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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 04, 2009
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| US 07568343 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M. Harris (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Wesley D. Brown (Jupiter, Florida); Angel M. Garcia (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A small gas turbine engine for use in an UAV such as a cruise missile, the gas turbine having a combustor forming a primary burn zone and a secondary burn zone, and in which fuel is injected into both the primary and the secondary burn zones by either a rotary cup injector or a plurality of fuel injector nozzles. The secondary burn zone with separate fuel injection allows for the diameter of the engine to be reduced in size but still allow for adequate power and efficiency to be reached for powering the vehicle. Air flow from the compressor is used to cool the combustor walls before being injected into the combustor, and to pass through and cool the guide nozzles and a main bearing located near the hot section of the combustor prior to being introduced into the combustor. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224906 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/732 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568347 | Leland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley C. Leland (Burleson, Texas); John D. Klinge (Fort Worth, Texas); Brian F. Lundy (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A diverterless hypersonic inlet (DHI) for a high speed, air-breathing propulsion system reduces the ingested boundary layer flow, drag, and weight, and maintains a high capture area for hypersonic applications. The design enables high vehicle fineness ratios, low-observable features, and enhances ramjet operability limits. The DHI is optimized for a particular design flight Mach number. A forebody segment generates and focuses a system of multiple upstream shock waves at desired strengths and angles to facilitate required inlet and engine airflow conditions. The forebody contour diverts boundary layer flow to the inlet sides, effectively reducing the thickness of the boundary layer that is ingested by the inlet, while maintaining the capture area required by the hypersonic propulsion system. The cowl assembly is shaped to integrate with the forebody shock system and the thinned boundary layer region. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187577 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568418 | Kijesky |
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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) | Mark Kijesky (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A radially compressive rope assembly is provided for enabling controlled descent from altitude. The radially compressive rope assembly is comprised of a load-bearing rope core surrounded by a flexible, compressible mantle, capable of recovery after deformation thereof. The flexible, compressible mantle is covered by a flexible sheath, disposed adjacent the outer perimeter of the mantle, which allows a user to slide easily against the sheath down the radially compressive rope assembly while compressing the mantle material through the sheath during descent, resulting in increasing or descreasing the speed of descent. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345684 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Textiles: Braiding, netting, and lace making 087/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568430 | Conley 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) | Kenneth A. Conley (Laplata, Maryland); Raymond M. Gamache (King George, Virginia); Jason T. Drotar (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock-triggered warhead fragment transmitter is described. The transmitter is designed to radiate a pulse upon either detonation of the warhead or impact of the fragment with the target. The pulse energy is obtained by shock de-poling of a ferroelectric material and is radiated using a dipole antenna. Detection of the radiated pulses may be used to confirm detonation of the warhead and determine the time and location of the detonation and facilitate battle damage assessment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287162 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568432 | Baker 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) | James J. Baker (Waldorf, Maryland); Carl Gotzmer (Accokeek, Maryland); Robert Gill (White Plains, Maryland); Steven L. Kim (Crofton, Maryland); Matt Blachek (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An agent defeat bomb including a payload with at least one metal-based high thermal component, effective for producing high temperature, and a plurality of oxidizer components, such that the high thermal component and oxidizer are progressively stacked through the length of the projectile and react within the body of the bomb. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/190211 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568433 | Farina 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) | Anthony P. Farina (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Brian C. Wong (Hamburg, New Jersey); Stewart L. Gilman (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Donald Chin (Parsippany, New Jersey); Joseph D. Wu (Wharton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A finless projectile provides improved ease of use, aerodynamics, muzzle velocity, drag, target, and excursion accuracy, structural integrity, terminal effectiveness and safety, at lower cost. The finless projectile includes a slug, a forward projectile body, an aft projectile body, an obturator, and a pad. The finless projectile is a full bore projectile that defines a hollow core, but does not include a sabot nor does it carry explosives. The finless projectile functions by kinetic energy transfer from the projectile to the target by deforming the target. The center of gravity of the finless projectile is forward of the center of pressure to provide static stability to the finless projectile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535107 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568970 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dapeng Wang (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a deformable pad useful for chemical mechanical polishing (“CMP”), a CMP apparatus incorporating the deformable pad of the present invention, and methods for using the deformable pad and CMP apparatus of the present invention. The deformable pad of the present invention includes a plurality of solid supports which substantially eliminate the nonuniform polishing rates in known CMP processes and may be tailored to optimize a wide array of CMP processes. The CMP apparatus of the present invention incorporates a deformable pad of the present invention and may include several other known features, such as a polishing pad, a substrate carrier, mechanical assemblies for agitating the polishing pad or substrate carrier, etc. The methods falling within the scope of the present invention include providing a CMP polishing apparatus, providing a deformable pad of the present invention, providing a polishing pad attached to the deformable pad of the present invention, and bringing a substrate having a material layer to be polished in contact with the polishing pad. As will be appreciated by one of skill in the art, the CMP apparatus and the methods of the present invention may be easily adapted for use in virtually all CMP processes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447741 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569094 | Kane 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) | John E. Kane (Houston, Texas); Robert L. Hance (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for separating particles preferentially accelerates particles to a rotating collector, which then reliably conveys collected particles to a discharge with minimal re-entrainment of the particles in the fluid stream. The collector minimizes energy transfer to the fluid and maximizes separation under conditions of high particle loading, fine particle content, or both. The separator may be operated in any vertical, horizontal or oblique orientation, or within devices whose orientation varies over time. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/481778 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569129 | Pamula et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Y. Paik (Durham, North Carolina); Hong Ren (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for manipulating droplets. The methods include providing the droplet on a surface comprising an array of electrodes and a substantially co-planer array of reference elements, wherein the droplet is disposed on a first one of the electrodes, and the droplet at least partially overlaps a second one of the electrodes and an intervening one of the reference elements disposed between the first and second electrodes. The methods further include activating the first and second electrodes to spread at least a portion of the droplet across the second electrode and deactivating the first electrode to move the droplet from the first electrode to the second electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077569 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569205 | Hens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Technology Center (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Ani Ciftan Hens (Durham, North Carolina); Scott L. Wallen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Olga Alexander Shenderova (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments, a method of processing detonation nanodiamonds to fractionate the detonation nanodiamonds involves, in order forming a combination of detonation nanodiamonds and a solvent, said solvent containing at least approximately 10% DMSO (v/v), applying a dispersive technique to said combination, subjecting said combination to a procedure that causes nanodiamond particles of a first size range to be substantially spatially separated from nanodiamonds of a second size range, and collecting said nanodiamonds of said first size range essentially free of said second size range. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899885 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569252 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Richard Piner (St. Louis, Missouri); Seunghun Hong (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a lithographic method referred to as “dip pen” nanolithography (DPN). DPN utilizes a scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip (e.g., an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip) as a “pen,” a solid-state substrate (e.g., gold) as “paper,” and molecules with a chemical affinity for the solid-state substrate as “ink.” Capillary transport of molecules from the SPM tip to the solid substrate is used in DPN to directly write patterns consisting of a relatively small collection of molecules in submicrometer dimensions, making DPN useful in the fabrication of a variety of microscale and nanoscale devices. The invention also provides substrates patterned by DPN and kits for performing DPN. The invention further provides a method of performing AFM imaging in air. The method comprises coating an AFM tip with a hydrophobic compound, the hydrophobic compound being selected so that AFM imaging performed using the coated AFM tip is improved compared to AFM imaging performed using an uncoated AFM tip. Finally, the invention provides AFM tips coated with the hydrophobic compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449685 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569340 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Rafael A. Vega (Evanston, Illinois); Daniel Maspoch (Evanston, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoarray template utilizing coordination chemistry or metal ion binding to control the site-isolation and orientation of virus particles is provided. The nanoarray template is generated by lithography including Dip Pen Nanolithography. The surface chemistry that is inherent in many viruses, metal-ion based or inorganic coordination chemistry is used to immobilize individual virus particles without the need for their genetic modification. Single particle control enables a wide variety of studies involving viruses that are not possible with microarrays, including single particle, single cell infectivity studies, exploration of such structures as templates in materials synthesis and molecular electronics, and studies aimed at understanding how surface presentation influences their bioactivity. This is an example of such control at the single-particle level, and therefore, commercial use of nanoarrays in biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506200 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569416 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey); Office of Technology Licensing and Intl Property (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Jie Zheng (Atlanta, Georgia); James C. Sturm (Princeton, New Jersey); Troy Graves-Abe (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus and a method of fabricating the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a substrate having a planar surface and first and second electrodes located on the planar surface. The first electrode has a top surface and a lateral surface, and the lateral surface has an edge near or in contact with the substrate. An electrode insulating layer is located on the top surface and a self-assembled layer located on the lateral surface. The second electrode is in contact with both the self-assembled layer and the electrode insulating layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424655 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569552 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunping Luo (San Diego, California); Rong Xiang (San Diego, California); Ralph A. Reisfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA vaccine suitable for eliciting an immune response against cancer cells comprises a polynucleotide construct operably encoding an a Fra-1 protein, such as a polyubiquitinated human Fra-1 protein, and IL-18, such as human IL-18, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In a preferred embodiment, the polynucleotide construct is operably incorporated in an attenuated bacterial vector, such as an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium, particularly a doubly attenuated aroA− dam− S. typhimurium. Transformed host cells, methods of inhibiting tumor growth, of vaccinating a patient against cancer, and of delivering genetic material to a mammalian cell in vivo are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574752 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569693 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Michael R. Wasielewski (Glenview, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Brooks A. Jones (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are mono- and diimide naphthalene compounds for use in the