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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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| US 07509869 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jack Chen (Urbana, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated pressure sensor. The pressure sensor comprises a raised diaphragm disposed on a substrate. The diaphragm is configured to bend in response to an applied pressure difference. A strain gauge of a conductive material is coupled to a surface of the raised diaphragm and to at least one of the substrate and a piece rigidly connected to the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880134 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510145 | Snediker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Snediker (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A UAV recovery system is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment for UAV recovery over water, the system includes ship-based elements and UAV-based elements. The UAV-based elements include a mass, such as ball, that is coupled to cord, which is in turn coupled to the tail of a UAV. The ship-based elements include a capture plate and a boom, wherein the boom is pivotably coupled to the deck of a ship. For use in recovery operations, the boom is rotated so that it extends over the side of the ship. A UAV is flown over the boom toward the capture plate at an altitude such that the mass that is attached to the tail of the UAV hangs lower than the capture plate. With continued forward motion, the cord that hangs from the UAV is captured by a grooves in the capture plate. The capture plate geometrically constrains the mass, thereby assuring positive capture of the UAV. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327616 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/110.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510195 | Usui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshio Usui (Torrance, California); Tom Iles (Rancho Palos Verde, California); Trung N. Tran (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A piston ring for use at temperatures above 350° F. at pressures greater than or equal to about 2000 psi, comprising a gap having a gap width about 1.4 to about 2.0 times greater than a thickness of the piston ring; a height about 4.5 to about 6.4 times larger than the thickness, and a leading edge characterized by an arc having a radius of curvature of less than or equal to about 4 times the height. The piston ring may be formed of a material comprising cobalt, chromium, tungsten, and carbon. A gas compressor and method of sealing a piston using the above piston ring is also provided for. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719223 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510369 | Lytle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C Lytle (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A split shroud system for a gas turbine engine having a pair of annular-shaped shrouds that each have an inner pocket; to form a pair of inner pockets. Each of the pair of pockets having liner parts that form a circle. Liner parts of one of the pair of pockets facing liner parts of the other of the pair of pockets to form liner part pairs. One of each of said of pair of liner parts has a mutual abutting surface that forms a plurality of slots for accepting a plurality of vane inner trunnions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/219177 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510370 | Strangman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Strangman (Prescott, Arizona); Derek Raybould (Denville, New Jersey); Paul Chipko (Blairstown, New Jersey); Malak F. Malak (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade tip and shroud clearance control coating system comprising an abrasive blade tip coating and an abradable shroud coating are provided. The abrasive layer may comprise abrasive particles of cubic zirconia, cubic hafnia or mixtures thereof, and the abradable layer may be a nanolaminate thermal barrier coating that is softer than the abrasive layer. The invention further provides an alternate coating system comprising an abradable blade tip coating and an abrasive shroud coating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227780 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510536 | Foley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica L. Foley (Seattle, Washington); Shahram Vaezy (Seattle, Washington); James W. Little (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to treat neurological structures to achieve a desired therapeutic affect. Depending on the dosage of HIFU applied, it can have a reversible or irreversible effect on neural structures. For example, a relatively high dose of HIFU can be used to permanently block nerve function, to provide a non-invasive alternative to severing a nerve to treat severe spasticity. Relatively lower doses of HIFU can be used to reversible a block nerve function, to alleviate pain, to achieve an anesthetic effect, or to achieve a cosmetic effect. Where sensory nerves are not necessary for voluntary function, but are involved in pain associated with tumors or bone cancer, HIFU can be used to non-invasively destroy such sensory nerves to alleviate pain without drugs. Preferably, ultrasound imaging synchronized to the HIFU therapy is used to provide real-time ultrasound image guided HIFU therapy of neural structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016701 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510637 | Barlow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carrolee Barlow (Del Mar, California); Sangeeta N. Bhatia (La Jolla, California); Mihrimah Ozkan (San Diego, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical apparatus 1 permits electric-field-assisted fluidic assembly of objects 2 on a patterned silicon substrate 11 by means of electrical addressing. Charged objects 2 such as beads and live cells are moved electrokinetically, like as in electrophoresis, through a solution, typically water 3, towards a micro-patterned charged semiconductor electrode, such as a silicon electrode 11 patterned with silicon dioxide, silicon nitride or agarose gel. The charged objects 2 are thus localized and assembled, most typically into arrays of multiple or single particles, in accordance with the patterning of the electrode 11. Correlating with theoretical predictions, negatively charged polystyrene beads of 20 μm diameter, or live mammalian cells of 20-30 μm diameter, can be assembled and disassembled on 100 μm feature size micro-patterned substrates by means of electrical addressing. The apparatus 1 has applications in creation of active cellular arrays for cell biology research, drug discovery and tissue engineering. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/450085 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510666 | Walton 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) | Scott G. Walton (Burke, Virginia); Robert Meger (Crofton, Maryland); Richard Fernsler (Annanadale, Virginia); Darrin Leenhardt (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion-ion plasma source, that features a processing chamber containing a large concentration of halogen or halogen-based gases. A second chamber is coupled to the processing chamber and features an electron source which produces a high energy electron beam. The high energy electron beam is injected into the processing chamber where it is shaped and confined by a means for shaping and confining the high energy electron beam. The high energy electron beam produced in the second chamber when injected into the processing chamber ionizes the halogen gas creating a dense, ion-ion plasma in the processing chamber that is continuous in time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239432 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510695 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to forming a patterned array of fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, a nanoscale array of microwells is provided on a substrate; a metal catalyst is deposited in each microwells; and a stream of hydrocarbon or CO feedstock gas is directed at the substrate under conditions that effect growth of fullerene nanotubes from each microwell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507924 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510739 | Bruno 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) | Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Lynne A. Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Dracut, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Michael Sennett (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembled hematin is formed by depositing hematin on an electrically charged substrate in one or more layers alternating with one or more layers of polyelectrolyte, preferably a cationic polymer. In a method for polymerizing an aromatic monomer, the assembled hematin is contacted with the monomer and a template, preferably an anionic polymer. In a method for polymerizing aniline, the aniline, sulfonated multi walled carbon nano tubes, PEG hematin and a reaction initiator are dispersed in water. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/111567 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510760 | Malshe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boardof Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay P. Malshe (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Wenping Jiang (Fayetteville, Arkansas); William D. Brown (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising nanoparticles, microparticles, and combinations thereof, the particles may be overcoated particles. Composite coatings and coated articles made therefrom, the coatings comprising mono or multi layers having a textured outer surface morphology, the layers may be continuous and/or discontinuous and may comprise different particle phases. Methods of making and using said compositions, coatings and coated articles. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074597 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510832 | Tiedge |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henri Tiedge (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the use of human BC200 RNA in both the diagnosis and prognosis of carcinomas to determine the presence of a carcinoma and tumor grade, and also to predict the likelihood that a carcinoma will progress to an invasive carcinoma. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/503782 |
