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| US 07540963 | Fissell, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Fissell, IV (Ann Arbor, Michigan); H. David Humes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shuvo Roy (Cleveland, Ohio); Aaron Fleischman (University Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to ultrafiltration. In particular, the present invention provides a compact ultrafiltration device and methods for generating an ultrafiltrate, both of which can be used for a variety of applications, including, but not limited to filtering blood, diagnostic applications, and as a bioreactor. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437905 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/645 |
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| US 07541034 | Fitzgerald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Fitzgerald (Rockville, Maryland); Ira Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Elizabeth Mansfield (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert Kreitman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relating to recombinant anti-CD22 antibodies with high binding affinity, and immunoconjugates comprising the anti-CD22 antibody linked to a therapeutic agent such as a Pseudomonas exotoxin or a detectable label. The invention provides diagnostic methods, and means to inhibit the growth of malignant B cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/381497 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/183.100 |
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| US 07541035 | Berzofsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); SangKon Oh (Bethesda, Maryland); Ira Pastan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic T-cell receptor gamma Alternate Reading Frame Protein (TARP) polypeptides are disclosed herein. These immunogenic TARP polypeptides include nine consecutive amino acids of the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 9 and do not comprise amino acids 1-26 or amino acids 38-58 of SEQ ID NO: 1. Several specific, non-limiting examples of these polypeptides are set forth as SEQ ID NOs: 3-7. Nucleic acids encoding these polypeptides, and host cells transfected with these nucleic acids, are also disclosed. Methods of using these polypeptides, and polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, for the treatment of breast and prostate cancer are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559329 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07541040 | Puri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Serivces (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Technology Transfer (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raj K. Puri (Potomac, Maryland); Cory M. Hogaboam (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Claudia Jakubzick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Steven L. Kunkel (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides uses and methods for alleviating respiratory tract symptoms of allergy, asthma, and of viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections by shifting inappropriate TH2 responses to TH1 responses by administering IL-13 receptor-targeted immunotoxins to the respiratory tract. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/497804 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/236.100 |
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| US 07541043 | Kopecko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); De-Qi Xu (Columbia, Maryland); John O. Cisar (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for protecting a susceptable host against an infection of Shigella sonnei are disclosed. Such compositions and methods are useful for protecting the host against bacillary dysentery and shigellosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346706 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/258.100 |
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| US 07541139 | Moss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Linda Stevens (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Christelle Bourgeois (Bethesda, Maryland); Rita Bortell (Shirley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for producing a polypeptide with a modified activity or stability, by replacing an arginine residue capable of being ADP-ribosylated with a tryptophan or a phenylalanine. In one embodiment, compositions are provided that include polypeptides, such as alpha defensin, with arginine-to-tryptophan or arginine-to-phenylalanine substitutions, where the arginine residue is capable of being ADP-ribosylated. In another embodiment, methods are disclosed for modifying an immune response in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/517565 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07541141 | Mertz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet E. Mertz (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen D. Johnston (Wheaton, Illinois); Richard J. Kraus (McFarland, Wisconsin); Eric A. Ariazi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides that ERRα is a breast cancer biomarker of clinical course and treatment sensitivity and, itself, a target for breast cancer treatment. A high ERRα level in breast cancer indicates poor prognosis. Analyzing ERRα expression level along with the status of ERα and ErbB2 can help breast cancer patients make treatment choices. Furthermore, breast cancer can be treated by modulating ERRα activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/235079 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07541150 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald M. Miller (Louisville, Kentucky); Paula J. Bates (Louisville, Kentucky); John O. Trent (Louisville, Kentucky); Xiaohua Xu (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the diagnosis of cancer by determining the neoplastic status of a cell by probing the cell plasma membrane for the presence of nucleolin are provided, as are kits to carry out such tests. |
| FILED | Monday, April 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118854 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07541151 | Barak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence S. Barak (Durham, North Carolina); Michael A. Shetzline (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert H. Oakley (Durham, North Carolina); Marc G. Caron (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to the detection of GPCR ligands in a test sample by using a single cell biosensor expressing a GPCR. Preferably, the test sample is derived from a biological or environmental sample. This invention may be used to detect the presence of a disease or to detect the presence of a harmful agent in the environment. Included in the present invention is an array of biosensors that detect ligands of various GPCRs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/161916 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07541169 | Freimuth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Freimuth (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to thyroid disease or cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348099 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07541179 | Sadelain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michel Sadelain (New York, New York); Stefano Rivella (New York, New York); Chad May (New York, New York); Joseph Bertino (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant lentiviral vectors having a region encoding a functional β-globin gene; and large portions of the β-globin locus control regions which include DNase I hypersensitive sites HS2, HS3 and HS4 provides expression of β-globin when introduced into a mammal, for example a human, in vivo. Optionally, the vector further includes a region encoding a dihydrofolate reductase. The vector may be used in treatment of hemoglobinopathies, including β-thalessemia and sickle-cell disease. For example, hematopoietic progenitor or stem cells may be transformed ex vivo and then restored to the patient. Selection processes may be used to increase the percentage of transformed cells in the returned population. For example, a selection marker which makes transformed cells more drug resistant than un-transformed cells allows selection by treatment of the cells with the corresponding drug. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/188221 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07541182 | Mor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gil G. Mor (Cheshire, Connecticut); Donna Neale (New Haven, Connecticut); Roberto Romero (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying patients at risk of developing preeclampsia. In further embodiments, the present invention relates to methods for the diagnosis of patients with preeclampsia. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779360 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
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| US 07541186 | Reh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Reh (Seattle, Washington); Deepak Lamba (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for the in vitro differentiation of human retinal progenitor cells from embryonic stem cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361051 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07541188 | Conrad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Barth Conrad (Madison, Wisconsin); Cathy Ann-Rusmussen Ivarie (Marshall, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin substitutes, and in particular to improved methods for organotypic culture of skin substitutes. In some embodiments, the dermal equivalent of the skin substitute is lifted to air interface of the culture prior to seeding with keratinocytes. In other embodiments, increased concentrations of collagen are used to form the dermal equivalent. In still other embodiments, optimized media are utilized to maintain the skin equivalents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006014 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/404 |
