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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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| US 07520856 | Vaezy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahram Vaezy (Seattle, Washington); Arthur H. Chan (Plano, Texas); Victor Y. Fujimoto (San Francisco, California); Donald E. Moore (Seattle, Washington); Roy W. Martin (Anacortes, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A frame ensures that the alignment between a high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducer designed for vaginal use and a commercially available ultrasound image probe is maintained, so that the HIFU focus remains in the image plane during HIFU therapy. A water-filled membrane placed between the HIFU transducer and the treatment site provides acoustic coupling. The coupling is evaluated to determine whether any air bubbles exist at the coupling interface, which might degrade the therapy provided by the HIFU transducer. HIFU lesions on tissue appear as hyperechoic spots on the ultrasound image in real time during application of HIFU therapy. Ergonomic testing in humans has demonstrated clear visualization of the HIFU transducer relative to the uterus and showed the potential for the HIFU transducer to treat fibroids from the cervix to the fundus through the width of the uterus. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977339 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/439 |
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| US 07520877 | Lee, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred T. Lee, Jr. (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas C. Winter, III (Middleton, Wisconsin); Dieter G. Haemmerich (Madison, Wisconsin); Lisa A. Sampson (Cambria, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient ablation with multiple prong electrodes is obtained by electrically isolating the prongs from each other and rapidly switching electric power between the prongs, between a prong and a ground pad, or both. In this way, power distribution to a tumor can be controlled efficiently without the need to change probe geometry. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911927 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/42 |
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| US 07521054 | Pastan 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) | Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Masanori Onda (Rockville, Maryland); Satoshi Nagata (Rockville, Maryland); Yasuo Tsutsumi (Mino, Japan); James J. Vincent (Takoma Park, Maryland); Robert J. Kreitman (Potomac, Maryland); George Vasmatzis (Rochester, Minnesota); Byungkook Lee (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides recombinant immunotoxins that have been modified from a parental immunotoxin to lower liver toxicity. The immunotoxins are created by specifically mutating charged residues in the framework regions of the heavy chain, the light chain, or both, of the antibody portion or antigen-binding fragment thereof of the parental immunotoxin to reduce the pI of the antibody or fragment. In preferred forms, the antibody portion of the parental is an anti-Tac, anti-mesothelin, or anti-LewisY antigen antibody or antigen-binding fragment, and in particularly preferred forms the antibody portion is an M16 dsFv, a St6 dsFv or a Mt9 dsFv, or a sequence that has at least 90% sequence identity to one of these molecules but retain the particular mutations that lower pI without affecting antibody activity. The invention further provides nucleic acids encoding the recombinant immunotoxins of the invention, expression cassettes comprising the nucleic acids, and host cells comprising the expression cassettes. The invention also provides a method for killing a cell comprising an antigen on the surface of the cell, the method comprising contacting the cell with a recombinant immunotoxin of the invention that has an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds specifically to the antigen on the surface of the cell, and uses of immunotoxins of the invention for the manufacture of medicaments. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/416129 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521057 | Sower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stacia Sower (Newmarket, New Hampshire); Matthew Silver (Dover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Lamprey GnRH-III polypeptides for the four species of fish lamprey are disclosed. Also disclosed is a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptides for sterilizing fish. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172274 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521063 | 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); Ken Ishii (Columbia, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions including multiple oligodeoxynucleotides with a CpG motif are disclosed herein. The compositions can include either D or K type oligodeoxynucleotides. These compositions are of use in inducing an immune response in a large percentage of the individuals in a population. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194035 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/282.100 |
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| US 07521073 | Rest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Rest (Rosemont, Pennsylvania); Michael Karin (La Jolla, California); Jin Mo Park (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for activating Toll-like receptor 4 via cholesterol-dependent cytolysins isolated from a Gram-positive bacteria are provided. In addition compositions containing an isolated cholesterol-dependent cytolysin or a fragment thereof or a mimetic of the cytolysin or fragment thereof and methods for use of such composition in inhibiting binding and/or interaction of Toll-like receptor 4 with endotoxin are provided. Methods for identifying modulators of Toll-like receptor 4 activation by a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin and use of such modulators in treatment of septicemia and/or septic shock are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764469 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521174 | Acharya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seetharama A. Acharya (Cresskill, New Jersey); Parimala Nacharaju (Staten Island, New York); Belur N. Manjula (Cresskill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to pegylated red blood cells comprising a polyethylene glycol (PEG) attached to a thiolated amino group on a membrane protein, and to compositions comprising the pegylated red blood cells. The invention also provides methods of preparing pegylated red blood cells comprising reacting red blood cells with a compound that produces a thiolated amino group on a red blood cell membrane protein, and reacting the thiolated red blood cell with a PEG. The invention further provides methods of treatment using pegylated red blood cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/004052 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521177 | Chang |
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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) | Gwong-Jen J. Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses isolated nucleic acids containing transcriptional units which encode a signal sequence of one flavivirus and an immunogenic flavivirus antigen of a second flavivirus. The invention further encompasses a nucleic acid and protein vaccine and the use of the vaccine to immunize a subject against flavivirus infection. The invention also provides antigens encoded by nucleic acids of the invention, antibodies elicited in response to the antigens and use of the antigens and/or antibodies in detecting flavivirus or diagnosing flavivirus infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424127 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07521202 | Hildebrand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Hildebrand (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kiley R. Prilliman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention relates in general to at least one method and apparatus for the production of soluble MHC antigens and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to at least one method and apparatus for the production of soluble Class I and II HLA molecules. The field of the invention also includes such produced soluble Class I and II HLA molecules and their use. According to the methodology of the present invention, the soluble Class I and II HLA molecules can be produced from either gDNA or cDNA starting material. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099283 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
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| US 07521215 | Schimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schimmel (La Jolla, California); Keisuke Wakasugi (Shizuoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising truncated tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase polypeptides useful for regulating angiogenesis, as well as nucleic acids encoding such tRNA synthetase polypeptides are described. Methods of making and using such compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444924 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07521233 | Malyankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington, University of (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uriel M. Malyankar (North Branford, Connecticut); Marta Scatena (Seattle, Washington); Cecilia M. Giachelli (Mill Creek, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention provides methods for promoting endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention include the step of providing to one or more endothelial cells an amount of an osteoprotegerin sufficient to promote endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention can be practiced in vivo or in vitro. In another aspect, the present invention provides implantable medical devices that each include: (a) a device body; and (b) a layer attached to a surface of the device body, the layer comprising a molecule selected from the group consisting of osteoprotegerin and a nucleic acid molecule encoding osteoprotegerin, wherein the device is adapted to be completely or partially implanted into an animal body. The implanted medical device thus promotes the growth of blood vessels in the surrounding tissue, thereby reducing or preventing the formation of a collagenous capsule around the implanted medical device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/675810 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07521242 | Court 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) | Donald L. Court (Frederick, Maryland); Xin-tian Li (Bejing, China PRC); Jian-Dong Huang (Hong Kong SAR, China PRC); Nina Costantino (Frederick, Maryland); Depei Liu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed herein for inducing homologous recombination in a host cell comprising a target nucleic acid, using a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule. The single-stranded nucleic acid molecule has a sufficient number of nucleotides homologous to the target nucleic acid to enable homologous recombination with the target nucleic acid. The host cell includes a de-repressible promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a single-stranded binding protein and is deficient for mismatch repair. Isolated host cells of use in this method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841125 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/490 |
