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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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| US 07536818 | Margiotta |
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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) | Peter A. Margiotta (La Plata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical coupling arrangement includes first and second pins and a sphere. When coupled, the pins are longitudinally aligned and include partial portions that face one another. The second pin's partial portion includes a recess formed therein that faces the first pin's partial portion. The recess is spherically-shaped to be smaller than a hemisphere. A sphere is ring-staked into the first pin's partial portion and is seated in the recess. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214298 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/69.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07536821 | Saur |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Saur (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A catcher, in combination with a firearm having an ejection port, for receiving and retaining expended magnetically attracted shell casings through the ejection port as the firearm is discharged. The catcher includes a hollow housing having a plurality of rigid walls, and retainers. One of the walls has an opening in communication with the ejection port when the catcher is mounted to the firearm for receiving the shell casings. A seal is attached to the housing at the opening and surrounding the opening and provides controlled release of pressurized ejection port gas from inside the housing as the firearm is discharged such that noise and flash as a result of escape of the pressurized ejection port gas is reduced or eliminated. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527651 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07536898 | Owen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miles C. Owen (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An inlet conduit (32) connects to aerosol source (100) of an initial particle concentration. A first flow path having particle counter (62) connects to inlet conduit (32). A second flow path (36) connects to the inlet conduit (32) and branches to form third flow path (38) and fourth flow path (40) which meet at junction (50). A flow restrictor (42) is positioned in the third flow path (38). Filter (44) and a flow meter (46) are connected in the fourth flow path. An outlet path (52) connects to the junction (50). A low particle counter (54), a second filter (56) and a second flow meter (58) are positioned in the outlet path. The system can accurately perform a traceable measurement of the dilution factor of an aerosol particle concentration traceable to national standards and allows for traceable measurements of aerosol concentrations below the dynamic range of a given particle counter. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859124 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/28.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07536899 | Phelps 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) | Peter T. Phelps (Middletown, Rhode Island); Earl S. Nickerson (Little Compton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus as a fixture for fluidly pressure testing a flange penetrator seal with the apparatus having a flange cover including a recess and a flange extension including a recess with the extension matable to the cover such that the recesses create a volume around the seal. The extension is secured to the flange of a device for which the flange penetrator seal supports. The cover has a pressure fitting for application of fluid pressure to the recess of the cover for pressure testing the seal within the volume and the extension having a fitting for draining the volume after testing is complete. The test fixture includes a clamping fixture attachable to the cover, the clamping fixture encompassing the flange cover and the extension such that the apparatus can be further secured to the flange of the device which the flange penetrator seal supports. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527665 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07536913 | Naluai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan K. Naluai (State College, Pennsylvania); Gerald C. Lauchle (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater acoustic sensor is designed for attachment to a rigid or semi-rigid mounting structure. The sensor includes an outer casing and a secondary casing spaced therefrom. A compliance layer is disposed between the inner surface of the outer casing and the outer surface of the secondary casing. An inner sensor support is designed to attach to the mounting structure and is spaced from the inner surface of the secondary casing. A plurality of sensor elements are disposed between and interconnect the inner surface of the secondary casing and the sensor support. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264421 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/633 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07536924 | Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Lavaun Schmitz (Gainesville, Florida); Gregory Scott Duncan (Gainesville, Florida); John Charles Ziegert (Gainesville, Florida); David Corbin Burton (Carolina Beach, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A high frequency flexure-based dynamometer for measuring vibrations to use in determining cutting forces in a tool is disclosed. The dynamometer device may operate within a pre-selected high frequency range while measuring cutting forces less than about 1 N. The dynamometer may include two coupled flexures that interact to produce vibration modes at the edge of a selected bandwidth of interest. These modes may produce a frequency response function within the desired frequency band that has a magnified response and is substantially constant. The dynamometer may include a workpiece mounted to one of the two flexures and a one or more precision accelerometers mounted to the first or second flexures. Finite element analysis may be used to optimize the flexure design. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576200 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537197 | Heim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan R. Heim (Pacifica, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Roy David Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California); Marcus Rosenthal (Pacifica, California); Richard P. Heydt (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes devices for controlling fluid flow, such as valves. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contact with a fluid where the deflection of the electroactive polymer may be used to change a characteristic of the fluid. Some of the characteristic of the fluid that may be changed include but are not limited to 1) a flow rate, 2) a flow direction, 3) a flow vorticity, 4) a flow momentum, 5) a flow mixing rate, 6) a flow turbulence rate, 7) a flow energy, 8) a flow thermodynamic property. The electroactive polymer may be a portion of a surface of a structure that is immersed in an external fluid flow, such as the surface of an airplane wing or the electroactive polymer may be a portion of a surface of a structure used in an internal flow, such as a bounding surface of a fluid conduit. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/829920 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537216 | Soltys et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARL, Inc. (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Soltys (Mercer Island, Washington); Richard Huizinga (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A computationally generated playing card sequence (e.g., pseudo-random, non pseudo-random, or partially pseudo-random) allows shuffled distribution of playing cards. Playing cards may be organized into card holders by at least one or a rank and a suit, and retrieved in the computationally generated order. Alternatively, playing cards may be organized into card holders in order of a computationally generated sequence, and retrieve as necessary. Unreadable playing cards may be automatically removed from play. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962166 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/149.P00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537648 | Karwacki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland); Gregory W. Peterson (Abingdon, Maryland); Yuqing Ding (Perry Hall, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical device is used to estimate a service life of an air filter exposed to a certain chemical at various concentrations, flow rates, and relative humidity conditions. The device includes two members, one of which has at least one window, connected so that their surfaces are movable relative to one another. One member has numerical values for chemical concentrations and service life estimates printed on it. The member having windows has at least one mark printed on it by which it can be oriented relative to the chemical concentration scale on the other member. When the two members are aligned relative to a chemical concentration of interest, the corresponding service life estimate is displayed in an appropriate window. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/411679 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537727 | Dilmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ellwood National Forge Company (Irvine, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morris Dilmore (Baker, Florida); James D. Ruhlman (Santa Rosa Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a low alloy, low to medium carbon content, high strength, and high ductility steel composition. The present invention contains relatively low nickel content, yet exhibits high performance characteristics and is manufactured at a substantially lower cost than alloy compositions containing high levels of nickel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761472 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys or metallic compositions 420/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537806 | Boutwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schnectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Allen Rohrer Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Ramgopal Darolia (West Chester, Ohio); Curtis Alan Johnson (Niskayuna, New York); Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Mark Daniel Gorman (West Chester, Ohio); Yan Gao (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a thermal barrier coating for inclusion in a thermal barrier coating system is provided. The thermal barrier coating comprises a compound having a rhombohedral phase. In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, a thermal barrier coating is provided that comprises a compound having the formula of: A4B3O12, wherein A is at least one rare earth element; and B is selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899331 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537844 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Peter Djurovic (Long Beach, California); Sergey Lamansky (Camarillo, California); Drew Murphy (Lakewood, California); Raymond Kwong (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Feras Abdel-Razzaq (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Marc A. Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul E. Burrows (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing an emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including cyclometallated platinum, iridium and osmium complexes. The organic light emitting devices optionally contain an exciton blocking layer. Furthermore, improved electroluminescent efficiency in organic light emitting devices is obtained with an emitter layer comprising organometallic complexes of transition metals of formula L2MX, wherein L and X are distinct bidentate ligands. Compounds of this formula can be synthesized more facilely than in previous approaches and synthetic options allow insertion of fluorescent molecules into a phosphorescent complex, ligands to fine tune the color of emission, and ligands to trap carriers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879379 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537896 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiv Srivastava (Potomac, Maryland); Judd W. Moul (Bethesda, Maryland); Linda L. Xu (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the androgen-regulated gene, PMEPA1, and proteins encoded by this gene, including variants and analogs thereof. Also provided are other androgen-regulated nucleic acids, a polynucleotide array containing these androgen-regulated nucleic acids, and methods of using the polynucleotide array in the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452925 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537926 | Maga 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) | Gerardo F. Maga (Thousand Oaks, California); Frederick E. Goetz (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 10,000 gallon sequencing batch reactor tank for the on-site bio-degradation of oily sludge. Bacteria already present in and adapted to oily sludge degrade the hydrocarbons found in oily sludge within two weeks from 20,000 ppm to less than 100 ppm. A degradation cycle requires 5 days. After five days a recirculation pump and aeration system are turned off and solids are allowed to settle to the bottom of the tank. An ultrafiltration unit connected to the tank requires approximately 16 hours to process the contents of the reactor tank. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165769 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538032 | Borwick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Borwick (Thousand Oaks, California); Philip A. Stupar (Oxnard, California); Jeffrey F. DeNatale (Thousand Oaks, California); Chailun Tsai (Thousand Oaks, California); Zhimin J. Yao (Thousand Oaks, California); Kathleen Garrett (Woodland Hills, California); John White (Lancaster, California); Les Warren (Thousand Oaks, California); Morgan Tench (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a process for forming small diameter vias at low temperatures. In preferred embodiments, through-substrate vias are fabricated by forming a through-substrate via; and depositing conductive material into the via by means of a flowing solution plating technique, wherein the conductive material releases a gas that pushes the conductive material through the via to facilitate plating the via with the conductive material. In preferred embodiments, the fabrication of the substrate is conducted at low temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167014 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/667 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538045 | Bhatia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tania Bhatia (Middletown, Connecticut); Neil Baldwin (Mission Viejo, California); John E. Holowczak (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a process for the deposition of protective coatings on complex shaped Si-based substrates which are used in articles and structures subjected to high temperature, aqueous environments comprises a non-line-of-sightprocess, particularly, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) process. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/351635 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/785 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538157 | Mayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne M. Mayes (Mustang, Oklahoma); Sang-Woog Ryu (Taegu, South Korea); Metin H. Acar (Istanbul, Turkey); Juan A. Gonzalez (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a series of baroplastic materials, and systems and methods of making and using such baroplastic materials. In one aspect of the invention, polymeric particles are provided that can be used to produce baroplastic materials under certain pressures and/or below certain temperatures. In one set of embodiments, the polymeric particles include an inner “core” region and an outer “shell” region. In some cases, more than one “shell” region may be present. In another arrangement the particles can include materials, or domains, in nanoscale proximity with each other. Non-particulate materials can also be processed in accordance with the invention. In another aspect of the invention, the invention provides for polymeric particles that can be processed and/or recycled multiple times, without causing significant degradation or alteration in the physical and/or chemical properties of the polymer. In yet another aspect, the invention provides compositions able to form baroplastic materials upon the application of certain pressures, where the composition includes at least two chemically distinct materials in nanoscale proximity to each other. In still another aspect of the invention, a method of mixing two polymers upon the application of pressure is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172371 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538332 | Juhl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Juhl (Dayton, Ohio); Sergei F. Lyuksyutov (Akron, Ohio); Richard A. Vaia (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The method of the present invention utilizes atomic force microscopy techniques (AFM) for the reversible formation of nanoscale polymeric features by localized heating and mechanical deformation, generated through electrostatically mediated interactions across the polymer film between a conductive backplane and the cantilever AFM tip. This technique utilizes a selective lifting/placement of the cantilevered tip in the z direction (perpendicular to the planar surface of the polymer) to produce nanostructures of precise dimensions in contact AFM mode from regions of polymer locally heated by current flow between the cantilever AFM tip and the conductive substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217843 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538608 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chiping Chen (Needham, Massachusetts); Bao-Liang Qian (Quincy, Massachusetts); Richard J. Temkin (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A RF amplifier includes a RF input section for receiving a RF input signal. At least one single-sided slow-wave structure is associated with the RF interaction section. An electron ribbon beam that interacts with the RF input supported by the at least one single-sided slow-wave structure so that the kinetic energy of the electron beam is transferred to the RF fields of the RF input signal, thus amplifying the RF input signal. A RF output section outputs the amplified RF input signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/870116 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538633 | Drost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Mountain View, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Tarik Ono (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system which drives on-chip wires using capacitive coupling. During operation, the system drives a signal onto a driven wire. This signal feeds from the driven wire through a coupling capacitor onto a coupled wire, which is an on-chip wire that routes the signal to its destination. Feeding the signal through the coupling capacitor reduces the voltage swing of the corresponding coupled signal on the coupled wire, thereby lessening the power required to drive the coupled signal on the coupled wire. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953008 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/24.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538720 | Pillai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | C and P Technologies, Inc. (Closter, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Unnikrishna Sreedharan Pillai (Harrington Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmit signal is output from a transmitter towards a target and towards interference. A combination signal is received at a receiver, wherein the combination signal includes the transmit signal modified by interacting with the target and the interference along with noise. The receiver has a filter having a transfer function and the filter acts on the combination signal to form a receiver output signal having a receiver output signal waveform. The receiver output signal has a receiver output signal waveform that describes an output signal to interference to noise ratio (SINR) performance. Bandwidth and signal energy of the transmit signal are reduced simultaneously by modifying the transmit signal waveform and receiver output signal waveforms without sacrificing the output SINR performance level. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747365 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538800 | Caretti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Caretti (Bel Air, Maryland); Karen M. Coyne (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Assessing visibility through an optical material by capturing a digital image of a target through the material, determining its intensity, and using such intensity to determine a visual acuity index for the material. An apparatus for performing the method can assess visibility through an optical material exposed to environmental conditions. The apparatus includes an imaging system with a camera for acquiring digital images of the target through the optical material, a system for exposing the material to environmental conditions, and a system for processing intensities of the target in the acquired digital images. The processing system includes programming for relating the intensity of the target to the visual acuity index, whereby visibility through the optical material is determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/240781 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/227.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538859 | Tearney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Benjamin J. Vakoc (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, method and system can be provided for obtaining information associated with at least one portion of a sample. For example, a temperature change can be caused in the portion of the sample. At least one first electro-magnetic radiation can be forwarded to a section near or in the portion of the sample. A deformation of the section can be identified at a plurality of depths as a function of (i) a phase of at least one second electro-magnetic radiation provided from the section, and/or (ii) a rate of change of the phase and/or an amplitude of the second electro-magnetic radiation. In another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, method and system can be provided for controlling a temperature distribution in a sample. For example, an electro-magnetic radiation can be provided to the section in the sample at a particular wavelength. The temperature distribution can be controlled by modifying the particular wavelength of the electro-magnetic radiation when the electro-magnetic radiation is provided to the section. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670058 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/35.