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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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| US 07497001 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence F. W. Hall (Santa Monica, California); Jonathan D. Bartley-Cho (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a technique which may be used in conjunction with an automated Z-pin insertion process to automatically monitor the insertion energy applied to the Z-pins during the initial insertion phase of the automated insertion process, and compare it to an empirically derived value for good insertions, thereafter allowing the insertion process to continue to a predetermined additional insertion depth before terminating the process. The insertion energy is calculated by cumulatively summing the insertion force and multiplying it by the insertion time, thus yielding the cumulative energy. At a specified, predetermined insertion depth, the energy accumulation is stopped and the value at the initial insertion depth is stored and compared to an empirically derived value. If the value is less than the empirical value, the insertion energy is too low, thus indicating that either a partial grid insertion is being encountered or defective Z-pins are being inserted. Insertion is allowed to continue until another empirically derived second insertion depth is reached whereat the insertion is terminated. The second depth is necessary for the continued insertion of partial grids to ensure that the Z-pins are fully inserted. The second depth is a function of the laminate thickness to ensure full depth insertions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288832 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/407.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07497164 | Laib |
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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) | Gerald Laib (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a thin film explosive detonator includes forming a substrate layer; depositing a metal layer in situ on the substrate layer; and reacting the metal layer to form a primary explosive layer. The method and apparatus formed thereby integrates fabrication of a micro-detonator in a monolithic MEMS structure using “in-situ” production of the explosive material within the apparatus, in sizes with linear dimensions below about 1 mm. The method is applicable to high-volume low-cost manufacturing of MEMS safety-and-arming devices. The apparatus can be initiated either electrically or mechanically at either a single point or multiple points, using energies of less than about 1 mJ. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981303 |
| 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 12/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07497573 | Warden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ophthonix, Inc. (Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence Warden (Poway, California); Andreas W. Dreher (Escondido, California); John Ferro (Santa Rosa, California); Jagdish M. Jethmalani (San Diego, California); Shui T. Lai (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for manufacturing an optical lens that is configured to correct optical aberrations, including, e.g., high order aberrations such as described by Zemike polynomials. The system can include a measurement system configured to measure optical aberrations in a patient's eye and to create measured optical aberration data. A calculation system is configured to receive the measured optical aberration data and to determine a lens definition based on the measured optical aberration data. A fabrication system is configured to produce a correcting lens based on the lens definition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634637 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07497664 | Walter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Walter (Melrose, Massachusetts); David Christensen (Newbury, Massachusetts); Caroline Curtis Granda (Concord, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Nussbaum (Wilmington, Massachusetts); Anna Wei (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Michael Macrorie (Winchester, Massachusetts); Tara Chaidez (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for fabricating a rotor blade for a gas turbine engine are provided. The rotor blade includes an airfoil having a first sidewall and a second sidewall, connected at a leading edge and at a trailing edge. The method includes forming the airfoil portion bounded by a root portion at a zero percent radial span and a tip portion at a one hundred percent radial span, the airfoil having a radial span dependent chord length C, a respective maximum thickness T, and a maximum thickness to chord length ratio (Tmax/C ratio), forming the root portion having a first Tmax/C ratio, forming the tip portion having a second Tmax/C ratio, and forming a mid portion extending between a first radial span and a second radial span having a third Tmax/C ratio, the third Tmax/C ratio being less than the first Tmax/C ratio and the second Tmax/C ratio. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204718 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/223.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07497968 | Ofer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ofer (Needham, Massachusetts); Bindu R. Nair (Framingham, Massachusetts); John D. Larouco (Milford, Massachusetts); William A. Stevenson (Concord, Massachusetts); Leslie S. Rubin (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features dilute solutions of rigid rod or extended rod lyotropic liquid crystalline polymers prepared from high concentration polymerization mixtures. The invention also features methods of preparing such dilute solutions which utilize high mechanical shear to induce mix the high concentration solution with a diluent. The invention further provides articles of manufacture, including films and fibers, having a porous microstructure which are prepared from the dilute homogeneous solutions of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134583 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498077 | Joseph et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian E. Joseph (Wheeling, West Virginia); Douglas J. Merriman (Wheeling, West Virginia); Robert Nolte (Wheeling, West Virginia); Matthew M. Rowe (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight, high strength structure is described where a core material has a first and second metal matrix composite layer on surfaces of the core material. A sandwich type structure may be formed. The core material may be a solid material, a foam, a honeycomb structure, or may be a channeled material. The metal matrix composite layers may include fiber reinforced metal matrix composites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000521 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/313.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498182 | Sampath 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) | Anand Venktesh Sampath (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Charles J. Collins (Austin, Texas); Gregory Alan Garrett (Kensington, Maryland); Paul Hongen Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An AlGaN composition is provided comprising a group III-Nitride active region layer, for use in an active region of a UV light emitting device, wherein light-generation occurs through radiative recombination of carriers in nanometer scale size, compositionally inhomogeneous regions having band-gap energy less than the surrounding material. Further, a semiconductor UV light emitting device having an active region layer comprised of the AlGaN composition above is provided, as well as a method of producing the AlGaN composition and semiconductor UV light emitting device, involving molecular beam epitaxy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376452 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498243 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaocheng Liu (Stanford, California); Michael D. Deal (Palo Alto, California); James D. Plummer (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Single-crystalline growth is realized using a liquid-phase crystallization approach involving the inhibition of defects typically associated with liquid-phase crystalline growth of lattice mismatched materials. According to one example embodiment, a semiconductor device structure includes a substantially single-crystal region. A liquid-phase