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| US 07521258 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Friedman (New York, New York); Yiying Zhang (New York, New York); Ricardo Proenca (Astoria, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Modulators of weight, including, for example, two isoforms of murine and human ob polypeptides, are provided, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic uses and methods comprising such. Also provided are nucleotide sequences, degenerate variations thereof, and proteins expressed by such. Such materials are useful, for example, as molecular probes, as primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification, as well as for the generation of antibodies. Also provided are vectors comprising such nucleotide sequences, including bacterial, insect, and mammalian expression vectors, which nucleotide sequences are operatively associated with an expression control sequence. Cells transformed or transfected with such vectors, and the use of such in the preparation of disclosed modulators, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/780295 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
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| US 07521261 | Haselton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick Haselton (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark McQuain (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for screening molecular interactions using a filamentous based platform for molecule presentation. Method includes screening for protein-protein, DNA-DNA and other chemical interactions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/529197 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
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| US 07521414 | Fenical et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Fenical (Del Mar, California); Paul R. Jensen (San Diego, California); Hak Cheol Kwon (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel family of cyclic polyene natural products isolated from marine actinomycete strain CNQ140 is provided. This novel strain of actinomycetes was obtained from a previously unstudied population of marine actinomycetes that reside in sediments off La Jolla, Calif. Compounds derived from strain CNQ140 have been characterized as having a cyclic polyene-polyol structure; a molecular weight from about 996 to about 1010 in the core ring structure; and at least 58 carbons and at least 14 oxygens. The invention compounds have antitumor and/or anti-microbial activity. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/873657 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 07521427 | Powers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Powers (Atlanta, Georgia); Marion Gabriele Gotz (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions for inhibiting proteases, methods for synthesizing the compositions, and methods of using the disclosed protease inhibitors. Aspects of the disclosure include peptidyl allyl sulfone compositions that inhibit proteases, for example cysteine proteases, either in vivo or in vitro. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/270404 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
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| US 07521432 | Denu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Denu (Tigord, Oregon); Kirk G. Tanner (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compositions and methods are provided for identifying agents which affect chromosomal stability and aging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739973 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/47 |
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| US 07521475 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama); Kirk R. Gustafson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising a substantially purified compound of the formula: in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and methods of preventing or treating cancer and a condition treatable by the inhibition of vacuolar-type (H+)-ATPase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/674245 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521479 | Merril et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Gaithersburg, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl R. Merril (Bethesda, Maryland); Hossein A. Ghanbari (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to the treatment of prion-related diseases such as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in mammals by administering chaotropic agents to or inducing a hyperthermia state in the affected mammals. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/835537 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/634 |
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| US 07521528 | Gardella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Gardella (Needham, Massachusetts); Henry M. Kronenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); John T. Potts (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treatment of mammalian conditions characterized by decreases in bone mass with conformationally constrained parathyroid hormone (PTH) analogs and derivatives of those analogs containing PTH polypeptide derivatives containing at least one Glu or Lys substitution at position 6 and/or 10, some with installed lactam bridges between the side chains of Lys and Glu. The invention provides derivatives of PTH (1-34), PTH(1-33), PTH(1-32), PTH(1-31), PTH(1-30), PTH(1-29), PTH(1-28), PTH(1-27), PTH(1-26), PTH(1-25), PTH(1-24), PTH(1-23), PTH(1-22), PTH (1-21), PTH(1-20), PTH(1-19), PTH(1-18), PTH(1-17), PTH(1-16), PTH(1-15), PTH(1-14), PTH(1-13), PTH(1-12), PTH(1-11), PTH(1-10) and PTH(1-9) polypeptide. The invention also provides methods of preparing the PTH analogs. Further, the invention encompasses treating conditions that are characterized by undesired bone loss or by the need for bone growth, e.g. in treating fractures or cartilage disorders and for raising cAMP levels in cells where deemed necessary. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/542704 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07521534 | Brasier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University Board of Regents of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan R. Brasier (Galveston, Texas); Tao Hai (Galveston, Texas); Thomas G. Wood (Houston, Texas); Yuanfen Wei (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are isolated IKKγΔ; isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding IKKγΔ; expression vectors and cells which contain such nucleic acid molecules; oligonucleotides which are complementary to at least a portion of nucleic acid molecules encoding IKKγΔ but which are not complementary to any portion of nucleic acid molecules encoding wild type IKKγ; antibodies which are specific for IKKγΔ; DNA and RNA oligomers, optionally in labeled or enzymatically active form, which are capable of selectively hybridizing to nucleic acid molecules encoding IKKγΔ; and DNA and RNA oligomers, optionally in labeled or enzymatically active form, which are capable of selectively hybridizing to nucleic acid molecules encoding IKKγΔ but which do not hybridize with nucleic acid molecules encoding wild type IKKγ. Methods for using these materials to inhibit formation of IKKγΔ-containing IKK, to inhibit NF-κB activation, and to treat or prevent inflammation are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/793339 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07521536 | Rothstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Rothstein (Catonsville, Maryland); Mandy Jackson (Baltimore, Maryland); Glen Lin (Columbus, Ohio); Robert Law (Owings Mills, Maryland); Irina Orlov (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Glutamate Transporter Associated Proteins and nucleotide encoding Glutamate Transporter Associated Proteins are provided. Also provided is a method for identifying a compound that modulates a cellular response mediated by a Glutamate Transporter Associated Protein. A method is further provided for identifying a compound that inhibits an interaction between a Glutamate Transporter Associated Protein and a glutamate transporter protein. A method is provided for treating a disorder associated with glutamate transport. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888900 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07521546 | Borer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip N. Borer (Chittenango, New York); Bruce S. Hudson (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to a branched or multichain nucleic acid switch adapted to switch from a first conformation to a second conformation upon ligand binding. The switch includes a probe strand, P, which includes the ligand binding domain; a switching framework which includes a cover strand (C), and a tether that holds P and C together and a signaling apparatus. Some embodiments include a toggle strand (T) where now the tether holds P, C, T, and the signaling apparatus together. As the switch changes between the first and second conformations; the signaling apparatus reports the state of the switch. The signaling entity is typically a lumiphore and a quencher located along the switching framework. Nucleic acid switches have applications in real time assays for diverse agents including infectious agents, environmental toxins, and terrorist agents, as well as screening methods for such agents. Further applications are found for nanoelectronics, nanofabrication and nanomachines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/195547 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
