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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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| US 07493771 | Lohmueller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Joseph Lohmueller (Reading, Ohio); Robert P. Czachor (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a gas turbine engine includes coupling an axisymmetric structure within the gas turbine engine, wherein the axisymmetric structure includes at least one mounting bushing extending from a radially outer surface of the axisymmetric structure, and inserting a pin having a crowned surface at least partially into the mounting bushing such that the pin provides both axial and tangential support to the axisymmetric structure, and securing the pin to the gas turbine engine utilizing a retaining assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/289965 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/796 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493858 | Smith 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) | Gabriel L. Smith (Odenton, Maryland); Daniel J. Jean (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS inertial delay device having a substrate layer, an intermediate layer and a device layer. A plurality of freely moveable interlocking masses are formed in the device layer along with springs which connect the masses to first and second supports. Movement of a first one of the interlocked masses, due to a shock event, allows subsequent masses to move, with a last mass including an activation member, movement of which causes operation of a mechanism, such as movement of a lock in a safe/arm arrangement in a munition round. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040291 |
| ART UNIT | 3621 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07493861 | Walters |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Walters (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A tandem shaped charge warhead having a forward charge and a rear charge mounted in tandem along a charge axis. The forward charge has a shaped charge liner with an explosive surrounding it, along with a metallic confinement housing surrounding the explosive and liner, with a retaining ring at the front to secure the liner to the confinement housing. The confinement housing has a cavity between the explosive and its' exterior surface which houses a booster and detonator. The rear charge is a conventional shaped charge warhead with a conical liner. A delay timing means is provided for imparting an activation delay in the detonations of the charges from the forward to the rear charge. In one embodiment, a lightweight blast shield is placed between the forward and the rear charge. The tandem system is capable of time delays which exceed the state-of-the-art by more than factor of four. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 1989 |
| APPL NO | 07/386800 |
| 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 12/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494546 | Vispute et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Blue Wave Semicodnuctors, Inc. (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ratnakar D. Vispute (Columbia, Maryland); Evan Bertrue Jones (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes use of electron beam evaporation method for fabrication of group III-nitride thin films. The fabricated thin films found to have desirable crystalline and optical properties. These films and their properties could be used for protecting electronic devices under space radiation applications such as solar cell operating in space. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879165 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494598 | Youngner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Son T. Lu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Miniature optically transparent windows are disclosed that extend vertically from a plane, which may be used to transmit light traveling in a direction substantially parallel with the plane. In one illustrative embodiment, a method for forming such miniature optically transparent windows includes: providing a substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, the substrate having a first layer and an adjacent second layer; forming a recess in the first layer of the substrate, the recess extending to the second layer; providing an optically transparent material in the recess to form an optically transparent feature; and removing at least a portion of the first layer that extends adjacent the optically transparent feature so that light can pass through the optically transparent feature in a direction that is substantially parallel to the first surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/164445 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494670 | Arafat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | El Sayed S. Arafat (Leonardtown, Maryland); Craig A. Matzdorf (California, Maryland); Stephen J. Spadafora (LaPlata, Maryland); David L. Gauntt (St. Leonard, Maryland); Paul R. Roser (Leonardtown, Maryland); James A. Whitfield (Newport, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises a composition and the process of using the composition for removing and preventing mold, mildew, and fungal growth. The composition comprises at least one alkali metal perborate, at least one inhibiting compound selected from the group consisting of alkali metal silicates, triazoles and mixtures thereof in any ratio, at least one corrosion inhibitor, and effective amounts of surfactant. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151170 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494691 | Fair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoff E. Fair (Centerville, Ohio); Emmanuel E. Boakye (Clayton, Ohio); Triplicane A. Parthasarathy (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for coating ceramic fibers and woven cloths of ceramic fibers is disclosed, wherein the ceramic fibers are thoroughly wetted with precursors in a solution before the precursors react to form a coating by heterogeneous nucleation and growth. The fibers are then rinsed and fired and, where desired, the process may be repeated in stages to increase the coating thickness as desired. This method is amenable to operation in both the batch and continuous modes. This flexible method reduces both the cost and time of producing ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/021900 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494698 | Swager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Long (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Shape-persistent organic materials, including polymers, with large degrees of interior free volume are described, along with behaviors and phenomena enabled by their unique properties. One class of such a material is built up from triptycene base moieties wherein three benzene rings are bridged together about a [2.2.2] tricyclic ring system. These units can be assembled into discreet molecules and polymers. These materials and/or formulations thereof with liquid crystals or polymers are useful for the complexation of chemicals and/or polymers; they have very low dielectric constants for use as coatings in dielectric circuits, they provide additional ordering mechanisms in liquid crystals, and they display unusual mechanical responses when subjected to electrochemical, chemical, or mechanical stimuli. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/764768 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494783 | Soreq et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hermona Soreq (Jerusalem, Israel); Ella Sklan (Rechovot, Israel); Raz Yirmiya (Jerusalem, Israel); Keren Ailon (Givat-YeArim, Israel); Irit Shapira-Lichter (Jerusalem, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods/kits for assessing levels of trait or state anxiety in a subject by comparing genotypes and/or expression patterns at the ACHE, PON1 and/or BChE genes to the genotype and/or expression pattern of the genes in a reference population whose genotype and/or expression pattern of the genes is known or by correlating AChE levels activity to those of PON. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400224 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494896 | Gupta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arunava Gupta (Valley Cottage, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a magnetic memory device on a substrate includes forming the memory device on a transparent substrate coated with a decomposable material layer subject to rapid heating resulting in a predetermined high pressure, transferring the memory device to the substrate, and forming an organic transistor on the substrate prior to transfer of the magnetic memory device. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/459517 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494946 | Gibson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip W. Gibson (Holliston, Massachusetts); Calvin K. Lee (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal insulation material for articles of clothing, the material including fibers for providing thermal insulation and fibers for providing a stable structure for the material. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242266 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494980 | Leung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai P Leung (Libertyville, Illinois); Sean P Concannon (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preventing biofilm formation in an environment including the steps of administering to the environment an effective amount of a peptide having the amino acid sequence NH2-lys-lys-val-val-phe-lys-val-lys-phe-lys-CONH2 [SEQ ID NO: 1] The method is useful in preventing the formation of biofilms in various environments including a home, workplace, laboratory, industrial environment, aquatic environment, animal body or human body. A method of inhibiting the growth of oral microorganisms including the steps of administering to an oral environment an effective amount of a peptide having the amino acid sequence NH2-lys-val-val-phe-lys-val-lys-phe-lys-CONH2 [SEQ ID NO: 1]. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/795514 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495106 | Tan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); Ramamurthi Kannan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jim C. Spain (Atlanta, Georgia); Lloyd J. Nadeau (Mexico Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel o-aminophenol-carboxylic AB-monomer with the following chemical structure: for synthesizing new rigid-rod polybenzobisazoles was prepared from the corresponding nitrobenzothiazolecarboxylic acid via an enzymatic process. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998862 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495145 | Doyle, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward F. Doyle, III (Phoenix, Maryland); Brent L. Haroldsen (Manteca, California); Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California); Benjamin C. Wu (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and a reactor for safely destroying containers having toxic chemical and biological materials contained therein. The reactor comprises a pressure vessel having an internal reaction chamber and at least one heater disposed on an exterior of the pressure vessel. A fragment-suppression system is also disposed within the internal reaction chamber. The fragment-suppression system is adapted to receive a container therein, such as an energetic chemical munition, and is adapted to receive a charge for opening the container. An injection port is also provided so that oxidants can be injected into said reaction chamber to neutralize the chemical and biological materials after the container has been opened. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761917 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495200 | Andersen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoff P. Andersen (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A holographic adaptive optic system for correcting the wavefront of a light. A phase correction device with a plurality of pixels in the path of the light. A holographic wavefront sensor in the path providing a pair of reconstruction beams for each phase correction device pixel. The relative intensity of the two beams being proportional to the amount of aberration present in the initial beam. A detector that measures the relative intensity of the pair of reconstructed beams. The detector connected by at least one individual control connector to the relevant pixel in the phase correction device. The individual control connectors controlling the phase correction device based upon the relative intensity between the two reconstruction beams to reduce the wavefront aberration. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772510 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/201.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495230 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Wei (Malibu, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated plasmon detector includes a top layer of material adapted to generate a plasmon when excited by a beam of light incident onto a surface of the top layer, an interface layer joined to the top layer opposite from the surface of the top layer and adapted to slow polarons emitted by the plasmon to thermal electrons, and a collector layer joined to the interface layer opposite from the top layer and adapted to collect the thermal electrons from the interface layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205781 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495353 | Christensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Rockford, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Alan Christensen (Stillman Valley, Illinois); Darin R. Morman (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The power system for an aircraft includes a gear box. Multiple generators are driven by the gear box and are arranged in a circumferentially spaced manner, in one example. Each generator includes a power interconnect block providing a receptacle that receives an electrical lead. The receptacle provides a metallic insert having a hole that receives a connector arranged at an end of the electrical lead. The connectors are inserted into the hole in a direction that is generally parallel with an axis of rotation of a shaft of the generator. An axial retainer is secured between the electrical connector and the power interconnect block to axially locate the connector within the power interconnect block. A spring washer is arranged at a base of the hole to exert an axial force on the connector biasing it against the axial retainer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496792 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/40.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495454 | Rivera |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Rivera (Westerly, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring electrical properties, including permittivity, of a material is disclosed. The device includes a first conduit and second conduit terminating at open ends and respectively connected to a first and second connector port. Annuli are formed by the open ends to encompass portions of a flange of the device. The flange as well the portions make firm contact with the material under test, permitting simultaneous measurements of the complex scattering parameters of the material when an electromagnetic field is transmitted through the first connector port. Electrical characteristics of the material can be computed using the measurements received at the first connector port and the second connector port. Shorting screws are used for calibration by selectively opening or shorting the conduits. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706683 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495611 | Ruffa |
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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) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the direction of an incoming signal is provided in which each of a plurality of receivers arranged in a linear array is sampled in sequence to simulate a single receiver moving along an aperture defined by the linear array at a simulated speed. This generates a simulated time series data from which a simulated Doppler shift in the incident angle is measured. The simulated Doppler shift is used to determine the incident angle between the incident signal and the linear array of receivers. By adjusting the simulated speed to eliminate artifacts in the power spectral density of the data obtained from the receivers, the incident angle can be obtain from the expression of the simulated Doppler shift. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772853 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495638 | Lamvik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Lamvik (Durham, North Carolina); Gary E. McGuire (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John S. Lewis, III (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a continuous display with non-uniform pixel density, forming a foveated display. A single, continuous display has a higher pixel density at the center of the display than at the periphery of the display. Where two continuous displays are used in accordance with the present invention, the central forward gaze of the viewer's image will be displayed in high resolution while the leftmost portion of the left eye display will be in low resolution and the rightmost portion of the right eye display will be in low resolution. The pixel resolution of the visual display may correspond to the visual acuity of the human eye. A foveated image display system using a continuous display with non-uniform pixel density increases the field of view while reducing the image bandwidth. A foveated image display system may be hardware-based by employing anamorphic lenses or sensors rather than relying upon image interpolation to modify the resolution of the resultant image data communicated to the continuous display with non-uniform pixel density. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437091 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495761 | Chadha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suneet Chadha (Westford, Massachusetts); Lawrence E. Curtiss (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectroanalytical system for receiving radiation to be analyzed along a first path includes a grating in the first path with periodic faceted grooves for spatially separating the radiation as a function of wavelength. The blaze angles of the faceted grooves are progressively graded. A multielement detector detects radiation spatially separated by the grating. An optical conditioner is disposed in the first path between the grating and a multielement detector. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/347482 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495764 | McMillan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. McMillan (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Ernest J. Holder (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarimeter includes a receiver that is configured to receive a first polarization (P1) of the signal and to split the first polarization of the signal into the in-phase (IP1) and quadrature (QP1) components and to receive a second polarization (P2) of the signal and to split the second polarization of the signal into the in-phase (IP2) and quadrature (QP2) components. The polarimeter may also include a processor that is configured to receive each of the in-phase and quadrature components ((IP1), (QP1), (IP2), and (QP2)) of the first and second polarizations and to determine the Stokes polarization vector components (s0, s1, s2, and s3) of the signal. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/631218 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495767 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byung J. Kim (Champaign, Illinois); Mark J. Rood (Champaign, Illinois); Ke Du (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Photography is employed to objectively quantify opacity of fluids such as smoke plumes and dust via a method termed the Digital Optical Method (DOM™). The DOM™ quantifies the ratio of radiance values by means of a camera response curve obtained using objective measures. The radiance ratios are then used to calculate opacity of target fluids such as smoke plumes. The DOM™ quantifies opacity during both daytime and nighttime conditions with a much broader range of subject types, e.g., white, gray and black smoke plumes, and environmental conditions, e.g., non-blue-sky, building, and mountain backgrounds, than existing systems while not requiring human interpretation for any application. In one embodiment, the DOM™ quantifies opacity from digital photos using a pre-designed algorithm and an inexpensive digital camera. Very little training is needed to implement the DOM™ and it yields consistent objective quantitative results, while providing a permanent photographic record easily digitally archived. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/407216 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495774 | Hays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Byron Hays (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Thomas Dehring (Westminster, Colorado); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Richey (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan); Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A first beam of light from a laser is split by a beam splitter into a reference beam and at least one second beam of light, the latter of which is directed into an atmosphere. Light from the at least one second beam of light scattered by molecules or aerosols in the atmosphere is collected by at least one telescope as at least one light signal. The at least one light signal and the reference beam are simultaneously processed by a common interferometer, and resulting fringe patterns are imaged onto a detector and processed by a data processor to determine at least one associated air data product. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460603 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495940 | Cheng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis Cheng (Ontario, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A device that includes an active rectifier (14) having control gates controllable to produce an output voltage on a DC bus (20), a gate control circuit (16) for producing gate control signals for controlling the active rectifier control gates, a first circuit (18) connected to the gate control circuit (16) and producing a command current magnitude signal and a power factor signal for use by the gate control circuit (16), a current line (30) providing a current related to the DC load current to the first circuit (16), and a voltage line (32) providing a voltage related to the DC bus voltage to the first circuit (16), the first circuit (16) including a peak detector (64) detecting current peaks on the DC bus (20), a command current magnitude signal generator (34) commanding a current as a function of the detected peaks, and a power factor controller (33, 40) varying the power factor signal (42) to control the voltage on the DC bus (20). Also a method of controlling voltage on a DC bus (20) based on peak current detected on the bus. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206748 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/84 |
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| US 07495952 | Lal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Lal (Ithaca, New York); Shankar Radhakrishnan (Ithaca, New York); Norimasa Yoshimizu (Ithaca, New York); Serhan Ardanuc (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-state semiconductor device operable without loss arising from junction-to junction (e.g., source-to-drain) leakage current includes a movable MEMS switch or relay armature structure carrying at least one electrical contact corresponding to a semiconductor device junction. The switch or relay armature is movable from a first position corresponding to a first switch state to a second position corresponding to a second switch state. The semiconductor device also includes an actuation circuit configured to act on the cantilever switch, changing the switch from a first contact-conducting state to a second non-contact-conducting state by physically separating the switch's electrical contact from the semiconductor device junction, thus eliminating the conductive path for leakage current losses. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/485459 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/164 |