| 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 07510877 | Yilmaz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omer H. Yilmaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark J. Kiel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sean Morrison (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Toshihide Iwashita (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of identifying, collecting and isolating hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and compositions of purified HSCs. Specifically, the present invention provides methods of isolating and purifying CD150+ HSCs, CD48− HSCs, and CD244− HSCs. The present invention also relates to purified cell samples with enriched CD150+ HSCs, CD48− HSCs, and CD244− HSCs populations, as well as methods of treating subjects with such compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/950784 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510997 | Sankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Thin Films, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sambasivan Sankar (Chicago, Illinois); Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Scott A. Barnett (Evanston, Illinois); Ilwon Kim (Skokie, Illinois); Donald M. Kroeger (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to epitaxial, electrically conducting and mechanically robust, cubic nitride buffer layers deposited epitaxially on biaxially textured substrates such as metals and alloys. The invention comprises of a biaxially textured substrate with epitaxial layers of nitrides. The invention also discloses a method to form such epitaxial layers using a high rate deposition method as well as without the use of forming gases. The invention further comprises epitaxial layers of oxides on the biaxially textured nitride layer. In some embodiments the article further comprises electromagnetic devices which may have superconducting properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919630 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511025 | Wyatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colby Wyatt (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Constance F. Brinckerhoff (New London, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the specific inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (MMP-1) using agents which inhibit the synthesis or expression of MMP-1. Such agents are useful for suppressing invasion or metastasis of a tumor cell and in the treatment, prevention and management of cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628829 |
| 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 07511113 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dawn D. Dominguez (Temple Hills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An aromatic ether oligomer or polyaromatic ether comprising the formula: wherein Ar is an independently selected divalent aromatic radical; formed by reacting a dihydroxyaromatic with a dihaloaromatic; and wherein the reaction is performed in the presence of a copper compound and cesium carbonate. The polyaromatic ether is formed when neither the dihydroxyaromatic nor the dihaloaromatic is present in an excess amount. The aromatic ether oligomer is formed by using an excess of either dihydroxyaromatic or dihaloaromatic. A phthalonitrile monomer comprising the formula: formed by reacting a 3- or 4-nitrophthalonitrile with a hydroxy-terminated aromatic ether oligomer. A thermoset formed by curing the phthalonitrile monomer. Processes for forming all the above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808264 |
| ART UNIT | 1711 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511122 | Fischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland); Altor BioScience Corporation (Miramar, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Walter Fischer (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard F. Schuman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Hing Wong (Weston, Florida); Jeffrey R. Stinson (Brookville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses monoclonal and chimeric antibodies that bind to lipoteichoic acid of Gram positive bacteria. The antibodies also bind to whole bacteria and enhance phagocytosis and killing of the bacteria in vitro and enhance protection from lethal infection in vivo. The mouse monoclonal antibody has been humanized and the resulting chimeric antibody provides a previously unknown means to diagnose, prevent and/or treat infections caused by gram positive bacteria bearing lipoteichoic acid. This invention also encompasses a peptide mimic of the lipoteichoic acid epitope binding site defined by the monoclonal antibody. This epitope or epitope peptide mimic identifies other antibodies that may bind to the lipoteichoic acid epitope. Moreover, the epitope or epitope peptide mimic provides a valuable substrate for the generation of vaccines or other therapeutics. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193440 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511259 | Nyffenegger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes F. Nyffenegger (Laguna Niguel, California); Robert E. Redmer (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-powered data acquisition and control system immune to electromagnetic interference employs smart sensors in a network configuration capable of decentralized communication. A smart sensor with integral transducer encloses a microprocessor, fiber optic transceiver, and photovoltaic converter within a Faraday cage. Optical fibers link plural sensors for duplex communication with a fiber optic splitter, which transmits high intensity light to the converter for powering the sensors. The sensor converts analog input from the transducer into bit packets for fiber optic transmission to the network via the splitter. Firmware in the splitter converts the bit packets to network protocol and vice versa enabling data communication among sensors, splitters, and control receivers. Verification algorithms for testing sensors are run automatically by the microprocessor or through commands issued via the network. Mnemonics stored in the sensors provide automatic updating of system configuration. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409627 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511403 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exfo Photonic Solutions Inc (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Smith (Geneseo, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectric motor (PEM) is driven with loosely coupled inductors 24 and switching amplifier having a pulse width modulator 18, gate driver circuit 21 and two pairs of power mosfets 210, 212 and 220, 222. Energy stored in the PEM at the end of one cycle is transferred to a capacitor 202 for use in a subsequent cycle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370328 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511426 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-O Kim (Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment microplasma device includes first and second substrates. An electrode array is disposed on the first substrate. Cavities are formed in the second substrate by laser micromachining, etching, or by chemical (wet or dry) etching and the second substrate is overlaid on the electrode array. The inter-electrode spacing and electrode width are set so that each cavity has at least one pair of electrodes underneath it to excite a microplasma discharge in the cavity. A need to precisely register the two substrates is avoided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/984022 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511459 | Holliday |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower, Inc. (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ezekiel S. Holliday (Belpre, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A feedback control circuit and method for a control system used to control an electrical power generating source that comprises a free piston Stirling engine driving a linear alternator. A switching mode rectifier connects the alternator winding to an output circuit that includes an electrical energy storage means and is controlled by a pulse width modulator that controls the rectifier switching duty cycle and phase. The control system controls the pulse width modulator. The improvement computes a voltage across a virtual tuning capacitor and uses the computed voltage to control the switching mode rectifier so that the switching mode rectifier is switched in a manner that makes the alternator circuit operate as if a tuning capacitor were actually present and so that the control system controls the piston of the Stirling engine to maintain balance of the mechanical power generated by the Stirling engine and the electrical power absorbed from the engine by the alternator. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760842 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511624 | Shaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Shaw (Bozeman, Montana); Kevin S. Repasky (Bozeman, Montana); John L. Carlsten (Bozeman, Montana); Lee H. Spangler (Bozeman, Montana); David S. Hoffman (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods using a temporal-frequency sensitive receiver to detect laser light that is scattered by an oscillating object, thereby allowing remote monitoring of the object's position and movement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338806 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.100 |
