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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 07, 2009
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07513101 | Eschborn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Eschborn (Gilbert, Arizona); Guy L. Dilno (Chandler, Arizona); Michael J. Calmelat (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A thrust reverser actuation system is provided that includes a synchronization system that synchronizes the actuation of at least two actuators coupled to at least two power drive units. The synchronization system includes a first synchronization shaft coupling the first power drive unit to the second power drive unit and a second synchronization shaft coupling the first power drive unit to the second power drive unit. The at least two actuators are adapted to receive a drive force and configured, in response to receipt of the drive force, to move between a stowed position and a deployed position. The synchronization system is configured to transfer power between the first power drive unit and the second power drive unit, thereby eliminating a mismatch in power and provide uniform deployment of the at least two actuators. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262058 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513120 | Kupratis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B. Kupratis (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine, in particular a turboshaft engine, includes a spool having a turbine and a gas generator compressor mounted thereto, a source of heat positioned between the turbine and the compressor, a first shaft and a free turbine mounted to the first shaft, and a control system for transferring power between the spool and the shaft. The operating speed of the gas generator compressor is re-matched in order to improve the efficiency and surge margin of the gas generator compressor and to improve the transient performance of the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101527 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/791 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513160 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Lynch (Williamsburg, Virginia); David M. Blaker (Roanoke, Virginia); David J. Colatosti (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital pulsed phase locked loop (DPPLL) provides exact measurements of echo phase, time, and/or position delay as well as echo amplitude. These exact measurements provide better and more reliable results that directly benefit the many real world applications for the DPPLL. The DPPLL permits simultaneous tracking of multiple echo pulses and considerably improved echo selection and sampling. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/806475 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513187 | Lambermont |
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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) | Shawn P. Lambermont (Jasonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gun mount which includes a cradle for holding at least two weapons, a carriage for holding the cradle such that the cradle may pivot left and right, and depress and elevate, at least two ammunition trays able to supply ammunition to the at least two weapons, a pintle, and a link deflector. The pintle is attached to the carriage and attachable to a gun stand. The link deflector deflects discharged ammunition links downward as the ammunition links come out of the weapons. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/076354 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/37.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513210 | Salit 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) | Robert Salit (Panama City Beach, Florida); Robert Peebles (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular sponson for a small boat has discrete sections disposed in a series from the bow and along both sides to the stern. Each section has an axially extending length of tubing defining a longitudinal opening and a plurality of elongate pieces of closed cell foam material secured to the outside of the tubing for the length of each section. Flotation structure outwardly disposed from and in contact with the elongate pieces is covered by a protective covering that reaches inwardly to opposite ends of each length of tubing. A bonding agent is provided on the tubing, elongate pieces, and flotation structure to hold them together in each discrete section of the modular sponson. An elongate cable extends through the longitudinal openings of the series of sections and exerts a tensile force to hold the sections adjacent one another in compression. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447520 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513455 | Mavroudakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockhead Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Mavroudakis (Hightstown, New Jersey); Jeffrey B. Boka (Lumberton, New Jersey); Joseph T. Corso (Riverton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for guiding an intercept vehicle to intercept a ballistic target includes conceptual setup of a line-of-sight (LOS) extending between the vehicles. The interceptor is accelerated in a direction perpendicular to the LOS until its velocity in that direction equals that of the target. At this time, the thrust of the interceptor accelerates it along the line-of-sight, thereby guaranteeing an intercept. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062081 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513961 | Holzl et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Holzl (LaCanada, California); Robert L. Shinavski (Mission Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of extremely fine-grained alloys are used to make coatings or free-standing bodies having desirable properties for use as a heat-resistant and wear-resistant material. In an illustrative embodiment, the alloys are comprised of a multiplicity of alternate, microcrystalline or nanocrystalline films of tungsten metal and tungsten compound. The tungsten compound film may be comprised of a tungsten carbide or a tungsten boride. The tungsten films are the primary films. Their desirable characteristics, in addition to their very fine crystalline habit, per se, are the high strength, high hardness, high resilience, and high fracture energy which these fine crystallites foster. They may be manufactured by a chemical vapor deposition process in which reactive gas flows are rapidly switched to produce alternate films with abrupt hetero-junctions and thereby to produce the useful micro-crystalline habit. The unique synthesis method allows effective control of critical flaw size. The structure is such that the primary films may be made sufficiently thick so as to assure some desirable ductile behavior, but sufficiently thin so as to have high yield strength by dint of their microcrystalline size, and as to limit the size of any flaws. The secondary films are made of enough thickness to prevent the epitaxial growth from one primary film to the next-deposited primary film and thin enough so that they can not contain a flaw of critical size. In addition, the exterior surface of any body made by this method may have a sufficiently smooth surface that the strength of the body is determined by the bulk properties of the material and not by surface flaws. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006162 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/537 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513968 | Nickerson 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) | Earl S. Nickerson (Little Compton, Rhode Island); Maria G. Medeiros (Bristol, Rhode Island); Wayne C. Tucker (Exeter, Rhode Island); Russell R. Bessette (Mattapoisett, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Using a ¼ inch end mill a grid pattern of one inch squares or lands separated by concave troughs or grooves 0.025 inches deep is milled on to the surface of a one quarter inch thick magnesium plate. A conductive barrier such as a titanium foil is then laid over the magnesium plate, and is then pressed into the pattern with a one inch thick 80 durometer rubber sheet. Pressure of 250 pounds per square inch is then applied to the rubber to create indentations in the foil creating the same pattern as the one on the magnesium plate. The foil is then removed. An electrically conductive adhesive is then screen printed on the magnesium lands only, avoiding the grooves. The titanium foil is oriented to the pattern on the magnesium plate and mated to the magnesium plate by applying 200 pounds per square inch of pressure. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183310 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514017 | Bhamidipati |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E Paint Company (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murty V. Bhamidipati (Randolph, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface coatings, and method of forming the coatings, are provided. The coatings inhibit the adhesion of or accumulation of ice to or on substrates to which the coatings are applied. The surface coatings preferably include a silicone phase change material. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800558 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514078 | Bander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil H. Bander (New York, New York); Francis J. Carr (Aberdeen, United Kingdom); Anita Hamilton (Aberdeen, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, to the extracellular domain of human prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) are provided. The modified anti-PSMA antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, have been rendered less immunogenic compared to their unmodified counterparts to a given species, e.g., a human. Pharmaceutical compositions including the aforesaid antibodies, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors and host cells for making such antibodies and fragments are also disclosed. Methods of using the antibodies of the invention to detect human PSMA, or to ablate or kill a PSMA-expressing cell, e.g., a PSMA-expressing cancer or prostatic cell, either in vitro or in vivo, are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449379 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514153 | Archer, Jr. 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) | Harry L. Archer, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia); Wayne J. Powell (Palm Harbor, Florida); Josephs T. Menke (Davenport, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for coating a steel surface of a workpiece. According to an aspect of the invention, a steel workpiece is subjected to a first embrittlement-relief baking operation to form a protective oxide layer on the steel surface. The protective oxide layer is de-scaled, and the steel surface is activated. A hydrogen barrier coating is deposited on the activated steel surface, and activated. A zinc-nickel alloy is plated on the barrier coating, and subjected to a second embrittlement-relief baking operation. The porous plating is sealed with a conversion coat. The method is especially useful in making low to no hydrogen embrittlement cadmium-replacement steel parts. Also provided is a corrosion resistant coated steel workpiece. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076456 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/623 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514289 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides an integrated chip module and a corresponding method of manufacture that facilitates proximity communication. This module includes a base chip and a bridge chip, both of which include an active face, upon which active circuitry and signal pads reside, and a back face opposite the active face. The active face of the bridge chip is bonded to the active face of the base chip, and the back face of the bridge chip is thinned via planarization or polishing. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385430 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514532 | Oh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youngman Oh (Glen Allen, Virginia); Ron G. Rosenfeld (Los Altos, California); Caroline K. Buckway (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed novel mutant IGFBP-3 polypeptides and fragments thereof that have either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the human IGFBP-3 receptor (“P4.33”). The present invention provides novel mutant IGFBP-3 nucleic acid sequences, and expression systems. Additional embodiments provide for screening assays for identifying IGFBP-3 receptor antagonists or agonists, methods for modulating IGF-independent IGFBP-3 responses of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, A methods for inducing or potentiating apoptosis of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, methods for treating solid tumors having cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, and compositions comprising polypeptides having either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the IGFBP-3 receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715600 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514941 | Barton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul H. Barton (Midlothian, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for predicting the reliability of an electronic system is provided. The apparatus includes at least one component, a stress sensor operable to measure stress of the at least one component, a resistance sensor operable to measure an electrical resistance of the at least one component, and an electronic control system coupled to the stress sensor and resistance sensor operable to predict the reliability of the electronic system using the stress and electrical resistance of the at least one component. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376942 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514972 | Dvorak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Dvorak (Waseca, Minnesota); James G. Hiller (Minnetonka, Minnesota); James D. Seefeldt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential charge pump with common mode and active regulators is presented. Either type of regulator may be used to improve the performance characteristics of the differential charge pump. The active regulator increases the output range of the differential amplifier. The common mode regulator establishes the common mode voltage of the differential charge pump. The common mode voltage is established independently from external circuitry and does not use a feedback path. The common mode regulator may also be used to establish a mid-rail voltage, which may be used to further improve the output range of the differential amplifier. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342106 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515013 | O'Connell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. O'Connell (Seattle, Washington); Stephen L. Fahley (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method relating to a rectangular waveguide cavity launch are disclosed that enable coupling an electromagnetic wave from the top surface of a waveguide distribution network formed into a conductive plate with the narrow wall of a rectangular waveguide facing the top of the conductive plate. A resonant cavity structure is formed into a conductive plate and coupled to a waveguide also formed into the plate, the resonant cavity structure having a cavity width wider than the narrow wall dimension of the waveguide. The resonant cavity structure includes a conductive block within it having a block width substantially equal to a difference between the cavity width of the resonant cavity structure and the narrow wall dimension. The cavity launch excites and rotates a dominant waveguide mode entering the structure such that the dominant waveguide mode enters the waveguide substantially parallel to the narrow wall dimension. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/608235 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/21.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515054 | Torch |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Torch (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensor, communicator, and/or controller apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring movement of a person's eye. The apparatus includes a device configured to be worn on a user's head, a light source for directing light towards one or both eyes of the user, one or more image guides on the device for viewing one or both eyes of the user, and one or more cameras carried on the device and coupled to the image guides for acquiring images of the eyes and/or the user's surroundings. The apparatus may include a cable and/or a transmitter for transmitting image data from the camera to a remote location, e.g., to processor and/or display for analyzing and/or displaying the image data. A system including the apparatus may be used to monitor one or more oculometric parameters, e.g., pupillary response, and/or to control a computer using the user's eyes instead of a mouse. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097788 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515096 | 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 | 11/901545 |
| 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 07515189 | Slagle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn B. Slagle (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a method of image dissection that utilizes random, non-rectangular scan patterns and irregular size and shape picture elements. To do this, matched faceplates would be cut from a fused scrambled fiber optic bundle with fibers of random diameters and cross sections. One faceplate would be placed in contact with the imager focal plane surface. The other faceplate would be placed in contact with the light-emitting surface of the display device. Thus, the images input and output from the imaging system of the invention would match. A video link would connect the focal plane imager and the raster scan display. The raster scan would be accomplished in a random manner so as to provide the best quality refresh rate and image. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217853 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/315 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515269 | Alexander 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) | Troy A. Alexander (Federalsburg, Maryland); Paul M. Pellegrino (Columbia, Maryland); James B. Gillespie (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of particle detection includes optically trapping a single particle having an averaged linear dimension of between 0.10 microns and 50 microns in a focal region optical trap formed from a trap visible to near-infrared wavelength. The trap is proximal to a substrate having a discontinuous metal coating so as to exploit a surface plasmon resonance generated electric field caused by irradiation of the metal coating. The single particle is then exposed to an interrogation wavelength to yield scattering spectrum relating to the particle. A particle identification digital database containing scattering spectra from a variety of different single particles that vary in spectral features facilitates identification of unknown spectra. A microfluidic cell is detailed to facilitate the automated scanning of numerous particles from a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/049583 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515617 | Vahala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry J. Vahala (Pasadena, California); Tal Eliezer Carmon (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic device is disclosed which has higher order harmonic emissions. A pump source is adapted to emit a laser beam at a source frequency and to have a power output of less than approximately 100 Watts. A micro-cavity resonator, which is adapted to exhibit inversion symmetry, is optically coupled to the pump source to receive light from the laser beam. The micro-cavity resonator emits light at an emission frequency while light is received from the laser beam, where the emission frequency is approximately three or more times the source frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560319 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515618 | Franck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome B. Franck (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In the laser system of the present invention, an acoustic grating (AG) established in an SBS cell by an initial laser pulse is forced into oscillation from noise. Since the process is nonlinear, SBS Phase Conjugation does not take place until a specific level is achieved based on several factors such as the physical conditions and the SBS media. The invention segments the initial laser pulse with a zonal lenslet array that produces a set of beams that have their foci distribute in space. By coupling this segmented lenslet array with a master lens, the separation of the foci from each other can be controlled. At a large separation distance each foci independently produces an associated AG. As each AG forms from a local noise source the coherence between the segmented beams has been lost. However, the master lens controls the entire focal envelope and hence the separation distance between the foci. Increasing the power of the master lens causes the separation between the foci to decrease. At some minimum distance the AG couple and hence the phase relationship is restored and coherence is re-established. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/024445 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515716 | Elliott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and a methods are provided for reserving a rate at which cryptographic material is provided. A reservation request [700] for reserving the rate is sent from a secret bits consuming application [410] to a secret bit producing application [405]. The secret bits producing application [405] determines whether the reservation request can be satisfied. When the secret bits producing application determines that the reservation can be satisfied, the rate is reserved for the secret bits consuming application [410]. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/786314 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515738 | Moritz |
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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) | Elan Moritz (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A biometric data collection and storage system includes stations (e.g., checkpoints such as those found in airports, seaports and border crossings) for collecting biometric data from each individual passing therethrough. The biometric data includes a variety individual-specific biometric features that are measured or collected while the individual is in the station. Each station, uniquely identifiable by a code, assembles a data package to include the biometric data and the station's code. A controller maintained in proximity to the stations receives and encrypts each data package to generate an encrypted data package for each individual. Storage devices/facilities located remotely with respect to the controller are used to store each encrypted data package. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/914779 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515776 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. B. Miller (Stanford, California); James S. Harris, Jr. (Stanford, California); Yu-Hsuan Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | SiGe quantum wells where the well material has a lowest conduction band energy minimum at k=0 (the Γ point of the first Brillouin zone) are provided. Quantum well structures that satisfy this condition have “Kane-like” bands at and near k=0 which can provide physical effects useful for various device applications, especially optical modulators. In the Si1-xGex material system, this condition on the band structure is satisfied for x greater than about 0.7. The quantum well barrier composition may or may not have Kane-like bands. Optical modulators including such SiGe quantum wells can be operated at temperatures other than room temperature. Such temperature control is preferred for providing optical modulators that operate in the telecommunication C band (˜1530 nm to ˜1565 nm). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524035 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