material is crystallized to form the single-crystal region using an approach involving defect inhibition for the promotion of single-crystalline growth. In some instances, this defect inhibition involves the reduction and/or elimination of defects using a relatively small physical opening via which a crystalline growth front propagates. In other instances, this defect inhibition involves causing a change in crystallization front direction relative to a crystallization seed location. The relatively small physical opening and/or the change in crystalline front direction may be implemented, for example, using a material that is relatively unreactive with the liquid-phase material to contain the crystalline growth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/590223 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498276 | Wagner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Wagner (Newark, Delaware); Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An armor composite material has been invented which contains a fabric which has been impregnated with shear thickening fluid. This invention offers a ballistic resistant material that is more flexible and less bulky than comparable, conventional ballistic fabric. The material in the alternative can be puncture resistant. The invented material offers superior ballistic performance and/or puncture resistance compared to conventional ballistic fabric-based materials of equal thickness. The invented material can be applied to applications requiring armor that is compact and/or flexible, such as body armor, protective clothing and flexible protective devices and shields, and stab resistant clothing and devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/557312 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498331 | Gupta 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) | Raj K. Gupta (Walkersville, Maryland); Apurba K. Bhattacharjee (Silver Spring, Maryland); Donna Ma Lee (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a pharmacophore model for arthropod repellent activity and methods of making and using thereof. The pharmacophore comprises two hydrophobic aliphatic functions, one aromatic function and one hydrogen bond acceptor function. The pharmacophore model was made using a test set of arthropod repellent compounds. Also disclosed are arthropod repellent compounds identified by screening databases with the pharmacophore model. Also disclosed are methods of repelling arthropods from a surface or area. Compositions and formulations comprising the compounds of the present invention as well as objects having the compounds of the present invention are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701565 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498405 | Ge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GeneSoft Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yigong Ge (So. San Francisco, California); Matthew J. Taylor (San Francisco, California); Eldon E. Baird (Half Moon Bay, California); Roland W. Burli (San Francisco, California); Jacob A. Kaizerman (Redwood City, California); Amanda E. Martin (San Francisco, California); Brie Cadman (Napa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Halogen substituted thienyl compounds exhibit potential as nucleic acid (especially double stranded DNA) binders and as antibiotic compounds. A representative thienyl compound has the structure |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446598 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498407 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luyuan Li (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hongguang Pan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses two new VEGI isoforms named VEGI-192a and VEGI-192b consisting of 192 amino acid residues. These isoforms show endothelial cell-specific expression and share a C-terminal 151-residues segment with the previously described VEGI-174 and VEGI-251. Methods of using these isoforms of VEGI in diagnosing, screening agonist and antagonist of the isoforms, and treating various angiogenesis-related diseases are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294249 |
| 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 07498640 | Cabral, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cyril Cabral, Jr. (Ossining, New York); Kevin K. Chan (Staten Island, New York); Guy Moshe Cohen (Mohegan Lake, New York); Kathryn Wilder Guarini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Christian Lavoie (Ossining, New York); Paul Michael Solomon (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ying Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and structure formed thereby) of forming a metal silicide contact on a non-planar silicon containing region having controlled consumption of the silicon containing region, includes forming a blanket metal layer over the silicon containing region, forming a silicon layer over the metal layer, etching anisotropically and selectively with respect to the metal the silicon layer, reacting the metal with silicon at a first temperature to form a metal silicon alloy, etching unreacted portions of the metal layer, annealing at a second temperature to form an alloy of metal-Si2, and selectively etching the unreacted silicon layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437930 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498831 | Koons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Micah S. Koons (Plano, Texas); Donald R. Tolbert (McKinney, Texas); Mark A. Taylor (McKinney, Texas); Scott J. Martin (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a testing apparatus for executing highly accelerated life testing on at least one test subject including at least one structure operable to thermally stress the test subject via conduction and at least one pneumatic hammer operable to input imparting vibrations to the test subject. According to another embodiment of the invention, a method for executing highly accelerated life testing of at least one test subject via conduction at a rate of change of at least 8 ° C. per minute and imparting vibrations to the test subject at a rate of at least 3Gs rms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278765 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498915 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A fixed remanence rigid permanent magnetic structure is provided. The fixed remanence rigid permanent magnetic structure is fabricated from a number of superconductive magnetic segments composed of high temperature superconductive particles. The superconductive magnetic segments are characterized by unusually high transition temperatures and a capacity to trap magnetic flux. The fixed remanence permanent magnetic structure provides a fixed magnetic remanence B in the interior working space and offers stronger magnetic fields than currently available rigid permanent magnets. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288059 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499079 | Evans, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B. Evans, Jr. (Ellicott City, Maryland); James Weygandt (Riva, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Distributed Aperture Systems use multiple staring sensors distributed around a vehicle to provide automatic detection of targets, and to provide an imaging capability at all aspects. The sensor image data is “stitched” to make the camera joints transparent to the operator. For example, images from three different cameras may be combined into a single seamless mosaic. The output mosaic is suitable for rendering on a head-steered helmet mounted display or a multifunction console display. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082837 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499290 | Mazzola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Mazzola (Starkville, Mississippi); James R. Gafford (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Components, systems and methods for generating variable frequency AC voltage from a DC power supply are described. The components include a full-bridge (FB) parallel load resonant (PLR) converter which operates in discontinuous conduction mode. The PLR converter includes MOSFETs in an H-bridge configuration and employs a topology which minimizes inductance. The PLR converter can be coupled to a single or poly-phase bridge for use as an inverter. The inverter can be used to produce an AC sinusoidal waveform from a low voltage, high current DC power supply. Systems and techniques for modulating the output from the PLR converter to produce an AC sinusoidal waveform having desired characteristics, including frequency and voltage, are also provided. The PLR converter can also be coupled to a rectifier for use as a DC-DC converter. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132205 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499313 | Katti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Shorewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonvolatile memory and a method of operating the memory are described. The memory includes memory cells that may each include a magnetoresistive memory bit. The memory includes toggle circuitry for altering the resistive states of memory cells within the memory without changing the logical states of the memory cells. The memory may be toggled to balance resistive decay associated with operating a memory bit under certain conditions or in extreme environments. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446547 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499653 | Yap |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-wavelength photonic oscillator has a plurality of lasers each emitting light at a different frequency. An optical wavelength multiplexer combines the light emitted by the plurality of lasers at an output thereof as a set of optical wavelengths. An optical modulator is arranged in a feedback loop and coupled to receive light at the output of the optical wavelength multiplexer, the feedback loop further including an optical tap for coupling at least a subset of said set of optical wavelengths to at least one optical output of the multi-wavelength photonic modulator; at least one optical channel having an associated photodetector arranged to receive light from the optical tap via the at least one optical channel; and an electronic loop portion coupled to receive output from the at least one associated photodetector and to provide an input for the optical modulator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786721 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07500002 | Karger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Karger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eric Lehman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); F. Thomson Leighton (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Matthew Levine (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel Lewin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rina Panagrahy (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for requesting data from one of a plurality of actual servers. A virtual network of servers is generated in response to a data request. A first virtual server in the virtual network is chosen randomly, and a path generated from the first virtual server to a root virtual server. At least one virtual server on the path is mapped to a respective one of the plurality of actual servers and data is requested therefrom. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268679 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07500158 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Referentia Systems, Inc. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kei Smith (Honolulu, Hawaii); Leslie Lauren W. Y. Yuen (Honolulu, Hawaii); Christopher M. Gouveia (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for identifying configuration parameters for a network device are provided. The method includes generating a stream of traffic data, where the traffic data has a known characteristic. Then, applying the stream of traffic data to the network device, where the network device has a specific type, and the network device generates an output based on the traffic data. The method then includes monitoring performance of the network device while the traffic data is processed by the network device, and the monitoring is configured to generate monitoring data for the traffic data applied to the network device having the specific type. Also, the method includes analyzing the output from the network device, where the analyzing is performed to identify how the traffic data was handled by the network device, and the analyzing is configured to generate performance metrics. The method further includes saving the monitoring data and the performance metrics to a knowledge database. The knowledge database is capable of being accessed to enable configuration of other network devices based in part on the monitoring data and performance metrics. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483054 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/708 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07500213 | DeHon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | André DeHon (Pasadena, California); Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An architecture for nanoscale electronics is disclosed. The architecture comprises arrays of crossed nanoscale wires having selectively programmable crosspoints. Nanoscale wires of one array are shared by other arrays, thus providing signal propagation between the arrays. Nanoscale signal restoration elements are also provided, allowing an output of a first array to be used as an input to a second array. Signal restoration occurs without routing of the signal to non-nanoscale wires. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/344884 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07500266 | Vukelich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Francis Vukelich (Nashua, New Hampshire); John Houston Lowry (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Derrick Kong (Somerville, Massachusetts); Wilson Wrenshall Farrell, Jr. (Lexington, Massachusetts); Kenneth Burton Theriault (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device (120) processes traffic in a network. The device (120) obtains information corresponding to an activity between a group of source devices and one or more services of destination devices, measures, for each of the group of source devices, a behavior of the source activity in terms of independence and uniformity of access to the one or more services, and determines, for each of the group of source devices, whether the source activity includes probing based on the measured behavior. The device (120) also determines, for each of the group of source devices, a similarity factor representing a similarity between the source activity of one of the group of source devices and another of the group of source devices, compares the similarity factors for each pair of source devices to a threshold, and groups source devices when the similar factor for those source devices are below the threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308683 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07497133 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Anna Markidou (Souni-Limassol, Cyprus); Steven T. Szweczyk (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Hakki Yegingil (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A PEFS (Piezoelectric Finger Sensor) acts as an “electronic finger” capable of accurately and non-destructively measuring both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus of tissues with gentle touches to the surface. The PEFS measures both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus variations in tissue generating a less than one-millimeter spatial resolution up to a depth of several centimeters. This offers great potential for in-vivo early detection of diseases. A portable hand-held device is also disclosed. The PEF offers superior sensitivity. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136173 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07497573 | Warden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ophthonix, Inc. (Vista, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence Warden (Poway, California); Andreas W. Dreher (Escondido, California); John Ferro (Santa Rosa, California); Jagdish M. Jethmalani (San Diego, California); Shui T. Lai (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for manufacturing an optical lens that is configured to correct optical aberrations, including, e.g., high order aberrations such as described by Zemike polynomials. The system can include a measurement system configured to measure optical aberrations in a patient's eye and to create measured optical aberration data. A calculation system is configured to receive the measured optical aberration data and to determine a lens definition based on the measured optical aberration data. A fabrication system is configured to produce a correcting lens based on the lens definition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634637 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Megan Sykes (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Antagonists of T cell migration are used to reduce GVHD in recipients of hematopoietic cell grafts. The administration of antagonists of T cell migration can be used in combination with conventional methods of bone marrow transplantation and in combination with the administration of donor leukocytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/437707 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498025 | Briesewitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Briesewitz (Mountain View, California); Gerald R. Crabtree (Woodside, California); Thomas J. Wandless (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Targeted bifunctional molecules and methods for their use are provided. The subject targeted bifunctional molecules are conjugates of a drug moiety and a targeting moiety, where these two moieties are optionally joined by a linking group. The bifunctional molecules are further characterized in that they exhibit a modulated biodistribution upon administration to a host as compared to a free drug control. The subject targeted bifunctional molecules find use in a variety of therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/716842 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498029 | Hasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tayyaba Hasan (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark D. Savellano (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Mihaela Skobe (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to photosensitizer immunoconjugate compositions and combination therapies for use in cancer related photodynamic treatments and diagnostic methods. Photosensitizer immunoconjugates comprising a photosensitizer conjugated to a tumor-specific and/or tumoricidial antibody and processes for the preparation thereof are described. The use of photosensitizer immunoconjugates (PICs) offers improved photosensitizer delivery specificity for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Combination therapies to co-localize activated photosensitizer compounds and tumoricidal antibodies in tumor tissues are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/137029 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498047 | Day et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Day (Englewood, Colorado); Richard T. Sawyer (Rockville, Maryland); Lee S. Newman (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for therapy of cystic fibrosis and other conditions are provided. The methods comprise one or more agents capable of increasing thiol-containing compound transport via a transporter system (i.e. ABC transporters such as MDR-1 or MRP-2) in cells. Other embodiments include the use of agents to modulate transport of thiol-containing compounds within the cell. Therapeutic methods involve the administration of such agents to a patient afflicted with cystic fibrosis and/or another condition responsive to stimulation of thiol-containing compound transport. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211369 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498134 | Gu 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) | Wei Gu (New York, New York); Muyang Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for diagnosing neoplasia, assessing the efficacy of therapy to treat neoplasia, assessing the prognosis of a subject who has neoplasia, and treating neoplasia. The present invention also provides a kit for use in detecting neoplasia. The present invention further provides methods for deubiquitinating and/or stabilizing Mdm2 in a cell, and for modulating deubiquitination and/or stability of p53 in a cell. Additionally, the present invention provides a method for identifying a modulator of Mdm2-HAUSP interaction. Also provided is a modulator identified by this method, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the modulator, and use of the modulator in a method of treating neoplasia. The present invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that is reactive with Mdm2 and an agent that is reactive with HAUSP. Also provided are agents identified by these methods. Finally, the present invention provides a complex comprising Mdm2 and HAUSP. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/813177 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 07498142 | Yarden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co., Ltd. (Rechovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yosef Yarden (Rechovot, Israel); Michael Sela (Rechovot, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying a combination of antibodies with a combined improved anti tumor activity is provided. The method comprising identifying at least two anti RTK antibodies capable of inducing synergistic endocytosis of the RTK in a cell expressing the RTK, thereby identifying the combination of antibodies with the combined improved anti-tumor activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342615 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498143 | Handfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Handfield (Gainesville, Florida); Jeffrey Daniel Hillman (Gainesville, Florida); Ann Progulske-Fox (Keystone Heights, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies, polypeptides, and polynucleotides are provided for the detection, prevention, amelioration and treatment of diseases caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333747 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498167 | Comer et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn-Allen Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin tissue, and in particular to cultured skin tissue comprising exogenous genes encoding angiogenic growth factors. In some embodiments, the keratinocytes express exogenous angiopoietin-1 or a member of the VEGF family, preferably VEGF-A. In particularly preferred embodiments, the keratinocytes are incorporated into cultured skin tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425784 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498297 | Szeto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York); Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel Szeto (New York, New York); Peter W. Schiller (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for stimulating a mu-opioid receptor agonist peptide in a mammal in need thereof. The methods comprise administering to the mammal an effective amount of a selective mu-opioid receptor agonist peptide that comprises at least two α-amino acid residues. At least one of the amino acid residues has a positive charge. The amino acid residue in the first position is a tyrosine or tyrosine derivative. The amino acid in the second position is a D-α-amino acid. The present invention also provides methods of treating a mammal suffering from conditions or diseases by administering to the mammal an effective amount of the peptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/333485 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — 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 07498300 | Rivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Wyle W. Vale, Jr. (La Jolla, California); Marilyn H. Perrin (La Jolla, California); Jozsef Gulyas (Julian, California) |
| ABSTRACT | CRF peptide analogs that bind to CRFR1 with an affinity far greater than they bind to CRFR2. These analogs exhibit CRF agonist activity. One exemplary analog that may be made by solid-phase synthesis is (cyclo 31-34)[Ac-Pro4, D-Phe12, Nle21,38, Glu31, Lys34]-r/hCRF(4-41). |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/763935 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