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| US 07511629 | Tillotson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J Tillotson (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication systems and apparatus to allow a user to perceive the relative spatial location or present position of other elements of interest in a control space, such as the location of a speaker participating in a telephone conference or that of an aircraft carrier to a remotely piloted vehicle on final approach. The system inserts synthetic sound cues into the communication to the user that represent the relative position(s). In one embodiment, the user will perceive the communication as though it were communicated through free space to the user from the relative position of the represented source, so that, for example, the squad leader will perceive his wingman to be at his immediate left. Methods of conveying relative position sound cues are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/551287 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/692 |
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| US 07511637 | Rushanan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Mitre Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J. Rushanan (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems relating to Weil-based spreading codes are described herein. In an embodiment, a method includes generating a set of Weil sequences, adapting a plurality of sequences of the set of Weil sequences to form a first plurality of codes, and selecting a second plurality of codes from the first plurality of codes. A code of the first plurality of codes is selected based at least on a correlation associated with the code. Each code of the first plurality of codes has a predetermined length. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/000991 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/50 |
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| US 07511643 | Baraniuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Dror Z. Baron (Houston, Texas); Marco F. Duarte (Houston, Texas); Shriram Sarvotham (Houston, Texas); Michael B. Wakin (Houston, Texas); Mark Davenport (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for approximating a plurality of digital signals or images using compressed sensing. In a scheme where a common component xc of said plurality of digital signals or images an innovative component xi of each of said plurality of digital signals each are represented as a vector with m entries, the method comprises the steps of making a measurement yc, where yc comprises a vector with only ni entries, where ni is less than m, making a measurement yi for each of said correlated digital signals, where yi comprises a vector with only ni entries, where ni is less than m, and from each said innovation components yi, producing an approximate reconstruction of each m-vector xi using said common component yc and said innovative component yi. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836086 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/87 |
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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) | Geoffrey H. Goldman (Ellicott City, Maryland); Marc A. Ressler (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and devices for detecting land mines and unexploded ordnance are disclosed. A first embodiment may be construed as a method that includes: inserting an antenna into the ground; transmitting an electromagnetic signal into the ground via the antenna; receiving a response via the antenna; and processing the response to generate an image which can be examined to determine whether a mine exists within proximity of the antenna. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330111 |
| 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 342/22 |
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| US 07511655 | Willey 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) | Jefferson M. Willey (Columbia, Maryland); William A. Barnwell (Rockville, Maryland); James R. Buss (Woodville, Virginia); Harold H. Szu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for determining three dimensional sub-voxel positions using synthetic aperture radar. The apparatus includes at least four non-coplanar, phase-coherent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platforms comprising a plurality of phase-synchronized local oscillators cohered to a common reference clock, a first SAR platform of the SAR platforms operable to transmit a radar waveform, and the SAR platforms operable to receive scattered energy waveforms resulting from the radar waveform and operable to generate two-dimensional (2-D) SAR images based on the received scattered energy waveforms. The apparatus also includes a synchronizing processor operable to communicate with the SAR platforms and operable to synchronize a plurality of SAR transmission and receiving intervals for the SAR platforms. Optionally, the apparatus also includes an image-coregistration processor operable to receive at least four 2-D SAR images from the SAR platforms, and operable to generate a 3-D SAR image having 3-D voxel positions by coregistering the 2-D SAR images. Optionally, the apparatus also includes a sub-voxel position processor operable to calculate sub-voxel positions of single point scatterers from differential phase measurements on a given voxel across all of the SAR platforms. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534732 |
| 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.A00 |
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| US 07511657 | Dark 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) | James Dark (Camarillo, California); James Buscemi (Camarillo, California); Scott Burkholder (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew situational awareness regarding a threat emitter's coverage relative to the position of the EA aircraft and to the position of any number of protected entities (PE). The software program generates information to provide visual cues representing a Jam Acceptability Region (JAR) contour, a Jam Assessment Strobe (JAS) and text for display on a number of flexibly configurable display formats posted on display units. The JAR and JAS graphics and text will aid the EA aircrew in rapidly assessing the effectiveness of a given jamming approach. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901548 |
| 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 342/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511665 | Wicks 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) | Michael C. Wicks (Utica, New York); Paul Antonik (Utica, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for a frequency diverse array. Radio frequency signals are generated by a plurality of independent waveform generators and simultaneously applied to a transmit/receive module. A progressive frequency shift is applied to all radio frequency signals across all spatial channels. Amplitude weighting signals are applied for sidelobe control. Phase control is included for channel compensation and to provide nominal beam steering. The progressive frequency offsets generate a new term which cause the antenna beam to focus in different directions as a function of range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974942 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511870 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gavin Kar-Fai Ho (Vancouver, Canada); Farrokh Ayazi (Smyrna, Georgia); Siavash Pourkamali (Atlanta, Georgia); Krishnakumar Sundaresan (Smyrna, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are capacitive micromechanical resonators optimized for high Q, low motional impedance, and large tuning range. Exemplary resonators were fabricated using a HARPSS-on-SOI process, and demonstrated quality factors up to 119000 in vacuum. For resonators operating between 3 MHz and 30 MHz, the lowest extracted impedance is 218 kΩ and the largest electrostatic tuning coefficient is −240 ppm/V2. The disclosed designs are applicable up to at least 200 MHz operation. An oscillator interface circuit comprising of a trans-impedance amplifier and an automatic bias generator providing a temperature-compensating bias voltage is also disclosed. Experiments show temperature drift reduction from 2800 ppm to 39 ppm over a 100° C. range. Process compensation (DFM) of micromechanical resonators, resonators having mass loading elements that allow generation of closely spaced frequencies, and coupled systems comprising of the resonators are also described. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251197 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512242 | Pearson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Spencer Pearson (Bennington, Vermont); Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system transports a key between a first node (505) at one end of a path (500) through a quantum cryptographic key distribution (QKD) network to a second node (525) at an opposite end of the path (500), where the QKD network includes multiple nodes. The system transmits secret bits between the multiple nodes of the QKD network using quantum cryptographic mechanisms. The system reserves (530), from the first node (505), portions of the transmitted secret bits at each intermediate node along the path between the first (505) and the second node (525). The system transports a key between the second node (525) and the first node (505) using the reserved portions (555, 560, 565, 575) of the transmitted secret bits. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803509 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512724 | Dennis 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) | Jack B. Dennis (Belmont, Massachusetts); Sam B. Sandbote (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention performs peripheral operations in a multi-thread processor. A peripheral bus is coupled to a peripheral unit to transfer peripheral information including a command message specifying a peripheral operation. A processing slice is coupled to the peripheral bus to execute a plurality of threads. The plurality of threads includes a first thread sending the command message to the peripheral unit. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/715772 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (New York, New York); BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Clark Milliken (Dover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic system (500) includes cryptographic sub-units (510) and associated input buffers (520) connected to a scheduler (530) and a reassembler (540). The scheduler (530) receives packets, where each of the packets includes one or more data blocks, and assigns each of the packets to one of the sub-units (510). The input buffers (520) temporarily store the packets from the scheduler (530). Each of the sub-units (510) performs a cryptographic operation on the data blocks from the associated input buffer (520) to form transformed blocks. The reassembler (540) receives the transformed blocks from the sub-units (510), reassembles the packets from the transformed blocks, and outputs the reassembled packets in a same order in which the packets were received by the scheduler (530). |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/166547 |