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| US 07495994 | Makris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas C. Makris (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Purnima Ratilal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Areal population density and detailed behavior of fish schools and their interaction are continuously monitored over continental-shelf-scale areas spanning thousands of square kilometers by ocean acoustic-waveguide remote sensing. In some embodiments, the capacity of certain geophysical environments, such as continental shelves, islands, etc. to behave as acoustic waveguides is utilized; sound propagates over long ranges via trapped modes that suffer only cylindrical spreading loss, rather than the spherical loss suffered in conventional sonar approaches. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448609 |
| 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 367/11 |
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| US 07495998 | Deligeorges et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Socrates Deligeorges (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Allyn Hubbard (Medfield, Massachusetts); David Mountain (Byfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic detection and localization system includes a signal acquisition stage, a biomimetic processor, and an acoustic feature processor. The system uses multiple acoustic cues including spectral content, inter-aural time delay (ITD), inter-aural intensity difference (IID), and periodicity content to detect, classify, and localize sound sources. Pairs of acoustic sensors are arranged geometrically with a spacing depending on the application. The biomimetic processing provides for echo suppression to enhance performance in reverberant environments, and automatic gain controls for robustness in noisy environments. Applications include mobile robotic platforms for reconnaissance and surveillance, helmet mounted systems for sniper detection, vehicle-mounted systems for combat awareness, general civilian security systems, and systems for environmental monitoring and tracking of animals. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415347 |
| 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 367/127 |
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| US 07495999 | Kemp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu P. Kemp (Durham, North Carolina); Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina); Jeffrey Krolik (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An unmanned underwater vehicle for use in water and with at least one acoustic signal source includes a vehicle body, a steering mechanism to direct the vehicle body through the water, a propulsion device to force the vehicle body through the water, and an adaptive Doppler guidance and control (ADGC) system. The ADGC system is configured to receive acoustic signals from the at least one acoustic signal source and to control the steering mechanism using changes in at least one frequency component of the received acoustic signals caused by Doppler shifts. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495134 |
| 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 367/131 |
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| US 07496000 | Vosburgh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina); Charles A. Pell (Durham, North Carolina); Mathieu P. Kemp (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A water submersible communications device for use on a body of water includes a housing and a communications module. The housing has a geometric centroid. The housing is submersible in and floatable on the body of water. The communications module is mounted on and/or in the housing. A center of buoyancy of the communications device is located substantially at the geometric centroid of the housing. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/494941 |
| 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 367/134 |
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| US 07496002 | Vosburgh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A submersible electronics device for use in a body of water and a substratum floor below the body of water includes a submersible housing, an operational electronics system, and a mobility system. The operational electronics system is mounted in and/or on the housing. The operational electronics system is adapted to communicate with another device and/or to sense at least one of a physical signal and an environmental parameter. The mobility system is selectively operable to fluidize the substratum, vibrate the housing, and/or adjust a buoyancy of the submersible electronics device to selectively move the housing into the substratum to at least partially bury the housing in the substratum and/or to selectively move the housing out of the substratum to at least partially unbury the housing from the substratum. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495957 |
| 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 367/188 |
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| US 07496128 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Liuqing Yang (Falcon Heights, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for maintaining the orthogonality of waveforms transmitted in ultra wideband (UWB) multi-user wireless communication systems. The multi-stage block-spreading (MS-BS) techniques described herein deterministically eliminate multiple user interference (MUI) in the presence of frequency-selective fading channels. A transmitter includes a block-spreading unit to generate a stream of frames from a block of information bearing symbols by applying an orthogonal set of spreading codes, such as direct sequence cod& division multiple access (CDMA) codes or digital carrier frequency multiple access codes, such that the frames corresponding to different blocks of the symbols are interleaved. The transmitter further includes a time-hopping spreading unit to generate a stream of chips from the stream of frames by applying an orthogonal set of time-hopping (TH) spreading codes such that chips corresponding to different frames are interleaved. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/796895 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/138 |
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| US 07496226 | Negahdaripour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahriar Negahdaripour (Coral Gables, Florida); Pezhman Firoozfam (Richmond, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and apparatus for viewing and imaging an underwater structure from a submersible platform, navigating along the structure and constructing a map of the structure in the forms of a photo-mosaic and a 3-D structural map. The system can include a submersible platform, at least two cameras coupled to the submersible platform, and stereovision matching logic programmed to simulate a frontal view of a target underwater structure from a fixed distance based upon an oblique view of the target underwater structure obtained by the cameras from a variable distance. The cameras can be forward or side mounted to the submersible platform and can include optical cameras, acoustical cameras or both. Preferably, the submersible platform can be a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), or an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Finally, the system further can include absolute positioning sensors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941451 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
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| US 07496241 | Reneker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Goodrich Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Alan Reneker (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher Cotton (Mendon, New York); Damon W. Diehl (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system includes a reference projector that projects collimated beams of light into the optical system entrance aperture which are imaged by an image recording device. The beams produce fiducial images present in every image captured by the imaging recording device. The fiducial images can be used to characterize the performance of the optical system and derive distortion correction coefficients. The distortion correction coefficients can be applied to a portion of an image, such as a group of pixels, or to the entire image, to thereby compensate for distortions in the optical system. In some embodiments, e.g., airborne cameras, the projector is rigidly coupled to an inertial measurement unit. The ability of the airborne camera to perform object geolocation from imagery is improved. The fiducial images enable optical system performance to be characterized and distortion correction coefficients to be obtained and thereby improve the accuracy of a ray angle calculation to the object of interest. Furthermore, the ray angle can be related to an inertial measurement system coordinate system using a direction cosine matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222562 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496244 | Berkey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Berkey (Pine City, New York); Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, New York); Daniel A. Nolan (Corning, New York); Donnell T. Walton (Painted Post, New York); Luis A. Zenteno (Painted Post, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating a linear single-polarization output beam comprises providing an optically active linearly birefringent and linearly dichroic fiber for propagating light and having a single polarization wavelength range and a gain bandwidth; optically pumping the optically active linearly birefringent and linearly dichroic fiber for obtaining fluorescence within the gain bandwidth; and aligning the single-polarization wavelength range to overlap a desired spectral region of the gain profile. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498658 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/1 |
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| US 07496246 | Ruffa |
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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) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an optical fiber cable for use with a system for determining a velocity profile of sound in a medium. The optical fiber cable comprises an inner layer of strength members, an outer layer of strength members, and at least one tube containing at least one optical fiber incorporated into the outer layer. The at least one optical fiber has a plurality of Bragg grating sensors spaced along its length. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627105 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
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| US 07496390 | Thieme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cornelis Leo Hans Thieme (Westborough, Massachusetts); Martin W. Rupich (Framingham, Massachusetts); John D. Scudiere (Bolton, Massachusetts); Oleg A. Chevtchenko (Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | An article having low ac loss includes an elongated substrate having a length and a width; and a plurality of filaments comprising an oxide superconductor extending substantially along the length of the elongated substrate and spaced apart from one other filaments across the width of the elongated substrate, wherein at least one filament crosses over at least one other filament such that the at least one filament occupies a first position across the width of the elongated substrate before the crossover and a second position across the width of the elongated substrate after crossover. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955875 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496424 | Froeschner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal A. Froeschner (Florissant, Missouri); Jim S. Piszar (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A tool used to direct the pressure applied to features of a plastic laminate part layup during co-curing or co-bonding is manufactured using direct digital manufacturing techniques. A CAD drawing representing the tool is generated and converted into digital data file suitable for controlling the operation of a rapid prototyping machine. The tool is formed in the rapid prototyping machine by additive layering of material until the features and dimensions of the layered material correspond to the CAD drawing. The resulting tool exhibits geometries and dimensions virtually identical to the theoretical dimensions of the CAD model of the tool. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233729 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/119 |
