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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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| US 07565797 | Nyberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GHKN Engineering LLC (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Gerrit Nyberg (Redmond, Washington); Thomas Adrian Groudle (Redmond, Washington); Richard Doyle Smith (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The thrust of a rocket motor can be varied while maintaining efficiency over a range of pressure ratios using a design that allows for changing the relative position of a plug and a combustion chamber exit. The plug or the chamber exit may be attached to an adaptive control system for position modification. The plug may be positioned in a plug nozzle configuration or in an expansion-deflection (ED) configuration. In either configuration, the elongated downstream portion of the plug allows for efficiency over a wide range of pressure ratios, while ability to change plug position with respect to the chamber exit allows adjustment of rocket thrust. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066412 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07565804 | Frash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Wayne Frash (Newburyport, Massachusetts); Brian Benscoter Roberts (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel shield is configured for use in the afterburner of a turbofan aircraft engine. The shield includes wings obliquely joined together at a nose, with each of the wings including an offset mounting tab at a proximal end thereof. The wings and tabs are configured to complement a flameholder vane around its leading edge, with the tabs contacting the vane sidewalls to offset the wings outwardly therefrom and form a thermally insulating gap therebetween. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/478229 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07565858 | Boyd 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) | Mallory John Boyd (Ridgecrest, California); Jason R. Allen (Ridgecrest, California); William Rodney Ditzler (Ridgecrest, California); Richard James Busse (Camarillo, California); Michael Dennis Barrett (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed ground sensor threat detection system, which is an automated missile warning system designed to provide reliable, timely and accurate missile location information of shoulder-launched SAMs within the volume under surveillance by a network of sensors. Remote sensor nodes position in proximity to an airport runway monitor the area between the nodes to locate threat missiles. Detection information from each remote sensor node is sent to a central processing node which processes the information to determine if a threat missile is launched against a commercial aircraft. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879524 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07565950 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary F. Hawkins (Torrance, California); Michael J. O'Brien (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sound suppression method includes using a passive noise suppression technology to destructively interfere with a sound wave propagating through a structure at portions of the structure that are positioned apart less than half of a wavelength of the sound wave. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/043198 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07565996 | Das |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gopal Das (Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for transient liquid phase bonding are described herein. Embodiments of these systems and methods utilize sandwich interlayers to produce stronger, more homogeneous bonds than currently possible. These sandwich interlayers have a middle bonding layer sandwiched between two outer bonding layers. The middle bonding layer is a different composition, and may even be a different form, than the outer bonding layers. In embodiments, these sandwich interlayers may be used to join a single crystal material to a polycrystalline material to make a gas turbine engine component, such as an integrally bladed rotor. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957805 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566024 | Krise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DRS Sustainment Systems, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Krise (Florence, Kentucky); Ken Broussard (Ridge City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A piping transport structure for use with a deployment vehicle to provide for improved efficiencies in laying temporary or semi-permanent piping structures. There is also a system for having one or more deployment vehicles smoothly lay piping and to allow for long pipe lays to be carried out in less time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/552341 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Winding, tensioning, or guiding 242/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566465 | Kubata 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) | Bruno K. Kubata (Nairobi, Kenya); Samuel K. Martin (Burtonsville, Maryland); Wilbur K. Milhous (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the treatment of kintoplastid infections by administering a pharmaceutical composition containing an extract from the plant Artemisia annua. The invention also relates to isolated, semi-synthetic and synthetic artemisinins that show improved efficacy in treating kinetoplastid infections. This invention also relates to a method of treating kintoplastid infections with artelinic acid and artemisinins and where Artelinic acid is administered orally. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644494 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/740 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566540 | Cassels 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) | Frederick J. Cassels (Laurel, Maryland); Andrew Lees (Silver Spring, Maryland); Richard F. Schuman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A monoclonal antibody to a consensus peptide of the formula: The monoclonal antibody of the invention binds exclusively to the sequence SAVALTYS (SEQ ID NO:2) and has use as a diagnostic and for prophylaxis against illness arising from E. coli which produce the CS4-CFA/I family of proteins and for treatment of disease arising therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864803 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566684 | Levin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Levin (Dayton, Ohio); Paul N. Barnes (West Milton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconductor coating inclusive, tape-like electrical conductor and windings using such conductor for magnets and electrical machines, etc. The described windings are suited for inclusion of successor superconductor materials such as yttrium barium copper oxide wherein magnetic flux related losses can