| ART UNIT | 2134 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512820 | Flautner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARM Limited (Cambridge, United Kingdom); University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krisztian Flautner (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Trevor Nigel Mudge (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Performance level selection is carried out by calculating a plurality of performance requests using a plurality of performance request calculating algorithms, combining those different performance requests to form a global performance request and then selecting a performance level in dependence upon the global performance level request. The performance request calculating algorithms can be arranged in a hierarchy with their performance requests evaluated in a sequence starting from the least dominant position in the hierarchy and moving through to the most dominant position in the hierarchy. Commands may accompany each performance level request to specify how it should be combined with other performance level requests. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520007 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512891 | Gnanamgari 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) | Sakunthala Gnanamgari (Devon, Pennsylvania); Jacqueline Dacre Smith (Lee Center, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for registering and enrolling multiple users in a interactive information display systems where the untethered multiple users interact with large information displays using laser pointers coordinated with voice commands. A registration program assigns a unique identification to each user that associates a particular user's voice and a particular laser pointer pattern chosen by that user, with that particular user. Users may speak voice commands. The system will then perform speech recognition of the user's voice command. If the command is recognized, the system performs the speech-recognized command as a window operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/094551 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, c/o Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Mark Cantis (Morgantown, West Virginia); Eugene Anthony McKenzie, Jr. (Morgantown, West Virginia); Thomas Gordon Bobick (Morgantown, West Virginia); Herbert David Edgell, III (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective barricade system to prevent persons from accidentally falling through holes in roofs or floors or from the edges of stairwells, balconies, or pitched roofs. The barricade system comprises a plurality of barricade brackets that are spaced apart and can be releasably attached to the underlying surface. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257472 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Bridges 014/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510710 | Newell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha Karen Newell (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Evan Newell (Toronto, Canada); Elizabeth Villobos-Menvey (Monument, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for treating inflammatory and proliferative diseases, and wounds, using as a pharmacon a UCP and/or Fas antibody or other inhibitor, or combination thereof, and a therapeutically acceptable amount of a fatty acid metabolism inhibitor and/or a therapeutically acceptable amount of a glucose metabolism inhibitor, optionally in combination with one or more chemotherpeutic agents. In preferred embodiments, the invention combines an antibody against UCP and/or Fas antigen with an oxirane carboxylic acid, represented by etomoxir, and/or with a 2-deoxyglucose compound, represented by 2-deoxy-D-glucose. The systems and methods of the invention can be used to treat drug-resistant or multi-drug resistant cancers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031109 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/146.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510714 | Mulligan-Kehoe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Jo Mulligan-Kehoe (Enfield, New Hampshire); Richard J. Powell (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) isoforms which lack the reactive center loop and contain the complete heparin-binding domain or lack at least a portion of the heparin-binding domain are described. The rPAI-1 isoforms disclosed herein may be used to modulate angiogenesis through blocking release of VEGF from a VEGF-heparin complex. Furthermore, the rPAI-1 proteins may be used to inhibit cell proliferation and migration, induce apoptosis, and produce proteolytic fragments corresponding to angiostatin kringles 1-3 and kringles 1-4. A truncated proteolytic plasmin protein of 34 kDa is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/668663 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510715 | Aliberti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julio Aliberti (Durham, North Carolina); John Andersen (Kensington, Maryland); Hana Golding (Rockville, Maryland); Alan Sher (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention relates to methods for treating a subject suffering from or susceptible to an autoimmune disease or disorder, or a disease or disorder having an autoimmune component, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of cyclophilin or a biologically active fragment thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177934 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
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| US 07510717 | Apicella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Apicella (Solon, Iowa); Melvin G. Sunshine (Iowa City, Iowa); Na-Gyong Lee (Incheon, South Korea); Rasappa Arumugham (Pittsford, New York); Bradford W. Gibson (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for identifying, isolating, and producing htrB mutants of gram-negative bacterial pathogens. The method comprises mutating the htrB gene of a gram-negative bacterial pathogen so that there is a lack of a functional htrB protein, resulting in a mutant that lacks one or more secondary acyl chains contained in the wild type gram-negative bacterial pathogen, and displays substantially reduced toxicity as compared to the wild type strain. Also, the present invention provides methods for using a vaccine formulation containing the htrB mutant, the endotoxin isolated therefrom, or the endotoxin isolated therefrom which is then conjugated to a carrier protein, to immunize an individual against infections caused by gram-negative bacterial pathogens by administering a prophylactically effective amount of the vaccine formulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330527 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/197.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510850 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yixian Zheng (Baltimore, Maryland); Ming-Ying Tsai (Perry Hall, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses a purified preparation of the mitotic spindle matrix essential for mitotic spindle assembly, which allows for identifying an agent that modulates a cell division and/or differentiation signaling pathway comprising determining the effect of the agent on spindle formation, MT nucleation, or lamin matrix assembly wherein the change in spindle formation, MT nucleation or lamin matrix assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/598148 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510874 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gail A. Robertson (Madison, Wisconsin); Eugenia M. Jones (Madison, Wisconsin); Jinling Wang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A line of cultured mammalian cells includes HERG1b subunits and optionally HERG1a subunits. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976122 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510880 | Gross et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Gross (Chesterfield, Missouri); Xianlin Han (Clayton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determination of at least one of the lipid species in a biological sample comprising subjecting the sample to lipid extraction to obtain a lipid extract and subjecting the resulting lipid extract to multidimensional electrospray ionization mass spectrometry using either precursor ion or neutral loss scanning (or both) of all naturally occurring aliphatic chains, lipid fragments and precursor ions leading to observed fragments to generate a multidimensional matrix whose contour densities provides structural and quantitative information directly without chromatography. A method for determination of lipid content and/or lipid molecular species composition and quantity directly from lipid extracts of a biological sample comprising subjecting said lipid extract to electrospray ionization multidimensional mass spectrometry by comparisons to standards and algorithms described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797616 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71 |