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| US 07541340 | Szeto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Shaoyi Liu (Palisades Park, New Jersey); Sunghee Cho (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of reducing CD36 expression in a cell. The method comprises contacting the cell with an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide having at least one net positive charge; a minimum of four amino acids; a maximum of about twenty amino acids; a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (pm) and the total number of amino acid residues (r) wherein 3pm is the largest number that is less than or equal to r+1; and a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 2a is the largest number that is less than or equal to pt−1, except that when a is 1, pt may also be 1. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532764 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
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| US 07541342 | Lothstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard Lothstein (Eads, Tennessee); Mervyn Israel (Germantown, Tennessee); Trevor Sweatman (Memphis, Tennessee); Polly A. Hofmann (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds for the inducing apoptosis in cancer cells are described. The described compounds induce the translocation of protein kinase C-δ to the mitochondria and the phosphorylation of mitochondrial phospholipid scramblase 3. The compounds also provide cardioprotection through the translocation and activation of protein kinase C-ε in cardiomyocytes, thereby inhibiting apoptosis in carciomyocytes. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/369225 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
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| US 07541346 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of the Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective phosphorylation of phenpanstatin (3a) with tetrabutylammonium dihydrogen phosphate and dicyclohexylcarbodiimide in pyridine followed by cation exchange chromatographic procedures was found to provide an efficient route to a new series (3b-3d) of promising 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate prodrugs designated phenpanstatin phosphates. Application of analogous reaction conditions to pancratistatin (1a) led to a mixture of monophosphate derivatives where sodium pancratistatin 4-O-phosphate (4a) was isolated and the structure confirmed by x-ray crystallography. Modification of the reaction conditions allowed direct phosphorylation of pancratistatin followed by cation exchange chromatography to afford sodium pancratistatin 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate (5b) which was selected for preclinical development. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025525 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/89 |
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| US 07541364 | Ananthan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subramaniam Ananthan (Birmingham, Alabama); Richard B. Rothman (Baltimore, Maryland); Edward J. Bilsky (Biddeford, Maine); Frank Porreca (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds represented by the formula: wherein R is C1-6 alkyl; C4-6 cycloalkylalkyl; or C3-6 alkenyl; R′ is H or C1-6 alkyl; X is H or OH; Y is alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, arylalkyl or aroyl; and Z is CH or N; provided that X is H, when Z is CH and R is C4 cycloalkylalkyl or C4 alkenyl; prodrugs thereof; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided. Compounds of the above formula are useful as analgesics for treating pain; as immunomodulators, to modulate the behavioral effects of drugs of abuse and to modulate the development of tolerance and dependence to μ agonists. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/718565 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/279 |
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| US 07541381 | Shoichet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Shoichet (San Francisco, California); Rachael A. Powers (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | β-lactamases are the most widespread resistance mechanism to β-lactam antibiotics, such as penicillins and cephalosporins. In response to these enzymes, inhibitors have been introduced. Unfortunately, these inhibitors are also β-lactams, and resistance to them has developed rapidly. Consequently, the present invention provides a novel structure-based approach to inhibitors of these enzymes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368790 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/438 |
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| US 07541429 | Hildebrand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Hildebrand (Edmond, Oklahoma); Heather D. Hickman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to a methodology for the isolation, purification and identification of peptide ligands presented by MHC positive cells. In particular, the methodology of the present invention relates to the isolation, purification and identification of these peptide ligands from soluble class I and class II MHC molecules which may be uninfected, infected, or tumorgenic. The methodology of the present invention broadly allows for these peptide ligands and their comcomittant source proteins thereof to be identified and used as markers for infected versus uninfected cells and/or tumorgenic versus nontumorgenic cells with said identification being useful for marking or targeting a cell for therapeutic treatment or priming the immune response against infected cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/974366 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/327 |
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| US 07541433 | Matz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Vladimirovitch Matz (Palm Coast, Florida); Ilya Vladimirovitch Kelmanson (Moscow, Russian Federation); Ella A. Meleshkevitch (Palm Coast, Florida); Anya Salih (Sydney, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides new fluorescent and/or colored proteins, and polynucleotide sequences that encode these proteins. The subject invention further provides materials and methods useful for expressing these detectable proteins in biological systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/637340 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07541437 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas D. Ross (Columbia, Maryland); L. Austin Doyle (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lynne V. Abruzzo (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Breast Cancer Resistance Protein is described, as well as the cDNA encoding said protein. This protein has been found to confer resistance to cancer chemotherapeutic drugs. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/961086 |
| 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 |
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| US 07541450 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Allen R. Buskirk (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Ligand-dependent inteins allow for modulation of a protein's activity in vivo. Upon binding of the ligand to the ligand-dependent intein inserted into the protein of interest, the hybrid protein undergoes protein splicing removing the intein. The activity of the spliced protein is then restored. A 4-hydroxytamoxifen-dependent intein based on the M. tuberculosis RecA intein is prepared and demonstrated in a variety of exteins contexts. The invention provides a system for engineering other ligand-dependent inteins and using them, including the ligand-dependent inteins themselves, hybrid proteins with the inserted ligand-dependent inteins, polynucleotides encoding inteins and hybrid proteins, and engineered cells. Kits with the materials and reagents necessary for preparing and using ligand-dependent inteins are also included. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688073 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07542546 | Thorne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Thorne (Ithaca, New York); Zachary Stum (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin O'Neill (Rotterdam, Netherlands); Jan Kmetko (Sunbury, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample mounts (10) for mounting microcrystals of biological macromolecules for X-ray crystallography are prepared by using patterned thin polyimide films (12) that have curvature imparted thereto, for example, by being attached to a curved outer surface of a small metal rod (16). The patterned film (12) preferably includes a tip end (24) for holding a crystal. Preferably, a small sample aperture is disposed in the film for reception of the crystal. A second, larger aperture can also be provided that is connected to the sample aperture by a drainage channel, allowing removal of excess liquid and easier manipulation in viscous solutions. The curvature imparted to the film (12) increases the film's rigidity and allows a convenient scoop-like action for retrieving crystals. The polyimide contributes minimally to background and absorption, and can be treated to obtain desired hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/892812 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/79 |
