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| US 07560103 | Berd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Berd (Wyncote, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compositions and methods of treating cancer. The compositions of the present invention include a composition prepared from a tumor cell which is hapten modified and syngeneic to the type of tumor to be treated. The composition has the properties, when administered with an adjuvant to a human suffering from a malignant tumor of the same type as said tumor cell, of eliciting T lymphocytes that infiltrate the tumor of said human, of eliciting an inflammatory immune response against the tumor of said human, and of eliciting a delayed-type hypersensitivity response to the tumor of said human. The methods of the present invention are directed to treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising a tumor cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/025195 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 07560106 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Zachary Shriver (Boston, Massachusetts); Dongfang Liu (Westborough, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified heparinases having altered binding specificity and activity are provided. Isolated nucleic acids encoding the same as well as vectors and host cells are provided. Methods for using the modified heparinases are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/191144 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
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| US 07560107 | Lollar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Lollar (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified porcine factor VIII is disclosed in which most of the B domain has been removed through genetic engineering. This modified factor VIII is particularly useful for treatment of hemophiliacs, especially those undergoing bleeding episodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550366 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
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| US 07560116 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary H. Cohen (Havertown, Pennsylvania); Roselyn J. Eisenberg (Haddonfield, New Jersey); John Charles Whitbeck (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Lydia Aldaz-Carroll (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Shlomo Lustig (Ramat Gan, Israel); Christiana Fogg (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a poxvirus vaccine comprising a soluble truncated poxvirus envelope protein. The invention is also directed to a vaccine comprising a nucleic acid encoding such proteins. Also included is an antibody which specifically binds to the proteins and nucleic acid encoding the same, as well as methods of preventing and treating a poxvirus infection using the afore-mentioned vaccine, antibody, protein, and nucleic acid encoding them. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010979 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/202.100 |
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| US 07560117 | Hughes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Hughes (Smithsburg, Maryland); Paul Boyer (Greencastle, Pennsylvania); Maxine Linial (Seattle, Washington); Carolyn Stenbak (Gif-sur-Yvette, France); Patrick Clark (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a highly processive reverse transcriptase having DNA polymerase activity and substantially reduced protease activity. More specifically, the invention relates to an isolated reverse transcriptase from foamy virus comprising a substantially inactivated protease. The invention also relates to vectors containing the gene and hosts transformed with the vector of the invention. Further, the invention relates to a method for producing reverse transcriptase having DNA polymerase activity and substantially reduced protease activity by expressing the reverse transcriptase genes of the present invention in a recombinant host. Methods are also provided for producing cDNA from polynucleotides using the highly processive reverse transcriptase of the invention. Kits for the preparation of cDNA from RNA comprising the highly processive reverse transcriptase of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/478442 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/207.100 |
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| US 07560118 | Whitehead et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Whitehead (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Kathryn A. Hanley (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph E. Blaney (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A menu of mutations was developed that is useful in fine-tuning the attenuation and growth characteristics of dengue virus vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446050 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
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| US 07560233 | Volkert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Volkert (West Boylston, Massachusetts); Jen-Yeu Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of screening compounds, gene sequences, and gene products in bacteria for agents that are protective against oxidative DNA damage in a human or animal. Gene sequences identified by these screens can also be used in diagnostic assays that identify subjects at increased risk for oxidative DNA damage. Pharmaceutical compositions that include DNA protective agents identified by these screens are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/154012 |
| 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 07560241 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Che-Hong Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides screening methods for identifying agents that modulate the activity of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (AldDH2), as well as agents identified by the screening methods. The present invention further provides methods of reducing ischemic tissue damage or free-radical induced damage in an organ, the methods generally involving contacting the organ with an agent that increases AldDH2 levels and/or activity. The present invention further provides methods of treating solid tumors, the methods generally involving administering an agent that decreases AldDH2 levels and/or activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008482 |
| 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 07560242 | Ruoslahti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Darren M. Brown (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Metadherin, a protein that controls metastasis, and variants of metadherin are described. DNA sequences encoding the same and methods of production are described. Therapies involving the application of metadherin, binding agents that bind to metadherin, such as antibodies, and expression modulating agents, such as siRNA, are described. The use of metadherin or metadherin variants for delivering desired substances to particular lung tissue is described. A method of diagnosing metastatic cells based on the presence of metadherin is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986466 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07560243 | Denlinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loren C. Denlinger (Madison, Wisconsin); Kirk J. Hogan (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul J. Bertics (Oregon, Wisconsin); Kathleen Schell (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of rapidly assaying nucleotide receptor P2X7 pore activity in white blood cells contained within a blood sample. A method according to the invention includes the steps of: (a) labeling the white blood cells with a white blood cell-specific label; (b) depolarizing the labeled white blood cells with an isotonic depolarizing solution; (c) contacting the labeled white blood cells with a dye and a P2X7 agonist in an amount sufficient to activate nucleotide receptor P2X7 pore activity; (d) contacting the labeled white blood cells with a divalent cation in an amount sufficient to deactivate nucleotide receptor P2X7 pore activity; and (e) analyzing dye uptake in labeled white blood cells whereby nucleotide receptor P2X7 pore activity is quantified by the amount of dye taken up in labeled white blood cells treated with P2X7 agonist relative to labeled white blood cells in the absence of P2X7 agonist. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/827718 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.240 |
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| US 07560244 | Krolewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrzej S. Krolewski (Needham, Massachusetts); James H. Warram (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes diagnostic, predictive, prognostic and monitoring methods and reagents for loss of renal function, e.g., diabetic nephropathy and end stage renal disease (ESRD). |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559014 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| US 07560248 | Raines |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutant forms of ribonuclease inhibitor are described which are rendered more resistant to oxidation while retaining affinity for both ribonuclease and angiogenin. The mutant forms have another amino acid, typically an alanine, substituted for one or more of the adjacent cysteine residues in the wild-type sequence to prevent the formation of unwanted disulfide bonds which can disrupt the effectiveness of the molecule. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/234028 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.200 |
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| US 07560257 | Hollyfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio); Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joe G. Hollyfield (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Robert G. Salomon (Mayfield Village, Ohio); John W. Crabb (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Xiaorong Gu (Lyndhurst, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic methods for identifying a test subject who has or is at risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or an analogous disease associated with oxidation of DHA-containing lipids are provided. In one aspect, the methods comprise: assaying for the presence of elevated levels of 2-(ω-carboxyethyl) pyrrole (CEP) adducts in a bodily fluid which has been obtained from the test subject. In a preferred embodiment, such methods comprise providing an antibody that is immunospecific for CEP, contacting a bodily fluid from the subject with the anti-CEP antibody, and assaying for the formation of a complex between the antibody and an antigen in the sample. In another aspect, the methods comprise assaying for the presence of elevated levels of an antibody that binds to or is immunospecific for a CEP adduct in the bodily fluid of the test subject. The present invention also relates to CEP protein and peptide adducts, an antibody reactive with a CEP adduct and a diagnostic kit comprising such antibody. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/043201 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/134 |
