ohio); Kim Tehryung (Athens, Georgia); Elizabeth C. McKinney (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant tissue specific gene expression by way of repressor-operator complexes, has enabled outcomes including, without limitation, male sterility and engineered plants having root-specific gene expression of relevant proteins to clean environmental pollutants from soil and water. A mercury hyperaccumulation strategy requires that mercuric ion reductase coding sequence is strongly expressed. The actin promoter vector, A2pot, engineered to contain bacterial lac operator sequences, directed strong expression in all plant vegetative organs and tissues. In contrast, the expression from the A2pot construct was restricted primarily to root tissues when a modified bacterial repressor (LacIn) was coexpressed from the light-regulated rubisco small subunit promoter in above-ground tissues. Also provided are analogous repressor operator complexes for selective expression in other plant tissues, for example, to produce male sterile plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038900 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491930 | Shvartsburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre A. Shvartsburg (Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a device and method for improved interfacing of differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) or field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) analyzers of substantially planar geometry to subsequent or preceding instrument stages. Interfacing is achieved using curved DMS elements, where a thick ion beam emitted by planar DMS analyzers or injected into them for ion filtering is compressed to the gap median by DMS ion focusing effect in a spatially inhomogeneous electric field. Resulting thinner beams are more effectively transmitted through necessarily constrained conductance limit apertures to subsequent instrument stages operated at a pressure lower than DMS, and/or more effectively injected into planar DMS analyzers. The technology is synergetic with slit apertures, slit aperture/ion funnels, and high-pressure ion funnel interfaces known in the art which allow for increasing cross-sectional area of MS inlets. The invention may be used in integrated analytical platforms, including, e.g., DMS/MS, LC/DMS/MS, and DMS/IMS/MS that could replace and/or enhance current LC/MS methods, e.g., for proteomics research. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/617889 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491934 | Jesse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Jesse (Knoxville, Tennessee); David B. Geohegan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael Guillorn (Brooktondale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for SEM imaging and measuring electronic transport in nanocomposites based on electric field induced contrast. A method includes mounting a sample onto a sample holder, the sample including a sample material; wire bonding leads from the sample holder onto the sample; placing the sample holder in a vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope; connecting leads from the sample holder to a power source located outside the vacuum chamber; controlling secondary electron emission from the sample by applying a predetermined voltage to the sample through the leads; and generating an image of the secondary electron emission from the sample. An apparatus includes a sample holder for a scanning electron microscope having an electrical interconnect and leads on top of the sample holder electrically connected to the electrical interconnect; a power source and a controller connected to the electrical interconnect for applying voltage to the sample holder to control the secondary electron emission from a sample mounted on the sample holder; and a computer coupled to a secondary electron detector to generate images of the secondary electron emission from the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331840 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491944 | Stork et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Stork (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark H. Van Benthem (Middletown, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A fast and rigorous multivariate curve resolution (MCR) algorithm is applied to remotely sensed spectral data. The algorithm is applicable in the solar-reflective spectral region, comprising the visible to the shortwave infrared (ranging from approximately 0.4 to 2.5 μm), midwave infrared, and thermal emission spectral region, comprising the thermal infrared (ranging from approximately 8 to 15 μm). For example, employing minimal a priori knowledge, notably non-negativity constraints on the extracted endmember profiles and a constant abundance constraint for the atmospheric upwelling component, MCR can be used to successfully compensate thermal infrared hyperspectral images for atmospheric upwelling and, thereby, transmittance effects. Further, MCR can accurately estimate the relative spectral absorption coefficients and thermal contrast distribution of a gas plume component near the minimum detectable quantity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410445 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492117 | Montesanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Montesanti (Pleasanton, California); David L. Trumper (Plaistow, New Hampshire); James L. Kirtley, Jr. (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a variable reluctance actuator system and method that can be adapted for simultaneous rotation and translation of a moving element by applying a normal-direction magnetic flux on the moving element. In a beneficial example arrangement, the moving element includes a swing arm that carries a cutting tool at a set radius from an axis of rotation so as to produce a rotary fast tool servo that provides a tool motion in a direction substantially parallel to the surface-normal of a workpiece at the point of contact between the cutting tool and workpiece. An actuator rotates a swing arm such that a cutting tool moves toward and away from a mounted rotating workpiece in a controlled manner in order to machine the workpiece. Position sensors provide rotation and displacement information for a swing arm to a control system. A control system commands and coordinates motion of the fast tool servo with the motion of a spindle, rotating table, cross-feed slide, and in feed slide of a precision lathe. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490988 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/687 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492439 | Marshall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Marshall (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid crystal point diffraction interferometer (LCPDI) systems that can provide real-time, phase-shifting interferograms that are useful in the characterization of static optical properties (wavefront aberrations, lensing, or wedge) in optical elements or dynamic, time-resolved events (temperature fluctuations and gradients, motion) in physical systems use improved LCPDI cells that employ a “structured” substrate or substrates in which the structural features are produced by thin film deposition or photo resist processing to provide a diffractive element that is an integral part of the cell substrate(s). The LC material used in the device may be doped with a “contrast-compensated” mixture of positive and negative dichroic dyes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945753 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07491453 | Logan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Ion Power, Inc. (New Castle, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen Grot (Middletown, Delaware); Thomas E. Mallouk (State College, Pennsylvania); Hong Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and processes for producing hydrogen using bacteria are described. One detailed process for producing hydrogen uses a system for producing hydrogen as described herein, the system including a reactor. Anodophilic bacteria are disposed within the interior of the reactor and an organic material oxidizable by an oxidizing activity of the anodophilic bacteria is introduced and incubated under oxidizing reactions conditions such that electrons are produced and transferred to the anode. A power source is activated to increase a potential between the anode and the cathode, such that electrons and protons combine to produce hydrogen gas. One system for producing hydrogen includes a reaction chamber having a wall defining an interior of the reactor and an exterior of the reaction chamber. An anode is provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber and a cathode is also provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber. The cathode is spaced apart at a distance in the range between 0.1-100 centimeters, inclusive, from the anode. A conductive conduit for electrons is provided which is in electrical communication with the anode and the cathode and a power source for enhancing an electrical potential between the anode and cathode is included which is in electrical communication at least with the cathode. A first channel defining a passage from the exterior of the reaction chamber to the interior of the reaction chamber is also included. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180454 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491544 | Canary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Canary (New York, New York); Zhaohua Dai (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Zn(II) is selectively detected in a sample by contacting the sample with a tripodal ligand with a piperidine or quinuclidine scaffold, one of which acts as a zinc sensor, in which the rigidity of the ligand scaffold is increased. The rigidity of the ligand scaffold can be increased by adding aromatic groups or cyclic hydrocarbon groups. Examples of aromatic groups include naphthalene and the like. Examples of cyclic groups include nitrogen-substituted cyclohexane and cyclohexene such as piperidine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441262 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491642 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); William Royea (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical structures and devices may be formed and include an organic passivating layer that is chemically bonded to a silicon-containing semiconductor material to improve the electrical properties of electrical devices. In different embodiments, the organic passivating layer may remain within finished devices to reduce dangling bonds, improve carrier lifetimes, decrease surface recombination velocities, increase electronic efficiencies, or the like. In other embodiments, the organic passivating layer may be used as a protective sacrificial layer and reduce contact resistance or reduce resistance of doped regions. The organic passivation layer may be formed without the need for high-temperature processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/905157 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/642 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491690 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas); Elia Beniash (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide-amphiphilic compositions capable of self-assembly into useful nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294114 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — 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 07491928 | Roichman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yohai Roichman (New York, New York); David G. Grier (New York, New York); Ilias Cholis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for establishing extended optical traps for commercial use. The method and system employs a diffractive optical element (DOE) to process a light beam wherein the DOE includes phase information and amplitude information to create the extended optical trap. Such extended traps can be line traps and can be further expanded to two and three dimensional configurations. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633178 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492374 | Qamhiyah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abir Ziyad Qamhiyah (Ames, Iowa); Donald Flugrad (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | One implementation provides a method for processing a first representation of a geometry of a component that is stored in a computer file. In this implementation, the method includes analyzing the first representation of the geometry of the component, and, upon analysis, generating a second, non-invertible representation of the geometry of the component from the first representation, the second representation being at least partially independent of a rotation or a translation of the component in space. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/883021 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/619 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492449 | Ume et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ifeanyi Charles Ume (Atlanta, Georgia); Lizheng Zhang (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of inspection systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment of an inspection system, among others, comprises logic configured to receive a reference signal and a target signal, the reference signal having first surface displacement information and the target signal having second surface displacement information, said logic configured to determine a correlation coefficient between the first surface displacement information and the second surface displacement information, the correlation coefficient indicating whether an inspected object exhibits a defect. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/086473 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492535 | Descour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Descour (Tucson, Arizona); Russell Dupuis (Austin, Texas); Eric Anslyn (Austin, Texas); Rebecca Richards-Kortum (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for receiving and positioning optical components. The apparatus includes a substrate, one or more mounting slots, and one or more springs. The one or more mounting slots are formed in the substrate, and each mounting slot includes a mounting slot wall. At least one of the mounting slots is adapted to receive an optical component. At least one of the mounting slots is coupled to one of the springs. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108616 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/818 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493080 | Scaglione et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Scaglione (Ithaca, New York); Yao-Win Hong (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems that enable a cooperative form of transmission performed by a set of asynchronous transceivers operating as a distributed joint communication system. In an embodiment of the method of this invention, information is transmitted from one or more predetermined nodes (the source nodes) in the network. The information is received at the other nodes (the receiving nodes) in the network. For every information symbol/codeword each of the receiving nodes receives an accumulation of signals from nodes transmitting an earlier stage. At each of the receiving nodes a predetermined criterion is utilized to decide whether to retransmit the received information. If retransmission is indicated, the signal modulating the information symbol is retransmitted from the receiving nodes and delivered to an increasing number of downstream nodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/946439 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07490367 | Litwiller 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) | Eric Litwiller (San Mateo, California); John A. Hogan (Menlo Park, California); John W. Fisher (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for processing waste from human activities, including solids, liquids and vapors. A fluid-impermeable bag, lined with a liquid-impermeable but vapor-permeable membrane, defining an inner bag, is provided. A vacuum force is provided to extract vapors so that the waste is moved toward a selected region in the inner bag, extracted vapors, including the waste vapors and vaporized portions of the waste liquids are transported across the membrane, and most or all of the solids remain within the liner. Extracted vapors are filtered, and sanitized components thereof are isolated and optionally stored. The solids remaining within the liner are optionally dried and isolated for ultimate disposal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/526175 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Baths, closets, sinks, and spittoons 04/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07490941 | Mintz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Mintz (Chatsworth, California); Tien-Hsin Chao (Valencia, California); Nevin Bryant (La Canada, California); Peter Tsou (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a three-dimensional (3D) hologram display system. The 3D hologram display system includes a projector device for projecting an image upon a display medium to form a 3D hologram. The 3D hologram is formed such that a viewer can view the holographic image from multiple angles up to 360 degrees. Multiple display media are described, namely a spinning diffusive screen, a circular diffuser screen, and an aerogel. The spinning diffusive screen utilizes spatial light modulators to control the image such that the 3D image is displayed on the rotating screen in a time-multiplexing manner. The circular diffuser screen includes multiple, simultaneously-operated projectors to project the image onto the circular diffuser screen from a plurality of locations, thereby forming the 3D image. The aerogel can use the projection device described as applicable to either the spinning diffusive screen or the circular diffuser screen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216803 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491169 | Yost 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) | William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); Toshiaki Ueno (San Diego, California); Alan R. Hargens (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and apparatus for measuring pressure buildup in a body compartment that encases muscular tissue. The method includes assessing the body compartment configuration and identifying the effect of pulsatible components on compartment dimensions and muscle tissue characteristics. This process is used in preventing tissue necrosis, and in decisions of whether to perform surgery on the body compartment for prevention of Compartment Syndrome. An apparatus is used for measuring pressure build-up in the body compartment having components for imparting ultrasonic waves such as a transducer, placing the transducer to impart the ultrasonic waves, capturing the imparted ultrasonic waves, mathematically manipulating the captured ultrasonic waves and categorizing pressure build-up in the body compartment from the mathematical manipulations. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/805816 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491428 | Smits 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) | Jan M. Smits (Hampton, Virginia); Russell A. Wincheski (Williamsburg, Virginia); JoAnne L. Ingram (Norfolk, Virginia); Anthony Neal Watkins (Hampton, Virginia); Jeffrey D. Jordan (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon nanotube (CNT) attraction material is deposited on a substrate in the gap region between two electrodes on the substrate. An electric potential is applied to the two electrodes. The CNT attraction material is wetted with a solution defined by a carrier liquid having carbon nanotubes (CNTs) suspended therein. A portion of the CNTs align with the electric field and adhere to The CNT attraction material. The carrier liquid and any CNTs not adhered to the CNT attraction material are then removed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730188 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491628 | Noca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Flavio Noca (Altadena, California); Elijah B. Sansom (Pasadena, California); Jijie Zhou (Singapore, Singapore); Morteza Gharib (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling large numbers of nanoscale structures in pre-determined ways using fluids or capillary lithography to control the patterning and arrangement of the individual nanoscale objects and nanostructures formed in accordance with the inventive method are provided. In summary, the current method uses the controlled dispersion and evaporation of fluids to form controlled patterns of nanoscale objects or features anchored on a substrate, such as nanoscale fibers like carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124523 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492439 | Marshall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Marshall (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid crystal point diffraction interferometer (LCPDI) systems that can provide real-time, phase-shifting interferograms that are useful in the characterization of static optical properties (wavefront aberrations, lensing, or wedge) in optical elements or dynamic, time-resolved events (temperature fluctuations and gradients, motion) in physical systems use improved LCPDI cells that employ a “structured” substrate or substrates in which the structural features are produced by thin film deposition or photo resist processing to provide a diffractive element that is an integral part of the cell substrate(s). The LC material used in the device may be doped with a “contrast-compensated” mixture of positive and negative dichroic dyes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945753 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492989 | Heilmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralf Heilmann (Dedham, Massachusetts); Mark Schattenburg (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid transmission-reflection grating includes an array of essentially parallel principal interfaces, with each principal interface separating a first medium and a second medium. The first medium has a first index of refraction, and the second medium has a second index of refraction. The first medium allows for transmission of quantum-mechanical objects in excess of one percent of an incident number of quantum-mechanical objects. The array of principal interfaces has a spacing distance between adjacent principal interfaces. The first medium has a width in the direction normal to the principal interfaces, the width being less than the spacing distance. Each principal interface has a length such that either (1) the length is greater that the width divided by tan(2θc), wherein θc is an critical angle of total external reflection for the quantum-mechanical objects at the principal interface, or (2) the length is greater that the width divided by tan(2θc), wherein θc is a critical angle defined by 2π sin(θc)σ=λ, with λ being de Broglie wavelength of the quantum-mechanical objects and σ being a roughness of the principal interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439080 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07492727 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York); Haixun Wang (Irvington, New York); Hao He (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method for determining reachability between any two nodes within a graph. The inventive method utilizes a dual-labeling scheme. Initially, a spanning tree is defined for a group of nodes within a graph. Each node in the spanning tree is assigned a unique interval-based label, that describes its dependency from an ancestor node. Non-tree labels are then assigned to each node in the spanning tree that is connected to another node in the spanning tree by a non-tree link. From these labels, reachability of any two nodes in the spanning tree is determined by using only the interval-based labels and the non-tree labels. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/396502 |
| 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 07492814 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The U.S. Government as Represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Nelson (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Removing noise and interference from a signal by calculating a joint time-frequency domain of the signal, estimating instantaneous frequencies of the joint time-frequency domain, modifying each estimated instantaneous frequency, if necessary, to correspond to a frequency of the joint time-frequency domain to which it most closely compares, redistributing elements within the joint time-frequency domain according to the modified instantaneous frequencies, computing a magnitude for each element in the redistributed joint time-frequency domain, plotting the results, identifying peak values, eliminating from the redistributed joint time-frequency domain elements that do not correspond to the peak values, identifying noise and interference in the peak values, eliminating the noise and the interference from the redistributed joint time-frequency domain elements, and recovering a signal devoid of noise and interference from the modified redistributed joint time-frequency domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151173 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493406 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa D. Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Anshul Sehgal (New York, New York); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method, upstream processing node, and computer readable medium for processing data packets. The method includes receiving an allocation for at least one computing resource. At least one data packet at one or more upstream processing elements in an upstream processing node is received. The method also includes determining if at least one output queue of the upstream processing elements includes available space for processing of the data packet. The data packet is processed in response to the output queue including available space to form a resulting data packet. The method further includes determining that an input queue of at least one downstream processing element of a plurality of downstream processing elements includes available space for receiving the resulting data packet In response to the determining, the resulting data packet is transmitted from the upstream processing element to the downstream processing element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451775 |
| ART UNIT | 2141 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493452 | Eichenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); John Kevin Patrick O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Kathryn M. O'Brien (South Salem, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to efficiently pre-fetch and batch compiler-assisted software cache accesses is provided. The method reduces the overhead associated with software cache directory accesses. With the method, the local memory address of the cache line that stores the pre-fetched data is itself cached, such as in a register or well known location in local memory, so that a later data access does not need to perform address translation and software cache operations and can instead access the data directly from the software cache using the cached local memory address. This saves processor cycles that would otherwise be required to perform the address translation a second time when the data is to be used. Moreover, the system and method directly enable software cache accesses to be effectively decoupled from address translation in order to increase the overlap between computation and communication. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/465522 |
| 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 |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07491453 | Logan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Ion Power, Inc. (New Castle, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen Grot (Middletown, Delaware); Thomas E. Mallouk (State College, Pennsylvania); Hong Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and processes for producing hydrogen using bacteria are described. One detailed process for producing hydrogen uses a system for producing hydrogen as described herein, the system including a reactor. Anodophilic bacteria are disposed within the interior of the reactor and an organic material oxidizable by an oxidizing activity of the anodophilic bacteria is introduced and incubated under oxidizing reactions conditions such that electrons are produced and transferred to the anode. A power source is activated to increase a potential between the anode and the cathode, such that electrons and protons combine to produce hydrogen gas. One system for producing hydrogen includes a reaction chamber having a wall defining an interior of the reactor and an exterior of the reaction chamber. An anode is provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber and a cathode is also provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber. The cathode is spaced apart at a distance in the range between 0.1-100 centimeters, inclusive, from the anode. A conductive conduit for electrons is provided which is in electrical communication with the anode and the cathode and a power source for enhancing an electrical potential between the anode and cathode is included which is in electrical communication at least with the cathode. A first channel defining a passage from the exterior of the reaction chamber to the interior of the reaction chamber is also included. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180454 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491811 | Meagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Meagher (Athens, Georgia); Rebecca S. Balish (Oxford, Ohio); Kim Tehryung (Athens, Georgia); Elizabeth C. McKinney (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Plant tissue specific gene expression by way of repressor-operator complexes, has enabled outcomes including, without limitation, male sterility and engineered plants having root-specific gene expression of relevant proteins to clean environmental pollutants from soil and water. A mercury hyperaccumulation strategy requires that mercuric ion reductase coding sequence is strongly expressed. The actin promoter vector, A2pot, engineered to contain bacterial lac operator sequences, directed strong expression in all plant vegetative organs and tissues. In contrast, the expression from the A2pot construct was restricted primarily to root tissues when a modified bacterial repressor (LacIn) was coexpressed from the light-regulated rubisco small subunit promoter in above-ground tissues. Also provided are analogous repressor operator complexes for selective expression in other plant tissues, for example, to produce male sterile plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038900 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07491646 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating an electrically conductive feature comprising: (a) liquid depositing a low viscosity composition comprising starting ingredients including an organic anine, a silver compound, and optionally an organic acid, to result in a deposited composition; and (b) heating the deposited composition, resulting in the electrically conductive feature comprising silver. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490391 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07491818 | McGall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn McGall (Mountain View, California); Anthony D. Barone (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid labeling compounds containing heterocyclic derivatives are disclosed. The heterocyclic derivative containing compounds are synthesized by condensing a heterocyclic derivative with a cyclic group (e.g. a ribofuranose derivative). The labeling compounds are suitable for enzymatic attachment to a nucleic acid, either terminally or internally, to provide a mechanism of nucleic acid detection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/037065 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/26.