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| US 07540083 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Morris (Phoenix, Arizona); Jason C. Smoke (Phoenix, Arizona); William J. Weidner (Mesa, Arizona); Craig A. Wilson (Mesa, Arizona); Edward J. Mayer (Hamilton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for modifying an airfoil internal cooling circuit that include a flow path configured to direct air through the airfoil in a direction and the airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a first and a second wall therebetween, each wall having an inner and an outer surface, the inner surfaces defining a cavity and having features forming at least a portion of the internal cooling circuit. The methods may include the steps of forming a pilot hole through the airfoil first and second walls at a predetermined location, forming an insert hole based on the predetermined location, the insert hole enveloping the pilot hole and configured to receive at least a portion of an insert configured to modify the internal cooling circuit flow path, placing the insert into the insert hole, and bonding the insert to the airfoil first and second walls. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/238528 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.720 |
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| US 07540197 | Wavering et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Wavering (Crozet, Virginia); Fritz J. Friedersdorf (Earlysville, Virginia); Nathan K. Brown (Palmyra, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors, methods and systems detect physical effects (e.g., corrosion, erosion, scaling and/or oxidation) of a fluid in contact with a diaphragm associated with a sensor assembly. The diaphragm preferably exhibits a first mechanical response when initially placed into contact with a fluid and a second mechanical response different from the first mechanical response after exposure to the fluid for a predetermined period of time. A change in the diaphragm mechanical responses between at least the first and second mechanical responses is therefore indicative of physical effects on the diaphragm over time caused by the fluid in contact therewith. A mechanical response sensor is operatively associated with the diaphragm so as to measure the change in the diaphragm mechanical responses and thereby determine the physical effects over time of the fluid in contact with the diaphragm. In some embodiments, the diaphragm is actuated due to a pressure condition exerted by the fluid or in other embodiments the diaphragm is internally actuated. Internal actuation includes pneumatic, hydraulic or piezoelectric means for producing a mechanical response of the diaphragm. In one embodiment, therefore, fluid corrosivity may be sensed by bringing a sensor assembly having a pressure-actuated diaphragm into contact with a corrosive fluid, exerting a pressure condition on the diaphragm so as to cause the mechanical response of the diaphragm, measuring the diaphragm deflection or strain, and then deriving fluid corrosivity from the measured diaphragm mechanical response. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/987411 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07540656 | Stochl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sierra Lobo, Inc. (Fremont, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Stochl (Middleburg Heights, Ohio); Matthew E. Moran (Friendswood, Texas); Alexander J. Yeckley (Castalia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for measuring insulation thermal performance is provided, particularly between ambient and cryogenic temperatures. A warm-temperature boundary has a continuous sample contact surface that is divided into a metered central zone and a boundary guard zone. Each zone is independently heated, and the power necessary to maintain the central zone at constant temperature is directly equated to heat flux through the insulation at the temperature boundary conditions. Methods for measuring insulation thermal performance are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627783 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07540955 | Hatch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pentair Filtration, Inc. (Sheboygan, Wisconsin); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Hatch (Sheboygan, Wisconsin); Michael D. Steinhardt (Kiel, Wisconsin); Michael J. Kurth (Howards Grove, Wisconsin); Marc A. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge for a water treatment system, effective to assist in the removal of contaminants by photocatalytic oxidation and by adsorption, includes a plurality of stacked disks, preferably made of a UV light transmissive material, which disks define circuitous flow paths for water being treated. In a preferred embodiment, the disk surfaces contacted by the water are provided with a coating of a catalyst, such as TiO2, activated by a UV light source positioned in the center of the cartridge. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400568 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541062 | Sheehan 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) | Paul E. Sheehan (Springfield, Virginia); Lloyd J. Whitman (Alexandria, Virginia); William P. King (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes an apparatus for nanolithography and a process for thermally controlling the deposition of a solid organic “ink” from the tip of an atomic force microscope to a substrate. The invention may be used to turn deposition of the ink to the substrate on or off by either raising its temperature above or lowing its temperature below the ink's melting temperature. This process may be useful as it allows ink deposition to be turned on and off and the deposition rate to change without the tip breaking contact with the substrate. The same tip can then be used for imaging purposes without fear of contamination. This invention can allow ink to be deposited in a vacuum enclosure, and can also allow for greater spatial resolution as the inks used have lower surface mobilities once cooled than those used in other nanolithography methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956596 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541078 | Arritt 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) | Brandon J. Arritt (Centerville, Ohio); Christopher Paul (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure has an inner, load bearing member and a surrounding, concentric over-wrap. The inner member is composed of a carbon composite and the over-wrap is composed of a non-carbon composite. The inner member has a negative coefficient of thermal expansion and the over-wrap has a positive coefficient of thermal expansion that is an order of magnitude greater than that of the inner member. When subjected to cryogenic temperatures, the over-wrap will shrink and apply a compressive force against the inner member, to resist the creation of microcracks in the inner member. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841329 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/36.910 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541083 | Grose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas L. Grose (Auburn, Washington); Steven P. Wanthal (St Charles, Missouri); Joseph L. Sweetin (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Christopher B. Mathiesen (St Charles, Missouri); Randy A. Southmayd (Florissant, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A product including a first structure. A joint element is attached to the first structure. The joint element has a base and at least two legs extending from the base, the legs defining a slot having opposing sides and a bottom. A second structure is positioned in the slot. An adhesive is disposed in the slot joining the second structure to the joint element. A cavity is formed between the bottom of the slot and the second structure. The cavity being substantially free of adhesive. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/126649 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541141 | Mertz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janet E. Mertz (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen D. Johnston (Wheaton, Illinois); Richard J. Kraus (McFarland, Wisconsin); Eric A. Ariazi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides that ERRα is a breast cancer biomarker of clinical course and treatment sensitivity and, itself, a target for breast cancer treatment. A high ERRα level in breast cancer indicates poor prognosis. Analyzing ERRα expression level along with the status of ERα and ErbB2 can help breast cancer patients make treatment choices. Furthermore, breast cancer can be treated by modulating ERRα activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/235079 |
| 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 07541150 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald M. Miller (Louisville, Kentucky); Paula J. Bates (Louisville, Kentucky); John O. Trent (Louisville, Kentucky); Xiaohua Xu (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the diagnosis of cancer by determining the neoplastic status of a cell by probing the cell plasma membrane for the presence of nucleolin are provided, as are kits to carry out such tests. |