potentially be excessive and preclude successful machine operation. Winding orientation and configuration of the conductor in an alternating current machine for lower losses are disclosed along with methods and apparatus for achieving the desired windings. Windings intended for differing locations within a machine of this type are made possible by the invention. Equations relating to magnetic losses incurred in such windings are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513400 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566694 | Rider |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric molecules that contain at least one pathogen-detection domain and at least one effector domain, and their methods of use in preventing or treating a pathogen infection in a cell or organism are described. The pathogen-detection domain and effector domain of the chimeric molecules are domains not typically found in nature to be associated together. Agents are also described herein having at least one pathogen-interacting molecular structure and at least one effector-mediating molecular structure, the agent being one that is non-naturally-occurring in a cell. The methods of prevention and treatment described herein are effective for a broad spectrum of pathogens and exhibit little or no toxic side-effects. Assays for the detection of a pathogen, pathogen component, or product produced or induced by a pathogen, are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/503416 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566747 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Moore (Savoy, Illinois); Joseph D. Rule (Urbana, Illinois); Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois); Nancy R. Sottos (Champaign, Illinois); Eric N. Brown (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material comprises (i) a polymer, (ii) a polymerizer, (iii) a protected corresponding activator for the polymerizer, and (iv) a plurality of capsules. The polymerizer is in the capsules, and the corresponding activator is protected with a corresponding encapsulant for the polymer and the polymerizer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840937 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566787 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Cyclin D1 ablative agents and methods of using these agents in the treatment of cancers, and particularly breast cancer. Also provided are methods of treating cancer, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of one of the cyclin D1 ablative agents described herein to a subject in need of such treatment. Also provided are methods of treating cancers comprising using the cyclin D1 ablative agents described herein in combination therapies with existing chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315569 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566879 | Tümer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tümay O. Tümer (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system for imaging an object has an x-ray source for emitting x-rays. A detection system has a plurality of position sensitive detector planes, and the object is located between the x-ray source and the detection system. A portion of the x-rays pass through said object and pass into said plurality of detector planes and are detected within the plurality of detector planes. A multi-channel readout system is coupled to the plurality of position sensitive detector planes. A display system is coupled to the multi-channel readout system, and the display system displays an image of said object. A portion of the x-rays passing into the plurality of detector planes undergoes at least one Compton scatter within the plurality of detection planes and is detected. A total or partial energy corresponding to each portion of the emitted x-rays is recorded by a multichannel readout system. The direction for the said detected x-ray is determined and the direction and total or partial energy corresponding to each detected x-ray is processed by a multi-channel readout system to generate said image. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/378255 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566882 | Hess |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harald F. Hess (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment pertains to a method of electron beam lithography. An illumination electron beam is formed, and a dynamic pattern generating device is used to generate an electron-reflective pattern of pixels and to reflect the illumination electron beam from said pattern so as to form a patterned electron beam. The patterned electron beam is projected onto a platter configured to hold and rotate a plurality of target substrates. Said generated pattern of pixels is shifted in correspondence with the rotation of the platter so that the patterned electron beam writes a swath path of pixels over the target substrates. Other features, aspects and embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638869 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566889 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy R. Klein (Dayton, Ohio); Stanley Rogers (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination of radio frequency energy responsive and infrared energy responsive reflection based plasma radiant energy steering apparatus usable in directing radiant energy originating in for example an antenna array or an infrared source in order to direct the energy to a point of use under conditions of low inertia electrical directing control. Plasma gas films of electrode element determined properties achieve reflection control of the radiant energy both with and without use of a discrete reflector element. Theoretical support and identification of prior art supporting documents are included in the disclosure. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518749 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/503.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566918 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Primit Parikh (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Marcia Moore (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Field effect transistors having a power density of greater than 5 W/mm when operated at a frequency of at least 30 GHz are provided. The power density of at least 5 W/mm may be provided at a drain voltage of 28 V. Transistors with a power density of at least 8 W/mm when operated at 40 GHz at a drain voltage of 28 V are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/360876 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567011 | Jean 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) | Daniel L. Jean (Odenton, Maryland); Ezra Chen (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric actuator moves in a first direction and an opposite direction upon the application and removal of a current. An actuator means is driven by the thermoelectric actuator and includes a set of drive teeth. The drive teeth engage with a first set of teeth on a slider member to move it to a desired position. A spring biases the slider back to an initial position. A keeper arrangement, having teeth that engage a second set of teeth on the slider, maintains the slider in its advanced position and prevents it from going back to its initial position. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701208 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567215 | All 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) | Christopher D. All (Charleston, South Carolina); Jamin E. Barnett (Goose Creek, South Carolina); Robert A. Taylor (Goose Creek, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An inflatable antenna may include a support structure comprised of a flexible material, the support structure having an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall and the outer wall defining an inflation region; a flexible antenna element contained within the support structure; a feed line and a phase line connected to the flexible antenna element; an inflatable bladder contained within the inflation region; and an inflation apparatus coupled to the support structure and in fluid communication with the inflatable bladder. In some embodiments, the inflatable bladder may be readily inserted and removed from the support structure through an opening within the support structure. The inflatable antenna may operate in the UHF satellite communications band. The feed line and phase line may be perpendicularly oriented with respect to the flexible antenna element. In some embodiments, the support structure may not include an inner wall. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877055 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/881 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567391 | Strauch, III 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) | Lester D. Strauch, III (Bel Air, Maryland); Richard J. Kreis (Bel Air, Maryland); Russell Chipman (Tucson, Arizona); Karlton Crabtree (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation source has a radiation-emitter assembly disposed, at least in part, in a first compartment of a housing. A lens system is disposed in a second compartment of the housing so that the lens system is optically coupled to the radiation-emitter assembly. A mirror is disposed in a third compartment of the housing so that the mirror is optically coupled to the lens system. A filter and a conduit are disposed in a fourth compartment of the housing so that the filter and an aperture provided by the conduit are optically coupled to the mirror. Radiation exits the radiation source through the aperture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748817 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567516 | Beshai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nortel Networks Limited (St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Canada); François J. Blouin (Hull, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | In a communication network comprising nodes and links between the nodes, a controller node disseminates routing information including nodal routing tables. A nodal routing table for a given node comprises alternate routes from the given node to other nodes in the network. A controller of the network receives traffic information from nodes and, based on the received traffic information, determines a set of adaptive routing information corresponding to each said node and transmits each set of adaptive routing information to the respective node. Determining the set of adaptive routing information is performed according to a courteous routing scheme. The routing scheme is labeled as “courteous” because, in a contention state, a node-pair that would suffer the least by directing a part of its traffic away from a preferred path yields to node pairs that suffer more by redirecting their traffic. Courteous routing increases the payload throughput and decreases real-time processing effort. A node, having received the set of adaptive routing information, initializes a set of vacancy vectors. The vacancy vectors are used while allocating incoming connection requests to routes. While a connection is allocated to a route, the available capacity of the allocated route, as reported in the vacancy vector, is reduced by the load of the allocated connection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/839237 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567681 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides electroactive polymer transducers that produce out-of-plane deflections. The transducers form a set of surface features based on deflection of an electroactive polymer. The set of surface features may include elevated polymer surface features and/or depressed electrode surface features. Actuation of an active area may produce the polymer deflection that creates one or more surface features. A passive layer may operably connect to a polymer. The passive layer may comprise a thicker and softer material to amplify polymer thickness changes and increase surface feature visibility. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933113 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567714 | Gendron 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) | Marlin L. Gendron (Pass Christian, Mississippi); Geary J. Layne (Slidell, Louisiana); Maura C. Lohrenz (Pearl River, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an expansion shape to each of the initially set bits in the bitmap and identifying vertex bits on the boundary of the cluster formed by at least one expansion shape. A method system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying vertex bits in a bitmap having at least two adjacent bits with non-zero values forming a boundary of a cluster, the interior bits of the cluster having a zero value, including starting from a current non-zero bit, evaluating at least a first adjacent bit and a second adjacent bit, setting an adjacent non-zero bit as the new current bit, and identifying the current bit as a vertex bit if a direction of motion from the current bit to the new current bit changes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997091 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567740 | Bayindir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Bayindir (Ankara, Turkey); Fabien Sorin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayman F. Abouraddy (Boston, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jerimy R. Arnold (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a thermal sensing fiber including a semiconducting element having a fiber length and characterized by a bandgap energy corresponding to a selected operational temperature range for the fiber in which there can be produced a change in thermally-excited electronic charge carrier population in the semiconducting element in response to a temperature change in the selected temperature range. At least one pair of conducting electrodes is provided in contact with the semiconducting element along the fiber length, and an insulator is provided along the fiber length. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529111 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07566449 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (West Harrison, New York); Dorothy Rodriguez (West Harrison, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Antagonists for modifying protein-protein interactions involving certain amino acid sequences within MMP-9 and/or β1 integrins are described. Such antagonists inhibit angiogenesis, tumor growth and disease states. Example antagonists are polypeptide and non-polypeptide molecules, including the novel antibody Mab FM155 and the novel synthetic peptide FRIP-1. Methods for inhibiting angiogenesis and disease states by administering such antagonists are disclosed. Methods for identifying antagonists that modify protein-protein interactions involving certain amino acid sequences within MMP-9 and/or β1 integrins are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/089999 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566451 | Dimitrov 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) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Rockville, Maryland); Mei-Yun Zhang (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope glycoprotein that can recognize one or more strains of HIV, wherein the epitope of HIV recognized by the antibody is inducible, and wherein the antibody binding to the epitope is enhanced by the presence of CD4 and the HIV co-receptor, and related fusion proteins, conjugates, nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, compositions and methods of use to inhibit an infection of a human at risk of becoming infected with HIV, to reduce the severity of an infection of a human infected with HIV, and to treat an infection of a human with HIV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/512966 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/148.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566459 | Ernst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel D. Ernst (New York, New York); Niaz Banaiee (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features modified Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains which lack a functional lspA gene, and vaccine formulations comprising the same. In many embodiments, a modified Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain of the invention comprises deletion or inactivation of the lspA gene and/or one or more non-lspA genes that are involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibition of macrophage responses to IFNγ. The present invention also features methods of using the modified Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains to treat or present Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mammals. In addition, the present invention features methods of using ΔlspA strains to identify non-lspA genes or other cellular components that are involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis proinflammatory stimulation of macrophages or inhibition of macrophage responses to IFNγ. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/362539 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566548 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Green (Boylston, Massachusetts); Destin Heilman (Worcester, Massachusetts); Jose G. Teodoro (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Included are methods of identifying compounds that mimic the interaction of Apoptin and APC1, e.g., binding of Apoptin to APC1, e.g., dissociation of APC1 from the APC/C, and compounds identified by the methods. Compounds that specifically mimic an interaction of Apoptin and APC1, e.g., cause dissociation of APC1 from the APC/C, are useful for promoting apoptosis (e.g., in cancer cells). Also included are methods of treating a subject having a disorder characterized by aberrant (e.g., decreased) apoptotic processes, by administering a compound that appropriately mimics an interaction of Apoptin and APC1. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204980 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566558 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Sherman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zachary Q. Beck (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yousong Ding (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polypeptides involved in cryptophycin biosynthesis and the nucleic acid molecules that encode such polypeptides. The nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides of the invention or variants thereof can be used in the methods of the invention to produce cryptophycins. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830656 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566741 | Greene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Ramachandran Murali (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Masahiko Kinosaki (Kaminokawa-machi, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of inhibiting osteoclastogenesis and the activity of osteoclasts are disclosed. Methods of treating patients who have diseases characterized bone loss are disclosed. According to the methods, an amount of a TRANCE/RANK inhibitor effective to inhibit osteoclastogenesis is administered to the patient. Pharmaceutical compositions which comprise TRANCE/RANK inhibitor in an amount effective to inhibit osteoclastogenesis. Methods of modulating dendritic cell maturation, T cell proliferation, and/or CD40 receptor systems in an individual are disclosed. The methods comprise the step of administering to the individual an amount of a TRANCE/RANK inhibitor effective to modulating dendritic cell maturation, T cell proliferation, and/or CD40 receptor systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/625073 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566743 | Glazman |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Glazman (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a system for and method for medical treatment of respiratory diseases. The system and method are particularly effective for the treatment of and protection from diseases associated with allergic inflammation. Suitable diseases for treatment include atopic asthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, and conjunctivitis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282251 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/826 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566767 | Strominger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Strominger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Masha Fridkis-Hareli (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides peptide compositions, and methods of making and using therapeutic compositions for treatment of a subject for an autoimmune or an inflammatory disease. The invention also provides kits for assaying binding of a composition to a water-soluble MHC protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/438538 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566768 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides substantially purified peptide portions of a promyostatin polypeptide. For example, the invention provides proteolytic fragments of a promyostatin polypeptide such as a myostatin prodomain or a mature myostatin peptide, as well as functional peptide portions a myostatin prodomain an myostatin. Also provided is a mutant promyostatin polypeptide, which is resistant to proteolytic cleavage, for example, cleavage into a myostatin prodomain and a mature myostatin peptide. The present invention also provides a polynucleotide encoding a peptide portion of a promyostatin polypeptide. In addition, antibodies that specifically bind a peptide portion of a promyostatin polypeptide are provided. The invention further provides methods of identifying a functional peptide portion of a promyostatin polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/628112 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566783 | Lakowicz |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R Lakowicz (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A new approach is described to making luminophores which display long emission wavelengths, long decay times, and high quantum yields. These luminophores are covalently linked or otherwise closely associated pairs with a long lifetime resonance energy transfer (RET) donor e.g., a ruthenium (Ru) metal-ligand complex, and a long wavelength acceptor, e.g., Texas Red. The donor and acceptor can be covalently linked by, e.g., poly-proline spacers. The long lifetime donor results in a long lived component in the acceptor decay which is due to RET. The quantum yield of the luminophores approaches that of the higher quantum yield acceptor, rather than the lower quantum yield typical of metal-ligand complexes. The emission maxima and decay time of such tandem luminophores can be readily adjusted by selection of the donor, acceptor and distance between them. Luminophores with these useful spectral properties can also be donor-acceptor pairs brought into close proximity by some biochemical association reaction. Luminophores with long wavelength emission and long lifetimes have numerous applications in biophysics, clinical diagnostics, DNA analysis and drug discovery. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/088646 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566787 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Cyclin D1 ablative agents and methods of using these agents in the treatment of cancers, and particularly breast cancer. Also provided are methods of treating cancer, the method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of one of the cyclin D1 ablative agents described herein to a subject in need of such treatment. Also provided are methods of treating cancers comprising using the cyclin D1 ablative agents described herein in combination therapies with existing chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315569 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566808 | Rando |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Rando (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A drug may be used in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of an ophthalmologic disorder, wherein the drug inihibits, antagonizes, or short-circuits the visual cycle at a step of the visual cycle that occurs outside a disc of a rod photoreceptor cell. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199594 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567215 | All 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) | Christopher D. All (Charleston, South Carolina); Jamin E. Barnett (Goose Creek, South Carolina); Robert A. Taylor (Goose Creek, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An inflatable antenna may include a support structure comprised of a flexible material, the support structure having an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall and the outer wall defining an inflation region; a flexible antenna element contained within the support structure; a feed line and a phase line connected to the flexible antenna element; an inflatable bladder contained within the inflation region; and an inflation apparatus coupled to the support structure and in fluid communication with the inflatable bladder. In some embodiments, the inflatable bladder may be readily inserted and removed from the support structure through an opening within the support structure. The inflatable antenna may operate in the UHF satellite communications band. The feed line and phase line may be perpendicularly oriented with respect to the flexible antenna element. In some embodiments, the support structure may not include an inner wall. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877055 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/881 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567832 | Schmainda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MCW Research Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathleen M. Schmainda (Elm Grove, Wisconsin); Christopher Quarles (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); B. Douglas Ward (West Allis, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | One or two sets of time course NMR data are acquired using an EPI pulse sequence in which either or both gradient recalled echo NMR signals and spin-echo NMR signals are acquired after bolus injection of a contrast agent. T2* relaxation rates for GE and T2 relaxation rates for SE are calculated from the acquired NMR signals and are corrected for extravasation of contrast agent into surrounding tissues. The gradient-echo signals and spin-echo NMR signals are employed along with the T2* and T2 relaxation rates to calculate hemodynamic parameter maps which are used as a measure of tumor angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202997 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07566410 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lulu Song (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nano-composite material comprising fully separated nano-scaled graphene platelets (NGPs) dispersed in a matrix material, wherein each of the platelets comprises a sheet of graphite plane or multiple sheets of graphite plane and has a thickness no greater than 100 nm and the platelets have an average length, width, or diameter no greater than 500 nm. The graphene plates are present in an amount no less than 15% by weight based on the total weight of the platelets and the matrix material combined. Typically, the nanocomposite is electrically conductive with a bulk conductivity no less than 10 S/cm and more typically no less than 100 S/cm. Highly conductive NGP nanocomposites are particularly useful for fuel cell flow field plate (bipolar plate) and battery electrode applications. Nanocomposites with high NGP proportions can be used in automotive friction plates and aircraft brake components. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328880 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566429 | Buelna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Genoveva Buelna (Nuevo Laredo, Mexico); Tina M. Nenoff (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an atmospheric pressure, reactive separation column packed with a solid acid zeolite catalyst for producing cumene from the reaction of benzene with propylene. Use of this un-pressurized column, where simultaneous reaction and partial separation occur during cumene production, allow separation of un-reacted, excess benzene from other products as they form. This high-yielding, energy-efficient system allows for one-step processing of cumene, with reduced need for product purification. Reacting propylene and benzene in the presence of beta zeolite catalysts generated a selectivity greater than 85% for catalytic separation reactions at a reaction temperature of 115 degrees C and at ambient pressure. Simultaneously, up to 76% of un-reacted benzene was separated from the product; which could be recycled back to the reactor for re-use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/152997 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566569 | Baker 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) | Gary A. Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sheila N. Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for measuring a surface temperature using is a fluorescent temperature sensor or optical thermometer. The sensor includes a solution of 1,3-bis(1-pyrenyl)propane within a 1-butyl-1-1-methyl pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ionic liquid solvent. The 1,3-bis(1-pyrenyl)propane remains unassociated when in the ground state while in solution. When subjected to UV light, an excited state is produced that exists in equilibrium with an excimer. The position of the equilibrium between the two excited states is temperature dependent. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843732 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07566888 | Swenson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEL Epion Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Richard Swenson (Georgetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of treating an interior surface on an internal cavity of a workpiece using a charged particle beam. A beam deflector surface of a beam deflector is placed within the internal cavity of the workpiece and is used to redirect the charged particle beam toward the interior surface to treat the interior surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/752774 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567060 | Atcitty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Atcitty (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Philip C. Symons (Surprise, Arizona); Paul C. Butler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Garth P. Corey (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A power management system is provided that includes a power supply means comprising a plurality of power supply strings, a testing means operably connected to said plurality of power supply strings for evaluating performance characteristics of said plurality of power supply strings, and a control means for monitoring power requirements and comprising a switching means for controlling switching of said plurality of power supply strings to said testing means. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172462 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567740 | Bayindir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Bayindir (Ankara, Turkey); Fabien Sorin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayman F. Abouraddy (Boston, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jerimy R. Arnold (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a thermal sensing fiber including a semiconducting element having a fiber length and characterized by a bandgap energy corresponding to a selected operational temperature range for the fiber in which there can be produced a change in thermally-excited electronic charge carrier population in the semiconducting element in response to a temperature change in the selected temperature range. At least one pair of conducting electrodes is provided in contact with the semiconducting element along the fiber length, and an insulator is provided along the fiber length. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529111 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07566567 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Multicell Technologies Inc. (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Liu (Barrington, Rhode Island); Ronald A. Faris (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to virally-immortalized hepatocyte cell lines, which are derived from a normal primary human liver cell, have the ability to proliferate in a serum-free media, are nontumorigenic, and produce proteins. These cell lines can be used for toxicity testing of potential therapeutic drugs and chemical entities. The cell lines may also be used for the production of therapeutic plasma proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574163 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07566899 — Organic thin-film transistor backplane with multi-layer contact structures and data lines
| US 07566899 | Chabinyc et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Chabinyc (Burlingame, California); Rene A Lujan (Sunnyvale, California); Ana Claudia Arias (San Carlos, California); Jackson H. Ho (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A backplane circuit includes an array of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), each OTFT including a source contact, a drain contact, and an organic semiconductor region extending between the source and drain contacts. The drain contacts in each row are connected to an address line. The source and drain contacts and the address lines are fabricated using a multi-layer structure including a relatively thick base portion formed of a relatively inexpensive metal (e.g., aluminum or copper), and a relatively thin contact layer formed of a high work function, low oxidation metal (e.g., gold) that exhibits good electrical contact to the organic semiconductor, is formed opposite at least one external surface of the base, and is located at least partially in an interface region where the organic semiconductor contacts an underlying dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316551 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567387 | Itagi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Vasant Itagi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tuviah Ehud Schlesinger (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a condenser for directing electromagnetic radiation to a focal point, the condenser comprising a first interface on a first side of a longitudinal axis for directing a first plurality of rays of the electromagnetic radiation to a focal point and a second interface on a second side of the longitudinal axis for directing a second plurality of rays of the electromagnetic radiation to the focal point, wherein the first and second interfaces