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538881 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Ye (Louisville, Colorado); Michael J. Thorpe (Boulder, Colorado); Kevin Moll (Boulder, Colorado); R. Jason Jones (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Cavity enhanced spectroscopy efficiently couples a broadband optical frequency comb to a high finesse optical cavity inside which a sample test gas is placed. The output of the optical cavity is a multiplicity of channels of data resulting from the differential absorption of light at various of the comb frequencies. The device can operate in a ringdown mode or a non-ringdown enhanced absorption spectroscopy mode. Careful measurement and control of cavity dispersion and comb spacing are part of the coupling process. Several dispersive detection methods adapted to detecting the multiplicity of channels are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707550 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538935 | Gaeta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaeta (Ithaca, New York); Jay E. Sharping (Merced, California); Chris Xu (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for generating variable pulse delays uses one or more nonlinear-optical processes such as cross-phase modulation, cross-gain modulation, self-phase modulation, four-wave mixing or parametric mixing, combined with group-velocity dispersion. The delay is controllable by changing the wavelength and/or power of a control laser. The delay is generated by introducing a controllable wavelength shift to a pulse of light, propagating the pulse through a material or an optical component that generates a wavelength dependent time delay, and wavelength shifting again to return the pulse to its original wavelength. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377921 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539047 | Katti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romney R. Katti (Shorewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved MRAM cell may include a first, second, and third contact, a first MTJ between the first and second contact, and a MTJ between the second and third contact. The MRAM cell is nonconductive between the first and second MTJ. The first MTJ may include a first free layer with a first switching field, and the second MTJ may include a second free layer with a second switching field. If the first switching field is substantially higher than the second switching field, the first MTJ may be a reference element for the second MTJ. If the first switching field is adequately higher than the second switching field, the first and second MTJ may each contain a data bit. If the first switching field is substantially similar to the second switching field, the first and second MTJs may contain identical data bits connected in series. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745903 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539083 | Blackmon 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) | Fletcher A. Blackmon (Forestdale, Massachusetts); Lynn T. Antonelli (Cranston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and system to remotely detect vocalizations of speech. The skin located on the throat region of a speaking person or a reflective layer on the skin on the throat region vibrates in response to vocalizations of speech by the person. The vibrating skin or reflective layer is reflective of impinging radiation. A laser Doppler vibrometer transmits radiation onto the vibrating skin or the covering reflective layer and receives reflected radiation from the vibrating skin or reflective layer. The laser Doppler vibrometer generates voltage output signals that are representative of the speech causing the vibrations. A target tracker directs the impinging radiation and detects the reflected radiation to pass between the throat region and the laser Doppler vibrometer and includes a processor that removes non-speech signal artifacts from the voltage output signals. An interconnected audio speaker reproduces the speech from the voltage output signals. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/767644 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/198 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539221 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NP Photonics, inc (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Wei Shi (Tucson, Arizona); Matthew Leigh (Tucson, Arizona); Jie Zong (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-laser-based implementation of a Gigahertz source through difference frequency generation (DFG) by nonlinear optical (NLO) materials is compact, tunable and scalable. A pair of pulsed fiber lasers, preferably single-frequency, generate output pulses at frequencies ω1 and ω2 that overlap temporally. A beam combiner combines the laser outputs and routes the combined output to a GHz generator head where a nonlinear interaction process in the NLO material generates GHz radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/583628 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539231 | Honea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C. Honea (Seattle, Washington); Jason D. Henrie (Snowhomish, Washington); Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs (Woodinville, Washington); Lawrence A. Borschowa (Woodinville, Washington); Anping Liu (Big Flats, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for generating controlled-linewidth laser-seed-signals for high-powered fiber-laser amplifier systems. In some embodiments, the natural chirp (frequency change of laser light over a short start-up time) of a DBR laser diode when driven by pulsed current is used to broaden the linewidth of the laser output, while adjusting the peak current and/or the pulse duration to obtain the desired linewidth. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488910 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539232 | Corcoran |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Corcoran (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optical system includes a plurality of electromagnetic gain media having a corresponding plurality of apertures. The apertures are disposed in a predetermined spatial distribution. The system further includes at least one refracting surface disposed to intercept energy from the plurality of apertures and a reflecting surface to direct portions of the intercepted energy back through the at least one refracting surface and back toward the plurality of apertures. The return energy is distributed about the plurality of apertures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/056793 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539330 | Rowe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumidigm, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Rowe (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for determining a liveness state of purported tissue. The purported tissue is illuminated under a plurality of distinct optical conditions during a single illumination session. Light scattered from the purported tissue is received separately for each of the plurality of distinct optical conditions. A multispectral image of the purported tissue is derived from the received light. It is verified that the derived multispectral image is consistent with living tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115075 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539366 | Baks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Wilhelmus Baks (Poughkeepsie, New York); Fuad Elias Doany (Katonah, New York); Clint Lee Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical module. The optical module includes a printed circuit board and an opto-chip. The opto-chip includes a transparent carrier with an optoelectronic device array and an associated integrated circuit array that are flip chip attached to the transparent carrier. The optoelectronic device array and the associated integrated circuit array are interconnected via surface wiring with bond sites. In addition, the associated integrated circuit array extends beyond the transparent carrier to provide direct flip chip attachment of the opto-chip to the printed circuit board. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969374 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539375 | Popovic |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milos Popovic (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator structure includes an input waveguide and an output waveguide. In one embodiment, the resonator structure also includes at least one resonator that couples the input waveguide to the output waveguide and a directional coupler that optically couples the input waveguide to the output waveguide. In another embodiment, the resonator structure includes a plurality of ring resonators that couple the input waveguide to the output waveguide. The plurality of ring resonators include a sequence of ring resonators that form a coupling loop. Each ring resonator in the sequence is coupled to at least two other ring resonators in the sequence and the first ring resonator in the sequence is coupled to the last ring resonator in the sequence so as to form the coupling loop. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800446 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539602 | Willis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FTL Systems, Inc. (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Christopher Willis (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An innovative method is taught for accelerating the simulation rate of differential equation systems having behavior piece-wise continuous in both value and time. Specifically, a system of differential equations representing the behavior of a physical system comprised of electronic, optical, or mechanical components may be simulated more rapidly using this method. The method utilizes incremental and iterative reconfiguration of digital logic wherein each configuration of the logic operates to yield a unique future value or range of values for each time-varying state variable within a system of equations representing a linear approximation of the original differential equation system for state variable values defined initially or at the onset of an iteration. Various configurations of the digital logic may be pre-computed or computed on demand, optionally caching such configurations for subsequent reuse. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328629 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539709 | Vengerov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California); Harriet G. Coverston (New Brighton, Minnesota); Anton B. Rang (Houlton, Wisconsin); Andrew B. Hastings (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for managing data is described which includes determining the current state of a storage tier of a plurality of storage tiers within a storage system. Further, a prediction is made, using a prediction architecture comprising at least one predetermined variable, of the utilities of future expected states for at least two of a plurality of storage tiers involved with a data operation, wherein a future expected state of a corresponding storage tier is based on conditions expected to occur following the completion of the data operation. Finally, the data operation is performed if the predicted utility of the future expected state associated with the at least two of a plurality of storage tiers is more beneficial than the utility of the current state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153058 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539872 | Sion et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radu Sion (Palo Alto, California); Mikhail Atallah (W. Lafayette, Indiana); Sunil Prabhakar (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method that provide resilient watermarking of digital data, including numeric and categorical relational data. The method and system are premised upon a framework considering the higher level semantics to be preserved in the original data. The system and method also provides a technique for enabling user-level run-time control over the properties that are to be preserved, as well as the degree of change introduced. The system and method are resilient to various important classes of attacks, including subset selection, addition, alteration, or resorting, horizontal or vertical data partitioning, and attribute remapping. For numeric relational data, approximately 40-45% of the embedded watermark may survive approximately 45-50% of original data loss, while for categorical relational data, the watermark may survive approximately 80% of original data loss with only approximately 25% degradation of the watermark. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852674 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07540029 | Saxena |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar Saxena (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems can reduce the spread of computer files or data on a network by obtaining and tracking times of arrival for chunks of data transmitted on the network. The times of arrival for a node can be transformed into time-series and periodograms computed from the time-series. Successive periodograms can be compared to determine changes in the strongest peaks of the periodograms. If a new peak is identified, a search for the occurrence of the peak in previous periodograms can be conducted. If no peak having a matching frequency is found, a search for the peak in the periodograms for neighboring nodes can be performed. If matching peaks are found, the associated data stream can be classified. Predictions of the timing and length of associated data packets can be used to randomly interrupt transmission of associated data packets resulting in reducing the spread of the classified data stream. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826620 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D593079 | Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Schmitz (Macomb, Michigan); Robert G. Washburn (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
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| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 29/317261 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Recording, communication, or information retrieval equipment D14/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07537568 | Moehring |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spentech, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Moehring (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulse Doppler ultrasound system and associated methods are described for monitoring blood flow. A graphical information display includes simultaneously displayed depth-mode and spectrogram displays. The depth-mode display indicates the various positions along the ultrasound beam axis at which blood flow is detected. These positions are indicated as one or more colored regions, with the color indicating direction of blood flow and varying in intensity as a function of detected Doppler ultrasound signal amplitude or detected blood flow velocity. The depth-mode display also includes a pointer whose position may be selected by a user. The spectrogram displayed corresponds to the location identified by the pointer. Embolus detection and characterization are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612822 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537756 | Habener et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel E. Habener (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); Hendrik Zulewski (Basel, Switzerland); Elizabeth J. Abraham (Quincy, Massachusetts); Mario Vallejo (Madrid, Spain); Denise L. Faustman (Weston, Massachusetts); Melissa K. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for the treatment of type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and other conditions using newly identified stem cells that are capable of differentiation into a variety of pancreatic islet cells, including insulin-producing beta cells, as well as hepatocytes. Nestin has been identified as a molecular marker for pancreatic stem cells, while cytokeratin-19 serves as a marker for a distinct class of islet ductal cells. Methods are described whereby nestin-positive stem cells can be isolated from pancreatic islets and cultured to obtain further stem cells or pseudo-islet like structures. Methods for ex vivo differentiation of the pancreatic stem cells are disclosed. Methods are described whereby pancreatic stem cells can be isolated, expanded, and transplanted into a patient in need thereof, either allogeneically, isogeneically or xenogenically, to provide replacement for lost or damaged insulin-secreting cells or other cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132687 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537757 | Schwarz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret A. Schwarz (La Canada-Flintridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of facilitating vascular growth in cardiac muscle of a subject in need of such treatment comprises inhibiting EMAP II activity in said subject by an amount effective to stimulate vascular growth in said cardiac muscle. The inhibiting step may be carried out by any suitable means, such as: By administering a compound (e.g., an antibody) that specifically binds to EMAP II to said subject in an amount effective to stimulate vascular growth in said cardiac muscle; by downregulating EMAP II expression in said subject by an amount effective to stimulate vascular growth in said cardiac muscle (e.g., by administration of an antisense olgionucleotide); or by administering an EMAP II receptor antagonist to said subject in an amount effective to stimulate vascular growth in said cardiac muscle. |
| FILED | Friday, December 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/733306 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537765 | Salzwedel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Panacos 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) | Karl Salzwedel (Olney, Maryland); Feng Li (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Carl T. Wild (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Graham P. Allaway (Darnestown, Maryland); Eric O. Freed (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibition of HIV-1 replication by disrupting the processing of the viral Gag capsid (CA) protein (p24) from the CA-spacer peptide 1 (SP1) protein precursor (p25) is disclosed. Amino acid sequences containing a mutation in the Gag p25 protein, with the mutation resulting in a decrease in the inhibition of processing of p25 to p24 by dimethylsuccinyl betulinic acid or dimethylsuccinyl betulin, polynucleotides encoding such mutated sequences and antibodies that selectively bind such mutated sequences are also included. Methods of inhibiting, inhibitory compounds and methods of discovering inhibitory compounds that target proteolytic processing of the HIV Gag protein are included. In one embodiment, such compounds inhibit the interaction of the HIV protease enzyme with Gag by binding to Gag rather than to the protease enzyme. In another embodiment, viruses or recombinant proteins that contain mutations in the region of the Gag proteolytic cleavage site can be used in screening assays to identify compounds that target proteolytic processing. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851637 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 07537769 | Hone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Michael Hone (Rockville, Maryland); David Yetu Onyabe (Poolesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | HIV envelope immunogens that display multivalent epitopes are provided. The immunogens are aggregated, “webbed” HIV envelope immunogens in which native envelope structures are stabilized due to interactions with multimeric derivatives of M9 scorpion toxin. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445455 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/196.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537890 | Krishnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madhavi Krishnan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Victor Ugaz (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and systems for running reactions, in particular, biological reactions and assays, in a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell. The utilization of Rayleigh-Bénard convection principles for conducting biological or biochemical reactions is a novel application. In order to use Rayleigh-Bénard convection for conducting biological or biochemical reactions it is necessary to create a temperature differential in a solution of reactants. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/678805 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537893 | Parker, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gene Solutions, LLC (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Davis Parker, Jr. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for diagnosing and treating Parkinson's disease based on mitochondrial mutations. The present invention also provides methods for diagnosing and treating other diseases and disorders based on mitochondrial mutations. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363531 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537894 | Weichselbaum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Weichselbaum (Chicago, Illinois); Nikolai Khodarev (Villa Park, Illinois); Eric Kimchi (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Mitchell Posner (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and kits for assessing risk of progression of Barrett's esophagus to adenocarcinoma. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/367602 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537895 | Pinkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Pinkel (Walnut Creek, California); Joe W Gray (San Francisco, California); Anne Kallioniemi (Tampere, Finland); Olli-Pekka Kallioniemi (Tampere, Finland); Frederic Waldman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are new methods comprising the use of in situ hybridization to detect abnormal nucleic acid sequence copy numbers in one or more genomes wherein repetitive sequences that bind to multiple loci in a reference chromosome spread are either substantially removed and/or their hybridization signals suppressed. The invention termed Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) provides for methods of determining the relative number of copies of nucleic acid sequences in one or more subject genomes or portions thereof (for example, a tumor cell) as a function of the location of those sequences in a reference genome (for example, a normal human genome). The intensity(ies) of the signals from each labeled subject nucleic acid and/or the differences in the ratios between different signals from the labeled subject nucleic acid sequences are compared to determine the relative copy numbers of the nucleic acid sequences in the one or more subject genomes as a function of position along the reference chromosome spread. Amplifications, duplications and/or deletions in the subject genome(s) can be detected. Also provided is a method of determining the absolute copy numbers of substantially all RNA or DNA sequences in subject cell(s) or cell population(s). |