fabrication of various device structures. In some embodiments, the naphthalene core of these compounds are mono-, di-, or tetra-substituted with cyano group(s) or other electron-withdrawing substituents or moieties. Such mono- and diimide naphthalene compounds also can be optionally N-substituted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811902 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569711 | Ganem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Univeristy (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Ganem (Ithaca, New York); Donald J. Creighton (Baltimore, Maryland); Diana S. Hamilton (Catonsville, Maryland); Zhebo Ding (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are new enone derivatives and conjugates. Additionally, methods for synthesizing these new enones are also disclosed. These compounds can be employed in cancer therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006132 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569877 | Heath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Yi Luo (Pasadena, California); Rob Beckman (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for selecting nanometer-scaled devices. The method includes a plurality of semiconductor wires. Two adjacent semiconductor wires of the plurality of semiconductor wires are associated with a separation smaller than or equal to 100 nm. Additionally, the system includes a plurality of address lines. Each of the plurality of address lines includes a gate region and an inactive region and intersects the plurality of semiconductor wires at a plurality of intersections. The plurality of intersections includes a first intersection and second intersection. The first intersection is associated with the gate region, and the second intersection is associated with the inactive region. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361120 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569905 | Hantschel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Hantschel (Menlo Park, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California); Christian G. Van De Walle (Santa Barbara, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods may provide electrical contacts to an array of substantially vertically aligned nanorods. The nanorod array may be fabricated on top of a conducting layer that serves as a bottom contact to the nanorods. A top metal contact may be applied to a plurality of nanorods of the nanorod array. The contacts may allow I/V (current/voltage) characteristics of the nanorods to be measured. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/015663 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569995 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions ions are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498404 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570082 | Gebara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A comparator apparatus for comparing a first and a second voltage input includes a pair of cross-coupled inverter devices, including a pull up device and a pull down device, with output nodes defined between the pull up and pull down devices. A first switching device is coupled to the first input and a second switching device is coupled to the second input, with control circuitry configured for selective switching between a reset mode and a compare mode. In the reset mode, the first and second voltage inputs are coupled to respective output nodes so as to develop a differential signal thereacross, and the pull down devices in each inverter are isolated from the pull up devices. In the compare mode, the voltage inputs are isolated from the output nodes, and the pull down devices in each inverter are coupled to the pull up devices to latch the output nodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/464672 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570213 | Debany 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) | Warren H. Debany (Rome, New York); E. Paul Ratazzi (Rome, New York); Frank R. Cole (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for locating an intruding radio frequency signal in a wireless network. Relative distance measurements are computed between pairs of receivers from a plurality of receivers to the source of the intruding signal based on received signal strength. Loci of possible locations are plotted, points of intersection are determined, and a clustering algorithm is applied, yielding the location of the source of the intruding signal. The invention is distinguished in that its operation does not require knowledge of either the transmitted power or antenna gain of the intruding signal source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449184 |
| 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 342/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570347 | Ruff 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) | William Charles Ruff (Catonsville, Maryland); Barry L. Stann (Edgewater, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging method and apparatus using an unmodulated pulsed laser with a chirp modulated receiver is provided for producing 3D plus intensity imagery of targets in heavily cluttered locations The apparatus includes a laser for emitting a laser beam and synchronizing a receiver to receive a reflected laser signal and transform the reflected laser signal into a displayable image that includes intensity information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768635 |
| 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 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570409 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Alexandre Bratkovski (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Modulation of electromagnetic radiation is described in which an incident radiation beam is directed toward a surface of a composite material and at least partially reflects to form a reflected radiation beam. The composite material comprises an arrangement of electromagnetically reactive cells of small dimension relative to a wavelength of the incident radiation beam, and exhibits at least one of a negative effective permeability and a negative effective permittivity for at least one frequency. A modulation signal is applied to the composite material to cause a variation in at least one of the effective permeability and the effective permittivity, at least one characteristic of the reflected radiation beam being modulated according to the modulation signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581193 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570463 | Parkin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic tunnel junctions are disclosed that include ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic) materials and a bilayer tunnel barrier structure. The bilayer includes a crystalline material, such as MgO or Mg—ZnO, and Al2O3, which may be amorphous. If MgO is used, then it is preferably (100) oriented. The magnetic tunnel junctions so formed enjoy high tunneling magnetoresistance, e.g., greater than 100% at room temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146286 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/324.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570853 | Mahapatra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Linden Photonics, Inc. (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amaresh Mahapatra (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert J. Mansfield (Sterling, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to high-strength, abrasion-resistant optical fiber cable having a supplemental layer consisting essentially of a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) to enhance the cable's tensile strength and hermetically seal it, and an outermost encasing layer to protect the LCP supplemental layer from damage that could otherwise diminish the tensile strength or destroy the moisture barrier properties of the cable gained by adding the supplemental liquid crystal polymer layer. The encasing layer is preferably a thin layer of a smooth, non-crystalline thermoplastic that can be easily removed with chemicals that do not affect the properties of the supplemental layer so that the supplemental layer can be made accessible for promoting the formation of hermetically sealed interfaces between the cable and other structures. Cross-head extrusion methods for coating optical fibers with LCP and encasing layers are described along with laser and ultrasonic bonding techniques for fabricating hermetic packages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986815 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/102 |
