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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07549376 | Grossman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Liggett Grossman (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Jeffrey Darbig (Randolf, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-lethal projectile carrier includes a base having a plurality of hinges, each hinge including a tab; and a payload case attached to the base, the payload case comprising a plurality of petaloid members, each petaloid member including an opening in a rear surface for insertion of a corresponding tab; wherein upon exiting a gun tube the petaloid members open and fold toward the base. Each petaloid member includes a lip on one edge and an undercut on another edge so that adjacent petaloid members form lap joints. The hinges are defined by zones of small cross-sectional area in the base. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/456627 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549826 | Videtto |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Videtto (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device to collect cuttings produced by a cutting tool may include a chip cutter to shear each cutting into a multiplicity of chips each substantially smaller than each cutting. The device may also include a collector to collect the chips without using suction and other air or gas pressure. The chip cutter may be disposed within the collector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/164565 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Cutting by use of rotating axially moving tool 48/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549836 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Anderson (Vernon, Connecticut); Harrison R. Picard (East Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A bearing seal assembly includes a pair segmented circumferential or a carbon ring seals to contain oil in the bearing compartments of a gas turbine engine or other mechanical device. The pair of seals, an oil-side seal and an air-side seal, are axially-spaced between the oil and the air in the housing. Air at an elevated pressure is introduced between the seals. This elevated air pressure urges the seals axially apart from one another and radially inward to improve the seal. A backup seal is provided adjacent either the oil-side seal or the air-side seal. In the event of failure of either the oil-side seal or the air-side seal which results in the loss of air pressure, the backup seal will provide at least a minimum level of seal between the oil compartment and the air in the housing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524101 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549839 | Carroll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian A. Carroll (Haddam, Connecticut); James Allen Eley (Middletown, Connecticut); Carl Brian Klinetob (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An inlet guide vane provides improved, smooth airflow and avoids separation of flow even at high incidence angles. The inlet guide vane includes a strut having opposite side surfaces that are continuously curved to provide a controlled velocity distribution at the trailing edge of the strut. The inlet guide vane further includes a flap having a leading edge aligned behind the trailing edge of the strut. Generally, the strut and the flap are designed together so that low momentum air in the gap between the strut and the flap will be energized and entrained in the boundary layer of the flap. The airflow from the gap will remain attached to the flap to improve the flow from the flap. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/258608 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549840 | Subramanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio); James Dale Steibel (Mason, Ohio); Douglas Melton Carper (Trenton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a turbine engine component comprising the steps of providing and laying up a plurality of ceramic plies comprising woven ceramic fiber tows to form a turbine engine component shape, inserting a plurality of tows of oxidizable fugitive fibers into the component shape, such that each fugitive fiber tow passes through a preselected number of ceramic plies, burning off the fugitive fiber tows, the burning producing through-thickness void regions, rigidizing the component shape with a layer of BN and a layer of SiC to form a coated component preform using chemical vapor infiltration, and partially densifying the coated component preform using carbon-containing slurry and filling the through thickness void regions, and further densifying the coated component preform with at least silicon to form a ceramic matrix composite turbine engine component with in-situ ceramic matrix plugs formed where the through-thickness void regions were located. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155786 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549846 | Dube et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan P. Dube (Columbia, Connecticut); John W. Golan (Amston, Connecticut); Randall J. Butcher (Newington, Connecticut); Richard M. Salzillo (Plantsville, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade is provided for use in a gas turbine engine. The turbine blade has a platform, an airfoil radially extending from the platform, and an attachment portion comprising an asymmetric root neck portion having a higher stress side and a lower stress side. The turbine blade may further have additional material and a compound fillet for dispersing strain in a region where the airfoil overhangs the neck portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197152 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549867 | Moro, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Diamond-Roltran, LLC (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Moro, Jr. (Melrose, Massachusetts); Michael Howard (Dracut, Massachusetts); Samir A. Nayfeh (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Chad S. Klotzle (Townsend, Massachusetts); James A. Young (Dracut, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The transfer apparatus is directed toward electrical transfer components providing an electrical connection to a rotating object. The transfer apparatus includes a stator base mounted proximate to the rotating object. An axle rotatably mounts at least one conductive disk to the stator base. The conductive disk is held against the rotating object. As the rotating object rotates about a first axis, the conductive disk is made to rotate about a second axis, the second axis otherwise maintaining a static position. A rotationally immobile contact is maintained in substantial electronic contact with the conductive disk whereby a lead wire may be connected to the immobile contact. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/557148 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07549907 | Bromenshenk et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry J. Bromenshenk (Missoula, Montana); Colin B. Henderson (Missoula, Montana); Robert A. Seccomb (Missoula, Montana); Steven D. Rice (Victor, Montana); Robert T. Etter (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A hardware system for recording honey bee acoustics coupled with software for filtering, summarizing and analyzing acoustic data detects and identifies airborne toxics. Summary data is analyzed using routine statistical procedures to associate sound spectra with acoustic variations produced by specific airborne compounds. Honey bees produce unique acoustics upon exposure to sub-lethal concentrations of various airborne toxicants, as well as to other stressors such as predatory mites. The system profiles acoustic signatures of free-flying honey bee colonies, analyzes the resulting sounds, and identifies compounds based on specific properties of the acoustic recording, providing a solution to the problem of wide-area, atmospheric monitoring. |
| FILED | Monday, January 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651349 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Bee culture 449/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550216 | Ofer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ofer (Needham, Massachusetts); Bindu R. Nair (Framingham, Massachusetts); Emily J. Stoler (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert F. Kovar (Wrentham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to composite solid polymer electrolyte membranes (SPEMs) which include a porous polymer substrate interpenetrated with a water soluble ion-conducting material. SPEMs of the present invention are useful in electrochemical applications, including fuel cells and electrodialysis. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851478 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550224 | Tender 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) | Leonard Tender (Bethesda, Maryland); Daniel Lowy (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having a metallic manganese anode; a cathode capable of reducing at least one species found in marine water; and a rig coupled to the anode and the cathode capable of maintaining the anode below a marine sediment surface and maintaining the cathode above marine the sediment surface. A method of generating power by: positioning in marine sediment a metallic manganese anode; positioning in marine water a cathode capable of reducing at least one species found in marine water; and connecting electrical leads between the anode, the cathode, and an electrical load. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307561 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550275 | Lanar 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) | David E. Lanar (Takoma Park, Maryland); Collette J. Hillier (Concord, Australia); Jeffrey A. Lyon (Accident, Maryland); Evelina Angov (Bethesda, Maryland); Sanjai Kumar (Gaithersburg, Maryland); William Rogers (Jakata, Indonesia); Arnoldo Barbosa (Tolima, Colombia) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described the expression and purification of a recombinant Plasmodium falciparum (3D7) LSA-NRC polypeptide. The method of the present invention produces a highly purified polypeptide which is useful as a vaccine and as a diagnostic reagent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706435 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550310 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. Goodman (Altadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Robert H. Grubbs (So. Pasadena, California); Jeffery Dickson (Pasadena, California); Vincent F. Koosh (Pasadena, California); Richard S. Payne (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are used to detect and identify analytes. Techniques are used to fabricate and manufacture sensors to detect analytes. An analyte (810) is sensed by sensors (820) that output electrical signals in response to the analyte. The electrical signals may be preprocessed (830) by filtering and amplification. In one embodiment, a plurality of sensors are formed on a single integrated circuit. The sensors may have diverse compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439136 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550586 | Snow 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) | Arthur W. Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); James S Shirk (Alexandria, Virginia); Eva M Maya (Alexandria, Virginia); Richard G. S. Pong (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven R. Flom (Temple Hills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is phthalocyanine compounds with peripheral siloxane substitution, as well as methods for making these compounds and various uses thereof, having the basic structure: wherein —W—X—Y—Z are peripheral groups comprising individual W, X, Y, and Z subgroups; W is a linkage represented by the formula: —D—(R1)0.1—, where D═S or O; X is: —(CH2)n—, n=2 to 8; Y is a siloxane chain; Z is an aryl or alkyl terminal cap; M is two protons or a metal ion; and forms a transparent film of high optical quality with large nonlinear absorption and thermal refraction, free of scattering from solid or liquid crystalline domains making them highly suitable for use as the active component in thin films protective eye wear, and optical data storage applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108146 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550601 | Drake 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) | Gregory W. Drake (Madison, Alabama); Gregory M. Kaplan (Palmdale, California); Tommy W. Hawkins (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a high yield/isomerically pure synthesis of new 1-amino-3-substituted-1,2,3-triazolium salts and their subsequent transformation into isomerically pure 1-substituted-1,2,3-triazoles. These new 1-amino-3-substituted-1,2,3-triazolium salts are easily isolated and can be stored at ambient conditions with no degradation or isomerization. These quarternary salts are easily converted with appropriate silver salts to a wide array of new quarternary salts with various anions, with many of these new salts having melting points below 100 C, classifying them as ionic liquids. Subsequent diazotization of these 1-amino-3-substituted-1,2,3-triazolium salts results in high yields of isomerically pure 1-substituted-1,2,3-triazoles, that until this invention were problematic to make pure without tedious reagents or workup procedures. Both classes of materials (1-amino-3-substituted-1,2,3-triazolium salts as well as 1-substituted-1,2,3-triazoles) should be of high interest as these classes of materials are known to be very important pharmaceutical materials for a wide array of medical and agricultural applications as well as possible propellant applications. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203578 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550783 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Montecito, California); Marcia Moore (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A HEMT comprising a plurality of active semiconductor layers formed on a substrate. Source electrode, drain electrode, and gate are formed in electrical contact with the plurality of active layers. A spacer layer is formed on at least a portion of a surface of said plurality of active layers and covering the gate. A field plate is formed on the spacer layer and electrically connected to the source electrode, wherein the field plate reduces the peak operating electric field in the HEMT. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/958970 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551043 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yu-Wei Lin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sheng-Shian Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yuan Xie (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Micromechanical structures having at least one lateral capacitive transducer gap filled with a dielectric and method of making same are provided. VHF and UHF MEMS-based vibrating micromechanical resonators filled with new solid dielectric capacitive transducer gaps to replace previously used air gaps have been demonstrated at 160 MHz, with Q's˜20,200 on par with those of air-gap resonators, and motional resistances (Rx's) more than 8× smaller at similar frequencies and bias conditions. This degree of motional resistance reduction comes about via not only the higher dielectric constant provided by a solid-filled electrode-to-resonator gap, but also by the ability to achieve smaller solid gaps than air gaps. These advantages with the right dielectric material may now allow capacitively-transduced resonators to match to the 50-377Ω impedances expected by off-chip components (e.g., antennas) in many wireless applications without the need for high voltages. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511202 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551134 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Denny D. Pidhayny (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for tracking signals with diverse polarization properties address both sensitivity and antenna tracking performance issues. In one embodiment, complex weightings for matching a polarization of an incident signal on a data channel are determined, and the complex weightings are applied to a tracking channel such that an antenna system polarization is matched to the polarization of the incident signal. In another embodiment, orthogonally polarized tracking channel components of an incident signal are processed to make a determination as to which of the orthogonally polarized tracking channel components is stronger, and this determination is used to select a polarization of a data channel to reduce a polarization mismatch loss. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772073 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551419 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Scott Stanford (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive device. The electrostatic adhesion voltage produces an electric field and electrostatic adherence forces. When the electroadhesive device and electrodes are positioned near a surface of an object such as a vertical wall, the electrostatic adherence forces hold the electroadhesive device in position relative to the surface and object. This can be used to increase traction or maintain the position of the electroadhesive device relative to a surface. Electric control of the electrostatic adhesion voltage permits the adhesion to be controllably and readily turned on and off. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757922 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551469 | Parkin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Internationa Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A racetrack memory storage device moves domain walls along the racetrack in one direction only. The reading element can be positioned at one end of the racetrack (rather than in the middle of the racetrack). The domain walls are annihilated upon moving them across the reading element but their corresponding information is read into one or more memory devices (e.g., built-in CMOS circuits). The information can then be processed in circuits for computational needs and written back into the racetrack either in its original form (as it was read out of the racetrack) or in a different form after some computation, using a writing element positioned at the end of the racetrack opposite to the reading element. Such a racetrack can be built more simply and has greater reliability of operation than previous racetrack memory devices. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/348779 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551652 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NP Photonics, Inc (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Wei Shi (Tucson, Arizona); Matthew A. Leigh (Tucson, Arizona); Jie Zong (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A shared modulator applies radial stress to the polarization-dependent fiber chains to induce birefringence and simultaneously Q-switch two or more fiber lasers. Multiple temporally overlapping pulsed beams can be generated with pulses <100 ns and even <30 ns with repetition rates from 50 Hz up to 650 KHz. A pair of Q-switched fiber lasers at slightly different wavelengths being well suited to provide a low-frequency light source through difference frequency generation (DFG) by nonlinear optical materials. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588933 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551657 | Nurmikko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arto V Nurmikko (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A Magneto-Optoelectronic Device MOD (10) includes a magnetic sensing device (12), such as a magnetoresistive device or a magnetic tunnel junction device, that is combined with a semiconductor light emitter (14), such as a LED or a laser diode, to create a compact integrated device where changes in an ambient magnetic field are expressed as changes in an optical beam intensity emanating from the MOD. Using the MOD (10) the magnetic field related information can be transmitted by a light wave over very large distances through some medium (34), for example, through free space and/or through an optical fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288173 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551818 | Okorogu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert O. Okorogu (Canyon Country, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chirped grating is made in a thin film layer or a glass layer for producing a holographic optical element within the layer well suited for use as an optical coupler for coupling side fired laser light into optical fibers for laser light pumping of optical fibers with the grating made in the layer by generating interference fringes burned into the layer with interference fringes created from interfering a reference laser beam with a plurality of convergent laser beams from respective lenses of an array of lenses. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906021 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551952 | Gevins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAM Technology, Inc. (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Gevins (San Francisco, California); Robert Howard (Palo Alto, California); Art Sandoval (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved electrode headset is provided for the acquisition of electroencephalographic (EEG) brain signals detected at the scalp of a human subject. The headset includes an elastic fabric cap having a chinstrap, which cap is fitted closely to the scalp. The cap has openings at those selected locations on the scalp to which removable and disposable electrodes are to be removably connected to the scalp. A positioning unit, of a generally flat and flexible plastic material, is attachable to the cap by corresponding hook-and-loop fasteners on the outer surface of the cap and the inner surface of the positioning unit. The positioning unit has a base portion and two opposite leg portions, each with slits. Flat beams are adjustably connected through the slits to the leg portions and base portion. Each beam carries a screw member which adjustably applies pressure to electrode holders and a flexible electrode extractor strap to which the electrode holder is attached. Each electrode holder is snap fastened to an electrode positioned within a cap opening. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259971 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/383 |
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| US 07552018 | Lazarus 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) | Aaron D. Lazarus (Baltimore, Maryland); Wayne C. Jones (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a baseline function, viz., a transmission-related parameter (transmission loss, transmission coefficient, etc.) as a function of resistance of a uniformly resistant finitely thin film—which is predicated on the theoretical behavior of electromagnetic radiation passing through a uniformly resistant infinitely thin film. This theoretical behavior is characterized by constancy of the transmission-related parameter for any frequency of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein each resistance value has associated therewith a constant transmission-related parameter. The baseline function is formed by calculating the constant transmission-related parameter value for each of plural resistance values in the theoretical model. The baseline function is correlated with an empirical function, viz., a transmission-related parameter as a function of frequency of the electromagnetic radiation—which is formed, in empirical testing, by measuring the transmission-related parameter value for each of plural resistance values. The correlation yields a functional relationship between resistance and frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706679 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/75 |
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| US 07552053 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo (Pleasantville, New York); Bowen Zhou (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for assisting in translation are provided. A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word string that is related to the source language utterance. The speech recognition hypothesis and the word string are then formatted for display to a user, to facilitate an appropriate selection by the user for translation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208989 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/258 |
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| US 07552059 | Gruber |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Michael Gruber (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer program which automates and assist various members of an order and approval chain in preparing purchase documents. A requester using the program enters a part number and other information in the purchase document and forwards the document to a processor. The processor checks the purchase document for accuracy and completeness and forwards the document to the approval chain. When each member of the approval chain electronically signs the purchase document is returned to the processor who fills the purchase order. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/086733 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1 |
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| US 07552099 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Luo (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided methods, computer program products, and systems for indexing a data stream. A method for indexing a data stream having attribute values includes the steps of parsing the data stream, and forming an index of tuples for a subset of attribute values of the data stream. The index is configured for retrieving the top-K tuples that optimize linearly weighted sums of at least some of the attribute values in the subset. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373022 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/21 |
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| US 07552160 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The integrated lifting transform provides both the lossy and lossless lifting wavelet transforms while sharing the same lifting chain for either lossy data compression or lossless data compression. The lifting steps can provide a lossless compression and a lossy compression directly from lossless compression while the integer-to-integer adaptive four-stage lifting wavelet transform provides the lossless compression with improved performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/105047 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/400 |
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| US 07552438 | Werme 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 V. Werme (King George, Virginia); Michael W. Masters (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Larry A. Fontenot (King George, Virginia); Lonnie R. Welch (Athens, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A resource manager for a distributed environment including hosts instantiating copies of a scalable application, generates signals which start up, shutdown or move a selected one of the copies responsive to first information regarding performance of all copies of the scalable application and second information regarding performance of the hosts. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/650757 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
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| US RE40786 | Burnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Burnett (Silver Spring, Maryland); John E. van Hamont (West Point, New York); Robert H. Reid (Kensington, Maryland); Jean A. Setterstrom (Alpharetta, Georgia); Thomas C. Van Cott (Brookeville, Maryland); Deborah L. Birx (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to parenteral and mucosal vaccines against diseases caused by intercellular pathogens using antigens encapsulated within a biodegradable-biocompatible microspheres(matrix). |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/586747 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/499 |