| FILED | Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431094 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537902 | Boden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Boden (Atlanta, Georgia); Sreedhara Sangadala (Dallas, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant application provides kits and methods for identifying agents which induce or inhibit the osteogenic effect of LMP or BMP proteins. The kits are directed to methods which measure either an amount of a complex between a Smurf protein or a fragment thereof and an LMP protein or a fragment thereof. Alternatively, the kits are directed to methods of measuring an amount of the ubiquitinated Smad protein or a fragment thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607348 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537903 | Kuro-o et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Makoto Kuro-o (Dallas, Texas); Yasushi Ogawa (Dallas, Texas); Hiroshi Kurosu (Dallas, Texas); Kevin Rosenblatt (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to identify a modulator of βKlotho-dependant glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1) upregulation that specifically modulates interaction of βKlotho and an FGFR. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107895 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537905 | Slamon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Slamon (Woodland Hills, California); Lee A. Anderson (Los Angeles, California); Charles L. Ginther (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods to diagnose colon cancer and other proliferative diseases. Gene 26#77 is identified herein as a novel oncogene. Methods are provided for diagnosing and treating a disease or disorder characterized by amplification of the 26#77 gene and/or overexpression of 26#77 gene products. The 26#77 gene is located on chromosome 20q13.2, a region whose amplification is associated with a poor cancer prognosis. The 26#77 gene is amplified and 26#77 RNA and protein are overexpressed in 60% of colorectal cancers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346367 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537911 | Abraham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert T. Abraham (San Diego, California); Diane M. Otterness (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule having substantially the same nucleotide sequence as SEQ ID NO:1. Also provided is an isolated oligonucleotide having at least 15 contiguous nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence referenced as SEQ ID NO:11. An isolated polypeptide having substantially the same amino acid sequence as SEQ ID NO:2 is further provided as well as an antibody, or antigen binding fragment thereof, which specifically binds to an ATX polypeptide and has an amino acid sequence as referenced in SEQ ID NO:2. A method for identifying an ATX-modulatory compound is additionally provided. The method consists of measuring the level of an ATX polypeptide in the presence of a test compound, wherein a difference in the level of said ATX polypeptide in the presence of said test compound compared to in the absence of said test compound indicating that said test compound is an ATX-modulatory compound, and wherein said ATX-modulatory compound is not caffeine or wortmannin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788003 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dehua Pei (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A macrocyclic peptide deformylase (PDF) inhibitor comprising a peptide or peptide mimetic having three residues, P1′, P2′, and P3′, wherein P2′ connects P1′ and P3′, wherein P1′ and P3′ each have a side chain, and wherein the side chains on P1′ and P3′ are crosslinked to form the macrocyclic PDF inhibitor. The side chains of P1′ and P3′ interact with the PDF active site, and preferably, P2′ has a side chain that interacts with a solvent. Also provided are methods of inhibiting the growth of a bacterium, the methods comprising contacting the bacterium with an anti-bacterial effective amount of the inventive macrocyclic PDF inhibitor. Additionally, a method of treating a bacterial infection in a subject comprising administering an effective amount of a macrocyclic PDF inhibitor to a subject in need of treatment. Additionally, methods of preparing macrocyclic PDF inhibitors comprising a) choosing an acyclic base molecule, having at least some PDF inhibitory activity, the acyclic base molecule having a first residue having a first side chain that interacts with the PDF active site and a second residue having a second that interacts with the PDF active site; and b) crosslinking the first side chain and the second side chain to form a macrocyclic PDF inhibitor. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789036 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538088 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Anderson (Altadena, California); Hai U. Wang (Eldorado Hills, California); Donghun Shin (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides, among other things, novel angiogenesis-related nucleic acids, polypeptides and methods of use. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/424986 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538089 | May et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. May (New Haven, Connecticut); Sankar Ghosh (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides anti-inflammatory compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof for treating inflammatory disorders. The present invention also provides methods of identifying anti-inflammatory compounds and methods of inhibiting NF-κB-dependent target gene expression in a cell. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/979683 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538090 | Waring et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan J. Waring (Irvine, California); Frans J. Walther (Hermosa Beach, California); Larry M. Gordon (Del Mar, California); Joseph A. Zasadzinski (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition including a C terminal region having residues corresponding to a peptide identified by PDB ID: 1RG3; an N terminal region having residues corresponding to a peptide identified by PDB ID: 1RG4; and a disulfide linkage between the residues near the C terminal region and the N terminal region. A composition including an exogenous peptide comprising amino acid residues comprising a C terminal region; amino acid residues comprising an N terminal region; a helix-loop-helix conformation between the residues comprising the C terminal region and the residues including the N terminal region; and at least one disulfide linkage between the residues comprising the C terminal region and the residues including N terminal region, wherein the residues including the C terminal region and the residues comprising the N terminal region have an amphiphatic property, and wherein the peptide has an a biological activity comparable to native surfactant protein SP-B. A method including delivering to a body a composition comprising an exogenous peptide having a biological activity comparable to native surfactant protein SP-B. A kit including an exogenous peptide having a biological activity comparable to native surfactant protein SP-B; and a treatment agent different from the peptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133812 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538095 | Fire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Fire (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen Kostas (Chicago, Illinois); Mary Montgomery (St. Paul, Minnesota); Lisa Timmons (Lawrence, Kansas); SiQun Xu (Ballwin, Missouri); Hiroaki Tabara (Shizuoka, Japan); Samuel E. Driver (Providence, Rhode Island); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided of introducing an RNA into a living cell to inhibit gene expression of a target gene in that cell. The process may be practiced ex vivo or in vivo. The RNA has a region with double-stranded structure. Inhibition is sequence-specific in that the nucleotide sequences of the duplex region of the RNA and of a portion of the target gene are identical. The present invention is distinguished from prior art interference in gene expression by antisense or triple-strand methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/282996 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538096 | Hales et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Hales (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Hari G. Garg (Belmont, Massachusetts); Lunyin Yu (Allston, Massachusetts); Robert J Linhardt (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for inhibiting or preventing the abnormal growth of cells, including transformed cells, by administering an effective amount of O-acylated heparin derivative. Abnormal growth of cells refers to cell growth independent of normal regulatory mechanism (e.g. loss of contact inhibition). This includes the abnormal growth of: (1) tumor cells (tumors); (2) benign and malignant cells of other proliferative disease in which aberrant cellular proliferation occurs; (3) aberrant smooth muscle cell proliferation, such as might occur following treatment for coronary atherosclerosis such as angioplasty or the insertion of a stent into an occluded vessel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082213 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538193 | Stamler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Stamler (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | S-nitrosohemoglobin can liberate NO by transfer to a low molecular weight thiol in the circulatory system, allowing the delivery of NO to the tissues. The effect of administering isolated S-nitrosohemoglobin and low molecular weight thiol to a mammal is to increase delivery of oxygen and NO. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784780 |
| 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 530/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538194 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myron K. Jacobson (Lexington, Kentucky); Elaine L. Jacobson (Lexington, Kentucky); Jean-Christophe Amé (Obernai, France); Winston Lin (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) enzymes and the amino acid sequences of PARGs from several species are described. PARG is involved in the cellular response to DNA damage and its proper function is associated with the body's response to neoplastic disorder inducing agents and oxidative stress. Expression vectors containing the cDNAs and cells transformed with the vectors are described. Probes and primers that hybridize with the cDNAs are described. Expression of the cDNA in E. coli results in an enzymatically active protein of about 111 kDa and an active fragment of about 59 kDa. Methods for inhibiting PARG expression or overexpressing PARG in a subject for therapeutic benefit are described. Exemplary of PARG inhibitors are anti-sense oligonucleotides. The invention has implications for treatment of neoplastic disorder, heart attack, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases. Methods for detecting a mutant PARG allele are also described. Antibodies immunoreactive with PARGs and fragments thereof are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638012 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538220 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Bom David (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Thomas G. Burke (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the formula in racemic form, enantiomerically enriched form or enantiomerically pure form; wherein X is a radical precursor; R5 is a C1-10 alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or a benzyl group; R6 is an alkyl group, —Si(R8R9R10) or —(R7)Si(R8R9R10), wherein R7 is an alkylene group, an alkenylene group, or an alkynylene group; and R8, R9 and R10 are independently a C1-10 alkyl group, a C2-10 alkenyl group, a C2-10 alkynyl group, an aryl group or a —(CH2)NR11 group, wherein N is an integer within the range of 1 through 10 and R11 is a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an amino group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, a halogen atom, a cyano group, —SRc or a nitro group; and R13 is H, F or —CH3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805169 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538228 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xumu Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Duan Liu (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A chiral ligand represented by the formula and its enantiomer: wherein A, X, Y and Z are as defined in the specification is provided. Also provided is a process of making the chiral ligands and catalysts prepared from these ligands and a transition metal, a salt thereof or a complex thereof. In addition, a method of preparing an asymmetric compound by a transition metal catalyzed asymmetric reaction, such as, hydrogenation, hydride transfer reaction, hydrosilylation, hydroboration, hydrovinylation, hydroformylation, hydrocarboxylation, allylic alkylation, epoxidation, cyclopropanation, Diels-Alder reaction, Aldol reaction, ene reaction, Heck reaction and Michael addition is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016302 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538329 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Shaopeng Wang (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Sarah Westcott (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Jun Zhang (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently claimed and disclosed inventions relate, in general, to methods of radiation dosimetry and imaging using scintillation luminescence. More particularly, materials having a scintillation luminescence response to radiation that varies with total radiation dose received can be used for dosimetry monitoring, including, but not limited to nanoparticles for in vivo, real-time dosimetry. Energy-transfer nanocomposite materials as well as methods of making and using such materials in various applications including, but not limited to, in vivo radiation dosimetry and imaging, are disclosed. More particularly, the presently claimed and disclosed inventions relate to nanoparticle scintillation luminescence particles encapsulated in hosts of the general formula BaFX and BaFX:Eu2+ where X=Cl, Br and I. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262470 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538861 | Zahniser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytyc Corporation (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Zahniser (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Matthew S. Zelinski (Worthington, Ohio); Thomas M. Dolash (Worthington, Ohio); Garrick L. Maenle (Columbus, Ohio); Mark Fleming (Columbus, Ohio); John S. Laudo (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the analysis of cytological material. Specifically, the invention relates to stains and methods of producing the stains, methods of staining cells for cytological or histological analysis to contrast the nuclear portion of the cell from the cytoplasmic portion, and systems and methods for illuminating a cytological sample. The analysis can be automated or manual. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177003 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539543 | Schiff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas D. Schiff (New York, New York); Keith Purpura (New York, New York); Steven Kalik (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for improving cognitive function or for improving coordination of function across a patient's cortical regions. The method includes applying electrical stimulation to at least a portion of the patient's subcortical structures involved in the generation and control of generalized efference copy signals. Internally generated movement of the patient is then detected and, in response to such internally generated movement, application of electrical stimulation is controlled. The method of the present invention has a number of benefits, including increasing flexibility in identifying targets for stimulation, improving the probability of successfully treating brain injury, and permitting patient biofeedback and self-regulation. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/320840 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yulu Wang (Harrison, New Jersey); Robert Pfeffer (Teaneck, New Jersey); Rajesh Dave (Short Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A process, method and/or system for preparing polymer-coated nanoparticles and/or other ultrafine particles utilizing a supercritical fluid, e.g., supercritical carbon dioxide (SC CO2), as an antisolvent that may be added to a solution of a polymer and an organic solvent in which insoluble nanoparticles or the like are suspended. The coating process occurs when the supercritical fluid (e.g., SC CO2) and the nanoparticle-containing suspension are combined to cause the suspended nanoparticles to precipitate as coated nanoparticles. Processing parameters for optimizing and/or enhancing the efficacy and/or efficiency of the coating process, method and/or system and for controlling the coating and/or agglomeration of coated particles are also described. The process, method and/or system has wide ranging applicability, e.g., for coating and/or encapsulation of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food products, chemicals, agrochemicals, pesticides, polymers, coatings, catalysts and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/820091 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537807 | Craighead et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Jun Kameoka (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanofibers are formed using electrospray deposition from microfluidic source. The source is brought close to a surface, and scanned in one embodiment to form oriented or patterned fibers. In one embodiment, the surface has features, such as trenches on a silicon wafer. In further embodiments, the surface is rotated to form patterned nanofibers, such as polymer nanofibers. The nanofibers may be used as a mask to create features, and as a sacrificial layer to create nanochannels. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951254 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537929 | Wolfner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariana F. Wolfner (Ithaca, New York); Kevin W. Kraus (Decorah, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a number of accessory gland proteins from Drosophila. The invention also provides an accessory gland protein which is toxic to insect cells and can be used to kill or inhibit the development of insects. Methods of controlling insects are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194890 |
| 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 07538202 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Bernard Yurke (Plainfield, New Jersey); Erik Winfree (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An enzyme-free, isothermal method of generating an amplification signal indicative of a target nucleic acid molecule is provided, as are compositions for performing such a method. An advantage of the detection system is that it is very sensitive, and can allow for the detection of a single target molecule in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009386 |
| 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 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538329 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Chen (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Shaopeng Wang (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Sarah Westcott (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Jun Zhang (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently claimed and disclosed inventions relate, in general, to methods of radiation dosimetry and imaging using scintillation luminescence. More particularly, materials having a scintillation luminescence response to radiation that varies with total radiation dose received can be used for dosimetry monitoring, including, but not limited to nanoparticles for in vivo, real-time dosimetry. Energy-transfer nanocomposite materials as well as methods of making and using such materials in various applications including, but not limited to, in vivo radiation dosimetry and imaging, are disclosed. More particularly, the presently claimed and disclosed inventions relate to nanoparticle scintillation luminescence particles encapsulated in hosts of the general formula BaFX and BaFX:Eu2+ where X=Cl, Br and I. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262470 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.110 |
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| US 07538946 | 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); Anthony F. Starr (San Diego, California); Jack J. Mock (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at least one axis. Such metamaterials can be used to form lenses, for example. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658358 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539175 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick E. White (Bernardsville, New Jersey); Nicolas Girard (Hackensack, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is disclosed for permitting a mobile terminal having multiple, heterogeneous network connections (e.g., multiple wired or wireless transceivers of various types) to set up and maintain virtual connections over multiple networks to either the same or to multiple destinations. The mobile terminal can “load-share” traffic, i.e., it can distribute segments of traffic over a full set of heterogeneous networks, significantly improving the reliability and availability of communications. In a first embodiment, a mobile terminal is configured with multiple radio frequency (RF) transceivers. Operating system software is provided for dynamically establishing and maintaining traffic flow for user applications over multiple communications paths, and for automatically adapting to variations in the networking environment, application traffic flow requirements, end user preferences, or mobility. In a second embodiment, a software-defined radio is used to implement the physical layer protocols for each desired network, eliminating the need for multiple transceivers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/283610 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539458 | Jafarkhani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamid Jafarkhani (Irvine, California); Li Liu (Aliso Viejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple antenna wireless system including a transmitter and a receiver comprises a reconfigurable large antenna array having a plurality of antennas. A plurality of RF chains in the transmitter is coupled to the reconfigurable large antenna array. A pilot assisted round robin channel estimation means tracks the fading channel; and an adaptive round robin transmit beamforming means beam forms the reconfigurable large antenna array. A method for multiple antenna wireless communication comprising the steps of tracking a plurality of fading channels in a reconfigurable large antenna array having a plurality of antennas using pilot assisted round robin channel estimation to selectively couple a plurality of RF chains in the transmitter to the reconfigurable large antenna array, and adaptively, round-robin transmit beamforming the reconfigurable large antenna array. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584831 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/63.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539872 | Sion et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radu Sion (Palo Alto, California); Mikhail Atallah (W. Lafayette, Indiana); Sunil Prabhakar (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method that provide resilient watermarking of digital data, including numeric and categorical relational data. The method and system are premised upon a framework considering the higher level semantics to be preserved in the original data. The system and method also provides a technique for enabling user-level run-time control over the properties that are to be preserved, as well as the degree of change introduced. The system and method are resilient to various important classes of attacks, including subset selection, addition, alteration, or resorting, horizontal or vertical data partitioning, and attribute remapping. For numeric relational data, approximately 40-45% of the embedded watermark may survive approximately 45-50% of original data loss, while for categorical relational data, the watermark may survive approximately 80% of original data loss with only approximately 25% degradation of the watermark. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852674 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07537395 | Savage-Leuchs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for collimating pump light of a first wavelength from laser diode(s) into a collimated beam within an enclosure having first and second optical ports, directing pump light from the collimated beam to the first port; and directing signal light inside the enclosure between the first and second port. The signal and pump wavelengths are different. The enclosure provides a pump block having a first port that emits pump light to a gain fiber outside the enclosure and that also passes signal light either into or out of the enclosure, and another port that passes signal light either out of or into the enclosure. Some embodiments use a dichroic mirror to direct pump light to the first port and direct signal light between the first and second ports. Some embodiments include a wavelength-conversion device to change the wavelength of at least some of the signal light. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682234 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537682 | Dailly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne Dailly (Pasadena, California); Channing Ahn (Pasadena, California); Rachid Yazami (Los Angeles, California); Brent T. Fultz (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of purifying samples are provided that are capable of removing carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous impurities from a sample containing a carbon material having a selected structure. Purification methods are provided for removing residual metal catalyst particles enclosed in multilayer carbonaceous impurities in samples generate by catalytic synthesis methods. Purification methods are provided wherein carbonaceous impurities in a sample are at least partially exfoliated, thereby facilitating subsequent removal of carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous impurities from the sample. Methods of purifying carbon nanotube-containing samples are provided wherein an intercalant is added to the sample and subsequently reacted with an exfoliation initiator to achieve exfoliation of carbonaceous impurities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/081841 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/555 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537732 | Gustafson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Gustafson (Bellevue, Washington); James B. Callis (Seattle, Washington); Jeffrey D. Mathews (Neenah, Wisconsin); John Robinson (Issaquah, Washington); Carsten A. Bruckner (San Mateo, California); Kuntinee Suvamakich (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Paper pulp is added to a stain solution. The stain solution and pulp fibers are mixed to form a slurry. Samples are removed from the slurry and are admixed with dilution water and a bleach. Then, the fibers are moved into a flow cell where they are subjected to a light source adapted to stimulate fluorescence from the stained pulp fiber. Before the fiber slurry enters the flow cell it is mixed with a dilution water of bleach to reduce background fluorescence. The fluorescent light is collimated and directed through a dichroic filter onto a fluorescence splitting dichroic filter. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788548 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538200 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi-You Ding (Golden, Colorado); William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); Todd B. Vinzant (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a thermal tolerant (thermostable) cellulase, AviIII, that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family. AviIII was isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus and, like many cellulases, the disclosed polypeptide and/or its derivatives may be useful for the conversion of biomass into biofuels and chemicals. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/155400 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538320 | Sperline |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger P. Sperline (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion detection device, method and computer readable medium storing instructions for applying voltages to shutter elements of the detection device to compress ions in a volume defined by the shutter elements and to output the compressed ions to a collector. The ion detection device has a chamber having an inlet and receives ions through the inlet, a shutter provided in the chamber opposite the inlet and configured to allow or prevent the ions to pass the shutter, the shutter having first and second shutter elements, a collector provided in the chamber opposite the shutter and configured to collect ions passed through the shutter, and a processing unit electrically connected to the first and second shutter elements. The processing unit applies, during a first predetermined time interval, a first voltage to the first shutter element and a second voltage to the second shutter element, the second voltage being lower than the first voltage such that ions from the inlet enter a volume defined by the first and second shutter elements, and during a second predetermined time interval, a third voltage to the first shutter element, higher than the first voltage, and a fourth voltage to the second shutter element, the third voltage being higher than the fourth voltage such that ions that entered the volume are compressed as the ions exit the volume and new ions coming from the inlet are prevented from entering the volume. The processing unit is electrically connected to the collector and configured to detect the compressed ions based at least on a current received from the collector and produced by the ions collected by the collector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769513 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538938 | Sun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiangang Sun (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical filter made from a borosilicate optical material is provided for flash lamps used in pulsed thermal imaging. The filter substantially eliminates the infrared radiation from flash lamps to allow for accurate detection of surface temperature during entire pulsed thermal imaging tests. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452156 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538946 | 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); Anthony F. Starr (San Diego, California); Jack J. Mock (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at least one axis. Such metamaterials can be used to form lenses, for example. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658358 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539677 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pak Chung Wong (Richland, Washington); Elizabeth R. Jurrus (Kennewick, Washington); Wendy E. Cowley (Benton City, Washington); Harlan P. Foote (Richland, Washington); James J. Thomas (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more processors (22) are operated to extract a number of different event identifiers therefrom. These processors (22) are further operable to determine a number a display locations each representative of one of the different identifiers and a corresponding time. The display locations are grouped into sets each corresponding to a different one of several event sequences (330a, 330b, 330c. 330d, 330e). An output is generated corresponding to a visualization (320) of the event sequences (330a, 330b, 330c, 330d, 330e). |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/972081 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07537680 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ross (Silver Spring, Maryland); Michael J. Tarlov (Bethesda, Maryland); Karin M. Balss (Basketing Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for observing mixing interactions and reactions of two materials in a fluid. The method in one form provides for concentrating by balancing electrophoretic velocities of a material against the bulk flow of fluid in the presence of a temperature gradient. Using an appropriate fluid, the temperature gradient can generate a corresponding gradient in the electrophoretic velocity of the material so that the electrophoretic and bulk velocities sum to zero at a unique position and the material will be focused at that position. A second material can then be introduced into the fluid and allowed to move through and interact with the focused band of the first material. Products of the interaction can then be detected as they are focused at a different position along the gradient. The method can be adapted to study the temperature dependence of the molecular interaction. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039904 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07537898 | Bost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Bost (San Mateo, California); Lawrence Greenfield (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for isolating and/or identifying nucleic acids. The invention also provides kits for isolating and/or identifying nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789352 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538881 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Ye (Louisville, Colorado); Michael J. Thorpe (Boulder, Colorado); Kevin Moll (Boulder, Colorado); R. Jason Jones (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Cavity enhanced spectroscopy efficiently couples a broadband optical frequency comb to a high finesse optical cavity inside which a sample test gas is placed. The output of the optical cavity is a multiplicity of channels of data resulting from the differential absorption of light at various of the comb frequencies. The device can operate in a ringdown mode or a non-ringdown enhanced absorption spectroscopy mode. Careful measurement and control of cavity dispersion and comb spacing are part of the coupling process. Several dispersive detection methods adapted to detecting the multiplicity of channels are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707550 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/454 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538969 | Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imation Corp. (Oakdale, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Weber (Oakdale, Minnesota); Alan R. Olson (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Data storage tape comprises one or more data tracks and a servo band. The servo band stores a plurality of servo patterns within a servo frame to facilitate head positioning relative to the data tracks. Spacings between the servo patterns within the servo frame vary to encode information in the servo frame. A number of bits in the information is greater than a number of servo patterns within the frame. Servo patterns in different servo bands on the data storage tape may be different to provide band identification information. The different servo patterns of the different servo bands may allow lateral position calculations using the same formula for each servo pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508508 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/77.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07537182 | Greenblatt |