| FILED | Monday, April 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118854 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 07541261 | Alford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Alford (Phoenix, Arizona); Douglas C. Thompson, Jr. (Chandler, Arizona); Hyunchul Kim (Chandler, Arizona); Michael A. Nastasi (Santa Fe, New Mexico); James W. Mayer (Phoenix, Arizona); Daniel Adams (Durbanville, South Africa) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic apparatus uses a single crystalline silicon substrate disposed adjacent to a flexible substrate. The electronic apparatus may be a flexible flat panel display, or a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible substrate can be made from polymer, plastic, paper, flexible glass, and stainless steel. The flexible substrate is bonded to the single crystalline substrate using an ion implantation process. The ion implantation process involves the use of a noble gas such as hydrogen, helium, xenon, and krypton. A plurality of semiconductor devices are formed on the single crystalline silicon substrate. The semiconductor devices may be thin film transistors for the flat panel display, or active and passive components for the electronic device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/579051 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541611 | O'Neill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. O'Neill (Mountain View, California); Robert J. Bosnyak (Tacoma, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is described, including a first diffusion region having a first terminal, a second diffusion region having a second terminal, and a channel region disposed between the first diffusion region and the second diffusion region. Further, the first terminal and the second terminal are offset to enable a non-Manhattan current flow. A system is also described, including the previously described device and a second transistor. The pathway for the flow of the majority of the current carriers in the device defines a first direction. The second transistor also has at least two terminals, and a pathway for a majority of current carriers between the two terminals defines a second direction. The angle between the first direction and the second direction is nonzero and acute. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339003 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541624 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Kai Chen (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Rose Fasano Kopf (Green Brook, New Jersey); Wei-Jer Sung (Hsinchu, Taiwan); Nils Guenter Weimann (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a bipolar transistor includes forming collector, base, and emitter semiconductor layers on a substrate such that the layers form a vertical sequence with respect to an adjacent surface of the substrate. The method includes etching away a portion of a top one of the semiconductor layers to expose a portion of the base semiconductor layer and then, growing semiconductor on the exposed portion of the base layer. The top one of the semiconductor layers is the layer of the sequence that is located farthest from the substrate. The growing causes grown semiconductor to laterally surround a vertical portion of the top one of the semiconductor layers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/624038 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541822 | Uher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aehr Test Systems (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Otto Uher (Los Altos, California); John William Andberg (Santa Cruz, California); Mark Charles Carbone (Mountain View, California); Donald Paul Richmond, II (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position. This provides a positive clamping force that pulls the chuck and probe plates together when the mechanical connecting device is engaged. To load a wafer into the cartridge, the wafer is placed on the chuck plate, the probe plate is aligned with the wafer, and the chuck plate and the probe plate are locked together. The cartridge can then be removed from the alignment device and placed in a burn-in or test chamber that does not itself require means for aligning the wafer or for providing a probe actuation force. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276314 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541995 | Murphy, Jr. |
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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) | John J. Murphy, Jr. (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various methods and systems directed to electromagnetic signal proximity detection are disclosed. For example, an EM detector may include an antenna array for sensing electromagnetic radiation produced by a source of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation, one or more amplitude demodulation circuits coupled to the antenna array configured to perform an amplitude demodulation of one or more signals provided by the antenna array to produce one or more respective demodulated output signals, and an analysis circuit coupled to the amplitude demodulation circuit configured to determine at least one relative characteristic between the antenna array and the source of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation. The relative characteristic may be the relative distance and/or angle between the antenna array and the source of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation. The embodiments allow for signal source detection and location determination without knowledge of the frequency of a target emitter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860734 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542040 | Templeman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N. Templeman (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for interfacing 3D movements of a user to control the locomotion of an avatar in a virtual environment includes a position tracker for tracking the position of a user's feet, with the foot motions including swinging and stroking; a computer programmed for (i) computing a direction and extent of motion of a reference in the virtual environment based on the foot positions and (ii) providing an avatar corresponding to the computed direction and extent of motion; and a display for displaying the avatar in the virtual environment. The apparatus accordingly uses the gestural motion of the user's feet while seated to simulate natural human locomotion. The gestural motions of stroking and swinging include translational and rotating movements, and are chosen to correspond to the actions of the feet and legs during natural human locomotion, providing natural control of virtual locomotion. The apparatus is also designed for controlling the locomotion of a remote vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203588 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542090 | Merchant |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerodyne Research, Inc. (Billercia, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Merchant (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a system and method for balanced-demodulation procedures that remove image clutter even in the presence of scene motion. A system that employs balanced demodulation moves a chopping reticle located in the intermediate focal plane where front end optics focus a high-resolution image. The chopping reticle has a checkerboard pattern of clear and opaque cells and moves in an uneven rate (e.g. Δx≠Δy) along the x-axis and y-axis. The resulting image is projected on a focal plane array from which differences are calculated to generate the desired balanced demodulation value. This invention further provides a foveal enhancement of the baseline spatial-modulation staring sensor. In this enhancement the WFOV low-resolution conventional image is displayed to the operator, but with a selectable subarea of that image replaced by a conventionally generated high-resolution image at the same scale. The operator would be able to naturally select the region for foveal enhancement by simply pointing directly at the detail of special interest which would then be displayed to the user at high-resolution. The remainder of the scene would be displayed at low-resolution, typically with marks at the locations of point sources detected by the spatial modulation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/806349 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542426 | Connors et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Connors (Mariposa, California); Iordanis Koutsopoulos (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadcast routing protocol and system for the efficient dissemination of control information in ad-hoc networks is disclosed. First, cost is assigned for each link and/or node in the network. In some aspects, cost is assigned using minimum inverse degree (MID-) or combined (C-) cost. Next, a graph-theoretic entity is computed at each node. In some aspects, this entity is Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) or Modified Minimum Weighted Node Cover. Finally, an appropriate packet forwarding protocol is used to forward control information. The present invention exhibits improved bandwidth consumption versus flooding and is robust in several node mobility scenarios. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090639 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542437 | Redi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); William Dugald Watson, Jr. (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Vladimir Alexandrov Shurbanov (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications network (100) includes a first node (110) and a group of neighboring nodes (110). The first node (110) includes at least one transceiver (340). The first node (110) may observe one or more conditions in at least one of the communications network (100) and the first node (110) and select a sleep mode of a group of sleep modes based on the observed one or more conditions. Each sleep mode of the group of sleep modes may be associated with a different procedure. The first node (110) may power down the at least one transceiver (340) according to the procedure associated with the selected sleep mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677945 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542493 | Jewell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JDS Uniphase Corporation (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Jewell (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel approach for providing temperature compensation for semiconductor lasers is disclosed. This approach utilizes reflectivity characteristics in the at least one of the mirrors of the semiconductor laser to provide temperature compensation to the device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046735 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542812 | Stroili et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank D. Stroili (Hollis, New Hampshire); James M. Huggett (Brookline, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increased dynamic range and with a two-order-of-magnitude decrease in size and weight. Moreover, because of the elimination of all of the I/O drivers and attendant circuitry, power consumption is reduced by two-thirds, whereas the mean time before failure is increased to 10,000 hours due to the robustness of the monolithic integrated circuit and use of fiber optics. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/543343 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542871 | Rempt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond D. Rempt (Woodinville, Washington); Daniel J. Wright (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand held non-destructive testing device has a frame which supports an NDI sensor and incorporates means for translation across a surface to be inspected with position registration and resilient means for maintaining the sensor and the translation means in intimate contact with the surface. An ergonomic handle is mounted to the frame for manually controlled translation of the frame incorporates a plurality of control means for control of the sensor in scanning of the surface under inspection. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163785 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542884 | Boris 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) | Jay P Boris (Falls Church, Virginia); Keith S Obenschain (Burke, Virginia); Gopal Patnaik (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Networked groups of sensors that detect Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) threats are being developed to defend cities and military bases. Due to the high cost and maintenance of these sensors, the number of sensors deployed is limited. It is vital for the sensors to be deployed in optimal locations for these sensors to be effectively used to analyze the scope of the threat. A genetic algorithm, along with instantaneous plume prediction capabilities meets these goals. An analyzer's time dependant plumes, upwind danger zone, and sensor capabilities are used to determine the fitness of sensor networks generated by the genetic algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279452 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Deere and Comapny (Moline, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Edward Winsor (Waterloo, Iowa); Scott Allen Chase (Cedar Falls, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system including a stoichiometric compression ignition engine in which a roots blower is positioned in the air intake for the engine to control air flow. Air flow is decreased during part power conditions to maintain the air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber of the engine at stoichiometric, thus enabling the use of inexpensive three-way catalyst to reduce oxides of nitrogen. The roots blower is connected to a motor generator so that when air flow is reduced, electrical energy is stored which is made available either to the roots blower to temporarily increase air flow or to the system electrical load and thus recapture energy that would otherwise be lost in reducing air flow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748861 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/679 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07540324 | de Rouffignac et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Pierre de Rouffignac (Rijswijk, Netherlands); Monica M. Pingo-Almada (Rijswijk, Netherlands); David Scott Miller (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation are described herein. Methods may include providing heat to two or more first sections of the formation with one or more first heaters in two or more of the first sections. The provided heat may mobilize first hydrocarbons in two or more of the first sections. At least some of the mobilized first hydrocarbons are produced through production wells located in two or more second sections of the formation. The first sections and the second sections are arranged in a checkerboard pattern. A portion of at least one of the second sections proximate at least one production well is provided some heat from the mobilized first hydrocarbons, but is not conductively heated by heat from the first heaters. Heat may be provided to the second sections with one or more second heaters in the second sections to further heat the second sections. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975691 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07540469 | Okandan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (NE Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) flow control apparatus is disclosed which includes a fluid channel formed on a substrate from a first layer of a nonconducting material (e.g. silicon nitride). A first electrode is provided on the first layer of the nonconducting material outside the flow channel; and a second electrode is located on a second layer of the nonconducting material above the first layer. A voltage applied between the first and second electrodes deforms the fluid channel to increase its cross-sectional size and thereby increase a flow of a fluid through the channel. In certain embodiments of the present invention, the fluid flow can be decreased or stopped by applying a voltage between the first electrode and the substrate. A peristaltic pumping of the fluid through the channel is also possible when the voltage is applied in turn between a plurality of first electrodes and the substrate. A MEM flow control assembly can also be formed by providing one or more MEM flow control devices on a common substrate together with a submicron filter. The MEM flow control assembly can optionally include a plurality of pressure sensors for monitoring fluid pressure and determining flow rates through the assembly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/043588 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.10 |
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| US 07540475 | Stenkamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victoria S. Stenkamp (Richland, Washington); Ward E. TeGrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Robert S. Wegeng (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Advanced wicking structures and methods utilizing these structures are described. The use of advanced wicking structures can promote rapid mass transfer while maintaining high capillary pressure through the use of small pores. Particularly improved results in fluid contacting processes can be achieved by enhanced mixing within a wicking layer within a microchannel. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229349 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas and liquid contact apparatus 261/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07540502 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Moore (Norfolk, Virginia); Charles Edwin Reece (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A metallic seal or gasket for use in the joining of cryogenic fluid conduits, the seal or gasket having a generally planar and serpentine periphery defining a central aperture. According to a preferred embodiment, the periphery has at least two opposing elongated serpentine sides and two opposing arcuate ends joining the opposing elongated serpentine sides and is of a hexagonal cross-section. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366237 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/608 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541005 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand A. Kulkarni (Orlando, Florida); Christian X. Campbell (Orlando, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst element (30) for high temperature applications such as a gas turbine engine. The catalyst element includes a metal substrate such as a tube (32) having a layer of ceramic thermal barrier coating material (34) disposed on the substrate for thermally insulating the metal substrate from a high temperature fuel/air mixture. The ceramic thermal barrier coating material is formed of a crystal structure populated with base elements but with selected sites of the crystal structure being populated by substitute ions selected to allow the ceramic thermal barrier coating material to catalytically react the fuel-air mixture at a higher rate than would the base compound without the ionic substitutions. Precious metal crystallites may be disposed within the crystal structure to allow the ceramic thermal barrier coating material to catalytically react the fuel-air mixture at a lower light-off temperature than would the ceramic thermal barrier coating material without the precious metal crystallites. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244739 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541010 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Worn Park (Peoria, Illinois); Virgil Raymond Hester (Edelstein, Illinois); Christie Susan Ragle (Havana, Illinois); Carrie L. Boyer (Shiloh, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an exhaust treatment element includes washcoating a substrate with a slurry that includes a catalyst support material. At least some of the catalyst support material from the slurry may be transferred to the substrate, and silver metal (Ag) is dispersed within the catalyst support material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739324 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/213.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541196 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer S. Martinez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Basil I. Swanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John E. Shively (Arcadia, California); Lin Li (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay element is described including recognition ligands adapted for binding to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) bound to a film on a single mode planar optical waveguide, the film from the group of a membrane, a polymerized bilayer membrane, and a self-assembled monolayer containing polyethylene glycol or polypropylene glycol groups therein and an assay process for detecting the presence of CEA is described including injecting a possible CEA-containing sample into a sensor cell including the assay element, maintaining the sample within the sensor cell for time sufficient for binding to occur between CEA present within the sample and the recognition ligands, injecting a solution including a reporter ligand into the sensor cell; and, interrogating the sample within the sensor cell with excitation light from the waveguide, the excitation light provided by an evanescent field of the single mode penetrating into the biological target-containing sample to a distance of less than about 200 nanometers from the waveguide thereby exciting any bound reporter ligand within a distance of less than about 200 nanometers from the waveguide and resulting in a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172244 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541197 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer S. Martinez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Basil I. Swanson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Karen M. Grace (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Wynne K. Grace (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrew P. Shreve (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay element is described including recognition ligands bound to a film on a single mode planar optical waveguide, the film from the group of a membrane, a polymerized bilayer membrane, and a self-assembled monolayer containing polyethylene glycol or polypropylene glycol groups therein and an assay process for detecting the presence of a biological target is described including injecting a biological target-containing sample into a sensor cell including the assay element, with the recognition ligands adapted for binding to selected biological targets, maintaining the sample within the sensor cell for time sufficient for binding to occur between selected biological targets within the sample and the recognition ligands, injecting a solution including a reporter ligand into the sensor cell; and, interrogating the sample within the sensor cell with excitation light from the waveguide, the excitation light provided by an evanescent field of the single mode penetrating into the biological target-containing sample to a distance of less than about 200 nanometers from the waveguide thereby exciting the fluorescent-label in any bound reporter ligand within a distance of less than about 200 nanometers from the waveguide and resulting in a detectable signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172246 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541576 | Belov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Istitute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail E. Belov (Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing analytes from a sample introduced into a Spectrometer by generating a pseudo random sequence of a modulation bins, organizing each modulation bin as a series of submodulation bins, thereby forming an extended pseudo random sequence of submodulation bins, releasing the analytes in a series of analyte packets into a Spectrometer, thereby generating an unknown original ion signal vector, detecting the analytes at a detector, and characterizing the sample using the plurality of analyte signal subvectors. The method is advantageously applied to an Ion Mobility Spectrometer, and an Ion Mobility Spectrometer interfaced with a Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701752 |
| ART UNIT | 4136 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541687 | Stahlhut et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Deere and Company (Moline, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronnie Dean Stahlhut (Bettendorf, Iowa); Carl Thomas Vuk (Denver, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method manages an electrical output of a turbogenerator in accordance with multiple modes. In a first mode, a direct current (DC) bus receives power from a turbogenerator output via a rectifier where turbogenerator revolutions per unit time (e.g., revolutions per minute (RPM)) or an electrical output level of a turbogenerator output meet or exceed a minimum threshold. In a second mode, if the turbogenerator revolutions per unit time or electrical output level of a turbogenerator output are less than the minimum threshold, the electric drive motor or a generator mechanically powered by the engine provides electrical energy to the direct current bus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521242 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542624 | Koch |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Koch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | One approach to pattern recognition is to use a template from a database of objects and match it to a probe image containing the unknown. Accordingly, the Hausdorff distance can be used to measure the similarity of two sets of points. In particular, the Hausdorff can measure the goodness of a match in the presence of occlusion, clutter, and noise. However, existing 3D algorithms for calculating the Hausdorff are computationally intensive, making them impractical for pattern recognition that requires scanning of large databases. The present invention is directed to a new method that can efficiently, in time and memory, compute the Hausdorff for 3D range imagery. The method uses a window-based approach. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/238609 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry L. Alford (Phoenix, Arizona); Douglas C. Thompson, Jr. (Chandler, Arizona); Hyunchul Kim (Chandler, Arizona); Michael A. Nastasi (Santa Fe, New Mexico); James W. Mayer (Phoenix, Arizona); Daniel Adams (Durbanville, South Africa) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic apparatus uses a single crystalline silicon substrate disposed adjacent to a flexible substrate. The electronic apparatus may be a flexible flat panel display, or a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible substrate can be made from polymer, plastic, paper, flexible glass, and stainless steel. The flexible substrate is bonded to the single crystalline substrate using an ion implantation process. The ion implantation process involves the use of a noble gas such as hydrogen, helium, xenon, and krypton. A plurality of semiconductor devices are formed on the single crystalline silicon substrate. The semiconductor devices may be thin film transistors for the flat panel display, or active and passive components for the electronic device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/579051 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541312 | Dietz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Dietz (Denver, Colorado); Dean Recla (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous carbon characterized by a volumetric pore size distribution having two peaks, a first of said peaks being between 0.5 and 1.0 nm and a second of said peaks being between 1.0 and 5.0 nm. The porous carbon may have a volumetric capacitance in an organic electrolyte of at least 40 F/cm3, an average pore diameter between about 2 nm and about 30 nm, a surface area of at least 900 m2/g, and/or a density of at least 0.4 g/cm3. A method for making such a carbon includes a) curing a mixture comprising a carbohydrate, a dehydrating component, and a nonmetallic cationic pore-forming agent and b) carbonizing the cured carbon under conditions effective to provide a porous carbon having a surface area between about 100 