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| US 07496902 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Eliot Levine (Austin, Texas); Aleksandar Milenkovic (Madison, Alabama); Milena Milenkovic (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for compressing trace data. An instruction stream is identified, and in response to identifying the instruction stream, the instruction addresses in the instruction stream are replaced with a stream identifier to form compressed trace data. Data addresses may be related to instructions in the instruction stream to generate a data trace component in the compressed trace data. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/083229 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/128 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Etherton (Morgantown, West Virginia); John R. Powers, Jr. (Morgantown, West Virginia); Eugene Anthony McKenzie, Jr. (Morgantown, West Virginia); Kenneth Means (Morgantown, West Virginia); Brad Newbraugh (Fairmont, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns a jam detection and safety system for machines prone to jamming, such as a baler. In particular embodiments, the system is implemented in a horizontal baler having a shear bar and a hydraulic ram that advances material being baled past the shear bar into a compression chamber. The system includes a strain gage mounted on the shear bar and a controller that is electrically connected to the strain gage. The controller receives strain signals from the stage gage and compares the strain of the shear bar to a predetermined strain threshold corresponding to a jamming condition. If the strain exceeds the predetermined threshold, the controller automatically deactivates the ram, such as by disconnecting line power from the baler and/or by turning off the control power of the baler. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593980 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/48 |
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| US 07494482 | Orgill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Orgill (Belmont, Massachusetts); Quentin Gavin Eichbaum (Watertown, Massachusetts); Sui Huang (Boston, Massachusetts); Chao-Wei Hwang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); Vishal Saxena (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Evan Stuart Garfein (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for transmitting micromechanical forces locally to induce surface convolutions into tissues on the millimeter to micron scale for promoting wound healing are presented. These convolutions induce a moderate stretching of individual cells, stimulating cellular proliferation and elaboration of natural growth factors without increasing the size of the wound. Micromechanical forces can be applied directly to tissue, through biomolecules or the extracellular matrix. This invention can be used with biosensors, biodegradable materials and drug delivery systems. This invention will also be useful in pre-conditioned tissue-engineering constructs in vitro. Application of this invention will shorten healing times for wounds and reduce the need for invasive surgery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/146472 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/305 |
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| US 07494555 | Unger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Pasadena, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945737 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/60 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall J. Lee (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for establishing electrical coupling between cardiomyocytes and recombinant cells which have been genetically engineered to express a connexin protein such as connexin 43 (Cx43) protein. The invention is based on the discovery that genetic modification of skeletal muscle cells to express a recombinant connexin, enables the genetically modified cells to establish electrocommunication with cardiac cells via gap junctions. The recombinant connexin-expressing cells can be used for repair of cardiac tissue and for treatment of cardiac disease by transplantation into cardiac tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/635810 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07494653 | Frank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dara W. Frank (West Allis, Wisconsin); Jeannine Wiener-Kronish (San Francisco, California); Timothy L. Yahr (Solon, Iowa); Teiji Sawa (San Francisco, California); Robert B. Fritz (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting, moderating or diagnosing Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, this method comprises inoculating a patient with an effective amount of PcrV antigen. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/496059 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/170.100 |
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| US 07494714 | Chapman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Chapman (San Mateo, California); Emanuele Ostuni (Flourtown, Pennsylvania); Michael N. Liang (London, United Kingdom); Lin Yan (Princeton, New Jersey); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides articles resistant to the adsorption of proteins, cells and bacteria. The articles can either have a chemical chain bonded thereon where the chemical chain can comprise a terminal group free of a hydrogen bond donor or where a hydrogen bond donor is sufficiently buried such that an exposed surface of the article including the chemical chain is free of a hydrogen bond donor. The chemical chain, or plurality of chemical chains, can comprise a monolayer such as a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) which can be homogeneous (one type of SAM) or mixed, i.e. or more different types of SAMs. Other more specific examples of chemical chains are provided. The plurality of chemical chains can comprise a polymer such as a polyamine. In many aspects, the plurality of chemical chains is sufficiently free of cross-linking or branching. The present invention also provides an article capable of specific binding of a desired biomolecule while preventing non-specific binding of biomolecules. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825998 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/411.100 |
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| US 07494784 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Anderson (Cross Plains, Wisconsin); Kun Ling (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of identifying agents which modulate the activity of PIPKIγ661. Methods of using such agents to prevent or treat a cell migration-mediated condition or disease in a subject are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951872 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
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| US 07494796 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965218 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07494802 | Tseng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer C. G. Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Helga Sandoval (Charleston, South Carolina); William G. Lee (Sunny Isles Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a biopolymer covering for a tissue surface including, for example, a dressing, a bandage, a drape such as a bandage contact lens, a composition or covering to protect tissue, a covering to prevent adhesions, to exclude bacteria, to inhibit bacterial activity, or to promote healing or growth of tissue. An example of such a composition is an amniotic membrane covering for an ocular surface. Use of a covering for a tissue surface according to the invention eliminates the need for suturing. The invention also includes devices facilitating the fastening of a membrane to a support, culture inserts, compositions, methods, and kits for making and using coverings for a tissue surface and culture inserts. Compositions according to the invention may include cells grown on a membrane or attached to a membrane, and such compositions may be used as scaffolds for tissue engineering or tissue grafts. A method of preparing and using an amniotic membrane covering for a tissue surface as a controlled release drug delivery vehicle is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/472117 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.100 |
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| US 07494807 | Nakorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thanyaphong Na Nakorn (Stanford, California); Toshihiro Miyamoto (Fukuoka, Japan); Irving L. Weissman (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially enriched mammalian hematopoietic cell population is provided, which is characterized as a progenitor cell committed to the megakaryocyte lineage. Methods are provided for the isolation and culture of these cells. The cell enrichment methods employ reagents that specifically recognize CD9 and CD41, in conjunction with other markers expressed on lineage committed progenitor cells. These cells give rise exclusively to megakaryocytes and platelets, as evidenced by their growth and differentiation in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/661455 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07494808 | Palese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo García-Sastre (New York, New York); Robert O'Neil (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, to novel methods and substrates for the propagation of viruses. The invention relates to IFN-deficient substrates and methods for propagating viruses in these unconventional substrates. In particular, the invention relates to methods of propagating viruses in immature embryonated eggs, preferably six- to nine-day-old chicken eggs. The methods of the invention are particularly attractive for growing viruses suitable for use in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945718 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07494812 | Zadeh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Homayoun H. Zadeh (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adoptive immunotherapy using ex vivo-generated regulatory T cells may be used for the suppression of undesireable immune response. T cells are to be obtained from the patient's blood, and upon exposure to a set of toxins from the pathogen A. actinomycetemcomitans, the population of regulatory T cells will be enriched ex vivo and adoptively transferred back to the patient. The novel aspect of the present invention is that it generates large numbers of type 1 regulatory T cells, which secrete Interleukin-10. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/817506 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07494813 | Moss 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) | Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Arban Domi (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a VAC-BAC shuttle vector system for creation of recombinant poxviruses from DNA cloned in a bacterial artificial chromosome. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959392 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 07494972 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Stern (Great Neck, New York); Ann Marie Schmidt (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method to prevent accelerated atherosclerosis in a subject predisposed thereto which comprises administering to the subject a polypeptide derived from soluble receptor for advanced glycation endproduct in an amount effective to prevent accelerated atherosclerosis in the subject. The present invention also provides for a method to prevent a macrovessel disease in a subject predisposed thereto which comprises administering to the subject a polypeptide derived from soluble receptor for advanced glycation endproduct in an amount effective to prevent macrovessel disease in the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/319949 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07494976 | Sessa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sessa (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods useful for treating various conditions and afflictions, such as inflammation and cancer. More specifically, the present invention relates to compositions and methods of treatment which utilize peptides comprising at least one caveolin scaffolding domain. Even more specifically, the present invention relates to compositions of fusion peptides comprising the antennapedia homeodomain fused to a caveolin scaffolding domain and to methods of using these peptides to treat various conditions and afflictions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/358365 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07494981 | Johns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Johns (Reistertown, Maryland); Yuanxiang Tao (Baltimroe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | PSD-95/SAP90 antisense-treated animals not only experience a significant decrease in MAC for isoflurane, but also experience an attenuation in the NMDA-induced increase in isoflurane MAC. PSD-95/SAP90 appears to mediate the role of the NMDA receptor in determining the MAC of inhalational anesthetics. Suppression of the expression of PSD-95/SAP90 in the spinal cord significantly attenuates responses to painful stimuli mediated through the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation. In spinal cord neurons PSD-95/SAP90 interacts with the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunits 2A/2B. Activation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in spinal hyperalgesia results in association of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor with PSD-95/SAP90. PSD-95/SAP90 is required for hyperalgesia triggered via the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor at the spinal cord level. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/656140 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07495023 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred E. Cohen (San Francisco, California); Xiaohui Du (Los Angeles, California); Chun Guo (Shenyang, China PRC); James H. McKerrow (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to thio semicarbazone and semicarbazone inhibitors of cysteine proteases and methods of using such compounds to prevent and treat protozoan infections such as trypanosomiasis, malaria and leishmaniasis. The compounds also find use in inhibiting cysteine proteases associated with carcinogenesis, including cathepsins B and L. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084626 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/438 |
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| US 07495026 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuo-Hsiung Lee (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xihong Wang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kenneth F. Bastow (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Tian-Shung Wu (Tainan, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of Formulas I-II are described, along with methods of using such compounds for the treatment of cancer and pharmeutical formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/075476 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/453 |
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| US 07495070 | Shrader et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (Hartsford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alanna Schepartz Shrader (Wilton, Connecticut); Jason W. K. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Reena Zutshi (Tucson, Arizona); Stacey E. Rutledge (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Tanya L. Schneider (Harpswell, Maine); Heather M. Volkman (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a protein scaffold, such as an avian pancreatic polypeptide, that can be modified by substitution of two or more amino acid residues that are exposed on the alpha helix domain of the polypeptide when the polypeptide is in a tertiary form. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982727 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07495087 | Cox, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are cysteine variants of interleukin-11 (IL-11) and methods of making and using such proteins in therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544473 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399 |
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| US 07495089 | O'Reilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. O'Reilly (Missouri City, Texas); George S. Abrams, legal representative (Waban, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Endostatin compositions capable of inhibiting endothelial cell proliferation, inhibiting angiogenesis and causing tumor regression are described. Specifically, amino acid sequences of endostatin proteins and nucleic acid sequences coding for endostatin proteins are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089945 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07495091 | 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 | 11/408925 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07495100 | Cushman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Andrew E. Morrell (Bristol, Tennessee); Yves G. Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Indenoisoquinolines and dihydroindenoisoquinolines are described. In particular, such compounds possessing one or more electron withdrawing substituents are described. The in vitro anticancer activities of these molecules tested in the National Cancer Institute's screen of 55 cell lines is described. The compounds tested for topoisomerase I (top1) inhibition is described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125723 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/61 |
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| US 07495201 | Olcott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter D. Olcott (Menlo Park, California); Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A charge multiplexed position sensing apparatus and method for measuring an incident radiation with the aid of an array of solid-state photosensitive detectors such as an array of avalanche photodiodes (APDs). The solid-state photosensitive detectors multiplex sum terminal(s) and a number of correspondent spatial terminals separately. Sum signal busses are provided to establish separate connections to the sum terminals of each solid-state photosensitive detector. Spatial signal busses interconnect correspondent spatial terminals of all of the solid-state photosensitive detectors such that correspondent spatial terminals are all connected to the same spatial signal bus. The multiplexing circuit triggers on electrical signals corresponding to sum or total voltages generated by the incident radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653079 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/206.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Operations Technology Development, NFP (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Thomas Germata (Wadsworth, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for inspecting the walls of an underground pipe from inside the pipe in which an inspection apparatus having a circular planar platform having a plurality of lever arms having one end pivotably attached to one side of the platform, having a pipe inspection device connected to an opposite end, and having a system for pivoting the lever arms is inserted into the underground pipe, with the inspection apparatus oriented with the planar platform disposed perpendicular to the pipe axis. The plurality of lever arms are pivoted toward the inside wall of the pipe, contacting the inside wall with each inspection device as the apparatus is conveyed along a length of the underground pipe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314621 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/592 |
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| US 07493850 | Donahue |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dresser, Inc. (Addison, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Donahue (Colgate, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of embodiments of a piston may have a shape that provides enhanced piston guidance. In such embodiments, the piston shape may include an axial profile that is configured to provide certain thrust load characteristics. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/677714 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Expansible chamber devices 092/208 |
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| US 07493934 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyou Han (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaogang Jian (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hanbing Xu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas T. Meek (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a material includes the steps of: vibrating a molten material at an ultrasonic frequency while cooling the material to a semi-solid state to form non-dendritic grains therein; forming the semi-solid material into a desired shape; and cooling the material to a solid state. The method makes semi-solid castings directly from molten materials (usually a metal), produces grain size usually in the range of smaller than 50 μm, and can be easily retrofitted into existing conventional forming machine. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729614 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/113 |
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| US 07494114 | Hallman, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Louis Hallman, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing a controlled blend of two or more fluids. Thermally-induced permeation through a permeable tube is used to mix a first fluid from outside the tube with a second fluid flowing through the tube. Mixture ratios may be controlled by adjusting the temperature of the first fluid or by adjusting the pressure drop through the permeable tube. The combination of a back pressure control valve and a differential regulator is used to control the output pressure of the blended fluid. The combination of the back pressure control valve and differential regulator provides superior flow control of the second dry gas. A valve manifold system may be used to mix multiple fluids, and to adjust the volume of blended fluid produced, and to further modify the mixture ratio. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/236959 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas and liquid contact apparatus 261/130 |
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| US 07494233 | Himmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip A. Himmer (Bozeman, Montana); David L. Dickensheets (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical element with multi-layer composites that deforms to reduce optical aberrations in off-axis optic. Methods are also described in relation to the optical element. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/543237 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/846 |
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| US 07494557 | Peterson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Peterson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using sacrificial materials for fabricating internal cavities and channels in laminated dielectric structures, which can be used as dielectric substrates and package mounts for microelectronic and microfluidic devices. A sacrificial mandrel is placed in-between two or more sheets of a deformable dielectric material (e.g., unfired LTCC glass/ceramic dielectric), wherein the sacrificial mandrel is not inserted into a cutout made in any of the sheets. The stack of sheets is laminated together, which deforms the sheet or sheets around the sacrificial mandrel. After lamination, the mandrel is removed, (e.g., during LTCC burnout), thereby creating a hollow internal cavity in the monolithic ceramic structure. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/768329 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