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| US 07521548 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Ning Ke (San Diego, California); Adam Godzik (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel human member of the Bcl-2 family Bcl-B has been identified, which is closest in amino-acid sequence homology to the Boo (Diva) protein. The Bcl-B protein is widely expressed in adult human tissues. The Bcl-B protein modulates apoptosis. Bcl-B also binds Bcl-2, BCI-XL, and Bax but not Bak. Bcl-B displays a unique pattern of selectivity for binding and regulating the function of other members of the Bcl-2 family. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071174 |
| 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 536/23.500 |
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| US 07522744 | Bai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Er-wei Bai (Iowa City, Iowa); Ge Wang (Iowa City, Iowa); Michael W. Vannier (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of utilizing bolus propagation and control for contrast enhancement comprises measuring with an imaging device a position of a bolus moving along a path in a biological structure. The method further comprises predicting a future position of the bolus using a simplified target model and comparing the predicted future position of the bolus with the measured position of the bolus. A control action is determined to eliminate a discrepancy, if any, between the predicted position of the bolus and the measured position of the bolus and the relative position of the imaging device and the biological structure is adaptively adjusted according to the control action to chase the motion of the bolus. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215733 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522758 | Ortyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David A. Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Philip Morrissey (Bellevue, Washington); Thaddeus George (Seattle, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); Cathleen Zimmerman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimodal/multispectral images of a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric features identifiable in the images are used to separate the population of cells into a plurality of subpopulations. Where the population of cells includes diseased cells and healthy cells, the images can be separated into a healthy subpopulation, and a diseased subpopulation. Where the population of cells does not include diseased cells, one or more ratios of different cell types in patients not having a disease condition can be compared to the corresponding ratios in patients having the disease condition, enabling the disease condition to be detected. For example, blood cells can be separated into different types based on their images, and an increase in the number of lymphocytes, a phenomenon associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, can readily be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/344941 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Williams (Nottingham, Maryland); James A. Waicukauski (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The illustrative embodiment of the invention is a munitions canister having a cover that is impervious to a variety of environmental stresses. In the illustrative embodiment, the cover includes a layer of rubber, which overlies a layer of sectioned, impact-resistant foam, which overlies a dome-shaped, structural member, which overlies a layer of acoustical dampening foam. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975895 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.817 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07520463 | Lepine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Lepine (Manchester, New Hampshire); Scott Colby (Waltham, Massachusetts); John A. Zahoruiko (North Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method and apparatus for controlling the deployment of a towline connecting a mooring craft to an ejected object comprising the steps of monitoring velocity to determine when a point for optimum braking has been achieved and then engaging a brake system to retard deployment of the towline, a DC motor augments and controls the brake system. The DC motor further controls the retrieval of the object. A cutter mechanism uses a first blade to grip the towing cable to maintain tension thereon as a second blade cuts the cable. A spring biased boom in combination with spring biased fins on the ejected object rapidly deploys the object from its storage housing. A locking mechanism secures the deployment mechanism in a stable locked position upon the object reaching its fully extended position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152148 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/1.TD0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07520856 | Vaezy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahram Vaezy (Seattle, Washington); Arthur H. Chan (Plano, Texas); Victor Y. Fujimoto (San Francisco, California); Donald E. Moore (Seattle, Washington); Roy W. Martin (Anacortes, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A frame ensures that the alignment between a high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducer designed for vaginal use and a commercially available ultrasound image probe is maintained, so that the HIFU focus remains in the image plane during HIFU therapy. A water-filled membrane placed between the HIFU transducer and the treatment site provides acoustic coupling. The coupling is evaluated to determine whether any air bubbles exist at the coupling interface, which might degrade the therapy provided by the HIFU transducer. HIFU lesions on tissue appear as hyperechoic spots on the ultrasound image in real time during application of HIFU therapy. Ergonomic testing in humans has demonstrated clear visualization of the HIFU transducer relative to the uterus and showed the potential for the HIFU transducer to treat fibroids from the cervix to the fundus through the width of the uterus. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977339 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521017 | Kunze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Triton Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Kunze (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Horst Gigerenzer (Hudson, New Hampshire); Chaolin Hu (N. Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are reinforced metal matrix composites and methods of shaping powder materials to form such composites. Articles of manufacture are formed in layers by a laser fabrication process. In the process, powder is melted and cooled to form successive layers of a discontinuously reinforced metal matrix. The matrix exhibits fine grain structure with enhanced properties over the unreinforced metal, including higher tensile modulus, higher strength, and greater hardness. In some preferred embodiments, an in-situ alloy powder, a powder metallurgy blend, or independently provided powders are reinforced with boron and/or carbon to form the composite. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/147448 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521224 | Johnson 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) | Lee Johnson (Baltimore, Maryland); Dean Scribner (Arlington, Virginia); Joseph Pancrazio (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The electroporation array is comprised of three technologies: microwire glass electrodes, microelectronic multiplexer stimulator chips and microfluidic flow chamber. Various substances, such as genes, gene silencing RNAi, gene inhibition agents or drugs, can be perfused into the microfluidic flow chamber. The entry of the various substances into the cells will be facilitated by electroporation. An applied electric potential causes nanoscale pores to open in the cell membrane allowing substances in the solution to freely diffuse into the cell. The specific cells selected for electroporation are defined using the computer controlled microelectronic stimulator array. An “image” of which electrodes within the array to apply the electric potential to, and thus electroporate, is de-multiplexed onto the array. All the selected electrodes deliver a current pulse varied by the intensity of the de-multiplexed “image”. By serially perfusing different substances across the cells or tissue and electroporating different areas of the cell or tissue culture, it will be possible to have different cells within the culture contain different genes, gene silencing RNAi, gene inhibition agents, drugs, chemicals or other substances or sets thereof. It is also possible to re-electroporate subsets of cells on the array to allow for multiple gene combinations. In essence, this invention allows for the creation of cell arrays and would be analogous to gene arrays, which have been so important in recent advances in biotechnology, such as the human genome project. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/673352 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521274 | Hersee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xin Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xinyu Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide semiconductor devices including high-quality (i.e., defect free) group III-N nanowires and uniform group III-N nanowire arrays as well as their scalable processes for manufacturing, where the position, orientation, cross-sectional features, length and the crystallinity of each nanowire can be precisely controlled. A pulsed growth mode can be used to fabricate the disclosed group III-N nanowires and/or nanowire arrays providing a uniform length of about 10 nm to about 1000 microns with constant cross-sectional features including an exemplary diameter of about 10-1000 nm. In addition, high-quality GaN substrate structures can be formed by coalescing the plurality of GaN nanowires and/or nanowire arrays to facilitate the fabrication of visible LEDs and lasers. Furthermore, core-shell nanowire/MQW active structures can be formed by a core-shell growth on the nonpolar sidewalls of each nanowire. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/684264 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521292 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423287 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521516 | Benson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl E. Benson (St. Paul, Minnesota); G. Marco Bommarito (Stillwater, Minnesota); Albert I. Everaerts (Oakdale, Minnesota); Brinda B. Lakshmi (Woodbury, Minnesota); Charles M. Leir (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); George G. I. Moora (Afton, Minnesota); Lang N. Nguyen (St. Paul, Minnesota); Rahul Shah (Woodbury, Minnesota); Peter A. Stark (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Soluble polymers and methods for the preparation thereof, wherein the polymers of the present invention have pendant acylsulfonamide amine-reactive groups that can be used for the capture of amine containing materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/968953 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521548 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Ning Ke (San Diego, California); Adam Godzik (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel human member of the Bcl-2 family Bcl-B has been identified, which is closest in amino-acid sequence homology to the Boo (Diva) protein. The Bcl-B protein is widely expressed in adult human tissues. The Bcl-B protein modulates apoptosis. Bcl-B also binds Bcl-2, BCI-XL, and Bax but not Bak. Bcl-B displays a unique pattern of selectivity for binding and regulating the function of other members of the Bcl-2 family. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/071174 |
| 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 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521564 | Shackelford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Shackelford (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of novel new heterocyclic borane and carborane salt ingredients for use as energetic, high density propellant fuels and fuel additives, or for gas generator and hydrogen storage applications. These subject and unique heterocyclic borane and carborane salts are comprised of both aromatic and non-aromatic heterocyclic cations with the necessary borane and/or carborane anions. Such salts with partially fluorinated borane or carborane anions would be candidate ingredients for metallized (e.g. boron, aluminum) propellant formulations. The high density provided by these unique heterocyclic borane and carborane compounds will be attractive for volume-limited propulsion systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203577 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/300.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521708 | Agassi |
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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) | Yehoshua Dan Agassi (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | More sensitive (especially due to reduced interference of flux noise) than a conventional SQUID, an inventive SQUID's major component is a hollow cylindric structure comprising one or more annular Josephson junctions. Each annular Josephson junction is defined by two superconductive annuli and an interposed non-superconductive annulus. Inventive practice is variable, e.g., in terms of number and/or spacing of Josephson junctions, and/or as having one or more shunts connecting two or more Josephson junctions, and/or as having one or more vortices each threaded through a Josephson junction. The inventive cylindric structure is positioned proximate a magnetic field of interest so that the latter is aligned with the longitudinal axis of the former. Electrical current is transmitted through the inventive cylindric structure in the longitudinal-axial direction so that, based on the quantum interference associated with the one or more annular Josephson junctions, the measured output voltage is indicative of the magnetic field. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/025820 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521950 | Bernstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry Bernstein (Underhill, Vermont); Paul Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Ibrahim M. Elfadel (Ossining, New York); Philip Emma (Danbury, Connecticut); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Ruchir Puri (Baldwin Place, New York); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); Jeannine Trewhella (Peekskill, New York); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D chip having at least one I/O layer connected to other 3D chip layers by a vertical bus such that the I/O layer(s) may accommodate protection and off-chip device drive circuits, customization circuits, translation circuits, conversions circuits and/or built-in self-test circuits capable of comprehensive chip or wafer level testing wherein the I/O layers function as a testhead. Substitution of I/O circuits or structures may be performed using E-fuses or the like responsive to such testing. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163167 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521993 | O'Neill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. O'Neill (Mountain View, California); Robert J. Bosnyak (Tacoma, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system includes a substrate on which a first current mirror and a second current mirror are disposed. When a stress is present, a behavior, e.g., carrier mobility, of at least one of the devices in each of the first current mirror and the second current mirror is dependent on a direction in which that device is disposed on the substrate. Further, one of the devices in the first current mirror is disposed in a non-parallel orientation with respect to one of the devices in the second current mirror. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128966 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/565 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522019 | Bhave et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil A. Bhave (Ithaca, New York); Roger T. Howe (Briones, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrostatic transducer for micromechanical resonators, in which the electrode gaps are filled with a dielectric material having a much higher permittivity than air. This internal electrostatic transducer has several advantages over both air-gap electrostatic and piezoelectric transduction; including lower motional impedance, compatibility with advanced scaled CMOS device technology, and extended dynamic range. In one aspect, in order to minimize energy losses, the dielectric material has an acoustic velocity which is matched to that of the resonator material. Internal electrostatic transduction can be adapted to excite and detect either vertical modes (perpendicular to the substrate) or lateral modes (in the plane of the substrate). Its increased transduction efficiency is of particular importance for reducing the motional resistance of the latter. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146303 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522105 | LaComb |
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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) | Julie Anne LaComb (West Greenwich, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A microstrip patch antenna utilizes a microstrip patch antenna substrate formed of photonic bandgap material. One or more periodic patterns may be used therewith to produce multiple bandgaps into the photonic bandgap material. The periodic patterns may be produced by introducing periodic defects into the dielectric material substrate with drilled holes, slots, shorted vias, blind vias, buried vias, and/or plated or unplated patterns, such as plated patterns on the groundplane or on internally positioned surfaces, or on the surface adjacent the radiating elements. One or more radiating elements are used on an upper surface of said microstrip patch antenna substrate, and a groundplane is formed on a lower surface of said microstrip patch antenna substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489815 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522124 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); David Schurig (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A compensating multi layer material includes two compensating layers adjacent to one another. A multi-layer embodiment of the invention produces subwavelength near-field focusing, but mitigates the thickness and loss limitations of the isotropic “perfect lens”. An antenna substrate comprises an indefinite material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525191 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522186 | Arpa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aydin Arpa (Jacksonville, Florida); Keith J. Hanna (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Supun Samarasekera (Princeton, New Jersey); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Manoj Aggarwal (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); David Nister (Bellevue, Washington); Stephen Hsu (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing immersive surveillance wherein a remote security guard may monitor a scene using a variety of imagery sources that are rendered upon a model to provide a three-dimensional conceptual view of the scene. Using a view selector, the security guard may dynamically select a camera view to be displayed on his conceptual model, perform a walk through of the scene, identify moving objects and select the best view of those moving objects and so on. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/202546 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522291 | Hays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Byron Hays (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Richey (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one second beam of light from a first beam of light generated by a laser is directed into an atmosphere. Light therefrom scattered by molecules or aerosols in the atmosphere is collected by at least one telescope as at least one light signal, which together with a reference beam from the first beam of light are simultaneously processed by a Fabry-Pérot etalon, and resulting fringe patterns are imaged onto a detector adapted to output a resulting at least one signal responsive thereto. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927243 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522671 | Kiamilev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fouad Kiamilev (Newark, Delaware); Joshua Kramer (Newark, Delaware); Yongrong Zuo (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for an interface for transmitting high speed data between circuits. A driver circuit produces first and second differential currents from a digital signal that drive first and second transmission lines. A receiver is connected through first and second terminating resistors to said transmission lines. The resistive elements are in turn connected to first and second common base amplifiers where the differential currents are converted to a differential voltage. The input impedance to the first and second common-base amplifiers is further lowered by a differential amplifier having inputs connected to the inputs of the common-base amplifiers, and an output connected to the bases of said common-base amplifiers. As a result, voltage conversion of the differential signals takes place in the common-base amplifiers and not in the terminating resistors, reducing the level of the differential currents and permitting an increase in the digital data rate. In addition, a common-gate amplifier configuration of the present invention is provided as well as a method for dynamically determining an optimal transmit power level for the driver circuit and for performing an accelerated bit error rate measurement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/324233 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522673 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Shengli Zhou (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to techniques for space-time coding in a wireless communication system in which the transmitter makes use of multiple transmit antennas. The transmitter uses channel information estimated by a receiving device and returned to the transmitter, e.g., as feedback. In one exemplary embodiment, the transmitter receives a mean feedback information that defines a mean channel value associated with the different channels of the different antennas. In another exemplary embodiment, the transmitter receives covariance feedback, e.g., statistical values associated with each of the different channels. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420351 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522811 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oliver Schmidt (Palo Alto, California); Michael Bassler (Menlo Park, California); Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Complementary surface fabrication processes such as molding, casting, embossing, and so forth, are used to produce articles, structures, or components structured to operate as sandwich waveguides. Resulting complementary surface artifacts include, for example, optical quality surfaces on wall parts, other exposed artifacts that occur where a complementary solid surface contacts non-solid material during fabrication, and sub-surface artifacts such as integrally formed connections between wall parts and base parts. A body whose surface includes a waveguide's inward surfaces, outward surfaces, and light interface surfaces to receive incident light can be formed in a single step, leaving a partially bounded fluidic region that can then be covered to provide a channel that is bounded along a length yet open at its ends; other fluidic, electrical, and optical components can also be attached. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777661 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07523198 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Wu (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Benjamin L. Burnett (Prior Lake, Minnesota); Matthias H. Wollnik (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to techniques for monitoring and testing publish/subscribe network systems. For example, an enterprise network that has a number of geographically dispersed network devices and interconnected sub-networks may be configured to operate as a publish/subscribe network system in which each of the dispersed network devices sends and receives messages for specific groups of the network devices. The techniques described herein enable data object capture and analysis in the application layer of a publish/subscribe network system using shim adapters. The techniques also enable network packet capture and analysis in the network layer of a publish/subscribe network system. Furthermore, the techniques include integrated analysis of testing results from the application layer and the network layer to determine performance characteristics, such as latency, across both of the layers. In this way, the techniques provide more accurate measurements of performance characteristics in publish/subscribe network systems. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486575 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas L. Gin (Longmont, Colorado); Weiqiang Gu (Taunton, Massachusetts); Yanjie Xu (Boulder, Colorado); Cory Pecinovsky (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides cross-linked lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) copolymers having ordered nanometer-sized pores lined with functional groups. The copolymers are formed by copolymerizing LLC monomers with strong LLC character and functionalized monomers with no or weak LLC character to form an LLC phase. Both the LLC monomers and the functionalized monomers contain hydrogen-bonding groups and hydrogen-bonding is believed to assist in the formation of the LLC phase of the blended mixture. Different classes of functional groups useful for the invention include, but are not limited to, acidic groups, basic groups, catalytic groups, oxidizing agents, reducing agents, polymerization initiators, binding agents, optically active groups, and electrically active groups. The invention also provides methods for making the cross-linked LLC copolymers of the invention. In these methods, the LLC monomer and the functionalized monomer are blended in a polar solvent, thereby allowing self-assembly of the first and second monomer into an LLC phase. The LLC phase in then cross-linked with retention of the LLC microstructure. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/544322 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521057 | Sower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stacia Sower (Newmarket, New Hampshire); Matthew Silver (Dover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Lamprey GnRH-III polypeptides for the four species of fish lamprey are disclosed. Also disclosed is a procedure for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptides for sterilizing fish. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172274 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521228 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randolph V. Lewis (Laramie, Wyoming); Cheryl Y. Hayashi (Riverside, California); John E. Gatesy (Riverside, California); Dagmara Motriuk (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Spider silk protein encoding nucleic acids, polypeptides and antibodies immunologically specific therefore are disclosed. Methods of use thereof are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/488056 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521232 | Moon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICx Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joongho Moon (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to materials and methods useful in the study of cells and species associated with cells. Materials of the present invention may include emissive, photostable organic molecules (e.g., conjugated polymers, conjugated oligomers) that are appropriately functionalized to interact with a cell with essentially no disruption in normal cell functioning. The present invention may be useful in, for example, cell imaging, cell tracking, in vivo monitoring of cellular events, drug delivery, and determination of biological species. In one embodiment, a conjugated polymer or oligomer may be internalized into a cell and may exhibit a strong and stable emissive signal, allowing the cell to be monitored under extensive microscopic conditions for extended periods of time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444142 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521233 | Malyankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington, University of (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uriel M. Malyankar (North Branford, Connecticut); Marta Scatena (Seattle, Washington); Cecilia M. Giachelli (Mill Creek, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect the present invention provides methods for promoting endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention include the step of providing to one or more endothelial cells an amount of an osteoprotegerin sufficient to promote endothelial morphogenesis. The methods of this aspect of the invention can be practiced in vivo or in vitro. In another aspect, the present invention provides implantable medical devices that each include: (a) a device body; and (b) a layer attached to a surface of the device body, the layer comprising a molecule selected from the group consisting of osteoprotegerin and a nucleic acid molecule encoding osteoprotegerin, wherein the device is adapted to be completely or partially implanted into an animal body. The implanted medical device thus promotes the growth of blood vessels in the surrounding tissue, thereby reducing or preventing the formation of a collagenous capsule around the implanted medical device. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/675810 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521394 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong-Cai Xie (Anqing, China PRC); Jian-Ku Shang (Mahomet, Illinois); Pinggui Wu (Tonawanda, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A titanium oxide nanoparticle includes anatase titanium oxide, and may be a nanofiber having a minimum dimension less than 200 nanometers and having an aspect ratio greater than 20:1. A titanium oxide nanoparticle including anatase titanium oxide may include a dopant metal and/or a dopant nonmetal, and may be in a form other than a nanosphere. A method of making nanoparticles includes heating a reaction mixture in an autoclave, where the reaction mixture includes a titanium source and a polar organic solvent. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/615702 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521499 | Rafailovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miriam Rafailovich (Plainview, New York); Mayu Si (Stony Brook, New York); Michael Goldman (Lawrence, New York); Jonathan Sokolov (Plainview, New York); Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Shaoming Zhu (Commack, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition which includes polymethylmethacrylate and an organoclay functionalized with intercalation agent, wherein said intercalation agent is a reaction product of a polyamine and an alkyl halide in a polar solvent, preferably a dimethyl, ditallow ammonium functionalized monmorillonite clay as shown in (FIG. 3). |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/490882 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRU Biosystems, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides sensor compositions and method of making sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177707 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521825 | Lasseter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Lasseter (Madison, Wisconsin); Paolo Piagi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for an interface switch having an external terminal electrically connected to an AC voltage Ē at a frequency ω0 (for example a utility supply), and an internal terminal electrically connected to an AC voltage |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266976 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521921 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haihong Zhu (Atlanta, Georgia); Wayne J. Book (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors and methods for measuring displacement are disclosed. In one embodiment, among others, a resistive element is configured to receive an alternating voltage between a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal, the first and second electrical terminals defining a length of the resistive element. A signal pickup is capacitively coupled to the resistive element and is configured to be moved along the length of the resistive element at a substantially fixed distance from the resistive element and without contact between the resistive element and the signal pickup. A shielded cable, such as a coaxial cable, electrically connected to the signal pickup carries a signal having an amplitude proportional to the position of the signal pickup with respect to the first and second electrical terminals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259665 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522152 | Olien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil T. Olien (Montreal, Canada); Pedro Gregorio (Verdun, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Products and processes for providing haptic feedback in a user interface are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment of an apparatus comprises a first element comprising a first surface, a second element comprising a second surface, and an actuator configured vary a force between the first and second surfaces. In one embodiment, the second element may be configured to be displaced relative to first element in a degree of freedom. In another embodiment, at least one of the first surface and the second surface may comprise a thermoplastic polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855902 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522417 | Pautsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam G. Pautsch (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy A. Shedd (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling system and method that significantly improves spray evaporative cooling by using a mixture of cooling fluids having different boiling points. The cooling fluid mixture is sprayed onto a surface to be cooled. Efficient cooling with reduced cooling fluid volume is provided by both evaporation of the more volatile component of the mixture as well as heating of the less volatile component which remains in contact with the surface being cooled. More uniform temperatures across the surface being cooled and a reduced risk of potentially damaging critical heat flux is achieved. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/396206 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522434 | Nahar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anusheel Nahar (Watertown, New York); Robert Donald Lorenz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of estimating a temperature at a component of a device is provided. The temperature may be used to provide thermal load management of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, a switched mode power converter includes a power converter module and a switch that controls a switching cycle of the power converter module. A signal includes a bus voltage component and an oscillating signal component at least partially caused by switching of the switch. A switch instant of the switch can be isolated. A characteristic of the oscillating signal component of the signal can be detected. For example, a first peak voltage of the oscillating signal component can be detected after the switch instant. The temperature of the power converter module is estimated using the detected characteristic of the oscillating signal component. For example, the temperature can be estimated using the first peak voltage and best-fit curve parameters in solving a linear or a quadratic equation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260885 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522673 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Shengli Zhou (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to techniques for space-time coding in a wireless communication system in which the transmitter makes use of multiple transmit antennas. The transmitter uses channel information estimated by a receiving device and returned to the transmitter, e.g., as feedback. In one exemplary embodiment, the transmitter receives a mean feedback information that defines a mean channel value associated with the different channels of the different antennas. In another exemplary embodiment, the transmitter receives covariance feedback, e.g., statistical values associated with each of the different channels. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/420351 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07523218 | Sahni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Haibin Lu (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved system and method is provided for packet routing in dynamic router tables. Specifically, the invention provides a method, computer system, and computer readable media for using Priority Search Trees (PSTs) to match, insert, and delete rules in dynamic routing tables in O(log n) time. In a first embodiment, for a dynamic router table consisting of n pairs of tuples, each tuple comprising an address prefix and next-hop information, the invention provides a system and method, using a PST, for inserting a new tuple, deleting an existing tuple, and searching for the tuple with the longest matching prefix for destination address, wherein each operation is performed in O(log n) time. In a second embodiment, for a dynamic router table consisting of n pairs of tuples, each tuple comprising a range of destination addresses and next-hop information, the invention provides a system and method, using a PST and a set of red-black priority search tree (RBPST), for inserting a new tuple, deleting an existing tuple, and searching for the tuple with the most specific matching range, wherein each operation is performed in O(log n) time. The invention can be implemented in numerous ways to improve dynamic router table performance, including as a system, a device, a method, or a computer readable medium. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426423 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ward E. TeGrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Robert S. Wegeng (Richland, Washington); Greg A. Whyatt (West Richland, Washington); David L. King (Richland, Washington); Kriston P. Brooks (Kennewick, Washington); Victoria S. Stenkamp (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchannel device includes several mass transfer microchannels to receive a fluid media for processing at least one heat transfer microchannel in fluid communication with a heat transfer fluid defined by a thermally conductive wall, and at several thermally conductive fins each connected to the wall and extending therefrom to separate the mass transfer microchannels from one another. In one form, the device may optionally include another heat transfer microchannel and corresponding wall that is positioned opposite the first wall and has the fins and the mass transfer microchannels extending therebetween. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/061237 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07520942 | Klueh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald L. Klueh (Knoxville, Tennessee); Naoyuki Hashimoto (Knoxville, Tennessee); Philip J. Maziasz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a steel composition includes the steps of: a. providing a steel composition that includes up to 15% Cr, up to 3% Mo, up to 4% W, 0.05-1% V, up to 2% Si, up to 3% Mn, up to 10% Co, up to 3% Cu, up to 5% Ni, up to 0.3% C, 0.02-0.3% N, balance iron, wherein the percentages are by total weight of the composition; b. austenitizing the composition at a temperature in the range of 1000° C. to 1400° C.; c. cooling the composition of steel to a selected hot-working temperature in the range 500° C. to 1000° C.; d. hot-working the composition at the selected hot-working temperature; e. annealing the composition for a time period of up to 10 hours at a temperature in the range of 500° C. to 1000° C.; and f. cooling the composition to ambient temperature to transform the steel composition to martensite, bainite, ferrite, or a combination of those microstructures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947119 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521007 | Jarvinen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon D. Jarvinen (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David W. Carroll (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David J. Devlin (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructured nuclear fuel adapted for nuclear power system use includes fissile material structures of micrometer-scale dimension dispersed in a matrix material. In one method of production, fissile material particles are processed in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) fluidized-bed reactor including a gas inlet for providing controlled gas flow into a particle coating chamber, a lower bed hot zone region to contain powder, and an upper bed region to enable powder expansion. At least one pneumatic or electric vibrator is operationally coupled to the particle coating chamber for causing vibration of the particle coater to promote uniform powder coating within the particle coater during fuel processing. An exhaust associated with the particle coating chamber and can provide a port for placement and removal of particles and powder. During use of the fuel in a nuclear power reactor, fission products escape from the fissile material structures and come to rest in the matrix material. After a period of use in a nuclear power reactor and subsequent cooling, separation of the fissile material from the matrix containing the embedded fission products will provide an efficient partitioning of the bulk of the fissile material from the fission products. The fissile material can be reused by incorporating it into new microstructured fuel. The fission products and matrix material can be incorporated into a waste form for disposal or processed to separate valuable components from the fission products mixture. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956506 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/636 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521026 | Rosocha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Rosocha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vincent Ferreri (Westminster, Colorado); Yongho Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a field enhanced electrode package for use in a non-thermal plasma processor. The field enhanced electrode package includes a high voltage electrode and a field-enhancing electrode with a dielectric material layer disposed in-between the high voltage electrode and the field-enhancing electrode. The field-enhancing electrode features at least one raised section that includes at least one injection hole that allows plasma discharge streamers to occur primarily within an injected additive gas. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017392 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521028 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Precision Combustion, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance Smith (North Haven, Connecticut); Shahrokh Etemad (Trumbull, Connecticut); Hasan Karim (Simpsonville, South Carolina); William C. Pfefferle (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved catalytic reactor includes a housing having a plate positioned therein defining a first zone and a second zone, and a plurality of conduits fabricated from a heat conducting material and adapted for conducting a fluid therethrough. The conduits are positioned within the housing such that the conduit exterior surfaces and the housing interior surface within the second zone define a first flow path while the conduit interior surfaces define a second flow path through the second zone and not in fluid communication with the first flow path. The conduit exits define a second flow path exit, the conduit exits and the first flow path exit being proximately located and interspersed. The conduits define at least one expanded section that contacts adjacent conduits thereby spacing the conduits within the second zone and forming first flow path exit flow orifices having an aggregate exit area greater than a defined percent of the housing exit plane area. Lastly, at least a portion of the first flow path defines a catalytically active surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/261190 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521037 | Graetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Allan Graetz (Mastic, New York); James J. Reilly (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and materials for the formation of hydrogen storage alanes, AlHx, where x is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 6 at reduced H2 pressures and temperatures. The methods rely upon reduction of the change in free energy of the reaction between aluminum and molecular H2. The change in free energy is reduced by lowering the entropy change during the reaction by providing aluminum in a state of high entropy, by increasing the magnitude of the change in enthalpy of the reaction or combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831297 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/645 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521225 | Smirnov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex I. Smirnov (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotubes and nanotube array structures comprise (a) a nanotube having an inner wall portion; and (b) a bilayer coating formed on the inner wall portions, with the bilayer coating comprised of surfactants. A secondary compound such as a protein, peptide or nucleic acid may be associated with the bilayer coating. The structures are useful for, among other things, affinity purification, catalysis, and as biochips. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865318 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521257 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse D. Adams (Reno, Nevada); Benjamin S. Rogers (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of detecting a chemical species with an oscillating cantilevered probe. A cantilevered beam is driven into oscillation with a drive mechanism coupled to the cantilevered beam. A free end of the oscillating cantilevered beam is tapped against a mechanical stop coupled to a base end of the cantilevered beam. An amplitude of the oscillating cantilevered beam is measured with a sense mechanism coupled to the cantilevered beam. A treated portion of the cantilevered beam is exposed to the chemical species, wherein the cantilevered beam bends when exposed to the chemical species. A second amplitude of the oscillating cantilevered beam is measured, and the chemical species is determined based on the measured amplitudes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/777282 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521292 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423287 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521789 | Rinehart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rinehart Motion Systems, LLC (Wilsonville, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence E. Rinehart (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Guillermo L. Romero (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical assembly, comprising a heat producing semiconductor device supported on a first major surface of a direct bond metal substrate that has a set of heat sink protrusions supported by its second major surface. In one preferred embodiment the heat sink protrusions are made of the same metal as is used in the direct bond copper. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017184 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521825 | Lasseter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Lasseter (Madison, Wisconsin); Paolo Piagi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for an interface switch having an external terminal electrically connected to an AC voltage Ē at a frequency ω0 (for example a utility supply), and an internal terminal electrically connected to an AC voltage |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266976 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521835 | Qu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronghai Qu (Clifton Park, New York); Patrick Lee Jansen (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, a stator with transposition between the windings or coils. The coils are free from transposition to increase the fill factor of the stator slots. The transposition at the end connections between an inner coil and an outer coil provide transposition to reduce circulating current loss. The increased fill factor reduces further current losses. Such a stator is used in a dual rotor, permanent magnet machine, for example, in a compressor pump, wind turbine gearbox, wind turbine rotor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426756 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522124 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); David Schurig (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A compensating multi layer material includes two compensating layers adjacent to one another. A multi-layer embodiment of the invention produces subwavelength near-field focusing, but mitigates the thickness and loss limitations of the isotropic “perfect lens”. An antenna substrate comprises an indefinite material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525191 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522291 | Hays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Byron Hays (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Richey (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one second beam of light from a first beam of light generated by a laser is directed into an atmosphere. Light therefrom scattered by molecules or aerosols in the atmosphere is collected by at least one telescope as at least one light signal, which together with a reference beam from the first beam of light are simultaneously processed by a Fabry-Pérot etalon, and resulting fringe patterns are imaged onto a detector adapted to output a resulting at least one signal responsive thereto. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927243 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07520176 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Ko (Lancaster, California); William Lance Richards (Palmdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method for obtaining the displacement of a flexible structure by using strain measurements obtained by stain sensors. By obtaining the displacement of structures in this manner, one may construct the deformed shape of the structure and display said deformed shape in real-time, enabling active control of the structure shape if desired. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567118 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/794 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521682 | Holland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel D. Holland (Houston, Texas); Paul B. Delaune (Alvin, Texas); Kathryn M. Turner (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Processing circuitry is provided for a high voltage operated radiation detector. An event detector utilizes a comparator configured to produce an event signal based on a leading edge threshold value. A preferred event detector does not produce another event signal until a trailing edge threshold value is satisfied. The event signal can be utilized for counting the number of particle hits and also for controlling data collection operation for a peak detect circuit and timer. The leading edge threshold value is programmable such that it can be reprogrammed by a remote computer. A digital high voltage control is preferably operable to monitor and adjust high voltage for the detector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421196 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522897 | Golusky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Golusky (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Kelly P. Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for adaptable DC offset correction are provided. An exemplary adaptable DC offset correction system evaluates an incoming baseband signal to determine an appropriate DC offset removal scheme; removes a DC offset from the incoming baseband signal based on the appropriate DC offset scheme in response to the evaluated incoming baseband signal; and outputs a reduced DC baseband signal in response to the DC offset removed from the incoming baseband signal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246044 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07521137 | Hohlfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julius Kurt Hohlfeld (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Yukiko Kubota (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dieter Klaus Weller (San Jose, California); Stanko Radvan Brankovic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xiaomin Yang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Earl Chrzaszcz Johns (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Patterned thin films comprise regions of relatively low thermal conductivity material separated by regions of relatively high thermal conductivity material. The low thermal conductivity regions may be provided in the form of cylinders or cuboids which are arranged in a continuous matrix of the high thermal conductivity material. The thin film may be used as thermal control layers in data recording media such as heat assisted magnetic recording media. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/033936 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/831.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07523117 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cun-Quan Zhang (Morgantown, West Virginia); Yongbin Ou (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based method is provided for clustering related data representing objects of interest and information about levels of relatedness between objects. A weighted graph G is established on a computer. The graph has vertices and weighted edges joining pairs of vertices. Using the computer, the method finds all possible subgraphs H of G satisfying the following dynamic “edge-to-vertex” ratio: where the minimum is taken over all possible partitions P of the vertex set of H, and E(H/P) is the set of edges crossing between parts of P. The subgraphs H found are identified as a level-k community if they are maximal, which means that there are no larger subgraphs containing it that satisfy the dynamic “edge-to-vertex” ratio for the same k. All level-k communities are output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416766 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07521055 | Zon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard I. Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Adriana Donovan (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Positional cloning has been carried out to identify the gene responsible for the hypochromic anemia of the zebrafish mutant weissherbst. The gene, ferroportin1, encodes a novel multiple-transmembrane domain protein, expressed in the yolk sac. Zebrafish ferroportin1 is required for the transport of iron from maternally-derived yolk stores to the circulation, and functions as an iron exporter when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Human and mouse homologs of the ferroportin1 gene have been identified. The invention includes isolated polynucleotides, vectors and host cells comprising nucleotide sequences encoding Ferroportin1 proteins and variants thereof, including those having iron transport function. The invention also includes polypeptides encoded by ferroportin1 genes and variants of such polypeptides, and fusion polypeptides comprising a Ferroportin1 or a portion thereof. Methods to produce a Ferroportin1, methods to produce antibodies to a Ferroportin1 and methods to identify agents binding to a Ferroportin1, which can be inhibitors or enhancers of Ferroportin1 iron transport activity, are also described. Inhibitors of Ferroportin1 activity can be used in a therapy for hemochromatosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641589 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521149 | Medeiros et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Maria G. Medeiros (Bristol, Rhode Island); Eric G. Dow (Barrington, Rhode Island); Russell R. Bessette (Mattapoisett, Massachusetts); Susan G. Yan (Fairport, New York); Dwayne W. Dischert (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A new semi-fuel cell design that incorporates ion exchange membranes to create separate compartments for the anolyte and catholyte to flow through the semi-fuel cell thereby isolating the metal anode of the bipolar electrode from the catholyte while still allowing the necessary ion transfer to affect the necessary electrochemical balance for the reaction to take place in the semi-fuel cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923610 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07521928 | Romalis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Romalis (Princeton, New Jersey); Karen L. Sauer (Fairfax, Virginia); Igor M. Savukov (El Cerrito, California); Scott J. Seltzer (Howell, New Jersey); Seung-Kyun Lee (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio-frequency tunable atomic magnetometer for detection of nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) from room temperature solids, including detection of nitrogen-containing explosives placed external to a sensor unit. A potassium radio-frequency magnetometer with sensitivity of 0.24 fT/Hz1/2 operating at 423 kHz is provided. The magnetometer detected a 14N NQR signal from room temperature ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) in the zero-applied field limit. Results demonstrate first time detection of NQR with an atomic magnetometer, providing that a cryogen-free atomic magnetometer, with intrinsically frequency-independent sensitivity and easy tuning capabilities, can be an attractive new tool for detecting magnetic resonance signals in the kHz to MHz range. Low intensity magnetic fields are measured using an alkali metal vapor, by increasing magnetic polarization of the vapor to increase its sensitivity, then probing the magnetic polarization of the vapor to receive an output, and determining characteristics of the low intensity magnetic field from the output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593739 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07522055 | Carrender et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis Lee Carrender (Morgan Hill, California); Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for testing RFID straps. Arrays of RFID straps in a roll-to-roll process are coupled to an array of test elements. RF programming and interrogation signals are frequency and time multiplexed to the RFID array. Return signals are detected to determine sensitivity and programmability parameters of the RFID straps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/929632 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07523151 | Mellott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Athena Group, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Mellott (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for performing computations using residue arithmetic. The subject method and apparatus can utilize logic gates for performing calculations such as multiplication by a constant, computing a number theoretic logarithm of a residue for a given base αi and modulus pi, and computing the product of two residues, modulo pi. The use of logic gates can offer advantages when compared with the use of ROMs for table look-up functions in integrated Residue Number System digital signal processor implementations. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/569944 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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