m2/g and about 3000 m2/g. The the dehydrating component and nonmetallic cationic component may comprise two moieties of one compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955376 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541412 | Sita |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence R. Sita (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of producing a polyolefin composition comprising contacting a metallocene pre-catalyst with a substoichiometric amount of a co-catalyst; adding a first olefin monomer; and polymerizing the first monomer for a time sufficient to form the polyolefin. The method allows for the use of a minimum amount of activating co-catalyst, and allows for the production of stereoregular and non-stereoregular polyolefins. The use of configurationally stable metallocene pre-catalysts allows for the production of monomodal isotactic polyolefins having narrow polydispersity. The use of configurationally unstable metallocene pre-catalysts allows for the production of monomodal atactic polyolefins having narrow polydispersity. The method of the present invention optionally further comprises contacting the polyolefin with a second amount of said co-catalyst; adding a second olefin monomer; polymerizing said second olefin monomer to form a block-polyolefin composition. Also disclosed are monomodal diblock copolymer compositions made according to the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/698975 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/169.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541462 | Verkade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Verkade (Ames, Iowa); Sameer Urgaonkar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); JuHua Xu (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compounds are provided for the formation of carbon-nitrogen or carbon-carbon bonds comprising reacting an amine or an aryl boronic acid with an aryl halide in the presence of a palladium catalyst, a base, and a compound of formula II: |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019485 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541509 | Sigmund et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang M. Sigmund (Gainesville, Florida); Sung-Hwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Benjamin Koopman (Gainesville, Florida); Brij Moudgil (Gainesville, Florida); Georgios Pyrgiotakis (Gainesville, Florida); Vijay Krishna (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A photocatalyst nanocomposite which can be used to destroying biological agents includes a carbon nanotube core, and a photocatalyst coating layer covalently or ionically bound to a surface of the nanotube core. The coating layer has a nanoscale thickness. A method of forming photocatalytic nanocomposites includes the steps of providing a plurality of dispersed carbon nanotubes, chemically oxidizing the nanotubes under conditions to produce surface functionalized nanotubes to provide C and O including groups thereon which form ionic or covalent bonds to metal oxides, and processing a metal oxide photocatalyst sol-gel precursor in the presence of the nanotubes, wherein a nanoscale metal oxide photocatalyst layer becomes covalently or ionically bound to the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216303 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542604 | Grady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Grady (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Tolga Tasdizen (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ross Whitaker (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of segmenting a digitized image includes marking a subset of pixels in an image, defining edge conductances between each pair of adjacent pixels in the image based on the intensity difference of each said pixel pair, associating a probability potential with each unmarked pixel, and using a multigrid method to solve for the probability potentials for each unmarked pixel, wherein a restriction operator from the image grid to a coarse grid is calculated from a conductance-weighted average of the conductances on the image grid, the coarse grid conductances are calculated from the image grid conductances using a Δ-Y conversion, and the multigrid prolongation operator is calculated using a conductance-weighted interpolation of the coarse grid conductances. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205729 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542958 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XSB, Inc. (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Warren (Stony Brook, New York); Terrance L. Swift (Great Falls, Virginia); Tatyana Vidrevich (Port Jefferson, New Jersey); Iv Ramakrishnan (Setauket, New York); L. Robert Pokorny (Calverton, New York); Alex Beggs (Setauket, New York); Christopher Rued (East Setauket, New York); Michael Epstein (East Northport, New York); Harpreet Singh (Elmont, New York); Hasan Davulcu (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods and software tools for acquiring data from diverse sources, and structuring the data in a form that may be used to determine object equivalence. Practice of the invention includes one or more of the following tools: a data acquisition web agent creator, a web agent created by the web agent creator, an agent manager for deploying said web agent, and ontology-directed classifier, an ontology-directed extractor, and an ontology-directed matcher. The tools are example driven through a graphical user interface. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660305 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07540143 | Greene |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Greene (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The proposed technology is a rocket engine cycle utilizing as the propulsive fluid a low molecular weight, cryogenic fluid, typically liquid hydrogen, pressure driven, heated, and expelled through a nozzle to generate high velocity and high specific impulse discharge gas. The proposed technology feeds the propellant through the engine cycle without the use of a separate pressurization fluid and without the use of turbomachinery. Advantages of the proposed technology are found in those elements of state-of-the-art systems that it avoids. It does not require a separate pressurization fluid or a thick-walled primary propellant tank as is typically required for a classical pressure-fed system. Further, it does not require the acceptance of intrinsic reliability risks associated with the use of turbomachinery. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172665 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/203.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541159 | Atassi 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) | M. Zouhair Atassi (Houston, Texas); Dennis R. Morrison (Kemah, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies have been developed against the different molecular forms of urokinase using synthetic peptides as immunogens. The peptides were synthesized specifically to represent those regions of the urokinase molecules which are exposed in the three-dimensional configuration of the molecule and are uniquely homologous to urokinase. Antibodies are directed against the lysine 158-isoleucine 159 peptide bond which is cleaved during activation from the single-chain (ScuPA) form to the bioactive double chain (54 KDa and 33 KDa) forms of urokinase and against the lysine 135 lysine 136 bond that is cleaved in the process of removing the alpha-chain from the 54 KDa form to produce the 33 KDa form of urokinase. These antibodies enable the direct measurement of the different molecular forms of urokinase from small samples of conditioned medium harvested from cell cultures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828531 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07541388 | Vazquez 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) | Juan M. Vazquez (Miami, Florida); Roberto J. Cano (Yorktown, Virginia); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia); Erik S. Weiser (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fully imidized, solvent-free polyimide foam having excellent mechanical, acoustic, thermal, and flame resistant properties is produced. A first solution is provided, which includes one or more aromatic dianhydrides or derivatives of aromatic dianhydrides, and may include one or more aromatic diamines, dissolved in one or more polar solvents, along with an effective amount of one or more blowing agents. This first solution may also advantageously include effective amounts respectively of one or mores catalysts, one or more surfactants, and one or more fire retardants. A second solution is also provided which includes one or more isocyanates. The first and second solutions are rapidly and thoroughly mixed to produce an admixture, which is allowed to foam—in an open container, or in a closed mold—under ambient conditions to completion produce a foamed product. This foamed product is then cured by high frequency electromagnetic radiation, thermal energy, or a combination thereof. Alternatively, the process is adapted for spraying or extrusion. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124640 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542546 | Thorne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Thorne (Ithaca, New York); Zachary Stum (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin O'Neill (Rotterdam, Netherlands); Jan Kmetko (Sunbury, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample mounts (10) for mounting microcrystals of biological macromolecules for X-ray crystallography are prepared by using patterned thin polyimide films (12) that have curvature imparted thereto, for example, by being attached to a curved outer surface of a small metal rod (16). The patterned film (12) preferably includes a tip end (24) for holding a crystal. Preferably, a small sample aperture is disposed in the film for reception of the crystal. A second, larger aperture can also be provided that is connected to the sample aperture by a drainage channel, allowing removal of excess liquid and easier manipulation in viscous solutions. The curvature imparted to the film (12) increases the film's rigidity and allows a convenient scoop-like action for retrieving crystals. The polyimide contributes minimally to background and absorption, and can be treated to obtain desired hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/892812 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542885 | Majumdar |