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| US 07511009 | Tombran-Tink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce Tombran-Tink (Derwood, Maryland); Gerald J. Chader (Bethesda, Maryland); Sofia Patricia Becerra (Bethseda, Maryland); Ignacio R. Rodriguez (Rockville, Maryland); Fintan R. Steele (Washington, District of Columbia); Lincoln V. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a purified retinal pigmented epithelium derived neurotrophic factor composition and a method for purifying such a retinal pigmented epithelium neurotrophic factor. The present invention also relates to a recombinant DNA molecule comprising a gene encoding a retinal pigmented epithelium derived neurotrophic factor having the DNA sequence or the amino acid sequence in SEQ ID NO:1 and to an organism transformed with the recombinant DNA molecule. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of treating tumors, ocular diseases, nerve injuries, and conditions resulting from the activity of serine proteases, which comprises administering PEDF. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/216373 |
| 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 07511015 | 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) | Joel Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Rodney L. Levine (Rockville, Maryland); Akihiro Wada (Nagasaki, Japan); Toshiya Hirayama (Nagasaki, Japan); Gregorino Paone (Rome, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides modified antimicrobial agents, for example modified defensin polypeptides. In one embodiment, compositions including a modified arginine residue, such as an ADP-ribosylated and/or ribosylated alpha defensin polypeptide, are provided. Also provided are methods of modulating an immune response using the modified defensin polypeptides. In one embodiment, a method is provided for modulating an antimicrobial activity. In another embodiment, a method is provided for inhibiting a cytotoxic activity. Also disclosed are methods for treating diseases in a subject that are associated with an immune response, such as inflammatory and pulmonary diseases, using the disclosed modified defensin polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/504838 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511025 | Wyatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colby Wyatt (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Constance F. Brinckerhoff (New London, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the specific inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (MMP-1) using agents which inhibit the synthesis or expression of MMP-1. Such agents are useful for suppressing invasion or metastasis of a tumor cell and in the treatment, prevention and management of cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628829 |
| 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 07511027 | Casey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Ithaca, New York); University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Casey (Potomac, Maryland); Brent E. Korba (Laurel, Maryland); Paul J. Cote (New Market, Maryland); John L. Gerin (Bethesda, Maryland); Bud C. Tennant (Ithaca, New York); Chung K. Chu (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the treatment for hepatitis delta infection in a host, that includes administering an effective amount of a nucleoside or a nucleoside analog that suppresses the expression of the hepatitis B surface or preS1 antigen in the host 100-fold or more relative to pretreatment values in vivo; or to not more than 1 microgram per milliliter in vivo. In a preferred embodiment, the nucleoside is L-FMAU, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/302814 |
| 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 514/86 |
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| US 07511032 | Liu 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); Starks Associates, Inc. (Buffalo, New York); Midwest Research Institute (Kansas City, Missouri); Spirogen, Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S Liu (Chevy Chase, Maryland); B. Rao Vishnuvajjala (Rockville, Maryland); Kenneth M Snader (Vero Beach, Florida); David E Thurston (Fareham, United Kingdom); Philip W Howard (St. Albans, United Kingdom); Luke Y Hsiao (San Diego, California); Gregory Turner (Independence, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) wherein X, Y, Ri-R7, T1, T2, Z, and p are as described herein; a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula (I) and a carrier; a method of inhibiting growth of a cell, which method comprises administering in an amount effective to inhibit growth a compound of Formula (I); a method of treating cancer in a mammal, which method comprises administering in an amount effective to treat cancer a compound of Formula (I); a method of treating a viral, parasitic, or bacterial infection of a cell, which method comprises administering in an amount effective to treat a viral, parasitic, or bacterial infection a compound of Formula (I); and a method of preparing a compound of Formula (I) as described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576689 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/220 |
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| US 07511117 | Chakrabarty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ananda Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois); Tapas Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Tohru Yamada (Oak Park, Illinois); Anita Chaudhari (Clifton Park, New York); Arsenio Fialho (Lisbon, Portugal); Chang Soo Hong (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cupredoxin, specifically Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin, and/or Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytochrome c551 and their use in inhibiting of viral infection, and in particular infection of mammalian cells by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The invention also relates to variants and derivatives of cupredoxin and cytochrome c that retain the ability to inhibit viral infection, and in particular infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The invention also relates to research methods for studying viral and bacterial infection in mammalian cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943034 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511495 | Kholmovski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgueni G. Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah); Dennis Lee Parker (Centerville, Utah); Edward V. R. Dibella (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems in a parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system utilize sensitivity-encoded MRI data acquired from multiple receiver coils together with spatially dependent receiver coil sensitivities to generate MRI images. The acquired MRI data forms a reduced MRI data set that is undersampled in at least a phase-encoding direction in a frequency domain. The acquired MRI data and auto-calibration signal data are used to determine reconstruction coefficients for each receiver coil using a weighted or a robust least squares method. The reconstruction coefficients vary spatially with respect to at least the spatial coordinate that is orthogonal to the undersampled, phase-encoding direction(s) (e.g., a frequency encoding direction). Values for unacquired MRI data are determined by linearly combining the reconstruction coefficients with the acquired MRI data within neighborhoods in the frequency domain that depend on imaging geometry, coil sensitivity characteristics, and the undersampling factor of the acquired MRI data. An MRI image is determined from the reconstructed unacquired data and the acquired MRI data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/412073 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512435 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ona Wu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Sorensen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for computing perfusion parameters are described. The methods are typically used to analyze magnetic resonance (MR) and other image data and to calculate tissue perfusion parameters such as blood flow in the brain or in tissues in other organs such as the heart. The methods employ a block-circulant matrix for deconvolving the perfusion parameters from the image data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/558343 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512436 | Petty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard R. Petty (Livonia, Michigan); Victor M. Elner (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for measuring the retinal auto-fluorescence of a subject retina includes an excitation light source for providing an excitation light at a wavelength of at least 450 nm and an image capture device for recording an ocular auto-fluorescence signal generated in response to the excitation light. The image capture device includes a filter for reducing background non-signal wavelengths from the ocular auto-fluorescence signal and an image intensifier for increasing the ocular auto-fluorescence signal strength. The method and apparatus may further include a processor that analyzes the ocular auto-fluorescence signal to determine a contrast change or pattern to thereby detect retinal disease or damage. The processor may compare the images with control images, past images of the same eye or other diagnostic modalities such as fundus photography, angiography, or visual field testing to detect the retinal disease or damage. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777423 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07509774 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Johnson (Houston, Texas); Ross M. Patterson (Houston, Texas); Gary R. Spexarth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | For an inflatable structure having a flexible outer shell or wall structure having a flexible restraint layer comprising interwoven, load-bearing straps, apparatus for integrating one or more substantially rigid members into the flexible shell. For each rigid member, a corresponding opening is formed through the flexible shell for receiving the rigid member. A plurality of connection devices are mounted on the rigid member for receiving respective ones of the load-bearing straps. In one embodiment, the connection devices comprise inner connecting mechanisms and outer connecting mechanisms, the inner and outer connecting mechanisms being mounted on the substantially rigid structure and spaced along a peripheral edge portion of the structure in an interleafed array in which respective outer connecting mechanisms are interposed between adjacent pairs of inner connecting mechanisms, the outer connecting mechanisms projecting outwardly from the peripheral edge portion of the substantially rigid structure beyond the adjacent inner connecting mechanisms to form a staggered array of connecting mechanisms extending along the panel structure edge portion. In one embodiment, the inner and outer connecting mechanisms form part of an integrated, structure rotatably mounted on the rigid member peripheral edge portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/610295 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/2.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07509869 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jack Chen (Urbana, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated pressure sensor. The pressure sensor comprises a raised diaphragm disposed on a substrate. The diaphragm is configured to bend in response to an applied pressure difference. A strain gauge of a conductive material is coupled to a surface of the raised diaphragm and to at least one of the substrate and a piece rigidly connected to the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880134 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/756 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Kmetz (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite is described which has particular utility in the formation of components for gas turbine engines. The composite broadly comprises a substrate having a surface and at least one layer of a BN/Si3N4 coating on the substrate surface. The coating preferably is formed by alternative layers of a BN material and a Si3N4 material. The substrate may be a cloth material with fibers, such as SiC fibers, woven therein. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282214 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.150 |
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| US 07510802 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Aerospace Associates (Hampton, Virginia); The United States of America as represented by the Administration of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Hyon Chu (Newport News, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Peter T. Lillehei (Yorktown, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); James R. Elliott, Jr. (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery is produced by consecutively depositing arrays of a ferritin protein on a substrate, employing a spin self-assembly procedure. By this procedure, a first ferritin layer is first formed on the substrate, followed by building a second, oppositely-charged ferritin layer on the top of the first ferritin layer to form a bilayer structure. Oppositely-charged ferritin layers are subsequently deposited on top of each other until a desired number of bilayer structures is produced. An ordered, uniform, stable and robust, thin-film electrode material of enhanced packing density is presented, which provides optimal charge density for the bio-nanobattery. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371575 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510995 | Sevener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathleen M. Sevener (Los Angeles, California); Kevin A. Lohner (Los Angeles, California); Jeffrey A. Mays (Woodland Hills, California); Daniel L. Wisner (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for applying a mixed metal oxide catalyst to a metallic substrate for the creation of a robust, high temperature catalyst system for use in decomposing propellants, particularly hydrogen peroxide propellants, for use in propulsion systems. The method begins by forming a prepared substrate material consisting of a metallic inner substrate and a bound layer of a noble metal intermediate. Alternatively, a bound ceramic coating, or frit, may be introduced between the metallic inner substrate and noble metal intermediate when the metallic substrate is oxidation resistant. A high-activity catalyst slurry is applied to the surface of the prepared substrate and dried to remove the organic solvent. The catalyst layer is then heat treated to bind the catalyst layer to the surface. The bound catalyst layer is then activated using an activation treatment and calcinations to form the high-activity catalyst system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/404935 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511469 | Halverson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Halverson (Temple City, California); Brent Ware (Pasadena, California); Daniel A. Shaddock (Kaleen, Australia); Robert E. Spero (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phasemeter for estimating the phase of a signal. For multi-tone signals, multiple phase estimates may be provided. An embodiment includes components operating in the digital domain, where a sampled input signal is multiplied by cosine and sine terms to provide estimates of the inphase and quadrature components. The quadrature component provides an error signal that is provided to a feedback loop, the feedback loop providing a model phase that tends to track the phase of a tone in the input signal. The cosine and sine terms are generated from the model phase. The inphase and quadrature components are used to form a residual phase, which is added to the model phase to provide an estimate of the phase of the input signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880889 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Te-Kao Wu (Rancho Palos Verde, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems are disclosed for providing substantially equal E-plane and H-plane radiation patterns in a high power and dual band coaxial feedhorn antenna for a satellite communication system. One embodiment may include a coaxial feedhorn antenna comprising an outer coaxial horn portion for propagation of first signals and an inner horn portion for propagation of second signals. The coaxial feedhorn antenna may also comprise a conductive choke-ring coupled to the outer conductive wall, the conductive choke-ring being coaxial with the outer coaxial horn portion and the inner horn portion. The conductive choke-ring provides substantially equal E-plane and H-plane radiation patterns of the first signals and substantially reduced back-lobes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361350 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/786 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511804 | Olczak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Olczak (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting motion between a first body and a second body includes first and second detector-emitter pairs, disposed on the first body, and configured to transmit and receive first and second optical beams, respectively. At least a first optical rotator is disposed on the second body and configured to receive and reflect at least one of the first and second optical beams. First and second detectors of the detector-emitter pairs are configured to detect the first and second optical beams, respectively. Each of the first and second detectors is configured to detect motion between the first and second bodies in multiple degrees of freedom (DOFs). The first optical rotator includes a V-notch oriented to form an apex of an isosceles triangle with respect to a base of the isosceles triangle formed by the first and second detector-emitter pairs. The V-notch is configured to receive the first optical beam and reflect the first optical beam to both the first and second detectors. The V-notch is also configured to receive the second optical beam and reflect the second optical beam to both the first and second detectors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786262 |
| 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 356/139.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512568 | Curtis |
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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) | Steven A. Curtis (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An evolvable synthetic neural system includes an evolvable neural interface operably coupled to at least one neural basis function. Each neural basis function includes an evolvable neural interface operably coupled to a heuristic neural system to perform high-level functions and an autonomic neural system to perform low-level functions. In some embodiments, the evolvable synthetic neural system is operably coupled to one or more evolvable synthetic neural systems in a hierarchy. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109400 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge G. Zornberg (Austin, Texas); John S. McCartney (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, method and centrifuge permeameter system that includes a hydraulic permeameter adapted for use in a centrifuge; and an automated data acquisition system, wherein the centrifuge permeameter non-destructively determines one or more soil characteristics from a sample of granular material such as soil, rock, and concrete when centrifuged. |
| FILED | Friday, November 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/563053 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/38 |