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| US 07494574 | Kong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Kong (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lee O. Nelson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Brent A. Detering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactor for reactive co-conversion of heavy hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon gases and includes a dielectric barrier discharge plasma cell having a pair of electrodes separated by a dielectric material and passageway therebetween. An inlet is provided for feeding heavy hydrocarbons and other reactive materials to the passageway of the discharge plasma cell, and an outlet is provided for discharging reaction products from the reactor. A packed bed catalyst may optionally be used in the reactor to increase efficiency of conversion. The reactor can be modified to allow use of a variety of light sources for providing ultraviolet light within the discharge plasma cell. Methods for upgrading heavy hydrocarbons are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/051682 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/172 |
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| US 07494630 | Todd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry A. Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho); Jack D. Law (Pocatello, Idaho); R. Scott Herbst (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Valeriy N. Romanovskiy (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Igor V. Smirnov (St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation); Vasily A. Babain (St-Petersburg, Russian Federation); Vyatcheslav M. Esimantovski (St-Petersburg, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method to strip metals from organic solvents in a manner that allows for the recycle of the stripping agent. The method utilizes carbonate solutions of organic amines with complexants, in low concentrations, to strip metals from organic solvents. The method allows for the distillation and reuse of organic amines. The concentrated metal/complexant fraction from distillation is more amenable to immobilization than solutions resulting from current practice. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/602654 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/8 |
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| US 07494632 | Klunder |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United State of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edgar B. Klunder (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention presents a device for the removal of elemental mercury from flue gas streams utilizing a layer of activated carbon particles contained within the filter fabric of a filter bag for use in a flue gas scrubbing system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484573 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
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| US 07494637 | Peters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Peters (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jack B. Howard (Winchester, Massachusetts); Anthony J. Modestino (Hanson, Massachusetts); Fredreric Vogel (Villigen PSI, Switzerland); Carsten R. Steffin (Herne, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous process for the conversion of biomass to form a chemical feedstock is described. The biomass and an exogenous metal oxide, preferably calcium oxide, or metal oxide precursor are continuously fed into a reaction chamber that is operated at a temperature of at least 1400° C. to form reaction products including metal carbide. The metal oxide or metal oxide precursor is capable of forming a hydrolizable metal carbide. The reaction products are quenched to a temperature of 800° C. or less. The resulting metal carbide is separated from the reaction products or, alternatively, when quenched with water, hydolyzed to provide a recoverable hydrocarbon gas feedstock. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/858861 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/439 |
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| US 07494640 | Nyman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporaion (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | May D. Nyman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David T. Hobbs (North Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The sorption capabilities (e.g., kinetics, selectivity, capacity) of the baseline monosodium titanate (MST) sorbent material currently being used to sequester Sr-90 and alpha-emitting radioisotopes at the Savannah River Site are significantly improved when treated with hydrogen peroxide; either during the original synthesis of MST, or, as a post-treatment step after the MST has been synthesized. It is expected that these peroxide-modified MST sorbent materials will have significantly improved sorption capabilities for non-radioactive cations found in industrial processes and waste streams. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169859 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/598 |
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| US 07494772 | McCready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula M. McCready (Tracy, California); Lyndsay Radnedge (San Mateo, California); Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Linda L. Ott (Livermore, California); Thomas R. Slezak (Livermore, California); Thomas A. Kuczmarski (Livermore, California); Vladinir L. Motin (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleotide sequences specific to Yersinia pestis that serve as markers or signatures for identification of this bacterium were identified. In addition, forward and reverse primers and hybridization probes derived from these nucleotide sequences that are used in nucleotide detection methods to detect the presence of the bacterium are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630536 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07494773 | McCready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula M. McCready (Tracy, California); Lyndsay Radnedge (San Mateo, California); Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Linda L. Ott (Livermore, California); Thomas R. Slezak (Livermore, California); Thomas A. Kuczmarski (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleotide sequences specific to Brucella that serves as a marker or signature for identification of this bacterium were identified. In addition, forward and reverse primers and hybridization probes derived from these nucleotide sequences that are used in nucleotide detection methods to detect the presence of the bacterium are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/630607 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07494778 | McCready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paula M. McCready (Tracy, California); Lyndsay Radnedge (San Mateo, California); Gary L. Andersen (Berkeley, California); Linda L. Ott (Livermore, California); Thomas R. Slezak (Livermore, California); Thomas A. Kuczmarski (Livermore, California); Elizabeth A Vitalis (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the identification of nucleotide sequences specific to Francisella tularensis that serves as a marker or signature for identification of this bacterium. In addition, forward and reverse primers and hybridization probes derived from these nucleotide sequences that are used in nucleotide detection methods to detect the presence of the bacterium are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644669 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494796 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965218 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495218 | Gopalsami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U Chicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nachappa Gopalsami (Argonne, Illinois); Sasan Bakhtiari (Argonne, Illinois); Apostolos C. Raptis (Argonne, Illinois); Thomas W. Elmer (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for the passive measurement of spectral lines from the absorption or emission by polar molecules. The system includes mmW front-end assembly, back-end electronics, and data acquisition hardware and software was assembled. The method relates to methods for processing multi-channel radiometric data from passive mmW detection systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/407711 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/336.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495748 | Sandusky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Sandusky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd Alan Pitts (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Scannerless loss modulated flash color range imaging methods and apparatus are disclosed for producing three dimensional (3D) images of a target within a scene. Apparatus and methods according to the present invention comprise a light source providing at least three wavelengths (passbands) of illumination that are each loss modulated, phase delayed and simultaneously directed to illuminate the target. Phase delayed light backscattered from the target is spectrally filtered, demodulated and imaged by a planar detector array. Images of the intensity distributions for the selected wavelengths are obtained under modulated and unmodulated (dc) illumination of the target, and the information contained in the images combined to produce a 3D image of the target. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874241 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495774 | Hays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Byron Hays (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Thomas Dehring (Westminster, Colorado); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Richey (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan); Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A first beam of light from a laser is split by a beam splitter into a reference beam and at least one second beam of light, the latter of which is directed into an atmosphere. Light from the at least one second beam of light scattered by molecules or aerosols in the atmosphere is collected by at least one telescope as at least one light signal. The at least one light signal and the reference beam are simultaneously processed by a common interferometer, and resulting fringe patterns are imaged onto a detector and processed by a data processor to determine at least one associated air data product. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460603 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496767 | Evans |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Evans (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A secure content object protects electronic documents from unauthorized use. The secure content object includes an encrypted electronic document, a multi-key encryption table having at least one multi-key component, an encrypted header and a user interface device. The encrypted document is encrypted using a document encryption key associated with a multi-key encryption method. The encrypted header includes an encryption marker formed by a random number followed by a derivable variation of the same random number. The user interface device enables a user to input a user authorization. The user authorization is combined with each of the multi-key components in the multi-key encryption key table and used to try to decrypt the encrypted header. If the encryption marker is successfully decrypted, the electronic document may be decrypted. Multiple electronic documents or a document and annotations may be protected by the secure content object. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/766142 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07494494 | Stoianovici et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Stoianovici (Baltimore, Maryland); Gabor Fichtinger (Kensignton, Maryland); Richard Matthew Wiard (Fremont, California); Ioan Julian Iordachita (Craiova, Romania); Louis Litchfield Whitcomb (Baltimore, Maryland); Russell H. Taylor (Saverna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured is an apparatus that places or locates a proximal end portion of a penetrating member in a target area of a body. Such an apparatus or needle driver is particularly suited for locating a percutaneous needle in a soft tissue target area of a body particularly a body having inhomogeneous soft tissues. The apparatus includes a first arm that is configured and arranged so as to support a distal portion of the penetrating member and a first drive mechanism that is coupled to the first arm. The first drive mechanism is configured and arranged to move or translate the first arm from an initial position to any of a number of other positions that are spaced from the initial position and correspondingly translate the proximal end portion of the penetrating member. In another embodiment, the first arm also rotatably supports the penetrating member and the apparatus further includes a second drive mechanism coupled to the penetrating member distal portion and which is configured an arranged to rotate the penetrating member about the translational axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/943751 |