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| US 07560259 | Weinshilboum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Baidehi Mukherjee (Rochester, Minnesota); Linda L Pelleymounter (Rochester, Minnesota); Oreste Salavaggione (St. Louis, Missouri); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated GSTO2 nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as GSTO2 allozymes. Methods for determining if a subject contains a GSTO2 sequence variant also are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103444 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07560271 | Leech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agentase, LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna M. Leech (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jessica L. Palumbo (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania); Jason A. Berberich (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Keith E. LeJeune (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An enzyme based nondestructive sensor for the qualitative detection of spoilage in seafood is provided wherein the sensor does not alter the physical composition of the seafood specimen. The sensor comprises a sampling matrix, at least three or more enzymes in contact with the sampling matrix, and at least one indicator compound in contact with the sampling matrix. The enzymes are capable of interacting with four target chemicals comprising putrescine, cadaverine, histamine and tyramine, which are located on the surface of the seafood specimen. The indicator compound is capable of changing the color of the sampling matrix thereby indicating a qualitative visually detectable color change. A method for the nondestructive detection of the quality of a seafood specimen at any given time and for determining the remaining usable shelf life of the seafood specimen is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642151 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.400 |
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| US 07560436 | Raz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eyal Raz (Del Mar, California); Kyoko Katakura (San Diego, California); Jongdae Lee (San Diego, California); Daniel Rachmilewitz (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of treating gastrointestinal inflammation, methods of treating inflammatory bowel disease, methods of treating Crohn's Disease, and methods of treating ulcerative colitis in an individual. The methods generally involve administering an effective amount of an agent that increases the level of a Type I interferon and/or that activates a Type I interferon signaling pathway in the individual. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/359945 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
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| US 07560437 | Cech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Cech (Potomac, Maryland); Joachim Lingner (Epalinges, Switzerland); Toru Nakamura (San Diego, California); Karen B. Chapman (Southborough, Massachusetts); Gregg B. Morin (Oakville, Canada); Calvin B. Harley (Palo Alto, California); William H. Andrews (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a telomerase reverse transcriptase polypeptide or a polypeptide homologous to a telomerase reverse transcriptase. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a polynucleotide encoding either of the aforesaid polypeptides. The present invention is further directed to methods for eliciting an immune response to telomerase reverse transcriptase in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/044692 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07560438 | Fire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Fire (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen Kostas (Chicago, Illinois); Mary Montgomery (St. Paul, Minnesota); Lisa Timmons (Lawrence, Kansas); SiQun Xu (Ballwin, Missouri); Hiroaki Tabara (Shizuoka, Japan); Samuel E. Driver (Providence, Rhode Island); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided of introducing an RNA into a living cell to inhibit gene expression of a target gene in that cell. The process may be practiced ex vivo or in vivo. The RNA has a region with double-stranded structure. Inhibition is sequence-specific in that the nucleotide sequences of the duplex region of the RNA and of a portion of the target gene are identical. The present invention is distinguished from prior art interference in gene expression by antisense or triple-strand methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283190 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07560477 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to S1P analogs that have activity as S1P receptor modulating agents and the use of such compounds to treat diseases associated with inappropriate S1P receptor activity. The compounds have the general structure: structure: wherein R11 is C5-C18 alkyl or C5-C18 alkenyl; Q is C3-C6 optionally substituted cycloalkyl, C3-C6 optionally substituted heterocyclic, C3-C6 optionally substituted aryl C3-C6 optionally substituted heteroaryl or —NH(CO)—; R3 is H, C1-C4 alkyl, (C1-C4 alkyl)OH or (C1-C4 alkyl)NH2; R23 is H or C1-C4 alkyl, and R15 is hydroxy, phosphonate, or wherein X and R12 is O or S; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or tautomer thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748296 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/400 |
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| US 07560488 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery W. Kelly (LaJolla, California); Yoshiki Sekijima (Matsumoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Kinetic stabilization of the native state of transthyretin is an effective mechanism for preventing protein misfolding. Because transthyretin misfolding plays an important role in transthyretin amyloid diseases, inhibiting such misfolding can be used as an effective treatment or prophylaxis for such diseases. Treatment methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527020 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/568 |
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| US 07560535 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520849 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/395 |
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| US 07560536 | Kingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. I. Kingston (Blacksburg, Virginia); Shugeng Cao (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Ipomoeassin compounds derived from morning glory plant material (especially Ipomoea sp. from Suriname) are useful as anti-cancer agents. The novel compounds also are useful for treating neurodegenerative disorders (such as Alzheimer's disease) in human patients. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366806 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/6.500 |
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| US 07560538 | Koike |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chihiro Koike (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides porcine isogloboside 3 (iGb3) synthase protein, cDNA, and genomic DNA regulatory sequence. The present also invention includes porcine animals, tissue and organs as well as cells and cell lines derived from such animals, tissue and organs, which lack expression of functional iGb3 synthase. Such animals, tissues, organs and cells can be used in research and in medical therapy, including xenotransplantation. In addition, methods are provided to prepare organs, tissues, and cells lacking the porcine iGb3 synthase gene for use in xenotransplantation. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/981935 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07560570 | Boger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Potent inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) are constructed having Ki's below 200 pM and activities 102-103 times more potent than the corresponding trifluoromethyl ketones. The potent inhibitors combine several features, viz.: 1.) an α-keto heterocylic head group; 2.) a hydrocarbon linkage unit employing an optimal C12-C8 chain length; and 3.) a phenyl or other π-unsaturation corresponding to the arachidonyl Δ8,9/Δ11,12 and/or oleyl Δ9,10 positions. A preferred α-keto heterocylic head group is α-keto N4 oxazolopyridine, with incorporation of a second weakly basic nitrogen. Fatty acid amide hydrolase is an enzyme responsible for the degradation of oleamide (an endogenous sleep-inducing lipid) and anandamide (an endogenous ligand for cannabinoid receptors). |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092412 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/200 |
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| US 07560596 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); Kevin W. Anderson (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to ligands for transition metals. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of catalysts comprising these ligands in various transition-metal-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The subject methods provide improvements in many features of the transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, including the range of suitable substrates, number of catalyst turnovers, reaction conditions, and efficiency. For example, improvements have been realized in transition metal-catalyzed: aryl amination reactions; aryl amidation reactions; Suzuki couplings; and Sonogashira couplings. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to catalysts and methods of using them that operate in aqueous solvent systems. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328426 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/13 |
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| US 07560610 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Roberts (Seattle, Washington); Steven R. Coats (Seattle, Washington); Matthew L. Fero (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Hypercellular nonhuman organisms have functionally inactivated expression of a cyclin inhibitor gene, especially p27. The growth rate of nonhuman organisms are increased such that a desired size is attained more quickly than as compared to nonvariant organisms. Inhibitors of the p27 cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor protein or sequences encoding the protein modulate vertebrate cell cycle progression and increase the proportion of dividing cells to non-dividing cells in a population of treated cells. As the proportion of dividing cells increases, the cell population, e.g., hematopoietic progenitor (stem) cells, is more efficiently used for gene therapy applications. Transgenic animals and plants, and knockout alleles are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408157 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560925 | Nishimura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight G. Nishimura (Palo Alto, California); Tolga Cukur (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing selective spectral suppression in balanced SSFP magnetic resonance imaging for a first and second species is provided. A plurality of balanced SSFP images are acquired. Each acquisition includes applying RF excitations in a sequence of TR intervals with each being applied in an associated TR interval. The sequence of TR intervals includes at least one data acquisition TR interval and at least two secondary TR intervals each having a duration that is shorter than the data acquisition TR interval. A first secondary TR interval precedes the data acquisition TR interval and a second secondary TR interval follows the data acquisition TR interval. The duration of the second secondary TR interval is substantially equal to the first secondary TR interval such that the sequence of TR intervals is substantially symmetric with respect to duration about a center point of the sequence of TR intervals. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113848 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561329 | Zahniser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytyc Corporation (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Zahniser (Neeham, Massachusetts); David Zahniser (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Daniel Parsons (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscope illumination system includes a light source having at least four LED light sources, each LED source emitting light within a different portion of the visible spectrum. Each of the at least four LED light sources may be independently controllable. The resultant light emitted from the at least four LED sources substantially approximates that from an incandescent light source. In one embodiment, the system includes at least one red LED, at least one green LED, at least one blue LED, and at least one yellow LED. Other color combinations are also possible. The illumination may be positioned to place a sample holder such as a slide within the optical path of the light source. The system further includes an optical magnification system for magnifying an image of the biological sample. This may include a camera or traditional magnification optics. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/611123 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561909 | Pai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinay M. Pai (New York, New York); Han Wen (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Navigator methods are disclosed that are based on detecting a flow-sensitive signal within a subject, and using the position of the signal to track subject motion between imaging sequences. In a disclosed embodiment, the fast-moving blood volume in the left ventricle of the heart is detected and used as a reference point to correct for cardiac motion that results from respiratory motion in a subject. The navigator based on the position of the fast-moving blood volume in the left ventricle may be applied prospectively to shift a subsequent imaging slice to compensate for subject motion, and thereby provide MRI images with increased clarity and resolution. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244903 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Kubena (Oak Park, California); David T. Chang (Calabasas, California); Jinsoo Kim (Avondale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a quartz nanoresonator which can be integrated on a substrate, along with other electronics is disclosed. In this method a quartz substrate is bonded to a base substrate. The quartz substrate is metallized so that a bias voltage is applied to the resonator, thereby causing the quartz substrate to resonate at resonant frequency greater than 100 MHz. The quartz substrate can then be used to drive other electrical elements with a frequency equal to its resonant frequency. The quartz substrate also contains tuning pads to adjust the resonant frequency of the resonator. Additionally, a method for accurately thinning a quartz substrate of the resonator is provided. The method allows the thickness of the quartz substrate to be monitored while the quartz substrate is simultaneously thinned. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800289 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/594 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559236 | Lapota 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 Lapota (San Diego, California); Gregory Wayne Anderson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Portable profiler for profiling a marine biosphere and method of assembling the profiler. A portable profiler is provided for profiling a marine biosphere, comprising a housing; a ballast coupled to the housing for controlling movement of the housing in the biosphere; a light-sensitive detector assembly coupled to the housing for detecting bioluminescence, the detector assembly capable of generating an output signal in response to the bioluminescence detected thereby; and a data analysis and storage device coupled to the light-sensitive detector assembly for receiving the output signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726205 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/170.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559238 | Smith 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) | Gabriel L. Smith (Odenton, Maryland); Daniel J. Jean (Odenton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertial shock bandpass filter for detecting a shock event between first and second acceleration levels. The inertial shock bandpass filter includes a primary inertial element and at least one secondary inertial element supported by respective spring arrangements. The inertial elements include complementary engageable gripping surfaces, which engage in response to an acceleration above the second acceleration level to prevent movement of the primary inertial element and prevent latch engagement. The primary inertial element will, in response to an acceleration between the first and second acceleration levels, engage the latch. An acceleration level below the first acceleration level is insufficient to cause either an engagement of the gripping surfaces or a latching of the primary inertial element. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444816 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559288 | Amidon |
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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) | Charles Philip Amidon (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention as disclosed is a recoverable tethered optical fiber buoy and winch assembly that is mounted to the back of the sail or the back of an aft non-moving surface of an underwater vehicle and housed in a configuration to provide very little additional drag to the underwater vehicle when the assembly is not deployed. The invention provides a capability to connect ocean surface visual or radio frequency sensors to an underwater mobile platform with a very high data rate link that is retrievable. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/829987 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559505 | Janka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Grand Prairie, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Janka (Grapevine, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes means for biasing a first airfoil of a vehicle toward a fully deployed position, means for restraining the first airfoil in a stowed position, means for releasing the first airfoil from the stowed position, means for restraining the first airfoil in a partially deployed position, and means for releasing the first airfoil from the partially deployed position. A method includes restraining an airfoil in a stowed position, releasing the airfoil from the stowed position, and biasing the airfoil from the stowed position toward a fully deployed position. The method further includes restraining the airfoil in a partially deployed position, releasing the airfoil from the partially deployed position, and biasing the airfoil from the partially deployed position toward the fully deployed position. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292226 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559902 | Ting et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Ting (Acton, Massachusetts); Brian Farrell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Jeremy Bowman (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A physiological monitoring garment includes first and second elastic fabric portions. An elongate stretchable textile data/power bus is disposed between the first and second elastic fabric portions. The elongate stretchable textile data/power bus includes a plurality of integral conductors, woven, knitted, or braided along the length thereof. One or more sensors are connected to the elongate stretchable textile data/power bus. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/922336 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559969 | Sanjurjo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angel Sanjurjo (San Jose, California); Eugene Thiers (San Mateo, California); Kai-Hung Lau (Cupertino, California); Don L. Hildenbrand (Mountain View, California); Gopala N. Krishnan (Sunnyvale, California); Esperanza Alvarez (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally directed towards a method for producing a solid metallic composition by reacting a gaseous metal halide with a reducing agent are described. In one embodiment, the method includes reacting a gaseous metal halide with a reducing agent in a manner effective to form a nonsolid reaction product, wherein the metal halide has the formula MXi, in which M is a metal selected from a transition metal of the periodic table, aluminum, silicon, boron, and combinations thereof, X is a halogen, i is greater than 0, and the reducing agent is a gaseous reducing agent selected from hydrogen and a compound that releases hydrogen, and combinations thereof; and solidifying the reaction product, thereby forming a metallic composition comprising M that is substantially free from halides. The invention may be used to produce high-purity metallic compositions, particularly titanium particles and alloys thereof for use in powder metallurgy applications. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913688 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560138 | Perepezko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Joon S. Park (Madison, Wisconsin); Ridwan N. Sakidja (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides oxidation resistant coatings for transition metal substrates and transition metal alloy substrates and method for producing the same. The coatings may be multilayered, multiphase coatings or gradient multiphase coatings. In some embodiments the transition metal alloys may be boron-containing molybdenum silicate-based binary and ternary alloys. The coatings are integrated into the substrates to provide durable coatings that stand up under extreme temperature conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299427 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560242 | Ruoslahti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Darren M. Brown (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Metadherin, a protein that controls metastasis, and variants of metadherin are described. DNA sequences encoding the same and methods of production are described. Therapies involving the application of metadherin, binding agents that bind to metadherin, such as antibodies, and expression modulating agents, such as siRNA, are described. The use of metadherin or metadherin variants for delivering desired substances to particular lung tissue is described. A method of diagnosing metastatic cells based on the presence of metadherin is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986466 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560325 | Merrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SemiSouth Laboratories, Inc. (Starkville, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Neil Merrett (Starkville, Mississippi); Igor Sankin (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making a semiconductor device such as a lateral junction field effect transistor (JFET) are described. The methods are self-aligned and involve selective epitaxial growth using a regrowth mask material to form the gate or the source/drain regions of the device. The methods can eliminate the need for ion implantation. The device can be made from a wide band-gap semiconductor material such as SiC. The regrowth mask material can be TaC. The devices can be used in harsh environments including applications involving exposure to radiation and/or high temperatures. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102382 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560400 | Fredberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin I. Fredberg (Stoughton, Massachusetts); Peter H. Sheahan (Groton, Massachusetts); Sharon A. Elsworth (Mason, New Hampshire); Kaichang Chang (Northboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A radome comprising flexible composite fabric material including polyester-polyarylate fibers in a flexible resin matrix material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/620884 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560417 | Cerrina |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis of chain molecules such as DNA is carried out in a conduit having an interior channel with an inlet end and an outlet end. At least one wall of the conduit is substantially transparent to selected wavelengths of light. Solid carrier particles are contained within the interior channel of the conduit. A plurality of controllable light sources are mounted at spaced locations along the length of the transparent wall of the conduit to allow selective illumination of separated sections of the particles within the conduit. When a light source is turned on, a photodeprotecting group is removed from the carrier particles in the section that is illuminated by the light source. A reagent containing a selected base is flowed through the conduit so that the base will attach to the carrier particles in those sections which have been exposed to light and deprotected. Reagents may be applied which subsequently again protect the bases followed by selective application of light to certain sections, removal of the deprotection group, and attachment of a new base, with the process repeated until desired sequences have been formed on the carrier particles at each of the separated sections in the conduit. The synthesized molecules may then be removed for direct use or further processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/034632 |
| 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 56/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560520 | Orlicki 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) | Joshua A. Orlicki (Harve de Grace, Maryland); Robert E. Jensen (Newark, Delaware); Matthew S. Bratcher (Baldwin, Maryland); Steven H. McKnight (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for modifying a polymer are disclosed herein. A matrix is generally provided having a surface thereof, wherein the matrix comprises a plurality of hyperbranched polymers. The plurality of hyperbranched polymers can be chemically bound to a plurality of surfactants or order to modify the surface and produce a polymeric material thereof. The surface is tailored with a plurality of functional groups that self-assemble and are deliverable to the surface of the solution, including interfaces thereof, thereby permitting a high-density assembly of functional groups to operate in concert with one another in order to generate a modified surface thereof. The polymeric material produced thereof can be reversibly adaptable to environmental conditions through a blooming of varying surface functional group to the surface of the solution. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/267262 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560523 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Anna Cherian (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey M. Rose (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One step ortho-alkylation of anilines with styrenes to give chiral anilines is obtained using a strong acid catalyst, e.g. CF3SO3H. Condensation of the product to give ligand and metallation gives complex which catalyzes polymerization of propylene to give isotactic propylene or regiorandom propylene of low PDI or blocks thereof, depending on polymerization temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508333 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560828 | Fondriest |
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| INVENTOR(S) | William Fondriest (Deland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular vehicle cable system for adapting military vehicles with the MILES 2000 Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System used by the United States Armed Forces and other armed forces around the world for training purposes is disclosed. A modular vehicle cable system is provided to allow the user the ability to troubleshoot, remove, and replace certain sections of the system quicker and easier than previously allowed. The design also allows for the installation of additional systems with only minor modifications. The modular vehicle cable system not only makes a cable system more reliable through inherent design, but also allows the user the ability to remove and replace a specific portion of a cable system without disrupting the other systems associated with a cable system. The modular nature of the cable system reduces maintenance and repair times by enabling rapid diagnosis and replacement of defective cable components and sections thereby maximizing training exercises by minimizing vehicle down time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599538 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560832 | Steenson, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Steenson, Jr. (New Boston, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A power supply includes a power source having first and second terminals. A circuit is coupled to the source and is operable to maintain a first quantity between the terminals within a predetermined range of values until a second quantity between the terminals has a predetermined value. Such a power supply provides the ability to delay activating a load until the current that the supply can provide is at a level acceptable for proper load function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093931 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560855 | Baird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loki Incorporated (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Baird (Rolla, Missouri); Sergey Shkuratov (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and energy generators that generate electrical energy through direct explosive shock wave depolarization of at least one ferroelectric element. In one embodiment, a generator (10) comprises a ferroelectric element (12), output terminals (14) coupled with the ferroelectric element (12), an explosive charge (16), and a detonator (18) coupled with the explosive charge (16). The detonator (18) is operable to detonate the explosive charge (16) to generate a shock wave that propagates at least partially through the ferroelectric element (12) to generate a voltage across at least two of the output terminals (14). |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/461349 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560971 | Heikkila et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter W. Heikkila (Burnsville, Minnesota); Michael T. Johnson (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A level shift circuit for providing predictable outputs when VDDH is powering up and minimizing DC current when VDDL is powering up. The level shift circuit may have a control circuit that includes a first inverter with an input coupled to VDDL, one or more diodes coupled between the first inverter and its powering voltage supply, a second inverter coupled to an output of the first inverter (optionally coupled to its voltage supply via one or more diodes), a third inverter coupled to an output of the second control inverter, an NMOS transistor coupled to an output of the third inverter that forces the output of the level shift circuit to the ground voltage when enabled, and a PMOS transistor coupled to an output of the third inverter that disconnects a portion of the level shift circuit, and thus the output of the level shift circuit, from VDDH when disabled. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/956058 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561003 | Kroening |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMS Technologies, Inc. (Norcross, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam M. Kroening (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved multi-junction waveguide circulator overlaps two quarter-wave dielectric transformer sections so that the transitional sections occur concurrently in the same length of waveguide. Consequently, the two quarter-wavelength sections require a total length of between one-quarter wavelength and one-half wavelength, with no air gap between the two sections along the length of the internal cavity. The improved waveguide circulator can be implemented in variations from a minimum of two ferrite circulator elements held in close proximity to one another to any number of ferrite elements as required to achieve the desired isolation performance or to create a switch matrix with any combination of input and output ports. The improved waveguide circulator minimizes the length of the transitions between adjacent ferrite elements and thus reduces losses, component size, and mass. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/931467 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561105 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Murphy (Weatherford, Texas); Peter Kocur (Fort Worth, Texas); Layne G. Lenning (Keller, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of selecting receiving pairs from a set of at least three receivers that may be used to localize an emitter. This involves identifying the set of at least three receivers to be used to localize the emitter. An isochron may be developed for each receiver pair wherein each isochron has a finite width. The intersection of two isochrons creates an uncertainty parallelogram. When the intersection of two isochrones is substantially orthogonal or subtends a relatively large angle, uncertainty based on the intersection angle is minimized and uncertainty becomes primarily a function of isochron width. To determine acceptable or best receiver pairs to be used, the intersections of each isochron pair may be analyzed. The uncertainty parallelograms and intersection angles are compared for each pair of intersecting isochrons. Then, receiver pairs that produced the isochrons that result in a reduced or compact uncertainty parallelogram may be selected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146842 |