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| US 07515777 | Kuo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Hsuan Kuo (National Taiwan, Taiwan); James S. Harris, Jr. (Stanford, California); David A. B. Miller (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | SiGe quantum wells where the well material has a lowest conduction band energy minimum at k=0 (the Γ point of the first Brillouin zone) are provided. Quantum well structures that satisfy this condition have “Kane-like” bands at and near k=0 which can provide physical effects useful for various device applications, especially optical modulators. In the Si1-xGex material system, this condition on the band structure is satisfied for x greater than about 0.7. The quantum well barrier composition may or may not have Kane-like bands. Optical modulators and/or detectors according to the invention are suitable for inclusion in waveguide-based optical interconnects. Such interconnects can be on-chip interconnects or chip to chip interconnects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524505 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07516306 | Bacon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bacon (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention broadly contemplates braids and fibers, high-level programming constructs which facilitate the creation of programs that are partially ordered, to address the continuing trend of ever-increasing processor speeds and attendant increases in memory latencies. These partial orders can be used to respond adaptively to memory latencies. It is shown how these constructs can be effectively supported with simple and inexpensive instruction set and micro-architectural extensions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959609 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07516310 | Altman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik R. Altman (Danbury, Connecticut); Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing the number of times in-flight loads must be searched by store instructions in a multi-threaded processor. A load issue for a thread t_old is frozen for a number of cycles. A t13 new load instruction is rejected. A notification is sent to the rest of the processor that the t_new load instruction has been rejected. A load reorder queue (LRQ) of a t_old is snooped for any load which comes from a cache line L accessed by the load instruction and then forces such loads to be re-executed. Ownership of line L is changed to thread t_new. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422996 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07516361 | Vick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Vick (San Jose, California); Michael H. Paleczny (San Jose, California); Jay R. Freeman (Palo Alto, California); Lawrence G. Votta, Jr. (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for checkpointing a system that includes receiving a stop command by an executing thread from a master, wherein the executing thread executes an operating system, continuing execution of the executing thread until a checkpoint is reached after receiving the stop command, halting execution of the executing thread at the checkpoint, and checkpointing the system by storing a state and a snapshot of memory. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332252 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07513876 | Casscells et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Ward Casscells (Houston, Texas); James T. Willerson (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting vulnerable arterial plaque formed on the vessel wall in vivo is disclosed. The system comprises a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end, one or more thermal sensors at said distal end of said catheter, and a detector coupled to the proximal end of the catheter and in communication with one or more of the thermal sensors. The detector is capable of receiving thermal information from one or more thermal sensors and differentiating the different types of plaque based upon the thermal information received. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273683 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514215 | Thomae et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bianca A. Thomae (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to a heart condition or cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179843 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514219 | Showe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise C. Showe (Media, Pennsylvania); Michael Nebozhyn (Yeadon, Pennsylvania); Anil Vachani (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Steven M. Albelda (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method distinguishing between head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma. In particular, a 10-gene classifier has been identified which can be used to distinguish between primary squamous cell carcinoma of the lung and metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. These genes include CXCL13, COL6A2, SFTPB, KRT14, TSPYL5, TMP3, KLK10, MMP1, GAS1, and MYH2. A panel of one or more of these genes, or proteins encoded thereby, can be used for early diagnosis and selection of an appropriate therapeutic treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560410 |
| 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 07514229 | Jamieson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catriona Helen M. Jamieson (Palo Alto, California); Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and kits are provided for the clinical staging of blood disorders including myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloproliferative diseases and leukemias by differential analysis of hematologic samples for the distribution of one or more hematopoietic stem or progenitor cell subsets. Additional functional, genetic, gene expression, proteomic or other molecular analyses of the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from the patients can also be employed in the staging methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/528890 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07514252 — Cell-specific and/or tumor-specific promoter retargeting of herpes γ 34.5 gene expression
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Antonio Chiocca (Powell, Ohio); Richard Y. Chung (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to herpes viral mutants and methods of using these viral mutants for selectively targeting tumor cells or other populations of target cells. The viral mutants of the invention are capable of selective targeting due to the use of tumor-specific and/or cell-specific promoters to drive expression of the herpes γ34.5 gene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042189 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514261 | Edelberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay M. Edelberg (New York, New York); Shahin Rafii (Great Neck, New York); Mun K. Hong (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of treating and preventing loss of tissue vascularization that can occur, for example, upon aging. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/215271 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514266 | Anslyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric V. Anslyn (Austin, Texas); Aaron T. Wright (Austin, Texas); Zhenlin Zhong (Hubei, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic receptor cores are provided that comprise a compound represented by the following formula: wherein R1, R2, and R3 independently comprise at least one moiety chosen from a hydroxyl group, an amine group, and derivatives thereof. Synthetic receptor cores are provided that comprise a compound represented by the following formula: wherein R comprises at least one moiety chosen from a hydroxyl group, an amine group, and derivatives thereof. Synthetic receptors are provided that comprise a synthetic receptor core; and an analyte binding moiety, wherein the analyte binding moiety is capable of complexion with an analyte. Systems, methods, and kits are also provided that use a synthetic receptor. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172276 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514267 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STCUNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Reema Zeineldin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Menake E. Piyasena (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to lipid bilayer coated beads and methods of using those beads in immunoassays, in analytical assay and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, August 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466050 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514397 | Barney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trimeris, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn O'Lin Barney (Cary, North Carolina); Dennis Michael Lambert (Cary, North Carolina); Stephen Robert Petteway (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides which exhibit potent anti-viral activity. In particular, the invention relates to methods of using such peptides as inhibitory of hepatitis B virus (“HepB”) transmission to uninfected cells. The peptides used in the methods of the invention are homologs of the DP-178 and DP-107 peptides, peptides corresponding to amino acid residues 638 to 673, and to amino acid residues 558 to 595, respectively, of the HIV-1LAI transmembrane protein (TM) gp41. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/487355 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514400 | Peterson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake R. Peterson (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new synthetic receptors. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use of the synthetic receptors for delivering a protein, peptide, drug, prodrug, lipid, nucleic acid, carbohydrate or small molecule into a target cell via receptor-mediated endocytosis. According to the invention, novel synthetic mimics of cell surface receptors have been designed and methods for use of the same are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368661 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514404 | Decout et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Luc Decout (Vaulnaveys le Haut, France); Virendra N. Pandey (Parsippany, New Jersey); Emmanuel Riguet (Saint Thomas en Royans, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions pertaining to conjugates composed of a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) moiety and a neamine derivative moiety. Methods for using such conjugates for modulating the activity of a target nucleic acid molecule and for preventing or treating a disease associated with an aberrant nucleic acid molecule are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/581949 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514406 | Bedalov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Bedalov (Seattle, Washington); Daniel E. Gottschling (Seattle, Washington); Julian Simon (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying a compound that inhibits the NAD+-dependent deacetylase activity of a SIR2 protein is disclosed. These compounds are useful for the treatment of cancers and other diseases, through the activation of silenced genes, through the promotion of apoptosis in cancerous cells, and through the inhibition of transcriptional repressor activity in oncogenes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/496031 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 07514413 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Martin (Pound Ridge, New York); Joseph R. Bertino (Branford, Connecticut); Jason Koutcher (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention also provides a method for treating a cancer subject comprising administering to the subject a combination of ATP-depleting agents at concentrations which deplete the ATP level to, or close to, at least 15% of normal in cancer cells wherein at least one of the ATP-depleting agents is a mitochondrial ATP-inhibitor, a methylthioadenosine phosphorylase inhibitor or an inhibitor of De Novo purine synthesis other than 6-Methylmercaptopurine riboside, wherein said composition produces a substantially better effect than a composition without at least one of the ATP-depleting agents: a mitochondrial ATP-inhibitor, a glycolytic inhibitor, a methylthioadenosine phosphorylase inhibitor and an inhibitor of De Novo purine synthesis other than 6-Methylmercaptopurine riboside. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/518003 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514414 | Klinman 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) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Rainald Zeuner (Kiel, United Kingdom); Mayda Gursel (Rockville, Maryland); Ihsan Gursel (Rockville, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to oligodeoxynucleotides that suppress an immune response. Methods are disclosed for preventing or treating an immune-mediated disorder, such as, but not limited to, an autoimmune disease, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. Also disclosed are methods of suppressing an immune response in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/489839 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514415 | Klinman 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) | Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Rainald Zeuner (Kiel, Germany); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland); Ihsan Gursel (Rockville, Maryland); Mayda Gursel (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to oligodeoxynucleotides that suppress an immune response. Methods are disclosed for preventing or treating inflammatory arthropathies by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/523273 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514418 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hubert Josien (Jersey City, New Jersey); Bom David (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides generally a compound having the following general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are independently the same or different and are hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a benzyl group, an alkynyl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryloxy group, an acyloxy group, a carbonyloxy group, a carbamoyloxy group, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a cyano group, an azido group, a formyl group, a hydrazino group, an acyl group, an amino group, —SRc, wherein, Rc is hydrogen, an acyl group, an alkyl group, or an aryl group, or R1 and R2 together form a group of the formula —O(CH2)nO— wherein n represents the integer 1 or 2; R3 is H, F, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, or a cyano group; or R2 and R3 together form a group of the formula —O(CH2)nO— wherein n represents the integer 1 or 2; R4 is H, F, a C1-3 alkyl group, a C2-3 alkenyl group, a C2-3 alkynyl group, or a C1-3 alkoxyl group; R5 is a C1-10 alkyl group, or a propargyl group; and R6, R7 and R8 are independently a C1-10 alkyl group, a C2-10 alkenyl group, a C2-10 alkynyl group, an aryl group or a —(CH2)NR9 group, wherein N is an integer within the range of 1 through 10 and R9 is a hydroxyl group, alkoxy group, an amino group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, a halogen atom, a cyano group or a nitro group; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825729 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514463 | Georg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gunda I. Georg (Lawrence, Kansas); Joseph S. Tash (Leawood, Kansas); Ramappa Chakrasali (Lawrence, Kansas); Sudhakar Rao Jakkaraj (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds useful for inhibiting spermatogenesis and cancer treatment, and in particular as inhibitors of heat shock proteins and/or elongation factor 1 alpha. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922747 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/405 |
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| US 07514529 | Gu |
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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) | Xin-Xing Gu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptide mimotopes of lipooligosaccharide from nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae as vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187419 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 |
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| US 07514531 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuejun Xu (Missouri City, Texas); Magnus Höök (Houston, Texas); Jiyeun Kim (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identified a high affinity binding sequence in collagen type III for the collagen-binding integrin I domains. Provided herein are the methods used to characterize the sequence, the peptides comprising this novel sequence and the use of the peptides in enabling cell adhesion. Also provided herein are methods to identify specific integrin inhibitors, sequences of these inhibitors and their use in inhibiting pathophysiological conditions that may arise due to integrin-collagen interaction. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446986 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07514532 | Oh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youngman Oh (Glen Allen, Virginia); Ron G. Rosenfeld (Los Altos, California); Caroline K. Buckway (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed novel mutant IGFBP-3 polypeptides and fragments thereof that have either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the human IGFBP-3 receptor (“P4.33”). The present invention provides novel mutant IGFBP-3 nucleic acid sequences, and expression systems. Additional embodiments provide for screening assays for identifying IGFBP-3 receptor antagonists or agonists, methods for modulating IGF-independent IGFBP-3 responses of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, A methods for inducing or potentiating apoptosis of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, methods for treating solid tumors having cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, and compositions comprising polypeptides having either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the IGFBP-3 receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715600 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07514549 | McCormick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Justin McCormick (Port Austin, Michigan); Lito Piro (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for identifying compounds that decrease the expression or activity of an overexpressed Sprouty protein in certain cancers. Such compounds can be useful for treating cancers in which a Sprouty protein is overexpressed. Also provided are therapeutic formulations and pharmaceutical formulations for treating cancers characterized by overexpression of a Sprouty protein. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404766 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514563 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton R. Smith, III (East Lansing, Michigan); Robert E. Maleczka (DeWitt, Michigan); Ghayoor A. Chotana (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing cyano substituted arene boranes is described. The compounds are useful intermediates to pharmaceutical compounds using the cyano group as a reactant. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449280 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514592 | Krieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monty Krieger (Needham, Massachusetts); Songwen Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sharon L. Karackattu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An animal model of coronary heart disease has been developed where myocardial infarct can be induced by altering the animal's diet. In all embodiments, this animal model is a result of reduced activity of scavenger receptor class BI (SR-BI) and apolipoprotein E (ApoE). In a preferred embodiment, the model is a result of crossbreeding two transgenic mouse lines: a knockout of SR-BI (SR-BI−/−) and an impaired ApoE expressor (hypoE). The impaired ApoE gene results in only 2-5% expression of ApoE and a reduction in cholesterol homeostasis. Resulting animals are predisposed to hypercholesterolemia but can live longer than a year on a normal low fat diet. Serum plasma levels can be significantly elevated by changing the animal's diet to one containing high levels of fat and cholesterol. Within a month on a high fat, high cholesterol diet, animals develop atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction occurs. Survival depends on the nature of the diet and the conditions of animal husbandry and can typically be around 20-30 days after administration of the modified diet depending on the specific conditions. Housing the animals alone or in groups significantly affects survival of these animals on a high fat diet. Analysis of B- and T-cell deficient SR-BI/ApoE/RAG2 triple knockout mice established that B- and T-lymphocytes do not play a key role in the pathophysiology of the SR-BI ApoE dKO model of human disease. These animal models can be used to study mechanisms and progression of CHD as a function of diet, treatment with drugs to be screened for efficacy or undesirable side effects, and social environmental effects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099343 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514593 | Boucher, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Boucher, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Wanda O'Neal (Cary, North Carolina); Barbara Grubb (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marcus Mall (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonhuman transgenic mammal is described whose genome comprises a promoter construct operably linked to a heterologous DNA encoding an epithelial sodium channel β subunit, wherein said promoter construct directs expression of the epithelial sodium channel β subunit in lung epithelial cells of said animal, and wherein said transgenic mammal has increased lung mucus retention as compared to the corresponding wild-type mammal. The animal is useful in screening compounds for activity in treating lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/448784 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514595 | Mumm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Mumm (St. Louis, Missouri); Eric H. Schroeter (Troy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system including: (i) a methodology for targeted cellular ablation in zebrafish; (ii) a methodology for regional cellular ablation in zebrafish. These methodologies are used to identify genetic components that regulate cellular regeneration and to identify drug compounds that influence cellular regeneration for the purpose of developing therapies for degenerative conditions. Transgenic zebrafish disclosed herein contain transgenic constructs composed of: (i) cell and/or tissue-type specific regulatory elements (e.g. promoter and/or enhancer regions) which delimit expression of operably linked gene product(s) to discrete cellular populations; (ii) a gene product that promotes cellular ablation composed of a pro-drug conversion system capable of converting nontoxic pro-drugs into cytotoxic drugs, which is expressed alone or in connection with; (iii) a reporter gene product that allows selective detection of cells expressing the reporter—both prior to (initial cells) and following cellular ablation (regenerated cells). Here we describe genetic delivery of a pro-drug converting system in order to enable targeted cellular ablation in zebrafish. Transgenic zebrafish of this invention provide a high-throughput system for genetic dissection of the process of cellular regeneration and, compound screening for the discovery of drugs capable of promoting cellular regeneration. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799372 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514674 | Glish et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Glish (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Desmond Kaplan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass spectrometer according to one embodiment can include first and second endcap electrodes, first and second outer ring electrodes, and a central ring electrode. The first outer ring electrode can be positioned downstream of the first endcap electrode. The central ring electrode can be positioned downstream of the first outer ring electrode. The second outer ring electrode can be positioned downstream of the central ring electrode. The second endcap electrode can be positioned downstream of the second outer ring electrode. The mass spectrometer can also include a radio frequency (RF) signal supply operable to apply an RF signal to the first and second outer ring electrodes to thereby generate a substantially octapolar field for trapping charged particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579569 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514926 | Adriany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregor Adriany (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Johannes Ritter (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); William Voje (Newport, Minnesota); J. Thomas Vaughan (Stillwater, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, a system and method for a coil having a plurality of resonant elements and an adjustable frame. A position of at least one resonant element can be adjusted relative to at least one other resonant element. A variable impedance is coupled to adjacent resonant elements and the impedance varies as a function of a separation distance. Cables are coupled to each resonant element and are gathered at a junction in a particular manner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599177 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515054 | Torch |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Torch (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensor, communicator, and/or controller apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring movement of a person's eye. The apparatus includes a device configured to be worn on a user's head, a light source for directing light towards one or both eyes of the user, one or more image guides on the device for viewing one or both eyes of the user, and one or more cameras carried on the device and coupled to the image guides for acquiring images of the eyes and/or the user's surroundings. The apparatus may include a cable and/or a transmitter for transmitting image data from the camera to a remote location, e.g., to processor and/or display for analyzing and/or displaying the image data. A system including the apparatus may be used to monitor one or more oculometric parameters, e.g., pupillary response, and/or to control a computer using the user's eyes instead of a mouse. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097788 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515319 | Adibi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research corp. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Adibi (Suwanee, Georgia); Chao Ray Hsieh (Atlanta, Georgia); Arash Karbaschi (Smyrna, Georgia); Omid Momtahan (Foothill Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lens-less system for analyzing an optical spectrum includes a sophisticated volume hologram for separating an incident diffuse optical signal into wavelength channels without aid of an external collector lens and a detector for receiving and detecting light dispersed by the sophisticated volume hologram. Other systems and methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459114 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reva A. Nickelson (Shelley, Idaho); Paul A. Sloan (Rigby, Idaho); John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Stephanie Walsh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin M. Kostelnik (Idaho, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A subterranean barrier and method for forming same are disclosed, the barrier including a plurality of casing strings wherein at least one casing string of the plurality of casing strings may be affixed to at least another adjacent casing string of the plurality of casing strings through at least one weld, at least one adhesive joint, or both. A method and system for nondestructively inspecting a subterranean barrier is disclosed. For instance, a radiographic signal may be emitted from within a casing string toward an adjacent casing string and the radiographic signal may be detected from within the adjacent casing string. A method of repairing a barrier including removing at least a portion of a casing string and welding a repair element within the casing string is disclosed. A method of selectively heating at least one casing string forming at least a portion of a subterranean barrier is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565752 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513921 | Phelps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amanda C. Phelps (Malibu, California); Kevin W. Kirby (Calabasas Hills, California); Daniel Gregoire (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust gas filter apparatus includes a particulate filter for collecting a particulate from an exhaust gas. The exhaust gas filter also includes a electromagnetic radiation resonator to heat a portion of the particulate to ignite the particulate and regenerate the particulate filter. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257846 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/282.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513932 | Carolan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Kathryn Beverly Dyer, legal representative (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Merrill Anderson Wilson (West Jordan, Utah); Ted R. Ohrn (Alliance, Ohio); Kurt E. Kneidel (Alliance, Ohio); David Peterson (Uniontown, Ohio); Christopher M. Chen (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Keith Gerard Rackers (Louisville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Planar ceramic membrane assembly comprising a dense layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material, wherein the dense layer has a first side and a second side, a porous layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material in contact with the first side of the dense layer, and a ceramic channeled support layer in contact with the second side of the dense layer. The planar ceramic membrane assembly can be used in a ceramic wafer assembly comprising a planar ceramic channeled support layer having a first side and a second side; a first dense layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the first side of the ceramic channeled support layer; a first outer support layer comprising porous mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material and having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the outer side of the first dense layer; a second dense layer of mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the second side of the ceramic channeled layer; and a second outer support layer comprising porous mixed-conducting multi-component metal oxide material and having an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner side is in contact with the outer side of the second dense layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843009 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513962 | de Figueredo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anacleto M. de Figueredo (West Newton, Massachusetts); Diran Apelian (West Boylston, Massachusetts); Matt M. Findon (Monson, Massachusetts); Nicholas Saddock (S. Windson, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are alloys substantially free of dendrites. A method includes forming an alloy substantially free of dendrites. A superheated alloy is cooled to form a nucleated alloy. The temperature of the nucleated alloy is controlled to prevent the nuclei from melting. The nucleated alloy is mixed to distribute the nuclei throughout the alloy. The nucleated alloy is cooled with nuclei distributed throughout. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/668668 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513972 | Hart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hart Resource Technologies, Inc. (Creekside, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul John Hart (Indiana, Pennsylvania); Bruce G. Miller (State College, Pennsylvania); Ronald T. Wincek (State College, Pennsylvania); Glenn E. Decker (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); David K. Johnson (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a comprehensive, efficient, and cost effective portable evaporator unit, method, and system for the treatment of brine. The evaporator unit, method, and system require a pretreatment process that removes heavy metals, crude oil, and other contaminates in preparation for the evaporator unit. The pretreatment and the evaporator unit, method, and system process metals and brine at the site where they are generated (the well site). Thus, saving significant money to producers who can avoid present and future increases in transportation costs. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850626 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Concentrating evaporators 159/47.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514004 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick V. Brady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian P. Dwyer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James L. Krumhansl (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joseph D. Chwirka (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-cost, water treatment system and method for reducing arsenic contamination in small community water storage tanks. Arsenic is removed by using a submersible pump, sitting at the bottom of the tank, which continuously recirculates (at a low flow rate) arsenic-contaminated water through an attached and enclosed filter bed containing arsenic-sorbing media. The pump and treatment column can be either placed inside the tank (In-Tank) by manually-lowering through an access hole, or attached to the outside of the tank (Out-of-Tank), for easy replacement of the sorption media. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113354 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514493 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Moore (Edgewood, New Mexico); Mark D. Tucker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joseph A. Jones (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for containing at least a portion of radioisotopes, radionuclides, heavy metal or combination thereof contaminating a substrate wherein a containment composition is applied to the substrate. The ingredients within the containment composition interact with the contaminants on the surface of the substrate until the containment composition has polymerized to a water insoluble form containing at least a portion of the contaminates enmeshed therein. The dried composition is removed from the contaminated surface removing with the composition at least a portion of the contaminate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/974222 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514575 | Ginosar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Allicance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert V. Fox (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lucia M. Petkovic (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an alkyl ester. The method comprises providing an alcohol and a triglyceride or fatty acid. An expanding gas is dissolved into the alcohol to form a gas expanded solvent. The alcohol is reacted with the triglyceride or fatty acid in a single phase to produce the alkyl ester. The expanding gas may be a nonpolar expanding gas, such as carbon dioxide, methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane, ethylene, propylene, butylene, pentene, isomers thereof, and mixtures thereof, which is dissolved into the alcohol. The gas expanded solvent may be maintained at a temperature below, at, or above a critical temperature of the expanding gas and at a pressure below, at, or above a critical pressure of the expanding gas. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123607 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514676 | Page et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Insitute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason S. Page (Kennewick, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable, low mass-to-charge (m/z) filter is disclosed employing electrospray ionization to block ions associated with unwanted low m/z species from entering the mass spectrometer and contributing their space charge to down-stream ion accumulation steps. The low-mass filter is made by using an adjustable potential energy barrier from the conductance limiting terminal electrode of an electrodynamic ion funnel, which prohibits species with higher ion mobilities from being transmitted. The filter provides a linear voltage adjustment of low-mass filtering from m/z values from about 50 to about 500. Mass filtering above m/z 500 can also be performed; however, higher m/z species are attenuated. The mass filter was evaluated with a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of an albumin tryptic digest and resulted in the ability to block low-mass, “background” ions which account for 40-70% of the total ion current from the ESI source during peak elution. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251529 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514694 | Stephan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Material Innovations, Inc. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew C. Stephan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vincent D. Jardret (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector has a volume of neutron moderating material and a plurality of individual neutron sensing elements dispersed at selected locations throughout the moderator, and particularly arranged so that some of the detecting elements are closer to the surface of the moderator assembly and others are more deeply embedded. The arrangement captures some thermalized neutrons that might otherwise be scattered away from a single, centrally located detector element. Different geometrical arrangements may be used while preserving its fundamental characteristics. Different types of neutron sensing elements may be used, which may operate on any of a number of physical principles to perform the function of sensing a neutron, either by a capture or a scattering reaction, and converting that reaction to a detectable signal. High detection efficiency, an ability to acquire spectral information, and directional sensitivity may be obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820346 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514695 | Caffrey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustine J. Caffrey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector and methodology for inspecting a sealed nuclear storage container is described. The detector includes a collimated gamma-ray radiation detector which is moveably borne over the sealed nuclear storage container, and which detects gamma-ray radiation which is emitted by each of a plurality of spent nuclear fuel sources which are enclosed within the sealed nuclear storage container for purposes of detecting the illicit or unauthorized removal of spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear storage container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535084 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514833 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John W. McKeever (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine (10) has a disk-shaped rotor (24) disposed in an operating space between two opposing stator assemblies (11, 12) to provide two axial air gaps (15, 16). The rotor (24) has a hub (28) and an outer ring (26) of non-magnetic material and is further provided with a plurality of permanent magnetic elements (25) for coupling flux that is induced by the magnetic field of the stator assemblies (11, 12). The permanent magnetic elements (25) are spaced apart and reluctance poles (27) are positioned in spaces between the magnetic elements (25) to couple additional flux induced by the magnetic field of the stator assemblies (11, 12). Various constructions and shapes (40-45) for the PM magnetic elements (25) are disclosed, and including PM covers (60) of ferromagnetic material for enhancing q-axis flux in the air gaps (15, 16) and for reducing harmonics where toothed stators are used. Methods of providing increased torque using the the various rotor constructions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228698 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515010 | Zettl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Brian C. Regan (Los Angeles, California); Shaul Aloni (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale oscillation device is disclosed, wherein two nanoscale droplets are altered in size by mass transport, then contact each other and merge through surface tension. The device may also comprise a channel having an actuator responsive to mechanical oscillation caused by expansion and contraction of the droplets. It further has a structure for delivering atoms between droplets, wherein the droplets are nanoparticles. Provided are a first particle and a second particle on the channel member, both being made of a chargeable material, the second particle contacting the actuator portion; and electrodes connected to the channel member for delivering a potential gradient across the channel and traversing the first and second particles. The particles are spaced apart a specified distance so that atoms from one particle are delivered to the other particle by mass transport in response to the potential (e.g. voltage potential) and the first and second particles are liquid and touch at a predetermined point of growth, thereby causing merging of the second particle into the first particle by surface tension forces and reverse movement of the actuator. In a preferred embodiment, the channel comprises a carbon nanotube and the droplets comprise metal nanoparticles, e.g. indium, which is readily made liquid. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245652 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07516112 | Goldsmith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Y. Goldsmith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | While an agent generator is generating an intelligent agent, it can also evaluate the data processing platform on which it is executing, in order to assess a risk factor associated with operation of the agent generator on the data processing platform. The agent generator can retrieve from a location external to the data processing platform an open site that is configurable by the user, and load the open site into an agent substrate, thereby creating a development agent with code development capabilities. While an intelligent agent is executing a functional program on a data processing platform, it can also evaluate the data processing platform to assess a risk factor associated with performing the data processing function on the data processing platform. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/388278 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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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) | Frank J. Cepollina (Annandale, Maryland); Richard D. Burns (Annapolis, Maryland); Jill M. Holz (Laurel, Maryland); James E. Corbo (Columbia, Maryland); Nicholas M. Jedhrich (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method and supporting apparatus for autonomously capturing, servicing and de-orbiting a free-flying spacecraft, such as a satellite, using robotics. The capture of the spacecraft includes the steps of optically seeking and ranging the satellite using LIDAR, and matching tumble rates, rendezvousing and berthing with the satellite. Servicing of the spacecraft may be done using supervised autonomy, which is allowing a robot to execute a sequence of instructions without intervention from a remote human-occupied location. These instructions may be packaged at the remote station in a script and uplinked to the robot for execution upon remote command giving authority to proceed. Alternately, the instructions may be generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) logic onboard the robot. In either case, the remote operator maintains the ability to abort an instruction or script at any time as well as the ability to intervene using manual override to teleoperate the robot. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670653 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/158.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513460 | Cepollina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Cepollina (Annandale, Maryland); Richard D. Burns (Annapolis, Maryland); Jill M. Holz (Laurel, Maryland); James E. Corbo (Columbia, Maryland); Nicholas M. Jedhrich (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a method and supporting apparatus for autonomously capturing, servicing and de-orbiting a free-flying spacecraft, such as a satellite, using robotics. The capture of the spacecraft includes the steps of optically seeking and ranging the satellite using LIDAR; and matching tumble rates, rendezvousing and berthing with the satellite. Servicing of the spacecraft may be done using supervised autonomy, which is allowing a robot to execute a sequence of instructions without intervention from a remote human-occupied location. These instructions may be packaged at the remote station in a script and uplinked to the robot for execution upon remote command giving authority to proceed. Alternately, the instructions may be generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) logic onboard the robot. In either case, the remote operator maintains the ability to abort an instruction or script at any time, as well as the ability to intervene using manual override to teleoperate the robot. In one embodiment, a vehicle used for carrying out the method of this invention comprises an ejection module, which includes the robot, and a de-orbit module. Once servicing is completed by the robot, the ejection module separates from the de-orbit module, leaving the de-orbit module attached to the satellite for de-orbiting the same at a future time. Upon separation, the ejection module can either de-orbit itself or rendezvous with another satellite for servicing. The ability to de-orbit a spacecraft further allows the opportunity to direct the landing of the spent satellite in a safe location away from population centers, such as the ocean. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671062 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513546 | Vranish |
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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) | John M. Vranish (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a conformal gripping device. In an embodiment of the present invention a conformal gripper device may be disclosed comprising a frame that includes an array of movable pins. The device may also include a roller locking and unlocking system within the frame. The system may comprise a pair of locking rollers for each row of gripper pins to facilitate locking and unlocking the array of gripper pins on a column-by-column basis. The system may also include a striker element that may force the locking rollers to roll along an angled roll surface to facilitate unlocking of the array of pins on a column-by-column basis. The system may further include an electromagnetic actuator or solenoid and permanent magnets to facilitate movement of the striker element and the locking rollers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689161 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/86.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07513799 | Goldman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliot Goldman (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical connector split backshell is provided, comprising two substantially identical backshell halves. Each half includes a first side and a cam projecting therefrom along an axis perpendicular thereto, the cam having an alignment tooth with a constant radius and an engagement section with a radius that increases with angular distance from the alignment tooth. Each half further includes a second side parallel to the first side and a circular sector opening disposed in the second side, the circular sector opening including an inner surface configured as a ramp with a constant radius, the ramp being configured to engage with an engagement section of a cam of the other half, the circular sector opening further including a relieved pocket configured to receive an alignment tooth of the cam of the other half. Each half further includes a back side perpendicular to the first and second sides and a wire bundle notch disposed in the back side, the wire bundle notch configured to align with a wire bundle notch of the other half to form a wire bundle opening. The two substantially identical halves are rotatably coupled by engaging the engagement section of each half to the ramp of the other half. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/798525 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514214 | Wade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence A. Wade (La Canada-Flintridge, California); Ian R. Shapiro (Pasadena, California); Charles Patrick Collier (San Marino, California); Maria J. Esplandiu (Los Angeles, California); Vern Garrett Bittner, Jr. (Pasadena, California); Konstantinos P. Giapis (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to techniques for the growth and attachment of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), facilitating their use as robust and well-characterized tools for AFM imaging and other applications. In accordance with one embodiment, SWNTs attached to an AFM tip can function as a structural scaffold for nanoscale device fabrication on a scanning probe. Such a probe can trigger, with nanometer precision, specific biochemical reactions or conformational changes in biological systems. The consequences of such triggering can be observed in real time by single-molecule fluorescence, electrical, and/or AFM sensing. Specific embodiments in accordance with the present invention utilize sensing and manipulation of individual molecules with carbon nanotubes, coupled with single-molecule fluorescence imaging, to allow observation of spectroscopic signals in response to mechanically induced molecular changes. Biological macromolecules such as proteins or DNA can be attached to nanotubes to create highly specific single-molecule probes for investigations of intermolecular dynamics, for assembling hybrid biological and nanoscale materials, or for developing molecular electronics. In one example, electrical wiring of single redox enzymes to carbon nanotube scanning probes allows observation and electrochemical control over single enzymatic reactions by monitoring fluorescence from a redox-active cofactor or the formation of fluorescent products. Enzymes “nanowired” to the tips of carbon nanotubes in accordance with embodiments of the present invention, may enable extremely sensitive probing of biological stimulus-response with high spatial resolution, including product-induced signal transduction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783713 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514726 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Aministrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); James R. Elliott, Jr. (Yorktown, Virginia); Diane M. Stoakley (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A lattice matched silicon germanium (SiGe) semiconductive alloy is formed when a {111} crystal plane of a cubic diamond structure SiGe is grown on the {0001} C-plane of a single crystalline Al2O3 substrate such that a <110> orientation of the cubic diamond structure SiGe is aligned with a <1,0,−1,0> orientation of the {0001} C-plane. A lattice match between the substrate and the SiGe is achieved by using a SiGe composition that is 0.7223 atomic percent silicon and 0.2777 atomic percent germanium. A layer of Si1-xGex is formed on the cubic diamond structure SiGe. The value of X (i) defines an atomic percent of germanium satisfying 0.2277<X<1.0, (ii) is approximately 0.2777 where the layer of Si1-xGex interfaces with the cubic diamond structure SiGe, and (iii) increases linearly with the thickness of the layer of Si1-xGex. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387086 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514964 | Fijany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir Fijany (Pasadena, California); Farrokh Vatan (West Hills, California); Kerem Akarvardar (Grenoble Cedex, France); Benjamin Blalock (Knoxville, Tennessee); Suheng Chen (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sorin Cristoloveanu (Grenoble Cedex, France); Elzbieta Kolawa (Bradbury, California); Mohammad M. Mojarradi (La Canada, California); Nikzad Toomarian (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An universal and programmable logic gate based on G4-FET technology is disclosed, leading to the design of more efficient logic circuits. A new full adder design based on the G4-FET is also presented. The G4-FET can also function as a unique router device offering coplanar crossing of signal paths that are isolated and perpendicular to one another. This has the potential of overcoming major limitations in VLSI design where complex interconnection schemes have become increasingly problematic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377935 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514998 | Mojarradi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Mojarradi (La Canada, California); Greg Levanas (Costa Mesa, California); Yuan Chen (Pasadena, California); Raymond S. Cozy (Altadena, California); Robert Greenwell (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stephen Terry (Knoxville, Tennessee); Benjamin J. Blalock (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a reference current circuit. The reference circuit comprises a low-level current bias circuit, a voltage proportional-to-absolute temperature generator for creating a proportional-to-absolute temperature voltage (VPTAT), and a MOSFET-based constant-IC regulator circuit. The MOSFET-based constant-IC regulator circuit includes a constant-IC input and constant-IC output. The constant-IC input is electrically connected with the VPTAT generator such that the voltage proportional-to-absolute temperature is the input into the constant-IC regulator circuit. Thus the constant-IC output maintains the constant-IC ratio across any temperature range. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/636365 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515257 | Roe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred D. Roe (Huntsville, Alabama); Thomas C. Bryan (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser target reflector assembly for mounting upon spacecraft having a long-range reflector array formed from a plurality of unfiltered light reflectors embedded in an array pattern upon a hemispherical reflector disposed upon a mounting plate. The reflector assembly also includes a short-range reflector array positioned upon the mounting body proximate to the long-range reflector array. The short-range reflector array includes three filtered light reflectors positioned upon extensions from the mounting body. The three filtered light reflectors retro-reflect substantially all incident light rays that are transmissive by their monochromatic filters and received by the three filtered light reflectors. In one embodiment the short-range reflector array is embedded within the hemispherical reflector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014455 |
| 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 356/152.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515786 | Matsko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Anatoliy A. Savchenkov (Glendale, California); Lute Maleki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical resonator system and method that includes a whispering-gallery mode (WGM) optical resonator that is capable of resonating across a broad, continuous swath of frequencies is provided. The optical resonator of the system is shaped to support at least one whispering gallery mode and includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a side wall, and a first curved transition region extending between the side wall and the top surface. The system further includes a coupler having a coupling surface which is arranged to face the transition region of the optical resonator and in the vicinity thereof such that an evanescent field emitted from the coupler is capable of being coupled into the optical resonator through the first curved transition region. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459109 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louise C. Showe (Media, Pennsylvania); Michael Nebozhyn (Yeadon, Pennsylvania); Anil Vachani (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Steven M. Albelda (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method distinguishing between head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma. In particular, a 10-gene classifier has been identified which can be used to distinguish between primary squamous cell carcinoma of the lung and metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. These genes include CXCL13, COL6A2, SFTPB, KRT14, TSPYL5, TMP3, KLK10, MMP1, GAS1, and MYH2. A panel of one or more of these genes, or proteins encoded thereby, can be used for early diagnosis and selection of an appropriate therapeutic treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560410 |
| 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 07514248 | Gower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie B. Gower (Gainesville, Florida); Matthew J. Olszta (Gainesville, Florida); Elliot P. Douglas (Gainesville, Florida); Sivakumar Munisamy (Gainesville, Florida); Donna L. Wheeler (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns a composite comprising an organic fluid-swellable matrix, such as collagen, and mineral phase, such as calcium carbonate or phosphate mineral phase, for use as a biomimetic of bone. In another aspect, the subject invention concerns a process for making a composite involving the inclusion of acidic polymers to a supersaturated mineralizing solution, in order to induce an amorphous liquid-phase precursor to the inorganic mineral, which is then absorbed (pulled by capillary action) into the interstices of the organic matrix, and subsequently mineralizes via solidification and crystallization of the precursor phase. The present invention further concerns a method of treating a patient suffering from a bone defect by applying a biomimetic composite to the bone defect site. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/418843 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514249 | Gower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie B. Gower (Gainesville, Florida); Matthew J. Olszta (Gainesville, Florida); Elliot P. Douglas (Gainesville, Florida); Sivakumar Munisamy (Fords, New Jersey); Donna L. Wheeler (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns a composite comprising an organic fluid-swellable, fibrous matrix, such as collagen, and a mineral phase, such as calcium carbonate or phosphate mineral phase, for use as a biomimetic of bone. In another aspect, the subject invention concerns a process for making a composite involving the inclusion of acidic polymers to a supersaturated mineralizing solution, in order to induce an amorphous liquid-phase precursor to the inorganic mineral, which is then absorbed (pulled by capillary action) into the organic matrix. Advantageously, once solidified, a high mineral content can be achieved, with the inorganic mineral crystals embedded within the collagen fibers (intrafibrillarly) and oriented such that they are aligned along the long axes of the fibers of the organic matrix, thereby closely mimicking the natural structure of bone. The present invention further concerns a method of treating a patient suffering from a bone defect by applying a biomimetic composite to the bone defect site. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/691002 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514267 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STCUNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Reema Zeineldin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Menake E. Piyasena (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to lipid bilayer coated beads and methods of using those beads in immunoassays, in analytical assay and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, August 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466050 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514764 | Nealey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Tushar S. Jain (San Diego, California); Erik W. Edwards (Council Bluffs, Iowa); Juan J. de Pablo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides patterned features of dimensions of less than 50 nm on a substrate. According to various embodiments, the features may be “Manhattan” style structures, have high aspect ratios, and/or have atomically smooth surfaces. The patterned features are made from polymer brushes grafted to a substrate. In some embodiments, the dimensions of the features may be determined by adjusting the grafting density and/or the molecular weight of the brushes. Once the brushes are patterned, the features can be shaped and reshaped with thermal or solvent treatments to achieve the desired profiles. The chemical nature of the polymer brush is thus independent of the patterning process, which allows for optimization of the polymer brush used for specific applications. Applications include masks for pattern transfer techniques such as reactive ion etching. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/386226 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514926 | Adriany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregor Adriany (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Johannes Ritter (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); William Voje (Newport, Minnesota); J. Thomas Vaughan (Stillwater, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, a system and method for a coil having a plurality of resonant elements and an adjustable frame. A position of at least one resonant element can be adjusted relative to at least one other resonant element. A variable impedance is coupled to adjacent resonant elements and the impedance varies as a function of a separation distance. Cables are coupled to each resonant element and are gathered at a junction in a particular manner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599177 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515010 | Zettl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California); Brian C. Regan (Los Angeles, California); Shaul Aloni (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale oscillation device is disclosed, wherein two nanoscale droplets are altered in size by mass transport, then contact each other and merge through surface tension. The device may also comprise a channel having an actuator responsive to mechanical oscillation caused by expansion and contraction of the droplets. It further has a structure for delivering atoms between droplets, wherein the droplets are nanoparticles. Provided are a first particle and a second particle on the channel member, both being made of a chargeable material, the second particle contacting the actuator portion; and electrodes connected to the channel member for delivering a potential gradient across the channel and traversing the first and second particles. The particles are spaced apart a specified distance so that atoms from one particle are delivered to the other particle by mass transport in response to the potential (e.g. voltage potential) and the first and second particles are liquid and touch at a predetermined point of growth, thereby causing merging of the second particle into the first particle by surface tension forces and reverse movement of the actuator. In a preferred embodiment, the channel comprises a carbon nanotube and the droplets comprise metal nanoparticles, e.g. indium, which is readily made liquid. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245652 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515801 | McCaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon McCaughan (Madison, Wisconsin); Chad Staus (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas F. Kuech (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A THz radiation source comprising a dual waveguide heterostructure is provided. The dual waveguide heterostructure includes an optical waveguide contained within a larger THz waveguide layered structure. The radiation source provides a coherent guided wave of THz radiation which is generated via difference frequency mixing in a gain medium with a large second-order nonlinearity and propagated with low THz loss by a dielectric medium in the layered waveguide structure. The THz radiation source is compact, has a high power output, and may be operated in continuous-wave (CW) mode at room temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/617475 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07516019 | Friedlander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheldon K. Friedlander (Los Angeles, California); Anshuman A. Lall (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for the online measurement of the number, surface area and volume distribution of nanoparticle aerosol aggregates relates the number and size of primary particles that compose the aggregates and the aggregate mobility diameter. The number distribution of nanoparticle aggregates is obtained by calculations based on the drag on the aggregates and the aggregate charging efficiency. The aggregate surface area and volume are obtained by summing over the surface areas and volume of the primary particles that compose the aggregate. The aggregate surface area and volume distribution is then obtained by multiplying the aggregate surface area, volume and the aggregate number distribution. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495154 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Targett (Lewes, Delaware); Kirstin Wakefield (Milton, Delaware); Pamela Green (Newark, Delaware); Yu-Sung Wu (Newark, Delaware); Jennifer Costanza (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel attractant for fish and mollusks isolated from the eggs of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. The invention also relates to a method for attractant peptide extraction, separation, purification, quantitation, and characterization of function. In other aspects, the invention provides for the isolation of the attractant peptide from horseshoe crab eggs for use as “bait” for attracting fish and mollusks. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of biochemical approaches to characterize a peptide attractant, and provides for the creation of recombinant or synthetic attractant peptides, and their use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039554 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514114 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Wong (San Carlos, California); Steven E. Ready (Mountain View, California); Ana Claudia Arias (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital lithography system prints a large-area electronic device by dividing the overall device printing process into a series of discrete feature printing sub-processes, where each feature printing sub-process involves printing both a predetermined portion (feature) of the device in a designated substrate area, and an associated test pattern in a designated test area that is remote from the feature. At the end of each feature printing sub-process, the test pattern is analyzed, e.g., using a camera and associated imaging system, to verify that the test pattern has been successfully printed. A primary ejector is used until an unsuccessfully printed test pattern is detected, at which time a secondary (reserve) ejector replaces the primary ejector and reprints the feature associated with the defective test pattern. When multiple printheads are used in parallel, analysis of the test pattern is used to efficiently identify the location of a defective ejector. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218416 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515372 | Erden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Fatih Erden (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Priyadarshee Deeptarag Mathur (Shakopee, Minnesota); William Albert Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Edward Charles Gage (Mars, Pennsylvania); Wei Peng (Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania); Terry Wayne McDaniel (Volcano, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a storage medium, a recording head, a source of electromagnetic radiation, and a control circuit for modulating the source of electromagnetic radiation in response to a static deviation of a spacing between the recording head and the storage medium. A method of compensating a static deviation of a spacing between a recording head and a storage medium performed by the apparatus, and a method of precompensating for nonlinear transition shifts in a heat assisted magnetic recording system, are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397146 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07514694 | Stephan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Material Innovations, Inc. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew C. Stephan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vincent D. Jardret (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector has a volume of neutron moderating material and a plurality of individual neutron sensing elements dispersed at selected locations throughout the moderator, and particularly arranged so that some of the detecting elements are closer to the surface of the moderator assembly and others are more deeply embedded. The arrangement captures some thermalized neutrons that might otherwise be scattered away from a single, centrally located detector element. Different geometrical arrangements may be used while preserving its fundamental characteristics. Different types of neutron sensing elements may be used, which may operate on any of a number of physical principles to perform the function of sensing a neutron, either by a capture or a scattering reaction, and converting that reaction to a detectable signal. High detection efficiency, an ability to acquire spectral information, and directional sensitivity may be obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820346 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07513160 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Lynch (Williamsburg, Virginia); David M. Blaker (Roanoke, Virginia); David J. Colatosti (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital pulsed phase locked loop (DPPLL) provides exact measurements of echo phase, time, and/or position delay as well as echo amplitude. These exact measurements provide better and more reliable results that directly benefit the many real world applications for the DPPLL. The DPPLL permits simultaneous tracking of multiple echo pulses and considerably improved echo selection and sampling. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/806475 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07514232 | Maino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Becton, Dickinson and Company (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vernon C. Maino (Los Altos, California); Maria Suni (Los Gatos, California); Louis J. Picker (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises a novel approach to the assessment of antigen-specific T cells that quantitates and characterizes these cells with unprecedented clarity, and importantly, because it is performed in whole blood, is amenable to routine use in the clinical immunology laboratory. The methodology offers an improved flow cytometric intracellular cytokine assay in whole blood that can simultaneously measure multiple T cell subsets expressing multiple cytokines from a single whole blood culture. Evaluation of whole blood antigen specific cytokine responses has the important advantage of assessing T cell activation in the presence of ALL types of MHC autologous antigen presenting cells present in the native sample. It also has the advantage of enabling a culture system (whole blood) which can reflect effects of systemic environments (i.e. drug augmentation or suppression) on T cell responses to specific stimuli including antigen, by either culturing in the presence of such drug or analyzing the blood of a human or animal receiving such drug. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/803702 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07514275 | Hatfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Brooke Hatfield (Oracle, Arizona); Michael Kennedy Burkland (Tucson, Arizona); Elaine Ellen Seasly (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for modeling the effect of a molecular contaminant film on performance of an optical system is disclosed. A mass of material outgassed from materials of the optical system is correlated to spectrum of outgassed products. The spectrum of outgassed products is normalized, and an aggregate molecular contaminant film thickness is predicted from each material. The absorbance spectrum of the aggregate molecular contaminant film is derived, and the derived absorbance spectrum of the aggregate contaminant film is convolved with an optical system instrument function. A plot of at least one transmission band as a function of source temperature is performed to determine the degradation in performance of the optical system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936621 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515098 | Garren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Alan Garren (Fairfax, Virginia); Robert R. Greeno (Roston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is an implementation of the IRAMS processing based upon a multi-delay-resolution framework applied to SAR image data measured at different aspect angles. The power of this new embodiment of IRAMS is that it produces a good separation of immediate response scatterer and delayed response scatterer data for the case of anisotropic scattering events, i.e., those in which the scattering intensity depends upon the aspect angle. Two sources of delayed response scattering include multiple reflection scattering events and delayed responses arising from the physical material composition of the scatterer. That is, this multi-delay-resolution IRAMS processing separates immediate response and delayed response scattering for cases in which there exist delayed response scattering data in the original SAR image data at some aspect angles, but the intensity of these delayed response scattering data is weak or non-existent at different aspect angles. Thus, this IRAMS embodiment provides the additional information of the particular aspect angles at which delayed response scattering effects are most important, thereby improving both the estimates of the delayed response scattering data and the immediate response scattering data. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/790557 |
| 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 342/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07515780 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kok Wai Chang (Los Altos, California); Jane D. LeGrange (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a system and method for fabricating an optical isolator. More specifically, there is provided a fiber optical isolator comprising a first isolator stage comprising a Faraday rotator configured to adjust the polarity of a light beam, and a heat sink coupled to the Faraday rotator and configured to dissipate heat generated in the Faraday rotator by the light beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586093 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 07, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
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FUNDED BY
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APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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