| ART UNIT | 3734 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494639 | Marek, legal representative et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irene Morin Marek, legal representative (Houston, Texas); Yuhuang Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Hongwei Shan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of purifying carbon nanotubes (CNTs). In general, such methods comprise the following steps: (a) preparing an aqueous slurry of impure CNT material; (b) establishing a source of Fe2+ ions in the slurry to provide a catalytic slurry; (c) adding hydrogen peroxide to the catalytic slurry to provide an oxidative slurry, wherein the Fe2+ ions catalyze the production of hydroxyl radicals; and (d) utilizing the hydroxyl radicals in the oxidative slurry to purify the CNT material and provide purified CNTs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/319707 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07494821 | Lippard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mi Hee Lim (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed, in part, to coordination complexes for detecting analytes, and methods of making and using the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498280 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495097 | Sweigart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight A. Sweigart (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Seung Uk Son (Suwon, South Korea); Jeffrey A. Reingold (Smithtown, New York); William C. Trenkle (Cranson, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one aspect of the invention a rhodium quinonoid catalyst is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454760 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495216 | Ermakov et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei Victorovich Ermakov (Piscataway, New Jersey); Barbara Jane Hinch (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive apparatus measures workfunction values using deflection of an electron beam without direct contact of the electron beam with the sample surface. The apparatus, mounted within a vacuum chamber, includes an electron gun, a position sensitive electron detector, and a sample. The sample is located such that an electron beam emanating from the gun can approach the surface and then be deflected into the position sensitive electron detector. Workfunction values are then derived from a measured deflected-electron position distribution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685693 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495654 | Khoshnevis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic apparatus may include a plate element positionable to extend over an anatomical segment of a user, and an elongate member coupled to the plate element and configured to be movably mounted onto the anatomical segment so as to remain substantially vertical and substantially perpendicular to the anatomical segment while the anatomical segment undergoes a motion. The haptic apparatus may further include a motion restrictor responsive to a control signal to impede the motion of the anatomical segment by generating an opposing force along the elongate member in a direction normal to the anatomical segment, thereby providing tactile feedback to the user. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/143696 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495699 | Nayar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York); Terrance Boult (Monument, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for accurately imaging scenes having large brightness variations. If a particular object in the scene is of interest, the imager exposure setting is adjusted based on the brightness of that object. For high dynamic range imaging of an entire scene, two imagers with different viewpoints and exposure settings are used, or the exposure setting of a single imager is varied as multiple images are captured. An optical flow technique can be used to track and image moving objects, or a video sequence can be generated by selectively updating only those pixels whose brightnesses are within the preferred brightness range of the imager. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951047 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495816 | Vaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Vaughan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas Hornung (Medford, Massachusetts); Thomas Feurer (Bern, Switzerland); Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method including: (i) dispersing frequency components of an input EM waveform along a first direction with each frequency component spatially extended along a second direction different from the first direction; (ii) setting an amplitude for an output portion of each of the spatially extended frequency components; and (iii) combining the output portions from the different frequency components to produce a temporally shaped output EM waveform, wherein setting the amplitude of each output portion comprises diffracting a corresponding input portion for the spatially extended frequency component along the second direction into different diffraction orders, wherein the combined output portions correspond to a common diffraction order. A system for performing the method is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/186735 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495942 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Davis (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Jose Fortes (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined content addressable memory device and memory interface is provided. The combined device and interface includes one or more one molecular wire crossbar memories having spaced-apart key nanowires, spaced-apart value nanowires adjacent to the key nanowires, and configurable switches between the key nanowires and the value nanowires. The combination further includes a key microwire-nanowire grid (key MNG) electrically connected to the spaced-apart key nanowires, and a value microwire-nanowire grid (value MNG) electrically connected to the spaced-apart value nanowires. A key or value MNGs selects multiple nanowires for a given key or value. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/573630 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/49.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496619 | Aldroubi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akram Aldroubi (Nashville, Tennessee); Karlheinz Gröchenig (Nashville, Tennessee); Hans G. Feichtinger (Mistelbach, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for converting data for an object of interest, which is characterized by a function ƒ, between a digital form and an analog form. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of locally selecting a plurality of data sample points in the order of N, N being an integer, wherein the data sample points are in a first form of data type, performing a transformation in a shift invariant space to the locally selected data sample points to obtain a new data set that is in a second form of data type different from the first form of data type, and reconstructing the object of interest ƒ from the new data set. In one embodiment, the first form of data type is one of the the digital form and the analog form, and the second form of data type is one of the digital form and the analog form that is different from the first form of data type. In other words, the first form of data type can be in digital form, and the corresponding second form of data type is in analog form, and vice versa. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/458475 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07493869 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administration of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Foster (Strongsville, Ohio); Michael J. Patterson (Brunswick, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an apparatus and method for producing very large area and large volume plasmas. The invention utilizes electron cylcotron resonances in conjunction with permanent magnets to produce dense, uniform plasmas for long life ion thruster applications or for plasma processing applications such as etching, deposition, ion milling and ion implantation. The large area source is at least five times larger than the 12-inch wafers being processed to date. Its rectangular shape makes it easier to accommodate to materials processing than sources that are circular in shape. The source itself represents the largest ECR ion source built to date. It is electrodeless and does not utilize electromagnets to generate the ECR magnetic circuit, nor does it make use of windows. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311183 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/723.AN0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495942 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Davis (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Jose Fortes (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined content addressable memory device and memory interface is provided. The combined device and interface includes one or more one molecular wire crossbar memories having spaced-apart key nanowires, spaced-apart value nanowires adjacent to the key nanowires, and configurable switches between the key nanowires and the value nanowires. The combination further includes a key microwire-nanowire grid (key MNG) electrically connected to the spaced-apart key nanowires, and a value microwire-nanowire grid (value MNG) electrically connected to the spaced-apart value nanowires. A key or value MNGs selects multiple nanowires for a given key or value. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/573630 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/49.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496237 | Dominguez |
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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) | Jesus A. Dominguez (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for enhancing a gray-scale image to improve conversions of the image to binary employs fuzzy reasoning. In the technique, pixels in the image are analyzed by comparing the pixel's gray scale value, which is indicative of its relative brightness, to the values of pixels immediately surrounding the selected pixel. The degree to which each pixel in the image differs in value from the values of surrounding pixels is employed as the variable in a fuzzy reasoning-based analysis that determines an appropriate amount by which the selected pixel's value should be adjusted to reduce vagueness and ambiguity in the image and improve retention of information during binarization of the enhanced gray-scale image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010698 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07495999 | Kemp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mathieu P. Kemp (Durham, North Carolina); Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina); Jeffrey Krolik (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An unmanned underwater vehicle for use in water and with at least one acoustic signal source includes a vehicle body, a steering mechanism to direct the vehicle body through the water, a propulsion device to force the vehicle body through the water, and an adaptive Doppler guidance and control (ADGC) system. The ADGC system is configured to receive acoustic signals from the at least one acoustic signal source and to control the steering mechanism using changes in at least one frequency component of the received acoustic signals caused by Doppler shifts. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495134 |