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| US 07498305 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Griffin (Del Mar, California); Laurent O. Mosnier (San Diego, California); Andrew J. Gale (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Variants (mutants) of recombinant activated protein C (APC) or recombinant protein C (prodrug, capable of being converted to APC) that have substantial reductions in anticoagulant activity but that retain normal levels of anti-apoptotic activity are provided. Two examples of such recombinant APC mutants are KKK191-193AAA-APC and RR229/230M-APC. APC variants and prodrugs of the invention have the desirable property of being cytoprotective (anti-apoptotic effects), while having significantly reduced risk of bleeding. The invention also provides a method of using the APC variants or prodrugs of the invention to treat subjects who will benefit from APC's cytoprotective activities that are independent of APC's anticoagulant activity. These subjects include patients at risk of damage to blood vessels or tissue in various organs caused, at least in part, by apoptosis. At risk patients include, for example, those suffering (severe) sepsis, ischemia/reperfusion injury, ischemic stroke, acute myocardial infarction, acute or chronic neurodegenerative diseases, or those undergoing organ transplantation or chemotherapy, among other conditions. Methods of screening for variants of recombinant protein C or APC that are useful in accordance with the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886766 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07498316 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuoshang Xu (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Xugang Xia (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel methods for treating dominant gain-of-function diseases. The invention provides methods for targeting regions of the copper zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1), which causes inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with RNAi agent. The invention further provides RNAi resistant replacement genes containing mismatches with their respective RNAi agent s. The invention also provides for vectors that express RNAi agent and RNAi resistant replacement gene of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101162 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498336 | Weissman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); BioVeris Corporation (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan M. Weissman (Bethesda, Maryland); Karen H. Vousden (Glasgow, United Kingdom); Jane P. Jensen (Potomac, Maryland); Yili Yang (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Shengyun Fang (Potomac, Maryland); Douglas Woods (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John H. Kenten (Boyds, Maryland); Ilia Davydov (North Potomac, Maryland); Yassamin J. Safiran (Potomac, Maryland); Pankaj Oberoi (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features 5-deazaflavin compounds, pharmaceutical compositions of 5-deazaflavin compounds and methods of treating a patient suffering from cancer, the method comprising administering to a patient one or more 5-deazaflavin compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/545547 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498394 | Bowman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Jeffrey W. Stansbury (Centennial, Colorado); Kathryn A. Berchtold (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jun Nie (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel (meth)acrylic and (meth)acrylamide monomers and polymers produced from those monomers. The monomers of the invention each include only a single vinyl functionality and at least one non-vinyl functionality that can be varied to achieve desired monomer/polymer properties. The invention additionally provides methods of producing polymers from these mono-vinyl monomers. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/547220 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/301 |
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| US 07498407 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luyuan Li (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hongguang Pan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses two new VEGI isoforms named VEGI-192a and VEGI-192b consisting of 192 amino acid residues. These isoforms show endothelial cell-specific expression and share a C-terminal 151-residues segment with the previously described VEGI-174 and VEGI-251. Methods of using these isoforms of VEGI in diagnosing, screening agonist and antagonist of the isoforms, and treating various angiogenesis-related diseases are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294249 |
| 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 |
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| US 07498411 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne Y. Wei (Little Rock, Arkansas); Xiaomin Zhang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated p49/STRAP protein, and isolated nucleic acids encoding a p49/STRAP protein. The inventors have discovered a new protein, named p49/STRAP that is expressed in cardiac tissue and other tissues in mammals. The p49/STRAP protein binds to serum response factor (SRF) and regulates transcription of SRF-responsive genes in the heart. p49/STRAP is also discovered to inhibit tumor cell proliferation, and thus the invention provides a method of inhibiting cancer cell proliferation by contacting the cells with p49/STRAP. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726699 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07498419 | Fremont et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daved H. Fremont (St. Louis, Missouri); Grant Nybakken (St. Louis, Missouri); Michael Diamond (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides crystalline forms of domain III of the West Nile Virus (“WNV”) envelope protein in complex with a Fab fragment of a neutralizing antibody, methods of obtaining such crystals and high-resolution structures and atomic structure coordinates. The crystals of the invention and the atomic structural information are useful for solving crystal and solution structures of related and unrelated proteins, and for screening for, identifying or designing compounds or antibodies that bind to, modulate a biological activity of, or neutralize infection mediated by flaviviral envelope proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251227 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499166 | Albertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donna G. Albertson (Lafayette, California); Daniel Pinkel (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an imaging system for high-accuracy quantitative analysis of a microarray. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a broad band excitation light source that provides Kohler illumination of said microarray at an incident angle that ranges from about 30 degrees to about 75 degrees from the normal to the microarray, and that has less than about ±25 percent variation in intensity over the array at all wavelengths ranging from 400 to 800 nm; a support for holding a microarray; a detection lens system that is chromatically corrected so the apparent position of the microarray or a feature comprising the microarray varies by less than 10 μm as the detection wavelength varies from about 400 to about 800 nm; and a detection device for detecting and optionally recording an image produced by said detection lens system. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850986 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499754 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California); James Little (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a retinal prosthesis with an improved configuration mounting necessary components within and surrounding the eye. The present invention better allows for the implantation of electronics within the delicate eye structure. The invention further limits the necessary width of a thin film conductor passing through the sclera by use of a multiplexer external to the sclera and a demultiplexer internal to the sclera. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499536 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Kubinski (Canton, Michigan); Garry Zawacki (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for improving sensor performance of an on-board vehicle sensor, such as an exhaust gas sensor, while sensing a predetermined substance in a fluid flowing through a pipe include a structure for extending into the pipe and having at least one inlet for receiving fluid flowing through the pipe and at least one outlet generally opposite the at least one inlet, wherein the structure redirects substantially all fluid flowing from the at least one inlet to the sensor to provide a representative sample of the fluid to the sensor before returning the fluid through the at least one outlet. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/308325 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/866.500 |