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07492453 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method processes a structure comprising embedded material. The system includes a laser adapted to generate light and to irradiate an interaction region of the structure. The system further includes an optical system adapted to receive light from the interaction region and to generate a detection signal indicative of the presence of embedded material in the interaction region. The system further includes a controller operatively coupled to the laser and the optical system. The controller is adapted to receive the detection signal and to be responsive to the detection signal by selectively adjusting the laser. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861184 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07491628 | Noca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Flavio Noca (Altadena, California); Elijah B. Sansom (Pasadena, California); Jijie Zhou (Singapore, Singapore); Morteza Gharib (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling large numbers of nanoscale structures in pre-determined ways using fluids or capillary lithography to control the patterning and arrangement of the individual nanoscale objects and nanostructures formed in accordance with the inventive method are provided. In summary, the current method uses the controlled dispersion and evaporation of fluids to form controlled patterns of nanoscale objects or features anchored on a substrate, such as nanoscale fibers like carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124523 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07491810 | Heinrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerhard Heinrich (Pleasant Hill, California); Gigi Huynh (Vallejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic screen and method for screening biological and chemical test substances or molecules for their ability to influence or modulate the production of BDNF in cells, includes a fusion gene having a zebrafish BDNF gene fragment (promoter) and a fluorescent marker gene inserted downstream of the BDNF gene fragment. When the fusion gene is injected into a zebrafish embryo, the BDNF promoter causes the production of fluorescent protein in various cell types. The embryo is exposed to a test substance for determining the effect thereof on the production of the fluorescent marker protein. |
| FILED | Friday, November 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/306737 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07490725 | Pinnau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo Pinnau (Palo Alto, California); Jennifer H. Ly (San Jose, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reverse osmosis membrane, and methods for making and using the membrane. The membrane has a continuous, defect-free, non-porous, hydrophilic coating that reduces the susceptibility to fouling. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/682727 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07490725 | Pinnau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo Pinnau (Palo Alto, California); Jennifer H. Ly (San Jose, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reverse osmosis membrane, and methods for making and using the membrane. The membrane has a continuous, defect-free, non-porous, hydrophilic coating that reduces the susceptibility to fouling. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/682727 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07491322 | Sibrell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip L. Sibrell (Charles Town, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of and system for removing phosphorus from wastewater using a waste sludge that has a high affinity for phosphorus. In order for the waste sludge to be used in a flow-through contact reactor to remove the phosphorus from a wastewater stream, the waste sludge is pelletized. The waste sludge pellets are packed into one or more flow-through contact reactors. In the configuration described herein, phosphorus removal is maximized by flowing the wastewater through the reactor(s) in a “pulsed” manner, rather than continuously. Thus, wastewater is flowed through the reactor(s) for a period of time and stopped for a period of time. By giving the sludge absorbant a rest period, the absorption capacity of the sludge is increased significantly, thus decreasing the frequency of regeneration or replacement of the sludge. Sludge regeneration can be accomplished with a stripping step using an alkaline solution of pH 13, followed by rinsing with water. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865127 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/138 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07492086 | Cathey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Cathey (Boise, Idaho); Surjit S. Chadha (Meridian, Idaho); Behnam Moradi (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect of the invention, a field emission display is provided comprising: an anode; a phosphor screen located on the anode; a cathode; an evacuated space between the anode and the cathode; an emitter located on the cathode opposite the phosphor; wherein the emitter comprises an electropositive element both in a body of the emitter and on a surface of the emitter. According to another aspect of the invention, a process for manufacturing a FED is provided comprising the steps of forming an emitter comprising an electropositive element in the body of the tip; positioning the emitter in opposing relation to a phosphor display screen; creating an evacuated space between the emitter tip and the phosphor display screen; and causing the electropositive element to migrate to an emission surface of the emitter. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/489286 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| 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 17, 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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