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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) | David Greenblatt (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling a shear layer for a fluid dynamic body introduces first periodic disturbances into the fluid medium at a first flow separation location. Simultaneously, second periodic disturbances are introduced into the fluid medium at a second flow separation location. A phase difference between the first and second periodic disturbances is adjusted to control flow separation of the shear layer as the fluid medium moves over the fluid dynamic body. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250700 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538860 | Moore |
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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) | Jason P. Moore (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining a reflection wavelength of multiple Bragg gratings in a sensing optical fiber comprise: (1) a source laser; (2) an optical detector configured to detect a reflected signal from the sensing optical fiber; (3) a plurality of frequency generators configured to generate a signal having a frequency corresponding to an interferometer frequency of a different one of the plurality of Bragg gratings; (4) a plurality of demodulation elements, each demodulation element configured to combine the signal produced by a different one of the plurality of frequency generators with the detected signal from the sensing optical fiber; (5) a plurality of peak detectors, each peak detector configured to detect a peak of the combined signal from a different one of the demodulation elements; and (6) a laser wavenumber detection element configured to determine a wavenumber of the laser when any of the peak detectors detects a peak. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840363 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/35.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539535 | Schlegel 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) | Todd T. Schlegel (Nassau Bay, Texas); Jude L. DePalma (Pueblo, Colorado); Saeed Moradi (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Real time cardiac electrical data are received from a patient, manipulated to determine various useful aspects of the ECG signal, and displayed in real time in a useful form on a computer screen or monitor. The monitor displays the high frequency data from the QRS complex in units of microvolts, juxtaposed with a display of conventional ECG data in units of millivolts or microvolts. The high frequency data are analyzed for their root mean square (RMS) voltage values and the discrete RMS values and related parameters are displayed in real time. The high frequency data from the QRS complex are analyzed with imbedded algorithms to determine the presence or absence of reduced amplitude zones, referred to herein as “RAZs”. RAZs are displayed as “go, no-go” signals on the computer monitor. The RMS and related values of the high frequency components are displayed as time varying signals, and the presence or absence of RAZs may be similarly displayed over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345687 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07536975 | Denes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ferencz S. Denes (Madison, Wisconsin); Douglas J. Reinemann (Madison, Wisconsin); Sorin O. Manolache (Madison, Wisconsin); Jason M. Helgren (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In a milking machine teat cup wherein an animal to be milked has its teat inserted into a teat cup liner during milking, a first electrode extends about or within at least a portion of the teat cup liner. To clean and/or disinfect the liner, a second electrode is inserted into the liner and the two electrodes are charged so as to generate plasma in any free space between the inserted second electrode and the interior surface of the liner. The generated plasma species destroy organisms that cause mastitis, and can additionally kill other unwanted organisms and/or perform cleaning of the liner's interior. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/921551 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/14.470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP20033 | Stommel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Stommel (Glenwood, Maryland); Robert J. Griesbach (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a new and distinct pepper plant known as Capisum annuum L. ‘05C69-12’ which displays a contrasting mixture of immature black and mature orange fruit at the same time unlike that of the standard pepper plants. Plants of ‘05C69-12’ are characterized by greenish black foliage and numerous small tabasco shaped, upright oriented, solitary black fruits that mature orange. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006521 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07537075 | Gray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pickney, Michigan); Daniel W. Barba (New Hudson, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle includes an integrated drive module coupled to an axle thereof. The module includes a hydraulic motor configured to provide motive power at an output shaft, and a differential for distributing the motive power to right and left portions of the axle. The hydraulic motor and the differential are encased within a common housing. The vehicle may include a second integrated drive module having, within a housing, a second hydraulic motor (or multiple hydraulic motors), and a second differential coupled thereto and configured to distribute motive power to right and left portions of a second axle. The second module may also include a transmission within the same housing. The transmission may be a two speed or other multi-speed transmission. The second module is configured to operate in neutral while power demand is below a threshold, and to engage while the power demand exceeds the threshold. The second module may be configured to remain engaged for full-time four-wheel-drive operation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891869 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07537552 | Dalebout et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icon IP, Inc. (State of Delaware) (Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Dalebout (North Logan, Utah); Michael Olson (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An exercise apparatus with a single resistant rod configured to provide resistance for use in exercise and an electronic weight selector mechanism for use with a resistance rod having a variable resistance system and an electronic weight selector control. The variable resistance system includes a cable and pulley system that compounds the force exerted by the user on the cable and pulley system allowing the user a greater extension length per unit length the resistance rod is displaced. The variable resistance system includes a lever arm having an adjustable effective length to change the amount of resistance by changing the mechanical advantage provided by the lever arm. The electronic weight selector control including program exercise routines which assist the user in exercise by providing desired patterns, amounts of resistance, numbers of sets and repetitions, and combinations of exercises to be performed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/647729 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07537899 | Lupski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Lupski (Houston, Texas); Cornelius F. Boerkoel, III (Houston, Texas); Hiroshi Takashima (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to defects in periaxin (PRX) associated with myelinopathies, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and/or Dejerine-Sottas syndrome. Unrelated individuals having a myelinopathy from Dejerine-Sottas syndrome have recessive PRX mutations. The PRX locus maps to a region associated with a severe autosomal recessive demyelinating neuropathy and is also syntenic to the Prx location on murine chromosome 7. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838500 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07538872 | Butler et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene W. Butler (Corrales, New Mexico); L. John Otten, III (Placitas, New Mexico); Gavin R. G. Erry (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Determining relationships between one laser beam and an object onto which such beam is directed including: directing such beam onto the object; collecting radiation from the beam that is reflected back; spectrally discriminating the collected, reflected radiation from other collected radiation; generating an image of the collected beam radiation; and analyzing this image to determine the value of at least one parameter selected from: the diameter of the beam on the object; the position of the beam on the object; and beam quality on the object. The determined value(s) may be used to adjust parameter(s) of the beam. Additional steps include directing a second beam onto the object and collecting, spectrally discriminating, generating an image and analyzing it to determine the value of at least one parameter related to the second beam. The forgoing may also include utilizing the determined second value to adjust parameter(s) of the second beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498397 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07539934 | Kender et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Kender (Leonia, New Jersey); Milind R. Naphade (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and program product developing an annotation lexicon are described. Under aspects of the present invention, annotation(s) to piece(s) of content are received and analyzed using one or more computational analyses. Based on the analyses, feedback will be generated to improve the annotation lexicon and/or the ontology thereof. Such improvement can lead to, among other things: the re-arrangement of interrelationships of terms in the annotation lexicon; the addition, modification or deletion of terms from the annotation lexicon; the re-arrangement or clustering of terms within the annotation lexicon; etc. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/157035 |
| ART UNIT | 2178 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20090526.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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