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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) | Alok K. Majumdar (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for analyzing steady state and transient flow in a complex fluid network, modeling phase changes, compressibility, mixture thermodynamics, external body forces such as gravity and centrifugal force and conjugate heat transfer. In some embodiments, a graphical user interface provides for the interactive development of a fluid network simulation having nodes and branches. In some embodiments, mass, energy, and specific conservation equations are solved at the nodes, and momentum conservation equations are solved in the branches. In some embodiments, contained herein are data objects for computing thermodynamic and thermophysical properties for fluids. In some embodiments, the systems of equations describing the fluid network are solved by a hybrid numerical method that is a combination of the Newton-Raphson and successive substitution methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/326676 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07543274 | Hinchey 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) | Michael Gerard Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); James Larry Rash (Davidsonville, Maryland); Christopher A. Rouff (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for deriving a process-based specification for a system is disclosed. The process-based specification is mathematically inferred from a trace-based specification. The trace-based specification is derived from a non-empty set of traces or natural language scenarios. The process-based specification is mathematically equivalent to the trace-based specification. Code is generated, if applicable, from the process-based specification. A process, or phases of a process, using the features disclosed can be reversed and repeated to allow for an interactive development and modification of legacy systems. The process is applicable to any class of system, including, but not limited to, biological and physical systems, electrical and electro-mechanical systems in addition to software, hardware and hybrid hardware-software systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789028 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07541188 | Conrad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Barth Conrad (Madison, Wisconsin); Cathy Ann-Rusmussen Ivarie (Marshall, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin substitutes, and in particular to improved methods for organotypic culture of skin substitutes. In some embodiments, the dermal equivalent of the skin substitute is lifted to air interface of the culture prior to seeding with keratinocytes. In other embodiments, increased concentrations of collagen are used to form the dermal equivalent. In still other embodiments, optimized media are utilized to maintain the skin equivalents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006014 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542958 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XSB, Inc. (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Warren (Stony Brook, New York); Terrance L. Swift (Great Falls, Virginia); Tatyana Vidrevich (Port Jefferson, New Jersey); Iv Ramakrishnan (Setauket, New York); L. Robert Pokorny (Calverton, New York); Alex Beggs (Setauket, New York); Christopher Rued (East Setauket, New York); Michael Epstein (East Northport, New York); Harpreet Singh (Elmont, New York); Hasan Davulcu (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods and software tools for acquiring data from diverse sources, and structuring the data in a form that may be used to determine object equivalence. Practice of the invention includes one or more of the following tools: a data acquisition web agent creator, a web agent created by the web agent creator, an agent manager for deploying said web agent, and ontology-directed classifier, an ontology-directed extractor, and an ontology-directed matcher. The tools are example driven through a graphical user interface. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660305 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07540961 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utah State University (North Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conly L. Hansen (North Logan, Utah); Dae-Yeol Cheong (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a biomass enriched with hydrogen-producing bacteria or spores includes providing a biomass comprising a hydrogen-producing bacteria and a competing bacteria and treating the biomass with a sufficient amount of a chemical agent for a period of time such that the treatment (i) kills, inhibits or injures substantially all of the competing bacteria and (ii) does not kill or inhibit the hydrogen-producing bacteria or causes the hydrogen-producing bacteria to form spores that are not destroyed during the chemical treatment. The method also includes digesting an enriched biomass with a non-sterile organic substrate. The enriched biomass includes hydrogen-producing bacteria or spores that are mixed in sufficient quantities with the organic substrate such that the hydrogen-producing bacteria can overcome the competing bacteria to consume the organic substrate and produce hydrogen. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426120 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07541346 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of the Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective phosphorylation of phenpanstatin (3a) with tetrabutylammonium dihydrogen phosphate and dicyclohexylcarbodiimide in pyridine followed by cation exchange chromatographic procedures was found to provide an efficient route to a new series (3b-3d) of promising 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate prodrugs designated phenpanstatin phosphates. Application of analogous reaction conditions to pancratistatin (1a) led to a mixture of monophosphate derivatives where sodium pancratistatin 4-O-phosphate (4a) was isolated and the structure confirmed by x-ray crystallography. Modification of the reaction conditions allowed direct phosphorylation of pancratistatin followed by cation exchange chromatography to afford sodium pancratistatin 3,4-O-cyclic phosphate (5b) which was selected for preclinical development. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025525 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07541671 | Foust et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Franklin Foust (Glenville, New York); William Francis Nealon (Gloversville, New York); Jie Liu (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic device package includes a flexible substrate having a topside and a bottom side. Further, the organic device package includes an organic electronic device having a first side and a second side disposed on the topside of the flexible substrate. In addition, the organic device package includes a first barrier layer disposed on the bottom side of the flexible substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/095199 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542008 | Hadley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An RFID tag in one embodiment. The RFID tag includes at least one integrated circuit and an antenna pattern coupled to the integrated circuit, wherein the antenna pattern has an inductor pattern which limits the effect of misplacement of the integrated circuit relative to the inductor pattern. Other embodiments and methods of making these apparatuses are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951299 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/873 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07542628 | Lolacono et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominick Lolacono (Yardville, New Jersey); James R. Matey (Princeton, New Jersey); Oleg Naroditsky (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Tinker (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Thomas Zappia (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for strobed image capture includes stroboscopic illumination synchronized with one or more cameras to improve a signal to noise ratio, reduce motion blur and avoid object damage in sensor systems used to analyze illumination sensitive objects. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334968 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, June 02, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20090602.html
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