| 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 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496000 | Vosburgh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina); Charles A. Pell (Durham, North Carolina); Mathieu P. Kemp (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A water submersible communications device for use on a body of water includes a housing and a communications module. The housing has a geometric centroid. The housing is submersible in and floatable on the body of water. The communications module is mounted on and/or in the housing. A center of buoyancy of the communications device is located substantially at the geometric centroid of the housing. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/494941 |
| 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 367/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07496002 | Vosburgh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nekton Research LLC (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A submersible electronics device for use in a body of water and a substratum floor below the body of water includes a submersible housing, an operational electronics system, and a mobility system. The operational electronics system is mounted in and/or on the housing. The operational electronics system is adapted to communicate with another device and/or to sense at least one of a physical signal and an environmental parameter. The mobility system is selectively operable to fluidize the substratum, vibrate the housing, and/or adjust a buoyancy of the submersible electronics device to selectively move the housing into the substratum to at least partially bury the housing in the substratum and/or to selectively move the housing out of the substratum to at least partially unbury the housing from the substratum. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495957 |
| 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 367/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07494675 | Abbas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (Decatur, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Abbas (Champaign, Illinois); Thomas P. Binder (Decatur, Illinois); Kyle E. Beery (Decatur, Illinois); Michael J. Cecava (Decatur, Illinois); Perry H. Doane (Decatur, Illinois); David P. Holzgraefe (Quincy, Illinois); Leif P. Solheim (Decatur, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the production of ethanol and a modified animal feed is provided. The method replaces the starch in known corn-based animal feed with biomass fiber treated to make it more digestible by animals. The process includes wherein the pericarp and germ are removed from the corn kernel and processed for by-products. The starch and protein are also removed and separated. The starch is then fermented and distilled to ethanol and stillage. The bioavailable modified animal feed comprises the pericarp and germ removed from corn kernels and optionally by-products of the pericarp and germ processing, and lignocellulosic materials. The modified animal feed may optionally include energy materials such as animal and vegetable fats, vegetable soapstocks, or glycerin, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405724 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495221 | Vahey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Vahey (Madison, Wisconsin); Jun Yong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Carl J. Houtman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining a level of effective residual ink concentration (ERIC) in a piece of recycled paper. The piece of paper is illuminated with a beam of radiation and an amount of the beam of radiation reflected and transmitted by the piece of paper is measured. The level of ERIC is determined as a function of the reflected and transmitted radiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803484 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07495521 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Chen (Kent, Washington); Jimmy S Takeuchi (Mercer Island, Washington); Douglas A Pietila (Puyallup, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-channel circulator or isolator well suited for use in phased array antennas or other RF devices where space and packaging constraints make the implementation of a conventional circular or isolator difficult or impossible. The multi-channel circulator/isolator can be configured as an isolator by the inclusion of one or more load resistors at one of its ports. In various configurations two or more ferrite substrates are provided that each provide a plurality of transmission ports. One or more permanent magnets are used to simultaneously provide the magnetic flux field through both of the substrates. The substrates can be configured such that they are spaced apart by a small distance, or positioned face to face in contact with one another. One or a plurality of magnets can be used depending upon RF requirements. Each substrate forms an independent electromagnetic wave propagation channel that limits the propagation of RF energy between its ports in one direction only. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769272 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495592 | Moon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, California); Keh-Chung Wang (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A voltage comparator including a quantum tunneling coupled transistor and a method for tuning the voltage comparator. The comparator includes a quantum tunneling coupled transistor coupled to a resistor and is capable of operating above 10 Giga-samples-per-second or a clock rate of 10 GHz. The comparator has a low power consumption of about 1 mW excluding the power required for clock generation and independent from the sampling rate. The threshold or reference voltage of the comparator is controllable by adjusting the pulse height of the clock signal. The comparator has relatively low hysteresis estimated at about 1 mV. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/261746 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07494608 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S Ong (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising a liquid and a plurality of silver-containing nanoparticles with a stabilizer, wherein the silver-containing nanoparticles are a product of a reaction of a silver compound with a reducing agent comprising a hydrazine compound in the presence of a thermally removable stabilizer in a reaction mixture comprising the silver compound, the reducing agent, the stabilizer, and an organic solvent wherein the hydrazine compound is a hydrocarbyl hydrazine, a hydrocarbyl hydrazine salt, a hydrazide, a carbazate, a sulfonohydrazide, or a mixture thereof and wherein the stabilizer includes an organoamine. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/837023 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/514 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07495353 | Christensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Rockford, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Alan Christensen (Stillman Valley, Illinois); Darin R. Morman (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The power system for an aircraft includes a gear box. Multiple generators are driven by the gear box and are arranged in a circumferentially spaced manner, in one example. Each generator includes a power interconnect block providing a receptacle that receives an electrical lead. The receptacle provides a metallic insert having a hole that receives a connector arranged at an end of the electrical lead. The connectors are inserted into the hole in a direction that is generally parallel with an axis of rotation of a shaft of the generator. An axial retainer is secured between the electrical connector and the power interconnect block to axially locate the connector within the power interconnect block. A spring washer is arranged at a base of the hole to exert an axial force on the connector biasing it against the axial retainer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496792 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/40.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07494767 | Carter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Functional Genetics, Inc. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol Carter (Huntington, New York); Arthur Goff (Miller Place, New York); Lorna Ehrlich (Shoreham, New York); Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying peptides in a mammalian. Tsg101 protein that binds to the PTAPP (SEQ ID NO: 3) motif or L domain of human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1). Such peptides can be used to inhibit Tsg101-HIV Gag binding, and is therefore effective in reducing HIV particle production. The invention also provides the peptides identified by the method of the invention and to method of using such peptides for treating HIV infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/478753 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07495073 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Asia Hepato Gene Company (Koaohsiung, Taiwan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hey-Chi Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan); David C. P. Chen (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions including a novel short isoform of Annexin A10, termed Annexin 10s (ANXA10s) and methods of use. The compositions include nucleic acid molecules encoding ANXA10s, ANXA10s polypeptides, ANXA10s amino acid sequences and derivatives or modifications thereof. Included in these methods are the interrelation of the aberrant expressions of AFP, OPN, and the novel liver specific short isoform, ANXA10s, at human Chromosome 4q in the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aberrant expressions of AFP, OPN and ANXA10s are shown to act cooperatively toward advanced disease, which could be useful for diagnostic, molecular staging or treatment of a patient having HCC or at risk of developing HCC. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/088331 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 07496059 | Yoon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-June C. J. Yoon (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy efficient MAC protocol for a sensor network that extends the battery life of remotely located wireless nodes by employing MAC operations involving transmission of a wake-up signal with more processing gain, dynamic adjustment of a transmission rate of synchronization messages for fast time synchronization and an energy efficient neighboring node discovery technique. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007259 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP19771 | Anderson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil O. Anderson (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of chrysanthemum, ‘00-100-216’, characterized by it's early blooming habit with frost tolerant single daisy-type inflorescences with maroon red ray florets and gold disk florets, its vigorous shrub-like growth habit after two years of growth, its tight cushion plant form attained without pinching, and its good garden performance and winter hardiness. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006655 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
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 24, 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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