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| US RE40800 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Lawrence Smith (Arroyo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A geolocation method is applied for accurate targeting of a target using an airborne beacon as a pseudo star generated by a high altitude vehicle, and using optical sensors by a low altitude vehicle for imaging the beacon and target for generating accurate relative GPS positioning of the target for improved the geolocation of the target preferably for precise delivery of a payload to the target. The method is applicable to military and civilian needs for accurate delivery of a payload to a target, such as for precise delivery of humanitarian aid or weapon munitions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/552323 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/213 |
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| US RE40801 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Lawrence Smith (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A geolocation method is applied for accurate targeting of a target using an airborne beacon as a pseudo star generated by a high altitude vehicle, and using optical sensors by a low altitude vehicle for imaging the beacon and target for generating accurate relative GPS positioning of the target for improved the geolocation of the target preferably for precise delivery of a payload to the target. The method is applicable to military and civilian needs for accurate delivery of a payload to a target, such as for precise delivery of humanitarian aid or weapon munitions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/703050 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transonic Systems Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, New York); Victor V. Kislukhin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate induced thermal influences on a dilution thermal sensor, wherein the thermal influences can occur prior to introduction of the injectate into the blood flow. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328312 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/505 |
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| US 07550141 | Thorpe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Sophia Ran (Dallas, Texas); Rolf A. Brekken (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is the surprising discovery that aminophospholipids, such as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, are specific, accessible and stable markers of the luminal surface of tumor blood vessels. The present invention thus provides aminophospholipid-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic constructs for use in tumor intervention. Antibody-therapeutic agent conjugates and constructs that bind to aminophospholipids are particularly provided, as are methods of specifically delivering therapeutic agents, including toxins and coagulants, to the stably-expressed aminophospholipids of tumor blood vessels, thereby inducing thrombosis, necrosis and tumor regression. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988245 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07550146 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Dalibor Sames (New York, New York); Samuel Hintermann (Basel, Switzerland); Peter Glunz (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Govindaswami Ragupathi (New York, New York); Philip O. Livingston (New York, New York); Kenneth O. Lloyd (New York, New York); Valery Kudryashov (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel glycoconjugates such as glycopeptides, as well as convergent methods for the synthesis thereof. An exemplary preparative approach is exemplified by the synthesis of the mucin motif commonly found on epithelial tumor cell surfaces. The present invention further provides compositions and methods of treating cancer using the glycoconjugates of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898410 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/194.100 |
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| US 07550148 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoying Zhou (Chicago, Illinois); Bernard Roizman (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to engineered Herpes simplex virus (HSV) particles that are targeted to one or more specific binding pair members, such as receptors. Also, recombinant vectors for producing such HSV particles are provided. By reducing the affinity of HSV for its natural receptor(s) and increasing the affinity for a selected receptor, the HSV particles of the invention are useful for targeting cells that express the selected receptor, which itself may be a product of genetic engineering. The ability to selectively target cells renders the HSV particles particularly useful in selectively diagnosing, treating, and imaging cells bearing the selected binding pair member, such as a receptor. The invention also provides for polynucleotide-based therapy to cells bearing the selected binding pair member such as a receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215636 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07550154 | Saltzman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Mark Saltzman (New Haven, Connecticut); Tarek Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Peter Fong (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric microparticles have been developed which encapsulate therapeutic compounds such as drugs, cellular materials or components, and antigens, and can have targeting ligands directly bound to the microparticle surface. Preferred applications include use in tissue engineering matrices, wound dressings, hone repair or regeneration materials, and other applications where the microparticles are retained at the site of application or implantation. Another preferred application is in the use of microparticles to deliver anti-proliferative agents to the lining of blood vessels following angioplasty, transplantation or bypass surgery to prevent or decrease restenosis, and in cancer therapy. In still another application, the microparticles are used to treat or prevent macular degeneration when administered to the eye, where agents such as complement inhibitors are administered. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830212 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/484 |
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| US 07550262 | Gelb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Gelb (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Marco Tartaglia (Rome, Italy); Charlotte Niemeyer (Freiburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic and therapeutic applications for certain types of cancer and precancerous conditions, including those deriving from hematologic cells, are described. Of particular interest are those cancers and precancerous conditions associated with increased signaling in the RAS-MAP kinase pathway. The diagnostic and therapeutic applications described herein are based on certain mutations in the protein tyrosine phosphatase gene PTPN11 and its expression product, PTPN11, promoting a gain-of-function in PTPN11 activity. Also described are nucleotide sequences, amino acid sequences, probes, and primers related to PTPN11 and PTPN11 variants, and cells expressing such variants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703210 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07550267 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Hawkins (Sammamish, Washington); Paul Yager (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved microscale diffusion immunoassay utilizing multivalent reactants is disclosed. In particular, a method for detecting the presence of analyte particles in an analyte fluid is disclosed, the method comprising: (a) providing the analyte fluid comprising the analyte particles; (b) providing a diffusion fluid comprising binding particles capable of binding with the analyte particles; (c) flowing the analyte fluid and the diffusion fluid in adjacent laminar flow through a microfluidic channel; (d) allowing the analyte particles to diffuse into the diffusion fluid and bind with the binding particles to form analyte/binding particle complexes; and (e) detecting the presence of the analyte particles and the analyte/binding particle complexes, wherein each of the binding particles is capable of binding with more than one analyte particle, and wherein each of the analyte particles is capable of binding with more than one binding particle. Methods for determining the concentration of the analyte particles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226054 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07550277 | Rozzell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Codexis, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Rozzell (Burbank, California); Scott J. Novick (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides capable of catalyzing the reductive amination of a 2-ketoacid to its corresponding D-amino acid are provided. The polypeptides can be prepared by mutagenesis of, e.g., a diaminopimelate dehydrogenase. Also provided is a method of making a D-amino acid using a catalytically active polypeptide, wherein a 2-ketoacid is allowed to contact the polypeptide in the presence of a nicotinamide cofactor and ammonia or an ammonia source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/391755 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/106 |