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| US 07497993 | Baker 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) | Gary A. Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sheila N. Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a fluorescent temperature sensor or optical thermometer. The sensor includes a solution of 1,3-bis(1-pyrenyl)propane within a 1-butyl-1-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ionic liquid solvent. The 1,3-bis(1-pyrenyl)propane remains unassociated when in the ground state while in solution. When subjected to UV light, an excited state is produced that exists in equilibrium with an excimer. The position of the equilibrium between the two excited states is temperature dependent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934454 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.120 |
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| US 07498001 | Tonkovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Lee Y. Tonkovich (Pasco, Washington); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Yufei Gao (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a catalyst having a layered structure with, (1) a porous support, (2) a buffer layer, (3) an interfacial layer, and optionally (4) a catalyst layer. The invention also provides a process in which a reactant is converted to a product by passing through a reaction chamber containing the catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822839 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/190 |
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| US 07498063 | Pui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Y. H. Pui (Plymouth, Minnesota); Da-Ren Chen (Creve Coeur, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Spraying apparatus and methods that employ multiple nozzle structures for producing multiple sprays of particles, e.g., nanoparticles, for various applications, e.g., pharmaceuticals, are provided. For example, an electrospray dispensing device may include a plurality of nozzle structures, wherein each nozzle structure is separated from adjacent nozzle structures by an internozzle distance. Sprays of particles are established from the nozzle structures by creating a nonuniform electrical field between the nozzle structures and an electrode electrically isolated therefrom. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889341 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/479 |
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| US 07498102 | Oh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Yoo-Eup Hyung (Lisle, Illinois); Donald R. Vissers (Naperville, Illinois); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nonaqueous and nonvolatile liquid type polymeric electrolyte comprising poly(siloxane-g-ethylene oxide). This electrolyte provides significant safety and stability. The present invention solves the problems of volatility, flammability and chemical reactivity of lithium ion type electrolytes. The disclosed electrolyte exhibits excellent stability, conductivity and low impedance characteristics. The electrolyte comprises a new class of structural siloxane polymers with one or more poly(ethylene oxide) side chains. The inorganic siloxanes comprising the main backbone of the copolymers are thermally very stable and resistant to decomposition by heat. Because the main chain of the disclosed class of electrolytes is an Si—O linkage, initiation of the combustion cycle is inhibited or prevented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167940 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/313 |
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| US 07498155 | Lovley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek R. Lovley (Leyden, Massachusetts); Gemma Reguera (Granby, Massachusetts); Kevin D. McCarthy (South Hadley, Massachusetts); Mark T. Tuominem (Shutesbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Conductive nanowires, as are available from a range of bacteria species, methods of use and related device structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371775 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/71.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498446 | Hiskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Hiskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); My Hang V. Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a compound of the formula (Cat)+z[M++(5-nitro-1H-tetrazolato-N2)−x(H2O)y] where x is 3 or 4, y is 2 or 3, x+y is 6, z is 1 or 2, and M++ is selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, chromium, and manganese, and (Cat)+ is selected from the group consisting of ammonium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium. A method of preparing the compound of that formula is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/055248 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498551 | Werner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Werner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Peter M. Goodwin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Guillaume Lessard (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method were used to track the movement of fluorescent particles in three dimensions. Control software was used with the apparatus to implement a tracking algorithm for tracking the motion of the individual particles in glycerol/water mixtures. Monte Carlo simulations suggest that the tracking algorithms in combination with the apparatus may be used for tracking the motion of single fluorescent or fluorescently labeled biomolecules in three dimensions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544988 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/203.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498585 | Denton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Bonner Denton (Tucson, Arizona); Roger Sperline (Tucson, Arizona); David W. Koppenaal (Richland, Washington); Charles J. Barinaga (Richland, Washington); Gary Hieftje (Bloomington, Indiana); James H. Barnes, IV (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Eugene Atlas (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A charged particle detector and method are disclosed providing for simultaneous detection and measurement of charged particles at one or more levels of particle flux in a measurement cycle. The detector provides multiple and independently selectable levels of integration and/or gain in a fully addressable readout manner. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399966 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498592 | Hershkowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah Hershkowitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Longmier (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Baalrud (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron generating device extracts electrons, through an electron sheath, from plasma produced using RF fields. The electron sheath is located near a grounded ring at one end of a negatively biased conducting surface, which is normally a cylinder. Extracted electrons pass through the grounded ring in the presence of a steady state axial magnetic field. Sufficiently large magnetic fields and/or RF power into the plasma allow for helicon plasma generation. The ion loss area is sufficiently large compared to the electron loss area to allow for total non-ambipolar extraction of all electrons leaving the plasma. Voids in the negatively-biased conducting surface allow the time-varying magnetic fields provided by the antenna to inductively couple to the plasma within the conducting surface. The conducting surface acts as a Faraday shield, which reduces any time-varying electric fields from entering the conductive surface, i.e. blocks capacitive coupling between the antenna and the plasma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427273 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498681 | Kellogg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick Allen Kellogg (Tijeras, New Mexico); Jay Kristoffer Brotz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electromechanical devices that generate an electrical signal in response to an external source of mechanical vibrations can operate as a sensor of vibrations and as an energy harvester for converting mechanical vibration to electrical energy. The devices incorporate a magnet that is movable through a gap in a ferromagnetic circuit, wherein a coil is wound around a portion of the ferromagnetic circuit. A flexible coupling is used to attach the magnet to a frame for providing alignment of the magnet as it moves or oscillates through the gap in the ferromagnetic circuit. The motion of the magnet can be constrained to occur within a substantially linear range of magnetostatic force that develops due to the motion of the magnet. The devices can have ferromagnetic circuits with multiple arms, an array of magnets having alternating polarity and, encompass micro-electromechanical (MEM) devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688981 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498968 | Bielek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Bielek (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas G. Thompson (Albuqerque, New Mexico); Bruce C. Walker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | High resolution SAR images of a target scene at near video rates can be produced by using overlapped, but nevertheless, full-size synthetic apertures. The SAR images, which respectively correspond to the apertures, can be analyzed in sequence to permit detection of movement in the target scene. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/674264 |