are shaped such that at the focal point, the second plurality of rays are about 180° out of phase with respect to the first plurality of rays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962775 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/662 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07566476 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriquez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/502493 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567715 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Song-Chun Zhu (Los Angeles, California); Cheng-en Guo (Los Angeles, California); Ying-Nian Wu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for representing and encoding an input image. Pixels associated with the structural part of the image are referred to as “sketchable,” and pixels associated with the texture part are referred to as “non-sketchable.” A sketch graph, Ssk, is generated for the sketchable part of the input image by iteratively selecting a plurality of optimal image primitives from a dictionary of image primitives. The sketch graph may then be refined to achieve good Gestalt organization and resolve ambiguities in the graph. The non-sketchable texture regions of the image, Snsk, are computed via a simple texture clustering algorithm. In reconstructing the sketchable part of the input image, the image primitives are aligned on the sketch graph. In reconstructing the non-sketchable part of the input image, the MRF models are simulated to reproduce statistical summaries of the various texture regions using the sketchable part as boundary condition. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128408 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07567740 | Bayindir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehmet Bayindir (Ankara, Turkey); Fabien Sorin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ayman F. Abouraddy (Boston, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jerimy R. Arnold (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a thermal sensing fiber including a semiconducting element having a fiber length and characterized by a bandgap energy corresponding to a selected operational temperature range for the fiber in which there can be produced a change in thermally-excited electronic charge carrier population in the semiconducting element in response to a temperature change in the selected temperature range. At least one pair of conducting electrodes is provided in contact with the semiconducting element along the fiber length, and an insulator is provided along the fiber length. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529111 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07566310 | Badr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Safwan Badr (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Khaled F. Mansour (Dearborn, Michigan); James A. Rowley (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Mahdi A. Shkoukani (Macomb Township, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Two programs measure upper airway resistance using Resistance=Pressure/Flow. Raw flow and pressure data is divided into breaths and time adjusted so each breath starts with the value zero. Each breath is graphed as flow in the y-axis and time in the x-axis. The slope between points Flow=0 and Flow=0.20 is calculated. The resistance is the inverse of the slope. The second program determines whether a breath is flow limited or not. It also uses the flow and time data to perform a curve fitting to describe the flow-time in meaningful polynomial function F (P)=A t3+B t2+Ct+D. The derivative of this function is F′=3At2+2Bt+C. If the value of the derivative F′ at maximum flow is less than or equal zero, then it is a flow limited breath, otherwise, it is non flow limited breath. Also, the need for a pressure-monitoring catheter is obviated. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/523743 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07566694 | Rider |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric molecules that contain at least one pathogen-detection domain and at least one effector domain, and their methods of use in preventing or treating a pathogen infection in a cell or organism are described. The pathogen-detection domain and effector domain of the chimeric molecules are domains not typically found in nature to be associated together. Agents are also described herein having at least one pathogen-interacting molecular structure and at least one effector-mediating molecular structure, the agent being one that is non-naturally-occurring in a cell. The methods of prevention and treatment described herein are effective for a broad spectrum of pathogens and exhibit little or no toxic side-effects. Assays for the detection of a pathogen, pathogen component, or product produced or induced by a pathogen, are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/503416 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07566959 | Coteus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Shawn Anthony Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York); Dale J. Pearson (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Planar Memory Module (PAMM) device comprising a generally planar card comprising a first side and a second side, the first side having a plurality of couplings and the second side having a plurality of connectors, a plurality of memory devices coupled to the card via a first portion of the plurality of couplings, and at least one hub chip coupled to the card via a second portion of the plurality of couplings. Each of the plurality of couplings is connected to an associated one of the plurality of connectors. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855356 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/685 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07566410 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lulu Song (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nano-composite material comprising fully separated nano-scaled graphene platelets (NGPs) dispersed in a matrix material, wherein each of the platelets comprises a sheet of graphite plane or multiple sheets of graphite plane and has a thickness no greater than 100 nm and the platelets have an average length, width, or diameter no greater than 500 nm. The graphene plates are present in an amount no less than 15% by weight based on the total weight of the platelets and the matrix material combined. Typically, the nanocomposite is electrically conductive with a bulk conductivity no less than 10 S/cm and more typically no less than 100 S/cm. Highly conductive NGP nanocomposites are particularly useful for fuel cell flow field plate (bipolar plate) and battery electrode applications. Nanocomposites with high NGP proportions can be used in automotive friction plates and aircraft brake components. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328880 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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