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| US 07509869 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jack Chen (Urbana, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated pressure sensor. The pressure sensor comprises a raised diaphragm disposed on a substrate. The diaphragm is configured to bend in response to an applied pressure difference. A strain gauge of a conductive material is coupled to a surface of the raised diaphragm and to at least one of the substrate and a piece rigidly connected to the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880134 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07509870 | Aebersold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OrthoData Technologies LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia W. Aebersold (Floyds Knobs, Indiana); Kevin Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); Michael Voor (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensional micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) capacitive bending and axial strain sensor capacitor is described. Two independent comb structures, incorporating suspended polysilicon interdigitated fingers, are fabricated simultaneously on a substrate that can displace independently of each other while attached to a substrate undergoing bending or axial deformation. A change in spacing between the interdigitated fingers will output a change in capacitance of the sensor and is the primary mode of operation of the device. On the bottom and to the end of each comb structure, a glass pad is attached to the comb structure to allow for ample surface area for affixing the sensor to a substrate. During fabrication, tethers are used to connect each comb structure to maintain equal spacing between the fingers before attachment to the substrate. After attachment, the tethers are broken to allow independent movement of each comb structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/552547 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07509993 | Turng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lih-Sheng Turng (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael P. DeCicco (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaochun Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal matrix nanocomposite is formed by heating a metal above its liquidus temperature, adding nanoparticles, and then agitating the mixture with high-frequency (and preferably ultrasonic) vibration. The mixture can then be cooled below the liquidus of the metal to a semisolid state, and placed in a mold to form it into some desired shape. The formed mixture can then be quenched or otherwise allowed to cool to provide an article in finished (or nearly so) form. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202851 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/97 |
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| US 07510638 | Herman 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) | Irving P. Herman (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mohammad A. Islam (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for depositing unpatterned or selectively patterned nanoparticle films of controlled thickness on the respective film deposition surface of each of a pair of electrodes. In the present method, a pair of electrodes, each having a conducting film deposition surface, are immersed in a non-conducting nonpolar solvent in which nanoparticles, each having ligands attached thereto, are suspended. A voltage is applied to the pair of electrodes thereby causing films of the nanoparticles to deposit on the respective film deposition surface of each of the pair of electrodes. The nanoparticle films formed by the present method may be unpatterned or they may be patterned by patterning the conducting film deposition surface of at least one electrode of the pair of electrodes. The nanoparticle films formed according to the method of the present invention are useful as layers in electronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974406 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510695 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to forming a patterned array of fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, a nanoscale array of microwells is provided on a substrate; a metal catalyst is deposited in each microwells; and a stream of hydrocarbon or CO feedstock gas is directed at the substrate under conditions that effect growth of fullerene nanotubes from each microwell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507924 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510760 | Malshe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boardof Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay P. Malshe (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Wenping Jiang (Fayetteville, Arkansas); William D. Brown (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising nanoparticles, microparticles, and combinations thereof, the particles may be overcoated particles. Composite coatings and coated articles made therefrom, the coatings comprising mono or multi layers having a textured outer surface morphology, the layers may be continuous and/or discontinuous and may comprise different particle phases. Methods of making and using said compositions, coatings and coated articles. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074597 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511643 | Baraniuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Dror Z. Baron (Houston, Texas); Marco F. Duarte (Houston, Texas); Shriram Sarvotham (Houston, Texas); Michael B. Wakin (Houston, Texas); Mark Davenport (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for approximating a plurality of digital signals or images using compressed sensing. In a scheme where a common component xc of said plurality of digital signals or images an innovative component xi of each of said plurality of digital signals each are represented as a vector with m entries, the method comprises the steps of making a measurement yc, where yc comprises a vector with only ni entries, where ni is less than m, making a measurement yi for each of said correlated digital signals, where yi comprises a vector with only ni entries, where ni is less than m, and from each said innovation components yi, producing an approximate reconstruction of each m-vector xi using said common component yc and said innovative component yi. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836086 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/87 |
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| US 07512861 | Brajovic |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Brajovic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of encoding identity of events comprises: receiving an event bit pattern having bits representative of events, and determining a code from the event bit pattern, said code containing the information for recovering identity of events when one or more events are simultaneously present in the event bit pattern. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133091 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07510594 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P Wynn (Palo Alto, California); Donald A. Fulton (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-separation membrane module assembly and a gas-separation process using the assembly. The assembly includes a set of tubes, each containing gas-separation membranes, arranged within a housing. The housing contains a tube sheet that divides the space within the housing into two gas-tight spaces. A permeate collection system within the housing gathers permeate gas from the tubes for discharge from the housing. |
| FILED | Sunday, November 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271402 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510595 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benny D. Freeman (Austin, Texas); Scott Matteucci (Austin, Texas); Haiqing Lin (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method, composition and apparatus for forming a nanoparticle filled polymer having similar gas selectivity and greater gas permeability than the native polymer. The nanoparticle filled polymer includes one or more polymeric materials and one or more nanoparticles dispersed within the one or more polymeric materials that increasing the permeability of the nanoparticle filled polymers relative to the permeability of the native polymer membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409457 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510641 | Kreiskott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sascha Kreiskott (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vladimir Matias (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen R. Foltyn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Lawrence E. Bronisz (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous process of forming a highly smooth surface on a metallic tape by passing a metallic tape having an initial roughness through an acid bath contained within a polishing section of an electropolishing unit over a pre-selected period of time, and, passing a mean surface current density of at least 0.18 amperes per square centimeter through the metallic tape during the period of time the metallic tape is in the acid bath whereby the roughness of the metallic tape is reduced. Such a highly smooth metallic tape can serve as a base substrate in subsequent formation of a superconductive coated conductor. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/624350 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510664 | Carr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAPT Industries, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Carr (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fabrication apparatus and methods are disclosed for shaping and finishing difficult materials with no subsurface damage. The apparatus and methods use an atmospheric pressure mixed gas plasma discharge as a sub-aperture polisher of, for example, fused silica and single crystal silicon, silicon carbide and other materials. In one example, workpiece material is removed at the atomic level through reaction with fluorine atoms. In this example, these reactive species are produced by a noble gas plasma from trace constituent fluorocarbons or other fluorine containing gases added to the host argon matrix. The products of the reaction are gas phase compounds that flow from the surface of the workpiece, exposing fresh material to the etchant without condensation and redeposition on the newly created surface. The discharge provides a stable and predictable distribution of reactive species permitting the generation of a predetermined surface by translating the plasma across the workpiece along a calculated path. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002035 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07510997 | Sankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Thin Films, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sambasivan Sankar (Chicago, Illinois); Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Scott A. Barnett (Evanston, Illinois); Ilwon Kim (Skokie, Illinois); Donald M. Kroeger (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to epitaxial, electrically conducting and mechanically robust, cubic nitride buffer layers deposited epitaxially on biaxially textured substrates such as metals and alloys. The invention comprises of a biaxially textured substrate with epitaxial layers of nitrides. The invention also discloses a method to form such epitaxial layers using a high rate deposition method as well as without the use of forming gases. The invention further comprises epitaxial layers of oxides on the biaxially textured nitride layer. In some embodiments the article further comprises electromagnetic devices which may have superconducting properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919630 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511598 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ International Holding, Ltd. (, Cayman Islands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An element for use in an inductive coupler for downhole components comprises an annular housing having a generally circular recess. The element further comprises a plurality of generally linear, magnetically conductive segments. Each segment includes a bottom portion, an inner wall portion, and an outer wall portion. The portions together define a generally linear trough from a first end to a second end of each segment. The segments are arranged adjacent to each other within the housing recess to form a generally circular trough. The ends of at least half of the segments are shaped such that the first end of one of the segments is complementary in form to the second end of an adjacent segment. In one embodiment, all of the ends are angled. Preferably, the first ends are angled with the same angle and the second ends are angled with the complementary angle. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833557 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07510632 | Denes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ferencz S. Denes (Madison, Wisconsin); Sorin O. Manolache (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric liquid having entrained bubbles of gas or vapor is subjected to an electric field applied between spaced electrodes (112, 116) which generates microdischarges (and thus plasma) within the bubbles, allowing modification of the properties of the dielectric liquid. The invention is particularly useful for treating hydrocarbon liquids such as gasolines and other liquid hydrocarbon fuels, which have extremely low dielectric constants. Generating microdischarges within bubbles in such fuels can create compounds useful for higher combustion efficiency and/or lower emissions in internal combustion engines. The invention may be directly implemented in an engine's fuel line upstream from the combustion chamber (e.g., immediately prior to a fuel injector), thereby allowing the invention to be usefully implemented for fuel treatment prior to combustion. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/526798 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511618 | Hornbaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hornbaker (Champaign, Illinois); Volodymyr Kindratenko (Savoy, Illinois); David Pointer (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for tracking transported grain. A writer records data into an RFID tag. The data includes at least a time when the RFID tag was handled with surrounding grain and information sufficient to determine a location of handling at the time when the RFID tag was handled with surrounding grain. A reader retrieves the recorded data from the RFID tag. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299329 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07512454 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiwei Li (Austin, Texas); Steven C. Nettles (Johnson City, Texas); Larry D. Barto (Austin, Texas); Gustavo Mata (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for scheduling appointments in a manufacturing process flow are disclosed. The method and apparatus include a number of aspects including appointments in which processing windows float within commitment windows; appointments in which the processing windows include consumption and processing intervals and in which the processing windows can overlap with the processing interval of other appointments; the use of different kinds of calendars including different types of appointments maintained in a variety of states; a calendaring system in which appointments are constrained by the implicit constraints not represented by booked appointments as well as the explicit constraints represented by booked appointments; calendar manipulation techniques used in managing the calendars; and corresponding appointments maintained over multiple calendars in a synchronized manner. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/160956 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07510760 | Malshe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boardof Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay P. Malshe (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Wenping Jiang (Fayetteville, Arkansas); William D. Brown (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising nanoparticles, microparticles, and combinations thereof, the particles may be overcoated particles. Composite coatings and coated articles made therefrom, the coatings comprising mono or multi layers having a textured outer surface morphology, the layers may be continuous and/or discontinuous and may comprise different particle phases. Methods of making and using said compositions, coatings and coated articles. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074597 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07510594 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P Wynn (Palo Alto, California); Donald A. Fulton (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-separation membrane module assembly and a gas-separation process using the assembly. The assembly includes a set of tubes, each containing gas-separation membranes, arranged within a housing. The housing contains a tube sheet that divides the space within the housing into two gas-tight spaces. A permeate collection system within the housing gathers permeate gas from the tubes for discharge from the housing. |
| FILED | Sunday, November 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271402 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07511525 | Jaworski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Jaworski (St. Petersburg, Florida); Daniel W. Snider (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system including a chassis operable to receive a plurality of physical application modules and a test port via which an external test device is communicatively coupled to the system. Each physical application module includes a module bridge interface and boundary-scan test functionality. The test port is communicatively coupled to each of a chassis bridge interface in the chassis. When the module bridge interface of each of the physical application modules is communicatively coupled to a respective one of the plurality of chassis bridge interfaces, the boundary-scan test functionality of the respective physical application module is communicatively coupled to the test port. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340295 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07511601 | Eisenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Eisenberg (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David P. Erickson (Stillwater, Minnesota); Edward D. Goff (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Mitchell B. Grunes (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Gene J. Hickok (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Janet T. Keller (Eagan, Minnesota); William J. Kelliher, Jr. (Lino Lakes, Minnesota); Jon A. Kirschhoffer (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); John M. Kruse (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Diane E. Morel (Shoreview, Minnesota); Scott D. Pearson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Chester Piotrowski (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Edmund J. Ring (Circle Pines, Minnesota); Robert A. Sainati (Bloomington, Minnesota); Michele A. Waldner (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems and methods of handling items such as files are disclosed, including systems and methods for polling RFID-tagged items while they are stored in storage areas. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/153124 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/3.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07512765 | Kurtz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Kurtz (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of auditing memory in a system comprises receiving a request for memory from an application and populating a memory tag with a stack depth component and a traceback stack component. The traceback stack component contains a pointer to a traceback stack. The stack depth component defines a size of the traceback stack. The traceback stack contains information from a program stack associated with the application. The embodiment may further comprise determining if a memory pool has enough free memory to satisfy the request and allocating, from the memory pool, a memory allocation unit if the memory pool has enough free memory to satisfy the request. The memory allocation unit may include a data area and a footer. The data area defines an area to which the application may write data and the footer bounds the data area with a special code. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/149040 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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