| 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 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499476 | Hutton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Hutton (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-compact free electron laser comprising a pair of opposed superconducting cavities that produce identical electron beams moving in opposite directions such that each set of superconducting cavities accelerates one electron beam and decelerates the other electron beam. Such an arrangement, allows the energy used to accelerate one beam to be recovered and used again to accelerate the second beam, thus, each electron beam is decelerated by a different structure than that which accelerated it so that energy exchange rather than recovery is achieved resulting in a more compact and highly efficient apparatus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900342 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499807 | Tolmachev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksey V. Tolmachev (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for recalibrating mass spectrometry data that provide improvement in both mass accuracy and precision by adjusting for experimental variance in parameters that have a substantial impact on mass measurement accuracy. Optimal coefficients are determined using correlated pairs of mass values compiled by matching sets of measured and putative mass values that minimize overall effective mass error and mass error spread. Coefficients are subsequently used to correct mass values for peaks detected in the measured dataset, providing recalibration thereof. Sub-ppm mass measurement accuracy has been demonstrated on a complex fungal proteome after recalibration, providing improved confidence for peptide identifications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524028 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07499841 — Application for managing model-based material properties for simulation-based engineering
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward L. Hoffman (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An application for generating a property set associated with a constitutive model of a material includes a first program module adapted to receive test data associated with the material and to extract loading conditions from the test data. A material model driver is adapted to receive the loading conditions and a property set and operable in response to the loading conditions and the property set to generate a model response for the material. A numerical optimization module is adapted to receive the test data and the model response and operable in response to the test data and the model response to generate the property set. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887789 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07498102 | Oh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Yoo-Eup Hyung (Lisle, Illinois); Donald R. Vissers (Naperville, Illinois); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nonaqueous and nonvolatile liquid type polymeric electrolyte comprising poly(siloxane-g-ethylene oxide). This electrolyte provides significant safety and stability. The present invention solves the problems of volatility, flammability and chemical reactivity of lithium ion type electrolytes. The disclosed electrolyte exhibits excellent stability, conductivity and low impedance characteristics. The electrolyte comprises a new class of structural siloxane polymers with one or more poly(ethylene oxide) side chains. The inorganic siloxanes comprising the main backbone of the copolymers are thermally very stable and resistant to decomposition by heat. Because the main chain of the disclosed class of electrolytes is an Si—O linkage, initiation of the combustion cycle is inhibited or prevented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/167940 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498651 | Van Zeghbroeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsemi Corporation (Bend, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bart Van Zeghbroeck (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a variety of junction termination structures for high voltage semiconductor power devices. The structures are specifically aimed at providing a high breakdown voltage while being constructed with a minimal number of process steps. The combination of an RIE etch and/or implantation and anneal process with a finely patterned mesh provides the desired radial gradient for maximum breakdown voltage. The structures provide control of both the conductivity and charge density within the region. These structures can beneficially be applied to all high voltage semiconductor device structures, but are of particular interest for wide bandgap devices as they tend to have very high breakdown fields and scaled dimensions of the depletion layer width. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/286144 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499711 | Hoctor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Thomas Hoctor (Saratoga Springs, New York); John Erik Hershey (Ballston Lake, New York); Nick Andrew Van Stralen (Ballston Lake, New York); Harold Woodruff Tomlinson, Jr. (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involve determining the location of objects within an area of interest using wireless signals. The system includes at least three base stations communicating with a central processor and a plurality of mobile devices. Further, at least one fixed beacon transmitter of known location may be provided. The mobile devices transmit a wireless signal to the base stations, which then determine a location of the mobile devices based on time difference of arrival information between the mobile devices measured at all the base stations. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/609891 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/456.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07500255 | Seigler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Allen Seigler (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas William Clinton (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mark William Covington (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christophe Daniel Mihalcea (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A data writing system includes an array of cells for storing data and a write transducer that moves over a selected cell in the array of cells. The write transducer includes a writer producing a write magnetic field that intersects the selected cell. The write transducer also includes a plasmon resonator that is adjacent the writer. The plasmon resonator is shaped to receive lower power density radiation and to provide plasmon radiation at a higher power density to an optical spot intersecting with the selected cell. The plasmon radiation heats the selected cell above a write temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/879447 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic optical information storage or retrieval 720/658 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07498286 | Manthiram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arumugam Manthiram (Austin, Texas); Raghuveer Vadari (Austin, Texas); Allen J. Bard (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, system and method for screening and making one or more electrocatalysts, electrocatalyst arrays, electrodes and catalysts for an oxygen reduction reaction with a Group VIII noble metal in contact with a component-M o form a Group VIII noble metal-M alloy, wherein component-M is one or more metals selected from Groups IIIA, IVA, VIII, IB, IIB, VB, VIB, VIIB and VIIIB of the Periodic Table. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/274391 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498394 | Bowman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Jeffrey W. Stansbury (Centennial, Colorado); Kathryn A. Berchtold (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jun Nie (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel (meth)acrylic and (meth)acrylamide monomers and polymers produced from those monomers. The monomers of the invention each include only a single vinyl functionality and at least one non-vinyl functionality that can be varied to achieve desired monomer/polymer properties. The invention additionally provides methods of producing polymers from these mono-vinyl monomers. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/547220 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498432 | Redko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Redko (East Lansing, Michigan); James E. Jackson (Haslett, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing compound 1,4,7,10,13,16,21,24-octaazabicyclo[8.8.8]hexacosa, 4,6,13,15,21,23-hexaene (2) and then compound 1,4,7,10,13,16,21,24-octaazabicyclo[8.8.8]hexacosane (1) from compound (2) is described. The process uses a reaction between triaminoethylamine and glyoxal in the presence of water, alcohol and tertiary amine at low temperature to produce compound 2. Then compound 1 is produced from compound 2 by reduction with an alkali metal containing ammonia as the reductant. The compounds are aza cryptands which are used to bind metals and the like for electrides, and in alkalides, medicine and water treatment, for instance. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866858 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07500002 | Karger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Karger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eric Lehman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); F. Thomson Leighton (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Matthew Levine (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel Lewin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rina Panagrahy (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for requesting data from one of a plurality of actual servers. A virtual network of servers is generated in response to a data request. A first virtual server in the virtual network is chosen randomly, and a path generated from the first virtual server to a root virtual server. At least one virtual server on the path is mapped to a respective one of the plurality of actual servers and data is requested therefrom. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268679 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07497443 | Steinetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce M. Steinetz (Westlake, Ohio); Patrick H. Dunlap, Jr. (Wickliffe, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A resilient, flexible, pressure-activated, high-temperature seal is adapted to be interposed between high and low pressure regions to provide sealing between opposing surfaces of adjacent relatively movable structures. The seal comprises at least one C-shaped sheet element. The C-shaped element design enables the seal to be pressure-activated to provide a radially outward biasing force, responsive to a seal-activating pressure differential acting across the seal thereby increasing resiliency. A centrally-located, resilient core structure provides load bearing and insulating properties. In an exemplary embodiment where at least two seal elements are used, each layer has a cutout slot pattern and the remaining strip material pattern. The slots provide flexibility to the seal, enabling the seal to be manually contoured to seal around corners and curves. The strip material of each layer covers the slots in each adjacent layer to minimize leakage through the slots. Attached barrier strips can block interface leakage between the seal and the opposing surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121850 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498592 | Hershkowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah Hershkowitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Longmier (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Baalrud (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron generating device extracts electrons, through an electron sheath, from plasma produced using RF fields. The electron sheath is located near a grounded ring at one end of a negatively biased conducting surface, which is normally a cylinder. Extracted electrons pass through the grounded ring in the presence of a steady state axial magnetic field. Sufficiently large magnetic fields and/or RF power into the plasma allow for helicon plasma generation. The ion loss area is sufficiently large compared to the electron loss area to allow for total non-ambipolar extraction of all electrons leaving the plasma. Voids in the negatively-biased conducting surface allow the time-varying magnetic fields provided by the antenna to inductively couple to the plasma within the conducting surface. The conducting surface acts as a Faraday shield, which reduces any time-varying electric fields from entering the conductive surface, i.e. blocks capacitive coupling between the antenna and the plasma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427273 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07499490 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Aliazam Abbasfar (Cupertino, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California); Samuel J. Dolinar (Sunland, California); Jeremy C. Thorpe (Redlands, California); Kenneth S. Andrews (Pasadena, California); Kung Yao (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus to encode message input symbols in accordance with an accumulate-repeat-accumulate code with repetition three or four are disclosed. Block circulant matrices are used. A first method and apparatus make use of the block-circulant structure of the parity check matrix. A second method and apparatus use block-circulant generator matrices. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/166041 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07498167 | Comer et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn-Allen Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin tissue, and in particular to cultured skin tissue comprising exogenous genes encoding angiogenic growth factors. In some embodiments, the keratinocytes express exogenous angiopoietin-1 or a member of the VEGF family, preferably VEGF-A. In particularly preferred embodiments, the keratinocytes are incorporated into cultured skin tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/425784 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solus Solutions and Technologies, LLC (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Wood (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for the reduction of aerodynamic drag and for improved performance and stability of ground vehicles by reducing the mass and velocity of the flow passing under a vehicle is described. The device is particularly suited for a tractor-trailer truck system that includes a motorized lead vehicle pulling one or more non-motorized vehicles. The device is designed to control the flow from entering the undercarriage region from the side of a trailer of a tractor-trailer truck system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811541 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07498151 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Schwartz (Iowa City, Iowa); Brian C. Schutte (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods to identify polymorphisms at the human TLR4 locus, as well as methods to identify individuals at risk of indications that increase their morbidity and mortality. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517172 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP19795 | 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, ‘01-127-1’, characterized by it's early blooming habit with frost tolerant daisy-type inflorescences with light lavender 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 | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803967 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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