| 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 342/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561109 | Walton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); Syntonics LLC (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio); Bruce G. Montgomery (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna made up of addressable conductive segments, or pixel elements, affixed to the top of each piston in a piston array is presented. The pixel elements can be activated in less than a millisecond to form an antenna array and transmission line pattern using movable pistons and a two-dimensional actuator. Each piston comprises a handle, a bottom conductive segment affixed to the top of the handle, a dielectric segment affixed to the uppermost surface of the bottom conductive segment, and a top conductive segment affixed to the uppermost surface of the dielectric segment. When the piston is not actuated, the top conductive segment forms part of a ground plane. The top conductive segment form part of the transmission line and antenna array patterns, the dielectric segment becomes a dielectric space and the bottom conductive segment forms part of the ground plane when the piston is actuated. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/032269 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561141 | Shahoian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik J. Shahoian (San Leandro, California); Christopher J. Hasser (San Jose, California); Louis B. Rosenberg (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic feedback control device, such as a handheld remote control or handheld game controller, for controlling a graphical object within a graphical display and for outputting forces to a user. A housing includes a button, wherein the user engages the button with a finger. The button is depressible along a degree of freedom by the user. An actuator applies forces to the user through the button along the degree of freedom. A sensor detects displacement of the button along the degree of freedom when the button is depressed by the user. A process, local to the device, controls the actuator to generate the forces upon the button in the degree of freedom to provide a tactile sensation to the user contacting the button. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782939 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561142 | Shahoian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik J. Shahoian (San Ramon, California); Kenneth M. Martin (Palo Alto, California); Bruce M. Schena (Menlo Park, California); David F. Moore (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for controlling magnitude and frequency of vibrotactile sensations for haptic feedback devices. A haptic feedback device, such as a gamepad controller, mouse, remote control, etc., includes a housing, an actuator coupled to the housing, and a mass. In some embodiments, the mass can be oscillated by the actuator and a coupling between the actuator and the mass or between the mass and the housing has a variable compliance. Varying the compliance allows vibrotactile sensations having different magnitudes for a given drive signal to be output. In other embodiments, the actuator is a rotary actuator and the mass is an eccentric mass rotatable by the actuator about an axis of rotation. The eccentric mass has an eccentricity that can be varied relative to the axis of rotation while the mass is rotating. Varying the eccentricity allows vibrotactile sensations having different magnitudes for a given drive signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838332 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561261 | Hilde |
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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) | Jeffrey J. Hilde (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Lasar Stream format is provided which is a logical structure that encapsulates Ladar sensor data generated by a Ladar sensor. The data is packaged into message structures for transmission over a transport medium. The messages form a data stream and when the messages arrive at a destination the messages are processed and made available for use by signal processors such as automatic target recognition system. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/944997 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561613 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Liuqing Yang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for generating digital carrier multi-band user codes for a baseband ultra-wideband (UWB) signal. The digital carrier multi-band user codes comprise spreading codes that enable multiple access in a UWB system. The user codes are digital, lead to baseband operation, and provide flexibility in handling narrow band interference (NBI) within the UWB system. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising generating digital carrier multi-band user codes for a baseband ultra-wideband (UWB) signal of a user in an UWB system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953493 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561864 | Maalouli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ghassan Chehade Maalouli (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin Lamar Allen (Mesa, Arizona); Keith Charles Palermo (Higley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF receiver (12) includes a channel estimator (52). The channel estimator (52) includes a channel estimation filter (82), error signal generator (84), and normalized Least-Mean-Square (NLMS) filter-definition generator 86. The filter (82), error generator (84) and NLMS filter-definition generator (86) function together as an adaptive estimator. An error signal (90) is formed with a received signal (48). The filter (82) filters an estimated transmit signal (74) constructed from lower confidence decision data (66) and higher confidence known preamble data (30″). An adaptive filter definition (94) is formed in a feedback, loop which minimizes correlation between the estimated transmit signal (74) and the error signal (90). A convergence signal (122) is modulated in synchronism with the changes between lower and higher confidence data in the estimated transmit signal (74). |
| FILED | Sunday, December 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566222 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561960 | Soehren |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A. Soehren (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A personal navigation system including one or more sensors that sense motion of a human and output signals corresponding to the motion of the human and a human-motion-classification processing block that receives sensor data from the one or more sensors. The human-motion-classification processing block includes a Kalman filter processing block, an inertial navigation processing block, and a motion classification processing block. The Kalman filter processing block executes a Kalman filter that provides corrections to the motion classification processing block. The inertial navigation processing block receives input sensor data from the sensors and outputs a navigation solution. The motion classification processing block executes a motion classification algorithm that implements a step-time threshold between two types of motion, identifies a type of motion based on the received sensor data, and outputs a distance-traveled estimate to the Kalman filter processing block based on the identified type of motion. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534511 |
| 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 71/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07562123 | Reich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Reich (Mountain View, California); Juan Liu (Milpitas, California); Jie Liu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a distributed sensor network, one or more devices, for example, forming a collaborative group, are associated with a physical phenomenon based on geographical proximity. The sensor network is capable of detecting new phenomena and changing the membership of the collaborative group as the phenomenon changes. Sensors not associated with a detected phenomenon are available to detect new phenomenon, and one group may exist per phenomenon. Upon detection of a phenomenon, a group of nodes is formed and a leader node is elected. As the phenomenon changes over time, new devices come into proximity of the phenomenon and are prevented from forming independent groups associated with the phenomenon. This accomplished in a decentralized way with communication restricted to local neighbors. In a tracking sensor network using a relatively small number of sensors, the sensors are active and maintain a coherent belief associating their measurements with a single common vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655301 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07559212 | Bergander |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Bergander (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A refrigerant pressurization system including an ejector having a first conduit for flowing a liquid refrigerant therethrough and a nozzle for accelerating a vapor refrigerant therethrough. The first conduit is positioned such that the liquid refrigerant is discharged from the first conduit into the nozzle. The ejector includes a mixing chamber for condensing the vapor refrigerant. The mixing chamber comprises at least a portion of the nozzle and transitions into a second conduit having a substantially constant cross sectional area. The condensation of the vapor refrigerant in the mixing chamber causes the refrigerant mixture in at least a portion of the mixing chamber to be at a pressure greater than that of the refrigerant entering the nozzle and greater than that entering the first conduit. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588622 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559234 | Chorpening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin T. Chorpening (Morgantown, West Virginia); Jimmy Thornton (Morgantown, West Virginia); E. David Huckaby (Morgantown, West Virginia); George A. Richards (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling the combustion process in a combustion system to determine the amplitude and/or frequencies of dynamic pressure oscillations during combustion. An electrode in communication with the combustion system senses hydrocarbon ions and/or electrons produced by the combustion process and calibration apparatus calibrates the relationship between the standard deviation of the current in the electrode and the amplitudes of the dynamic pressure oscillations by applying a substantially constant voltage between the electrode and ground resulting in a current in the electrode and by varying one or more of (1) the flow rate of the fuel, (2) the flow rate of the oxidant, (3) the equivalence ratio, (4) the acoustic tuning of the combustion system, and (5) the fuel distribution in the combustion chamber such that the amplitudes of the dynamic pressure oscillations in the combustion chamber are calculated as a function of the standard deviation of the electrode current. Thereafter, the supply of fuel and/or oxidant is varied to modify the dynamic pressure oscillations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997090 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/112.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559367 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Chester Ledlie Sandberg (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for heating a hydrocarbon containing formation is described. A conduit may be located in an opening in the formation. The conduit includes ferromagnetic material. An electrical conductor is positioned inside the conduit, and is electrically coupled to the conduit at or near an end portion of the conduit so that the electrical conductor and the conduit are electrically coupled in series. Electrical current flows in the electrical conductor in a substantially opposite direction to electrical current flow in the conduit during application of electrical current to the system. The flow of electrons is substantially confined to the inside of the conduit by the electromagnetic field generated from electrical current flow in the electrical conductor so that the outside surface of the conduit is at or near substantially zero potential at 25° C. The conduit may generate heat and heat the formation during application of electrical current. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/585302 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559368 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Eric Pierre de Rouffignac (Rijswijk, Netherlands); Lanny Gene Schoeling (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating an oil shale formation comprising nahcolite is disclosed. The method includes providing a first fluid to a portion of the formation through at least two injection wells. A second fluid is produced from the portion through at least one injection well until at least two injection wells are interconnected such that fluid can flow between the two injection wells. The second fluid includes at least some nahcolite dissolved in the first fluid. The first fluid is injected through one of the interconnected injection wells. The second fluid is produced from at least one of the interconnected injection wells. Heat is provided from one or more heaters to the formation to heat the formation. Hydrocarbon fluids are produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584427 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07559978 | Soloveichik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grigorii Lev Soloveichik (Latham, New York); David Brandon Whitt (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for gas-liquid separation in electrolysis processes is provided. The system includes a first compartment having a liquid carrier including a first gas therein and a second compartment having the liquid carrier including a second gas therein. The system also includes a gas-liquid separator fluidically coupled to the first and second compartments for separating the liquid carrier from the first and second gases. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229984 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560028 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Robert W. Bradshaw (Livermore, California); Daniel E. Dedrick (Berkeley, California); David W. Anderson (Riverbank, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method that achieves water desalination by utilizing and optimizing clathrate hydrate phenomena. Clathrate hydrates are crystalline compounds of gas and water that desalinate water by excluding salt molecules during crystallization. Contacting a hydrate forming gaseous species with water will spontaneously form hydrates at specific temperatures and pressures through the extraction of water molecules from the bulk phase followed by crystallite nucleation. Subsequent dissociation of pure hydrates yields fresh water and, if operated correctly, allows the hydrate-forming gas to be efficiently recycled into the process stream. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489306 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560264 | Studier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. William Studier (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for promoting auto-induction of transcription of cloned DNA in cultures of bacterial cells grown batchwise, the transcription being under the control of a promoter whose activity can be induced by an exogenous inducer whose ability to induce said promoter is dependent on the metabolic state of said bacterial cells. Initially, a culture media is provided which includes: i) an inducer that causes induction of transcription from said promoter in said bacterial cells; and ii) a metabolite that prevents induction by said inducer, the concentration of said metabolite being adjusted so as to substantially preclude induction by said inducer in the early stages of growth of the bacterial culture, but such that said metabolite is depleted to a level that allows induction by said inducer at a later stage of growth. The culture medium is inoculated with a bacterial inoculum, the inoculum comprising bacterial cells containing cloned DNA, the transcription of which is induced by said inducer. The culture is then incubated under conditions appropriate for growth of the bacterial cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/675936 |
| 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 435/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560291 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uthamalingam Balachandran (Hinsdale, Illinois); Beihai Ma (Naperville, Illinois); Dean Miller (Darien, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered article of manufacture and a method of manufacturing same is disclosed. A substrate has a biaxially textured MgO crystalline layer having the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the plane of the substrate deposited thereon. A layer of one or more of YSZ or Y2O3 and then a layer of CeO2 is deposited on the MgO. A crystalline superconductor layer with the c-axes thereof normal to the plane of the substrate is deposited on the CeO2 layer. Deposition of the MgO layer on the substrate is by the inclined substrate deposition method developed at Argonne National Laboratory. Preferably, the MgO has the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the normal to the substrate in the range of from about 10° to about 40° and YBCO superconductors are used. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329937 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560409 | Pitts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Roland Pitts (Lakewood, Colorado); Ping Liu (Irvine, California); R. Davis Smith (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Photo-oxidation catalysts and methods for cleaning a metal-based catalyst are disclosed. An exemplary catalyst system implementing a photo-oxidation catalyst may comprise a metal-based catalyst, and a photo-oxidation catalyst for cleaning the metal-based catalyst in the presence of light. The exposure to light enables the photo-oxidation catalyst to substantially oxidize absorbed contaminants and reduce accumulation of the contaminants on the metal-based catalyst. Applications are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/207844 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560535 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making glycoproteins, both in vitro and in vivo, are provided. One method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid into a protein and attaching one or more saccharide moieties to the unnatural amino acid. Another method involves incorporating an unnatural amino acid that includes a saccharide moiety into a protein. Proteins made by both methods can be further modified with additional sugars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520849 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560847 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A two-stage eutectic metal brush assembly having a slip ring rigidly coupled to a shaft, the slip ring being electrically coupled to first voltage polarity. At least one brush is rigidly coupled to a second ring and slidingly engaged to the slip ring. Eutectic metal at least partially fills an annulus between the second ring and a stationary ring. At least one conductor is rigidly coupled to the stationary ring and electrically coupled to a second voltage polarity. Electrical continuity is maintained between the first voltage polarity and the second voltage polarity. Periodic rotational motion is present between the stationary ring and the second ring. Periodic rotational motion is also present between the brush and the slip ring. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463994 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561346 | Ruda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Energetics, Inc (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell C. Ruda (Tucson, Arizona); Alan W. Greynolds (Tucson, Arizona); Tilman W. Stuhlinger (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more disc-shaped angular shear plates each include a region thereon having a thickness that varies with a nonlinear function. For the case of two such shear plates, they are positioned in a facing relationship and rotated relative to each other. Light passing through the variable thickness regions in the angular plates is refracted. By properly timing the relative rotation of the plates and by the use of an appropriate polynomial function for the thickness of the shear plate, light passing therethrough can be focused at variable positions. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/622919 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/732 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561569 | Thiede |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Thiede (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for converting packet streams into session summaries. Session summaries are a group of packets each having a common source and destination internet protocol (IP) address, and, if present in the packets, common ports. The system first captures packets from a transport layer of a network of computer systems, then decodes the packets captured to determine the destination IP address and the source IP address. The system then identifies packets having common destination IP addresses and source IP addresses, then writes the decoded packets to an allocated memory structure as session summaries in a queue. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179230 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07559385 | Burt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian T. Burt (Edina, Minnesota); Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature, rugged robotic vehicle suitable for a variety of tasks including covert surveillance and reconnaissance. The vehicle may include a unitary single-piece chassis that provides structural rigidity to the vehicle and protection of onboard equipment. The vehicle may be configured to be thrown or dropped into an intended target site from a remote location. In one embodiment, the vehicle may include a wheel assembly having a tire with shock absorption capabilities in both radial and axial directions to cushion the vehicle from impact loads experienced during delivery. In some embodiments, the wheel assemblies may couple to a drive motor assembly of the vehicle via a clutch assembly that permits slippage between components to reduce potential damage to drive train components. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073790 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/65.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560248 | Raines |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutant forms of ribonuclease inhibitor are described which are rendered more resistant to oxidation while retaining affinity for both ribonuclease and angiogenin. The mutant forms have another amino acid, typically an alanine, substituted for one or more of the adjacent cysteine residues in the wild-type sequence to prevent the formation of unwanted disulfide bonds which can disrupt the effectiveness of the molecule. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/234028 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560258 | Brueggemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn B. Brueggemeier (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen J. Kron (Oak Park, Illinois); Sean P. Palecek (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a polyacrylamide-based method of fabricating surface-bound peptide and protein arrays, the arrays themselves, and a method of using the arrays to detect proteins and to measure their concentration, binding affinity, and kinetics. Peptides, proteins, fusion proteins, protein complexes, and the like, are labeled with an acrylic moiety and attached to acrylic-functionalized glass surfaces through a copolymerization with acrylic monomer. The specific attachment of GST-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein was more than 7-fold greater than the nonspecific attachment of non-acrylic labeled GST-GFP. Surface-attached GST-GFP (0.32 ng /mm2) was detectable by direct measurement of GFP fluorescence and this lower detection limit was reduced to 0.080 ng/mm2 using indirect antibody-based detection. The polyacrylamide-based surface attachment strategy was also used to measure the kinetics of substrate phosphorylation by the kinase c-Src. The surface attachment strategy is applicable to the proteomics field and addresses denaturation and dehydration problems associated with protein microarray development. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066136 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560287 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); S. James Remington (Eugene, Oregon); Andrew B. Cubitt (San Diego, California); Roger Heim (Del Mar, California); Mats F. Ormö (Huddinge, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered fluorescent proteins, nucleic acids encoding them and methods of use are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/924232 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560523 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Anna Cherian (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey M. Rose (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One step ortho-alkylation of anilines with styrenes to give chiral anilines is obtained using a strong acid catalyst, e.g. CF3SO3H. Condensation of the product to give ligand and metallation gives complex which catalyzes polymerization of propylene to give isotactic propylene or regiorandom propylene of low PDI or blocks thereof, depending on polymerization temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508333 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/348 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560582 | Buchwald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); David W. Old (Somerville, Massachusetts); John P. Wolfe (Irvine, California); Michael Palucki (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Ken Kamikawa (Osaka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to novel ligands for transition metals. A second aspect of the present invention relates to the use of catalysts comprising these ligands in transition metal-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The subject methods provide improvements in many features of the transition metal-catalyzed reactions, including the range of suitable substrates, reaction conditions, and efficiency. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781651 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560641 | Menezes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shalini Menezes (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Menezes (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new photovoltaic device configuration based on an n-copper indium selenide absorber and a p-type window is disclosed. A fabrication method to produce this device on flexible or rigid substrates is described that reduces the number of cell components, avoids hazardous materials, simplifies the process steps and hence the costs for high volume solar cell manufacturing. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460872 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560658 | Hunt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan J. Hunt (Plymouth, Michigan); Gerald Mourou (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ajit P. Joglekar (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Edgar Meyhofer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John A. Nees (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Greg Spooner (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Here is presented a versatile technique for machining of nanometer-scale features using tightly-focused ultrashort laser pulses. By the invention, the size of features can be reduced far below the wavelength of light, thus enabling nanomachining of a wide range of materials. The features may be extremely small (<20 nm) and are highly reproducible. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167463 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561624 | Fonseka et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Fonseka (Plano, Texas); Jin Liu (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Binary data signal multi-line interval encoding and decoding arrangements supporting high speed data communications consistent with certain embodiments produce a signal having a plurality of pulses with a minimum pulse duration of T. The pulses are arranged in a signal pattern selected as one of M possible signal patterns of L bits transmitted over N time intervals, with each time interval being of T seconds in duration, to represent one of M possible message sequence, where M>2N. The plurality of pulses have transitions that occur at times falling between the boundaries of the time interval T. Embodiments may be implemented in hardware, with a computer executing a software program within, or with both. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. |
| FILED | Monday, November 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/994465 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561633 | Parhi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Yongru Gu (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to efficiently deal with FEXT crosstalk in wireline communication system via MIMO equalization is presented. A MIMO-DFE based receiver architecture is developed to demonstrate the advantage over the traditional receiver design. A MIMO structure for systems with TH precoding is also developed for 10GBASE-T application. The proposed architecture overcomes the limitation of the traditional schemes and achieves a better SNR performance and lower receiver complexity. The proposed method relies on the fact that FEXT inherently contains information about the symbols transmitted from the three far end transmitters and it can be viewed as a signal rather than noise. Therefore, MIMO techniques are applied to turn FEXT into a benefit for the receiver design. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487067 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561972 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Welch (Fremont, California); Claes Gustafsson (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of designing a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide sequence of a predetermined polypeptide is provided. A frequency lookup table corresponding to an expression system is obtained. The table comprises a plurality of sequence elements and a plurality of frequency ranges, each frequency range for a corresponding sequence element. Each frequency range is a range of frequencies with which a corresponding sequence element can occur in a polynucleotide. The polynucleotide sequence is defined using the frequency lookup table by determining, for each respective sequence element in the frequency lookup table, whether the respective sequence element encodes a portion of the polypeptide sequence. When the respective sequence element encodes a portion of the polypeptide sequence, the sequence element is incorporated into the polynucleotide at a frequency of occurrence that is within the frequency range specified for the respective sequence element in the lookup table. The polynucleotide sequence is then outputted. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184234 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561973 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Welch (Fremont, California); Claes Gustafsson (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides in an expression system. A plurality of polynucleotides, each encoding a polypeptide sequence, is constructed. An amino acid is encoded a plurality of times in both a first and second polynucleotide in the plurality. The amino acid is encodable by a plurality of synonymous codons including a first codon. The first codon is in the first polynucleotide at a first frequency relative to other synonymous codons, and is in the second polynucleotide at a second frequency relative to other synonymous codons. The first and second frequencies are different. Each polynucleotide is individually expressed in the expression system to measure an expression property value of the polynucleotides, thereby determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides. The property is an effect that a frequency of use of one or more codons has on expression of polynucleotides in the expression system. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184240 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07560641 | Menezes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shalini Menezes (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Menezes (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new photovoltaic device configuration based on an n-copper indium selenide absorber and a p-type window is disclosed. A fabrication method to produce this device on flexible or rigid substrates is described that reduces the number of cell components, avoids hazardous materials, simplifies the process steps and hence the costs for high volume solar cell manufacturing. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460872 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561633 | Parhi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Yongru Gu (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to efficiently deal with FEXT crosstalk in wireline communication system via MIMO equalization is presented. A MIMO-DFE based receiver architecture is developed to demonstrate the advantage over the traditional receiver design. A MIMO structure for systems with TH precoding is also developed for 10GBASE-T application. The proposed architecture overcomes the limitation of the traditional schemes and achieves a better SNR performance and lower receiver complexity. The proposed method relies on the fact that FEXT inherently contains information about the symbols transmitted from the three far end transmitters and it can be viewed as a signal rather than noise. Therefore, MIMO techniques are applied to turn FEXT into a benefit for the receiver design. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487067 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561972 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Welch (Fremont, California); Claes Gustafsson (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of designing a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide sequence of a predetermined polypeptide is provided. A frequency lookup table corresponding to an expression system is obtained. The table comprises a plurality of sequence elements and a plurality of frequency ranges, each frequency range for a corresponding sequence element. Each frequency range is a range of frequencies with which a corresponding sequence element can occur in a polynucleotide. The polynucleotide sequence is defined using the frequency lookup table by determining, for each respective sequence element in the frequency lookup table, whether the respective sequence element encodes a portion of the polypeptide sequence. When the respective sequence element encodes a portion of the polypeptide sequence, the sequence element is incorporated into the polynucleotide at a frequency of occurrence that is within the frequency range specified for the respective sequence element in the lookup table. The polynucleotide sequence is then outputted. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184234 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561973 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Welch (Fremont, California); Claes Gustafsson (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides in an expression system. A plurality of polynucleotides, each encoding a polypeptide sequence, is constructed. An amino acid is encoded a plurality of times in both a first and second polynucleotide in the plurality. The amino acid is encodable by a plurality of synonymous codons including a first codon. The first codon is in the first polynucleotide at a first frequency relative to other synonymous codons, and is in the second polynucleotide at a second frequency relative to other synonymous codons. The first and second frequencies are different. Each polynucleotide is individually expressed in the expression system to measure an expression property value of the polynucleotides, thereby determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides. The property is an effect that a frequency of use of one or more codons has on expression of polynucleotides in the expression system. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184240 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07559619 | 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); Scott J. H. Limb (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital lithography system including a droplet source (printhead) for selectively ejecting liquid droplets of a phase-change masking material, and an imaging system for capturing (generating) image data representing printed features formed by the ejected liquid droplets. The system also includes a digital control system that detects defects in the printed features, for example, by comparing the image data with stored image data. The digital control system then modifies the printed feature to correct the defect, for example, by moving the printhead over the defect and causing the printhead to eject droplets onto the defect's location. In one embodiment, a single-printhead secondary printer operates in conjunction with a multi-printhead main printer to correct defects. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204648 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07562085 | 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); Adam Perer (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are presented for determining a first set of display elements, each display element associated with a first display characteristic. An interesting element in the first set of display elements is determined. A second set of elements related to the interesting element is determined. A third set of elements based on the first and second set of elements is determined using intersection, union, subtraction addition and other logical operations. A third set of elements not yet added to the element collection is determined. The elements in the third set are associated with a second or ghosted display characteristic. The elements in the third set are inserted within the sorted context of the visualization based on spatial distortion rules which help to preserve spatial memory cues in the visualization of the element collection. The elements may be documents in an information repository, linked contact information, linked information records in a database or other types of information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136255 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07560287 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); S. James Remington (Eugene, Oregon); Andrew B. Cubitt (San Diego, California); Roger Heim (Del Mar, California); Mats F. Ormö (Huddinge, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered fluorescent proteins, nucleic acids encoding them and methods of use are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/924232 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560641 | Menezes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shalini Menezes (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Menezes (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new photovoltaic device configuration based on an n-copper indium selenide absorber and a p-type window is disclosed. A fabrication method to produce this device on flexible or rigid substrates is described that reduces the number of cell components, avoids hazardous materials, simplifies the process steps and hence the costs for high volume solar cell manufacturing. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/460872 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07560920 | Ouyang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Materials Testing Technologies, Inc. (Superior, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianhe Ouyang (Superior, Colorado); Yushi Sun (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having a plurality of coils (e.g., numerous thin-film coils formed in an array on a flex circuit), each coil acting as an excitation unit that generates an alternating excitation magnetic signal; and as a sensor configured to detect an eddy-current signal's phase and amplitude changes relative to the excitation magnetic signal. In some embodiments, the apparatus electronically scans a surface (e.g., of a metal plate) by successively switching to individual ones of the plurality of excitation/sensing coils (using, e.g., an analog multiplexer) without physical movement in order to detect anomalous signal changes in a manner that reduces signal changes due to probe lift-off relative to the surface. In some embodiments, the coils are placed across a large area of interest, for inspection of a large surface area in a few seconds without moving the apparatus. This can provide high-sensitivity detection and an accurate indication of flaw locations. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553996 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07561946 | 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 for monitoring and analyzing, in real time, variation with time of an aircraft flight parameter. A time-dependent recovery band, defined by first and second recovery band boundaries that are spaced apart at at least one time point, is constructed for a selected flight parameter and for a selected time recovery time interval length Δt(FP;rec). A flight parameter, having a value FP(t=tp) at a time t=tp, is likely to be able to recover to a reference flight parameter value FP(t′;ref), lying in a band of reference flight parameter values FP(t′;ref;CB), within a time interval given by tp≦t′≦tpΔt(FP;rec), if (or only if) the flight parameter value lies between the first and second recovery band boundary traces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066651 |
| 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 71/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07562355 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for optimizing component composition in a distributed stream-processing environment having a plurality of nodes capable of being associated with one or more of a plurality of stream processing components. The system includes an adaptive composition probing (ACP) module and a hierarchical state manager. The ACP module probes a subset of the plurality of stream processing components to determine the optimal component composition in response to a stream processing request. The hierarchical state manager manages local and global information for use by said ACP module in determining the optimal component composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068785 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07560265 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soo-Hyun Kim (Aurora, Colorado); Charles A. Dinarello (Boulder, Colorado); Tania Azam (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions relating a nucleic acid encoding an interleukin 18-inducible cytokine termed tumor necrosis factor-alpha inducing factor (TAIF) or interleukin-32 (IL-32). In particular, the present invention provides vectors for expressing proteins useful for treating autoimmune diseases and cancer, in part by regulation of tumor necrosis factor-alpha expression. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/578943 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07560869 | Miles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Miles (Princeton, New Jersey); Mikhail Shneider (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for remotely monitoring properties of gases and plasmas is disclosed. A laser beam is focused at a desired region within a gas or plasma to be analyzed, generating an ionized sample region in the gas or plasma. A beam of microwave radiation is directed toward the ionized sample region, and a portion of the microwave radiation is scattered by the ionized sample region and Doppler-shifted in frequency. The scattered, frequency-shifted microwave radiation is received by a microwave receiver, and is processed by a microwave detection system to determine properties of the gas or plasma, including velocities, temperatures, concentrations of molecular species, and other properties of the gas or plasma. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541396 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561404 | Sells |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy Woodrow Sells (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor active bridge circuit (100) provides operation and protection for devices from the effects of battery polarity reversal. The circuit includes first and second field-effect transistors (102, 104) of a first channel type, and third and fourth field-effect transistors (106, 108) of a second channel type that is different from the first channel type. A set of voltage dividers (110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124) and voltage clamping devices (126, 128, 130, 132) permit the circuit (100) to efficiently operate over a wider range of input voltages, without potential damage to the field-effect transistors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/285566 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07561968 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ketao Liu (Cerritos, California); Yeong-Wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Jeffrey L. Lee (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resolver system has at least one resolver and at least one amplifier in electrical communication with each resolver. A reference circuit is in electrical communication with the amplifiers. The reference circuit provides reference signals to the amplifiers. A non-linearity calibration and compensation circuit in communication with each amplifier uses the amplified reference signals to provide scale factors, so as to enhance a precision of the resolver system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/965441 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20090714.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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