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| US 07550299 | Dudley, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Atlanta, Georgia); Dean P. Jones (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting onset or risk of atrial fibrillation in a subject includes determining the presence of an oxidative stress marker, such as glutathione, cysteine, and/or a derivative of a reactive oxidative metabolite (DROM). |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/882627 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07550435 | Gong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Da-Wei Gong (Olney, Maryland); John McLenithan (Baltimore, Maryland); Alan Shuldiner (Columbia, Maryland); Rongze Yang (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated omentin polypeptides that selectively express in omental fat tissue and methods for the use of the polypeptides. The polypeptides can be used in a method for modifying insulin action and/or glucose metabolism in an animal. The polypeptides can be used to promote glucose uptake by animal adipocytes and other cells, tissues, and/or organs. The polypeptides can also used to provide a therapeutic treatment for diseases of or related to glucose metabolism and adipose tissues. The polypeptides are also incorporated into diagnostic tests and testing kits for diagnosing or detecting a disease or condition involving animal tissue that contains, uses, or expresses the polypeptide in an animal suspected of having the disease or condition. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871871 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07550438 | Toback et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Gary Toback (Chicago, Illinois); Margaret M. Walsh-Reitz (River Forest, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel growth peptides derived from protein factors having molecular weights of about 22 and 45 kDa stimulate mitogenic activity of epithelial, but not fibroblastic cells, in particular, kidney epithelial cells. A source of the factors is scrape-wounded kidney epithelial cells in culture. Synthetic peptides having sixteen amino acids or less, in particular a hexapeptide, YPQGNH (SEQ ID NO: 2) maintain the mitogenic activity. The peptide AQPYPQGNHEASYG (14-Ser) (SEQ ID NO: 15) is effective in reversing acute renal failure in animals. The growth-promoting characteristics of the 22 and 45 kDa proteins and the peptides are useful in treating and diagnosing patients with kidney disease. Nucleotide sequences that encode the factor are useful to develop probes to locate similar factors, to identify genetic disorders involving the factor, and to produce the factor by genetic recombinant methods. The nucleotide sequences and fragments thereof, are also useful for diagnosis and treatment of kidney disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593364 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for reducing oxidative damage in a mammal, a removed organ, or a cell in need thereof. The method comprises administering an effective amount of an aromatic cationic peptide. The aromatic cationic peptide has (a) at least one net positive charge; (b) a minimum of three amino acids; (c) a maximum of about twenty amino acids; (d) 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; (e) a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 3a or 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; and (f) at least one tyrosine or tryptophan amino acid. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040242 |
| 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 07550505 | Koh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Tze-tzun Koh (West Grove, Pennsylvania); Paula Lynn McGinley (Langhorne, Pennsylvania); Hongmu Pan (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel antagonists of the androgen receptor and androgen receptor mutations associated with clinical failure of currently prescribed anti-androgens and use of said antagonists in the treatment of conditions associated with inappropriate activation of the androgen receptor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880725 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/522 |
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| US 07550510 | Curley, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Curley, Jr. (Columbus, Ohio); Serena M. Mershon (St. Louis, Missouri); Derek W. Barnett (Columbus, Ohio); Margaret Clagett-Dame (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Jason S. Chapman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid phase synthetic method for preparing arylretinamides is provided. The method comprises reacting hexachloroacetone with a solvent-suspended resin-bound triphenylphosphine to provide a suspension comprising an activated chlorinating reagent; reacting retinoic acid with the activated chlorinating reagent to provide retinoyl chloride; adding pyridine and a select arylamine to the resulting mixture; and stirring the resulting mixture for a time and at a temperature sufficient for the select arylamine to react with the retinoyl chloride and provide the arylretinamide. Also provided, are select arylretinamides that can be prepared by the present method, and methods of using such arylretinamides to induce apoptosis in cancer cells. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719429 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/619 |
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| US 07550561 | Beach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Beach (Huntington Bay, New York); Douglas J. Demetrick (E. Northport, New York); Manuel Serrano (Mill Neck, New York); Gregory J. Hannon (Huntington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery in eukaryotic cells, particularly human cells, a novel polypeptide of 16 kDa (hereinafter “p16INK4” or “p16”) can function as an inhibitor of cell cycle progression, and therefore ultimately of cell growth, and that similar to the role of p21 and p53, the p16 protein may function coordinately with the cell cycle regulatory protein, retinoblastoma (Rb). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/227371 |
| 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 530/350 |
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| US 07550564 | Cox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Cox (Oregon, Wisconsin); Dennis R. Harris (Madison, Wisconsin); Sergei V. Saveliev (Madison, Wisconsin); John R. Battista (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Edmond Jolivet (Limours-en-Hurepoix, France); Masashi Tanaka (Kagoshima, Japan); Julie M. Eggington (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting the 3′ end of a DNA molecule from nuclease damage is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the step of exposing the DNA molecule to a preparation of DdrA protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688706 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07550571 | Scherer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | McGrill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleu (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene (EPM2A) that is deleted or mutated in people with Lafora's disease is described. The EPM2A gene encodes a protein having an active catalytic site of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. Many different sequence mutations as well as several microdeletions in EPM2A have been found that co-segregate with Lafora's disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/886033 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550588 | Davies |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huw M. L. Davies (E. Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel homotropane compounds with CNS activity. These compounds can be used for alleviating symptoms of CNS disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/716816 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550617 | Imig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Georgia Research Institute (Augusta, Georgia); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Imig (Evans, Georgia); John R. Falck (University Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Derivative compounds of 11-nonyloxy-undec-8(Z)-eonic acid that mimic epoxide metabolites are provided. Also provided are compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the derivative compounds. The present invention further provides methods for the use of such compositions for the treatment of renal or cardiovascular disease and/or related conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/866395 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550718 | McLuckey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. McLuckey (West Lafayette, Indiana); Min He (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes and apparatus are described for the analysis of molecules or fragments thereof, which are capable of carrying multiple charges, by reacting the multiply charged molecules or fragments thereof with other ions using mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/558610 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551609 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cisco Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Delano Ward (Somerset, Wisconsin); Pawan Uberoy (Milpitas, California); John H. W. Bettink (San Jose, California); Shyamsundar N. Maniyar (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Stored in the leaf nodes of a data structure that can be used for identifying the longest prefix matching an address are corresponding values from multiple forwarding information bases. A single common address lookup data structure (e.g., a tree, trie, etc.) can be used, and a leaf node can contain information from multiple forwarding information bases. If lookup operations are performed for a single address in multiple forwarding information bases, the single common address lookup data structure may only need to be traversed once. For example, the forwarding information for another forwarding information base may be stored in the same leaf, further down in the data structure requiring traversal from the current position, or above requiring traversal from the root of the lookup data structure. Information can be stored in the leaf node to indicate which traversal option is appropriate for a particular forwarding information base. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256462 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551717 | Tomé et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang Axel Tomé (Madison, Wisconsin); Eric Drew Ehler (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual 4D treatment suite includes a dose calculation module, a gating module, and a dose rate adjustment module. The 4D treatment suite may be used to virtually analyze the impact the motion of a target tissue has on therapy for a particular patient and a proposed treatment plan. For example, for a proposed treatment plan, the dose calculation module may calculate a dose that would be received by a target tissue and an associated dose temporal variation based on an identified movement of the target tissue relative to at least a portion of a treatment field. Based on the calculated expected therapy dose and dose temporal variation, the gating module may determine whether to implement a gating technique for the proposed treatment plan and/or the dose rate adjustment module may determine whether to adjust the dose rate of the proposed treatment plan. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894378 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07549470 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); George Leo Stegemeier (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating an oil shale formation comprising nahcolite includes providing a first fluid to a portion of the formation. A second fluid is produced from the portion. The second fluid includes at least some nahcolite dissolved in the first fluid. A controlled amount of oxidant is provided to the portion of the formation. Hydrocarbon fluids are produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584799 |
| 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 07550071 | Dirk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Stephen W. Howell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are described for the electrochemical assembly of organic molecules on silicon, or other conducting or semiconducting substrates, using iodonium salt precursors. Iodonium molecules do not assemble on conducting surfaces without a negative bias. Accordingly, the iodonium salts are preferred for patterning applications that rely on direct writing with negative bias. The stability of the iodonium molecule to acidic conditions allows them to be used with standard silicon processing. As a directed assembly process, the use of iodonium salts provides for small features while maintaining the ability to work on a surface and create structures on a wafer level. Therefore, the process is amenable for mass production. Furthermore, the assembled monolayer (or multilayer) is chemically robust, allowing for subsequent chemical manipulations and the introduction of various molecular functionalities for various chemical and biological applications. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/065894 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550223 | Zelenay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rajesh Bashyam (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal-polymer-carbon composite catalyst for use as a cathode electrocatalyst in fuel cells. The catalyst includes a heteroatomic polymer; a transition metal linked to the heteroatomic polymer by one of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus, and a recast ionomer dispersed throughout the heteroatomic polymer-carbon composite. The method includes forming a heteroatomic polymer-carbon composite and loading the transition metal onto the composite. The invention also provides a method of making a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell that includes the metal-polymer-carbon composite catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542539 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550401 | Nunn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Nunn (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a sintered ceramic composition includes the steps of: providing a powder that includes at least 50 wt. % boron carbide and 0.05 wt. % to 30 wt. % of at least one oxide selected from oxides of Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu; milling the powder to form a milled powder; drying the milled powder to form a milled, dried powder; and consolidating the milled, dried powder at a temperature in the range of 1500° C. to 2200° C. to form a sintered ceramic composition having a density of at least 90% of theoretical density, the sintered ceramic composition including zirconium diboride in an amount in the range of 1 wt. % to 10 wt. %. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174969 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550410 | Foote |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Foote (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for performing light-directed reactions in spatially addressable channels within a plurality of channels. One aspect of the invention employs photoactivatable reagents in solutions disposed into spatially addressable flow streams to control the parallel synthesis of molecules immobilized within the channels. The reagents may be photoactivated within a subset of channels at the site of immobilized substrate molecules or at a light-addressable site upstream from the substrate molecules. The method and apparatus of the invention find particularly utility in the synthesis of biopolymer arrays, e.g., oligonucleotides, peptides and carbohydrates, and in the combinatorial synthesis of small molecule arrays for drug discovery. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559549 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550718 | McLuckey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. McLuckey (West Lafayette, Indiana); Min He (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes and apparatus are described for the analysis of molecules or fragments thereof, which are capable of carrying multiple charges, by reacting the multiply charged molecules or fragments thereof with other ions using mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/558610 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550734 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael C. Wanke (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterodyne terahertz transceiver comprises a quantum cascade laser that is integrated on-chip with a Schottky diode mixer. An antenna connected to the Schottky diode receives a terahertz signal. The quantum cascade laser couples terahertz local oscillator power to the Schottky diode to mix with the received terahertz signal to provide an intermediate frequency output signal. The fully integrated transceiver optimizes power efficiency, sensitivity, compactness, and reliability. The transceiver can be used in compact, fieldable systems covering a wide variety of deployable applications not possible with existing technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/698010 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550735 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee); Krishna C. Mandal (Ashland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | GaTe semiconductor is used as a room-temperature radiation detector. GaTe has useful properties for radiation detectors: ideal bandgap, favorable mobilities, low melting point (no evaporation), non-hygroscopic nature, and availability of high-purity starting materials. The detector can be used, e.g., for detection of illicit nuclear weapons and radiological dispersed devices at ports of entry, in cities, and off shore and for determination of medical isotopes present in a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/824094 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550892 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Two new High Slot Utilization (HSU) Systems for electric machines enable the use of form wound coils that have the highest fill factor and the best use of magnetic materials. The epoxy/resin/curing treatment ensures the mechanical strength of the assembly of teeth, core, and coils. In addition, the first HSU system allows the coil layers to be moved inside the slots for the assembly purpose. The second system uses the slided-in teeth instead of the plugged-in teeth. The power density of the electric machine that uses either system can reach its highest limit. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463970 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550963 | Xiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Dong Xiang (Danville, California); Chen Gao (Anhui, China PRC); Fred Duewer (Albany, California); Hai Tao Yang (Albany, California); Yalin Lu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A scanning evanescent microwave microscope (SEMM) that uses near-field evanescent electromagnetic waves to probe sample properties is disclosed. The SEMM is capable of high resolution imaging and quantitative measurements of the electrical properties of the sample. The SEMM has the ability to map dielectric constant, loss tangent, conductivity, electrical impedance, and other electrical parameters of materials. Such properties are then used to provide distance control over a wide range, from to microns to nanometers, over dielectric and conductive samples for a scanned evanescent microwave probe, which enable quantitative non-contact and submicron spatial resolution topographic and electrical impedance profiling of dielectric, nonlinear dielectric and conductive materials. The invention also allows quantitative estimation of microwave impedance using signals obtained by the scanned evanescent microwave probe and quasistatic approximation modeling. The SEMM can be used to measure electrical properties of both dielectric and electrically conducting materials. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/608311 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551119 | Doerry |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavefront curvature effect associated with a complex image produced by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be mitigated based on which of a plurality of possible flight paths is taken by the SAR when capturing the image. The mitigation can be performed differently for different ones of the flight paths. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970631 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552017 | Baker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Baker (Walnut Creek, California); Daniel E. Archer (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stanley John Luke (Pleasanton, California); Daniel J. Decman (Livermore, California); Gregory K. White (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tailpulse signal generating/simulating apparatus, system, and method designed to produce electronic pulses which simulate tailpulses produced by a gamma radiation detector, including the pileup effect caused by the characteristic exponential decay of the detector pulses, and the random Poisson distribution pulse timing for radioactive materials. A digital signal process (DSP) is programmed and configured to produce digital values corresponding to pseudo-randomly selected pulse amplitudes and pseudo-randomly selected Poisson timing intervals of the tailpulses. Pulse amplitude values are exponentially decayed while outputting the digital value to a digital to analog converter (DAC). And pulse amplitudes of new pulses are added to decaying pulses to simulate the pileup effect for enhanced realism in the simulation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544146 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552312 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Camesha R. Hardwick (Fayetteville, North Carolina); Patrick J. McCarthy (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian P. Wallenfelt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, parallel computers, and products are provided for identifying messaging completion on a parallel computer. The parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes, the compute nodes coupled for data communications by at least two independent data communications networks including a binary tree data communications network optimal for collective operations that organizes the nodes as a tree and a torus data communications network optimal for point to point operations that organizes the nodes as a torus. Embodiments include reading all counters at each node of the torus data communications network; calculating at each node a current node value in dependence upon the values read from the counters at each node; and determining for all nodes whether the current node value for each node is the same as a previously calculated node value for each node. If the current node is the same as the previously calculated node value for all nodes of the torus data communications network, embodiments include determining that messaging is complete and if the current node is not the same as the previously calculated node value for all nodes of the torus data communications network, embodiments include determining that messaging is currently incomplete. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672989 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07549719 | Ready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Ready (Santa Cruz, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features. By printing each design layer in a printing direction aligned with the parallel layout features, the individual print solution droplets deposited onto the substrate do not dry before adjacent droplets are deposited. Therefore, printed patterns having accurate geometries and consistent electrical properties can be printed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/019038 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550760 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprises a semiconductive material containing a homopolyacene of Formula (I): wherein R is a suitable hydrocarbon, a halogen, or a heteroatom containing group; each R′ and R″ are independently a suitable hydrocarbon, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; a represents a number of benzene rings on a left side of the central benzene ring; b represents a number of benzene rings on a right side of the central benzene ring; x represents a total number of R′ groups on the left side of the central benzene ring; y represents a total number of R″ groups on the right side of the central benzene ring; and n represents the number of repeating units and is from 2 to about 5,000. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399216 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551134 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Denny D. Pidhayny (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for tracking signals with diverse polarization properties address both sensitivity and antenna tracking performance issues. In one embodiment, complex weightings for matching a polarization of an incident signal on a data channel are determined, and the complex weightings are applied to a tracking channel such that an antenna system polarization is matched to the polarization of the incident signal. In another embodiment, orthogonally polarized tracking channel components of an incident signal are processed to make a determination as to which of the orthogonally polarized tracking channel components is stronger, and this determination is used to select a polarization of a data channel to reduce a polarization mismatch loss. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772073 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552398 | Bier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Allan Bier (Palo Alto, California); Alan Frederick Newberger (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are presented to semantically zoom information to fit within a bounded display space. A bounded display space optionally constrained by size or shape is determined. Semantically coherent portions of information to be displayed within the bounded space are determined. Transformation rules are applied to the portion of the information to be displayed to produce a plurality of different length representations. A store of semantic zoom level information associates combinations of the different length portion representations. A desired number of information elements to be displayed within the bounded display space is determined. Iterations over the store of semantic zoom information determine combinations of different length representations that fit within the bounded display space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136276 |
| ART UNIT | 2179 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07550310 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney M. Goodman (Altadena, California); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Robert H. Grubbs (So. Pasadena, California); Jeffery Dickson (Pasadena, California); Vincent F. Koosh (Pasadena, California); Richard S. Payne (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are used to detect and identify analytes. Techniques are used to fabricate and manufacture sensors to detect analytes. An analyte (810) is sensed by sensors (820) that output electrical signals in response to the analyte. The electrical signals may be preprocessed (830) by filtering and amplification. In one embodiment, a plurality of sensors are formed on a single integrated circuit. The sensors may have diverse compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439136 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07550441 | Farokhzad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omid C. Farokhzad (Boston, Massachusetts); Sangyong Jon (Gwangju, South Korea); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a conjugate that includes a nucleic acid ligand bound to a controlled release polymer system, a pharmaceutical composition that contains the conjugate, and methods of treatment using the conjugate. The controlled release polymer system includes an agent such as a therapeutic, diagnostic, prognostic, or prophylactic agent. The nucleic acid ligand that is bound to the controlled release polymer system, binds selectively to a target, such as a cell surface antigen, and thereby delivers the controlled release polymer system to the target. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860918 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552116 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang (Champaign, Illinois); Zhen Zhang (Champaign, Illinois); Bin He (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer program product being embodied on a computer readable medium for extracting semantic information about a plurality of documents being accessible via a computer network, the computer program product including computer-executable instructions for: generating a plurality of tokens from at least one of the documents, each token being indicative of a displayed item and a corresponding position; and, constructing at least one parse tree indicative of a semantic structure of the at least one document from the tokens dependently upon a grammar being indicative of presentation conventions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913721 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07552099 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Luo (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided methods, computer program products, and systems for indexing a data stream. A method for indexing a data stream having attribute values includes the steps of parsing the data stream, and forming an index of tuples for a subset of attribute values of the data stream. The index is configured for retrieving the top-K tuples that optimize linearly weighted sums of at least some of the attribute values in the subset. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373022 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552131 | Chron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward G. Chron (Sunnyvale, California); Joseph P. McCloskey (Columbia, Maryland); David A. Pease (Redwood Estates, California); Elizabeth S. Richards (Columbia, Maryland); Sandeep M. Uttamchandani (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/681955 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552152 | Richards et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth S. Richards (Columbia, Maryland); Sandeep M. Uttamchandani (San Jose, California); Li Yin (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments of the invention provide a method, computer program product, etc. for risk-modulated proactive data migration for maximizing utility. More specifically, a method of planning data migration for maximizing utility of a storage infrastructure that is running and actively serving at least one application includes selecting a plurality of potential data items for migration and selecting a plurality of potential migration destinations to which the potential data items can be moved. Moreover, the method selects a plurality of potential migration speeds at which the potential data items can be moved and selects a plurality of potential migration times at which the potential data items can be moved to the potential data migration destinations. The selecting of the plurality of potential migration speeds selects a migration speed below a threshold speed, wherein the threshold speed defines a maximum system utility loss permitted. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/681971 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07549338 | Schipper |
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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) | John F. Schipper (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system (i) to determine when a selected target molecule is present or absent in a fluid, (2) to estimate concentration of the target molecule in the fluid and (3) estimate possible presence of a second (different) target molecule in the fluid, by analyzing differences in resonant frequencies of vibration of a thin beam suspended in the fluid, after the fluid has moved across the beam. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973998 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07552256 | Ellerbrock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Ellerbrock (Bridgeton, Missouri); Robert L. Grant (St. Peters, Missouri); Daniel W. Konz (Hazelwood, Missouri); Joseph P. Winkelmann (St. Peters, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications system and method are provided for digitally connecting a plurality of data channels, such as sensors, actuators, and subsystems, to a controller using a network bus. The network device interface interprets commands and data received from the controller and polls the data channels in accordance with these commands. Specifically, the network device interface receives digital commands and data from the controller, and based on these commands and data, communicates with the data channels to either retrieve data in the case of a sensor or send data to activate an actuator. Data retrieved from the sensor is converted into digital signals and transmitted to the controller. Network device interfaces associated with different data channels can coordinate communications with the other interfaces based on either a transition in a command message sent by the bus controller or a synchronous clock signal. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852706 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07550299 | Dudley, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Atlanta, Georgia); Dean P. Jones (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting onset or risk of atrial fibrillation in a subject includes determining the presence of an oxidative stress marker, such as glutathione, cysteine, and/or a derivative of a reactive oxidative metabolite (DROM). |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/882627 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07549427 | Dellinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold B. Dellinger (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Slawomir M. Lomnicki (Prairieville, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel nanocatalyst is disclosed containing titanium oxide, iron oxide, and calcium oxide. The catalyst comprises a layer of iron oxide in the gamma form supported on a titanium oxide core. Addition of calcium cations helps to stabilize the iron oxide in the gamma form. The iron oxide layer is on the order of a few nanometers thick on the surface of the titanium oxide core, in an “egg-in-shell” structure. The nanocatalyst is highly active in promoting the oxidation of compounds such as hydroquinone, catechol, other hydrocarbons, chlorinated phenols, and carbon monoxide, even at moderately elevated temperatures. The catalyst remains active in a pyrolytic environment for extended periods of time, and possesses high redox cycling potential. The efficiency of the catalyst is not strongly affected by coking in a combustion environment. The catalyst may be used, for example, to reduce levels of radicals, catechols, dioxins, other toxic hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke, incinerator waste streams, and waste streams from other, combustion sources. The catalyst operates efficiently at temperatures typical of tobacco smoke, is formed from nontoxic materials, and is relatively inexpensive. Methods of making and using the catalyst are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180290 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Tobacco 131/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07549965 | Krivitski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transonic Systems Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, New York); Victor V. Kislukhin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate induced thermal influences on a dilution thermal sensor, wherein the thermal influences can occur prior to introduction of the injectate into the blood flow. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328312 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07551141 | Hadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Curt L. Carrender (Morgan Hill, California); John Stephen Smith (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic assembly with integrated circuit capacitively coupled to antenna. The electronic assembly includes a strap assembly and an antenna assembly. The antenna assembly includes a first substrate and antenna elements. The strap assembly includes a second substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the second substrate and substantially flush with a surface of the second substrate. Interconnections are formed to the integrated circuit. The interconnections are formed on the surface of the second substrate. The antenna assembly and the strap assembly are affixed to one another with the surface of the second substrate facing the antenna elements. The antenna elements capacitively couples to the integrated circuit through the interconnections with no direct contact. A non-conductive layer is disposed between the antenna elements and the interconnections providing the capacitive coupling. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/269305 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07551823 | Reith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie A. Reith (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Eva M. Vogel (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical transmission fiber including a core having a first index of refraction, a cladding material located around the core and having a second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction, a first coating material located around a first portion of the cladding material and having a third index of refraction greater than the second index of refraction, and a second coating material located around a second portion of the cladding material and having a fourth index of refraction less than the second index of refraction. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/249995 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, June 23, 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.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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FILED
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The 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)
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