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| US 07570949 | Minerath |
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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 J Minerath (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A shipboard communications system for providing RF communications between a ship and a communications satellite includes a modem, an antenna selector switch coupled to the modem and to a pair of directional antennas, a programmable controller for each antenna, and an antenna selector logic (ASL) circuit coupled to each antenna's programmable controller responsive to the programmable controller whereby an antenna handoff occurs when an on-service antenna is moving into a blockage zone and does not occur only when an off-service antenna is coming out of blockage. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404822 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571027 | Freeman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip L. Freeman (Maryland Heights, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Kinematic singular points in a process system are handled. In one embodiment, a numerically controlled (NC) processing system includes materials processing installation having a multi-axis kinematic linkage operable to position a tip portion of the linkage along a predetermined process path. The system also includes a processor having a compensation system operable to detect a singular point in the process path and to improve the accuracy tip portion positioning near the singular point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/142829 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571081 | Faulkner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Faulkner (Palm Bay, Florida); Steven G. Blask (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method compares point data to detailed CAD models of known targets. The method includes the acts of receiving a CAD model space, storing the received CAD model space in a three-dimensional voxel array, computing, for each voxel in the array, a distance to a closest surface facet, and storing information in a hybrid PolyVox file having both voxel and polygonal representations of the point data stored therein. The method uses an information processing system such as a microprocessor powered computer. The method can also use a software product executed by a programmable general purpose computer, a set of machine executable instructions embedded in a semiconductor memory, or a special-purpose processing device or application-specific integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892063 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571095 | Graciarena et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Graciarena (Menlo Park, California); Horacio Franco (Menlo Park, California); Venkata Ramana Rao Gadde (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a concomitant method for recognizing speech in a noisy environment are provided. The present method includes applying a first interpolation weight to a clean speech model to produce a weighted clean speech model, applying a second interpolation weight to a noise model to produce a weighted noise model, and deriving a noisy speech model directly from the weighted clean speech model and the weighted noise model. At least one of the first interpolation weight and the second interpolation weight is computed in a maximum likelihood framework. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216669 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571146 | Dalton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SPADAC, Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Dalton (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Changes in event, threat and result patterns assist in forecasting subsequent occurrences. The present invention derives signature for event-types based on a comparison of actual event data with pre-established representational surfaces. The surfaces represent functional measurements and analysis associated with elements of the geospatial boundary being considered. Comparing newly obtained event, result and threat data with previously stored signatures facilitates change detection. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978446 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571302 | Chen et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Chen (Austin, Texas); David Albonesi (Ithaca, New York); Steve Dropsho (CH1010, Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A data dependence table in RAM relates physical register addresses to instructions such that for each instruction, the registers on whose data the instruction depends are identified. The table is updated for each instruction added to the pipeline. For a branch instruction, the table identifies the registers relevant to the branch instruction for branch prediction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/050454 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2230 | Nechitailo |
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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) | Nicholas V. Nechitailo (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile for penetrating hardened targets is provided to include a shell having a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to an impact surface of the target; and a plurality of penetrator elements disposed in tandem in the shell along the longitudinal axis. The penetrator elements may be composed of ceramic, which has high compressive strength relative to most metals. Selected portions of the penetrator may be composed of heavy metals. The penetrator elements may be separated from each other by gaps, which may be filled with foam or other shock-absorbing material. An alternate projectile provides a unitary penetrator element composed of ceramic. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645262 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07569215 | Wittrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Dane Wittrup (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Balaji M. Rao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas A. Lauffenburger (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to IL-2 mutants with increased affinity for the IL-2 alpha-receptor subunit (IL-2Rα). The invention thus includes IL-2 mutants with improved biological potency. The invention also includes methods for directed evolution of IL-2α using yeast surface display to generate mutants with increased affinity for IL-2Rα. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894833 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569219 | Hone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Hone (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A recombinant double stranded RNA (dsRNA) phage expresses dsRNA-encoded genes in eukaryote cells. Recombinant dsRNA phage are useful for the expression of dsRNA expression cassettes encoding passenger genes, such as, but not restricted to, vaccine antigens, bioactive proteins, immunoregulatory proteins, antisense RNAs, and catalytic RNAs in eukaryotic cells or tissues. Methods are provided to deliver recombinant dsRNA phage to eukaryotic cells and tissues, either by direct administration, formulated in lipid or polylactide-coglycolide, or by utilizing a bacterial vaccine vector. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361007 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569340 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Rafael A. Vega (Evanston, Illinois); Daniel Maspoch (Evanston, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoarray template utilizing coordination chemistry or metal ion binding to control the site-isolation and orientation of virus particles is provided. The nanoarray template is generated by lithography including Dip Pen Nanolithography. The surface chemistry that is inherent in many viruses, metal-ion based or inorganic coordination chemistry is used to immobilize individual virus particles without the need for their genetic modification. Single particle control enables a wide variety of studies involving viruses that are not possible with microarrays, including single particle, single cell infectivity studies, exploration of such structures as templates in materials synthesis and molecular electronics, and studies aimed at understanding how surface presentation influences their bioactivity. This is an example of such control at the single-particle level, and therefore, commercial use of nanoarrays in biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506200 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569357 | Kranz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Kranz (Champaign, Illinois); K. Dane Wittrup (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Phillip D. Holler (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | T cell receptors (TCRS) that have higher affinity for a ligand than wild type TCRs are provided. These high affinity TCRs are formed by mutagenizing a T cell receptor protein coding sequence to generate a variegated population of mutants of the T cell receptor protein coding sequence; transforming the T cell receptor mutant coding sequence into yeast cells; inducing expression of the T cell receptor mutant coding sequence on the surface of yeast cells; and selecting those cells expressing T cell receptor mutants that have higher affinity for the peptide/MHC ligand than the wild type T cell receptor protein. The high affinity TCRs can be used in place of an antibody or single chain antibody. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783786 |
| 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 435/7.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569386 | DeAngelis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a chondroitin synthase gene and methods of making and using same. In more particular, but not by way of limitation, the present invention relates to a chondroitin synthase gene from Pasteurella multocida and methods of isolating and using same. Additionally, the present invention relates to the use of unsulfated chondroitin and its preparation, as well as conversion into modified versions such as dermatan sulfate and chondroitin sulfate polymers. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042530 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07569543 — Compositions of Angiopoietin, fragments, mutants and analogs thereof and uses of the same
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qin Yu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to Ang-1, Ang-2, and Ang-3, and to methods and uses of the same. The present invention also relates to ECM-binding fragments, non-ECM-binding fragments, proteolytic resistant fragments and C-terminal fragments of Ang-1, and to methods and uses of the same. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789222 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569547 | Lindberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iris Lindberg (Baltimore, Maryland); Angus Cameron (Bristol, United Kingdom); Richard A. Houghten (Vero Beach, Florida); Jon Richard Appel (Cardiff, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Small, polybasic peptides are disclosed that are effective as furin inhibitors, e.g. hexa- to nona-peptides having L-Arg or L-Lys in most positions. Removing the peptide terminating groups can improve inhibition of furin. High inhibition was seen in a series of non-amidated and non-acetylated polyarginines. The most potent inhibitor identified to date, nona-L-arginine, had a Ki against furin of 40 nM. Non-acetylated, poly-D-arginine-derived molecules are preferred furin inhibitors for therapeutic uses, such as inhibiting certain bacterial infections, viral infections, and cancers. Due to their relatively small size, these peptides should be non-immunogenic. These peptides are efficiently transported across cell membranes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408519 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569552 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunping Luo (San Diego, California); Rong Xiang (San Diego, California); Ralph A. Reisfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA vaccine suitable for eliciting an immune response against cancer cells comprises a polynucleotide construct operably encoding an a Fra-1 protein, such as a polyubiquitinated human Fra-1 protein, and IL-18, such as human IL-18, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In a preferred embodiment, the polynucleotide construct is operably incorporated in an attenuated bacterial vector, such as an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium, particularly a doubly attenuated aroA− dam− S. typhimurium. Transformed host cells, methods of inhibiting tumor growth, of vaccinating a patient against cancer, and of delivering genetic material to a mammalian cell in vivo are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574752 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569559 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Noxilizer, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernst V. Arnold (Hagerstown, Maryland); Blaine G. Doletski (Elkridge, Maryland); Robert E. Raulli (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions comprising carbon-based diazeniumdiolates that release nitric oxide (NO). The carbon-based diazeniumdiolated molecules release NO spontaneously under physiological conditions without subsequent nitrosamine formation. The present invention also relates to methods of preparing the carbon-based diazeniumdiolated molecules, compositions comprising such molecules, methods of using such compositions, and devices employing such molecule compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052745 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569594 | Kozmin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey A. Kozmin (Chicago, Illinois); Jelena Janjic (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes leucascandrolide analogs of the formula (I), intermediates of the formula (III), pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, methods for preventing cell proliferation, and methods for treating cancers and other proliferative diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348839 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569660 | Lindquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Lindquist (Chicago, Illinois); Liming Li (Chicago, Illinois); Jiyan Ma (Chicago, Illinois); Jia-Jia Liu (Chicago, Illinois); Neal Sondheimer (Chicago, Illinois); Thomas Scheibel (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel polypeptides comprising a prion-aggregation domain and a second domain; novel polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides; host cells transformed or transfected with such polynucleotides; and methods of making and using the foregoing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/591632 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569663 | Tykocinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Jui-Han Huang (Wallingford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel chimeric proteins are disclosed. The proteins comprise at least two portions. The first portion binds to a first cell and decreases the cell's ability to send a trans signal to a second cell; the second portion sends its own trans signal to the second cell. Methods for making and using these proteins in the treatment of cancer, viral infections, autoimmune and alloimmune diseases are also disclosed, as are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the novel chimeric proteins and genes. Either the proteins themselves or a genetic sequence encoding the protein can be administered. Other methods are also disclosed in which two molecular components result in decrement of a first trans signal from a first cell and the conferring of a second trans signal to a second cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/169686 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569673 | Kashmiri 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) | Syed V. S. Kashmiri (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Eduardo A. Padlan (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides humanized CC49 monoclonal antibodies that bind TAG-72 with high binding affinity and that are minimally immunogenic. In one embodiment, a humanized CC49 antibody includes a non-conservative amino acid substitution in a light chain complementarity determining region 3 of the CC49 antibody. In a further embodiment, the humanized CC49 antibody includes a non-conservative substitution of a first residue in a light chain complementarity determining region 3 and a substitution of a second residue in a complementarity determining region of the humanized CC49 antibody. In several of the embodiments, methods are disclosed for the use of a humanized CC49 antibody in the detection or treatment of a tumor in a subject. Also disclosed is a kit including the humanized CC49 antibody described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/519580 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 07569681 | Ting et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jenny P.-Y Ting (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Michael W. Linhoff (St. Louis, Missouri); Jonathan A. Harton (Durham, North Carolina); Christopher B. Moore (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new family of structurally and functionally related nucleic acids and proteins, designed the CATERPILLER family, which is characterized by landmark structural motifs including a nucleotide binding domain and leucine-rich repeat domains. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/511989 |
| 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 536/23.500 |
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| US 07569709 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John Kramer (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocycles, e.g., epoxides, are carbonylated at low pressure with high percentage conversion to cyclic, ring expanded products using the catalyst where L is tetrahydrofuran (THF). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/705528 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/510 |
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| US 07569711 | Ganem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Univeristy (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Ganem (Ithaca, New York); Donald J. Creighton (Baltimore, Maryland); Diana S. Hamilton (Catonsville, Maryland); Zhebo Ding (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are new enone derivatives and conjugates. Additionally, methods for synthesizing these new enones are also disclosed. These compounds can be employed in cancer therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/006132 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569748 | Ensign et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerald C. Ensign (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Bowen (Oregon, Wisconsin); James Petell (Zionsville, Indiana); Raymond Fatig (Zionsville, Indiana); Sue Schoonover (Brownsburg, Indiana); Richard H. Ffrench-Constant (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas A. Rocheleau (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael B. Blackburn (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy D. Hey (Zionsville, Indiana); Donald J. Merlo (Carmel, Indiana); Gregory L Orr (Indianapolis, Indiana); Jean L. Roberts (Arcadia, Indiana); James A. Strickland (Lebanon, Indiana); Lining Guo (Brownsburg, Indiana); Todd A. Ciche (Madison, Wisconsin); Kitisri Sukhapinda (Zionsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Proteins from the genus Photorhabdus are toxic to insects upon exposure. Photorhabdus luminescens (formerly Xenorhabdus luminescens) have been found in mammalian clinical samples and as a bacterial symbiont of entomopathogenic nematodes of genus Heterohabditis. These protein toxins can be applied to, or genetically engineered into, insect larvae food and plants for insect control. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/262794 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570054 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fa-Hsuan Lin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An fMRI scan is performed using a multi-element head coil and multi-channel receiver to acquire time course image data. One imaging gradient is eliminated from the pulse sequence used to acquire the time course image data enabling images to be acquired at a very high frame rate. The multi-channel NMR data is combined and reconstructed into a series of image frames using a spatial filter calculated using a linear constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamforming method. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114326 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570802 | Iordanescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe Iordanescu (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland); Juan Raul Cebral (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A three dimensional image of the colon like surface is processed to determine at least its ring structure. The image is composed of vertex points, each vertex point having a discrete point identifier and three dimensional position information. The three dimensional position information is averaged in a shrinking procedure to contract the three dimensional image proximate to a major axis of the colon-like surface. Evenly spaced points are taken through the shrunken colon like surface and connected to form a curve. Planes are generated at intervals normal to the curve to split the shrunken colon like surface into image segments. By mapping these image segments back to the original image through their discrete point identifiers, an accurate ring profile of the colon like surface can be generated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/500342 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570986 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui-Yang Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Dave A. Roy (Dallas, Texas); Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-assisted method for detecting surface features in a virtual colonoscopy. The method includes providing a three-dimensional construction of a computed tomography colonography surface; creating a path along the teniae coli from the proximal ascending colon to the distal descending colon on the colonography surface; forming an indexed computed tomography colonography surface using the created path; and registering the supine and prone scans of the computed tomography colonography surface using the indexed computed tomography colonography surface. The method also includes navigating the internal surface of the computed tomography colonography using the indexed computed tomography colonography surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/436889 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570988 | Ramanujam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirmala Ramanujam (Janesville, Wisconsin); Gergory M. Palmer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An iterative process calculates the absorption and scattering coefficients of tissue from a set of diffuse reflectance measurements made with an optical spectrometer operating in the UV-VIS spectral range. The relationship between measured diffuse reflectance and the absorption and scattering coefficients is modeled using a Monte Carlo simulation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119865 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571004 | Roy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of improving the persistence of electrical neural stimulation, and specifically a method of improving the persistence of an image supplied to a retina, or visual cortex, through a visual prosthesis. A continuously stimulated retina, or other neural tissue, will desensitize after a time period in the range of 20 to 150 seconds. However, an interruption of the stimulation on the order of a few milliseconds will restore the retinal sensitivity without the user perceiving the interruption, or with the user barely perceiving the interruption. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/044761 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571011 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil H. Talbot (Montrose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable electrode and method for manufacturing the electrode wherein the electrode has a strong, adherent surface coating of iridium oxide or titanium nitride on a platinum surface, which demonstrates an increase in surface area of at least five times when compared to smooth platinum of the same geometry. The iridium oxide coating may be formed on platinum by a physical deposition process, such as sputtering. The process of electroplating the iridium oxide surface coating is accomplished by voltage control processes. A gradient coating of iridium oxide ranging in composition from essentially pure platinum to essentially pure iridium oxide is produced by sputtering. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/655772 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571055 | Behrens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Sint Paul, Minnesota); The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy W. Behrens (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Emily C. Gillespie (Savage, Minnesota); Peter K. Gregersen (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This document relates to methods and materials involved in diagnosing SLE. For example, this document relates to methods and materials involved in diagnosing SLE, diagnosing severe SLE, and assessing a mammal's susceptibility to develop severe SLE. For example, this document provides nucleic acid arrays that can be used to diagnose SLE in a mammal. Such arrays can allow clinicians to diagnose SLE based on a simultaneous determination of the expression levels of many genes that are differentially expressed in SLE patients as compared to healthy controls. In addition, methods and materials for assessing SLE activity, determining the likelihood of experiencing active SLE, and detecting SLE treatment effectiveness are provided herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251589 |
| 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 |
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| US 07568365 | Schaffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Schaffer (La Jolla, California); André Brodeur (Montreal, Canada); Rafael R. Gattass (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Jonathan B. Ashcom (Somerville, Massachusetts); Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal 3-D microstructuring of photonic structures is provided by depositing laser energy by non-linear absorption into a focal volume about each point of a substrate to be micromachined at a rate greater than the rate that it diffuses thereout to produce a point source of heat in a region of the bulk larger than the focal volume about each point that structurally alters the region of the bulk larger than the focal volume about each point, and by dragging the point source of heat thereby provided point-to-point along any linear and non-linear path to fabricate photonic structures in the bulk of the substrate. Exemplary optical waveguides and optical beamsplitters are thermally micromachined in 3-D in the bulk of a glass substrate. The total number of pulses incident to each point is controlled, either by varying the rate that the point source of heat is scanned point-to-point and/or by varying the repetition rate of the laser, to select the mode supported by the waveguide or beamsplitter to be micromachined. A wide range of passive and active optical and other devices may be thermally micromachined. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/136160 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07568712 | Kovachi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of NY (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kovachi (Tonawanda, New York); Joseph C. Mollendorf (Amherst, New York); Roger Teagarden (Lancaster, New York); Chee Main Heam (Perak, Malaysia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a walker having a main supporting frame, a superstructure frame and a body support means. The superstructure frame is operatively arranged for vertical adjustment relative to the main supporting frame and includes an adjustable interior opening for accommodating a user and an entrance gate operatively arranged to provide access to the adjustable interior opening. The body support means is secured to the superstructure frame and operatively arranged to support the user. Furthermore, the walker may include four wheels, each of which may include a directional locking apparatus and/or braking system, and the walker may include at least one arm support operatively arranged for supporting the user. The walker may also include at least one handle operatively arranged for transmission of the walker. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/594687 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/87.21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569340 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Rafael A. Vega (Evanston, Illinois); Daniel Maspoch (Evanston, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoarray template utilizing coordination chemistry or metal ion binding to control the site-isolation and orientation of virus particles is provided. The nanoarray template is generated by lithography including Dip Pen Nanolithography. The surface chemistry that is inherent in many viruses, metal-ion based or inorganic coordination chemistry is used to immobilize individual virus particles without the need for their genetic modification. Single particle control enables a wide variety of studies involving viruses that are not possible with microarrays, including single particle, single cell infectivity studies, exploration of such structures as templates in materials synthesis and molecular electronics, and studies aimed at understanding how surface presentation influences their bioactivity. This is an example of such control at the single-particle level, and therefore, commercial use of nanoarrays in biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506200 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569380 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); Ailen Sanchez (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Cheryl Renee Dittrich (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In vivo method of producing esters from acetyle coA, such as isoamyl acetate and succinate, has been developed by producing null mutants in pathways that use acetyl coA and by overexpressing products that use NADH and in order to maintain the proper redox balance between NADH and NAD+. The method is exemplified with null mutations in ldhA, adhE, ackA-pta and overexpression of pyruvate carboxylase and alcohol acetyltransferase. This strain produces higher levels of both isoamyl acetate and succinate. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315453 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569386 | DeAngelis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a chondroitin synthase gene and methods of making and using same. In more particular, but not by way of limitation, the present invention relates to a chondroitin synthase gene from Pasteurella multocida and methods of isolating and using same. Additionally, the present invention relates to the use of unsulfated chondroitin and its preparation, as well as conversion into modified versions such as dermatan sulfate and chondroitin sulfate polymers. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/042530 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569693 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Michael R. Wasielewski (Glenview, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Brooks A. Jones (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are mono- and diimide naphthalene compounds for use in the fabrication of various device structures. In some embodiments, the naphthalene core of these compounds are mono-, di-, or tetra-substituted with cyano group(s) or other electron-withdrawing substituents or moieties. Such mono- and diimide naphthalene compounds also can be optionally N-substituted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811902 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569709 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John Kramer (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocycles, e.g., epoxides, are carbonylated at low pressure with high percentage conversion to cyclic, ring expanded products using the catalyst where L is tetrahydrofuran (THF). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/705528 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569734 | Trenkle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Trenkle (Cranson, Rhode Island); Julia L. Barkin (Providence, Rhode Island); Seung Uk Son (Kyunggi-do, South Korea); Dwight A. Sweigart (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Marcus D. Faust, Jr. (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with aspects of the invention methods of using rhodium hydroquinone catalysts for the conjugate addition of boronic acids are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454685 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569748 | Ensign et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerald C. Ensign (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Bowen (Oregon, Wisconsin); James Petell (Zionsville, Indiana); Raymond Fatig (Zionsville, Indiana); Sue Schoonover (Brownsburg, Indiana); Richard H. Ffrench-Constant (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas A. Rocheleau (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael B. Blackburn (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy D. Hey (Zionsville, Indiana); Donald J. Merlo (Carmel, Indiana); Gregory L Orr (Indianapolis, Indiana); Jean L. Roberts (Arcadia, Indiana); James A. Strickland (Lebanon, Indiana); Lining Guo (Brownsburg, Indiana); Todd A. Ciche (Madison, Wisconsin); Kitisri Sukhapinda (Zionsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Proteins from the genus Photorhabdus are toxic to insects upon exposure. Photorhabdus luminescens (formerly Xenorhabdus luminescens) have been found in mammalian clinical samples and as a bacterial symbiont of entomopathogenic nematodes of genus Heterohabditis. These protein toxins can be applied to, or genetically engineered into, insect larvae food and plants for insect control. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/262794 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569774 | Huston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dryver R. Huston (S. Burlington, Vermont); Bernard R. Tolmie (Grand Isle, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-healing cable apparatus and methods disclosed. The self-healing cable has a central core surrounded by an adaptive cover that can extend over the entire length of the self-healing cable or just one or more portions of the self-healing cable. The adaptive cover includes an axially and/or radially compressible-expandable (C/E) foam layer that maintains its properties over a wide range of environmental conditions. A tape layer surrounds the C/E layer and is applied so that it surrounds and axially and/or radially compresses the C/E layer. When the self-healing cable is subjected to a damaging force that causes a breach in the outer jacket and the tape layer, the corresponding localized axially and/or radially compressed portion of the C/E foam layer expands into the breach to form a corresponding localized self-healed region. The self-healing cable is manufacturable with present-day commercial self-healing cable manufacturing tools. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803430 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/120.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569847 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy D. Sands (Moraga, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Samuel S. Mao (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Russo (Walnut Creek, California); Henning Feick (Kensington, California); Eicke R. Weber (Oakland, California); Hannes Kind (Schaffhausen, Switzerland); Michael Huang (Los Angeles, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Yiying Wu (Albany, California); Rong Fan (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN). |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040664 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569902 | Fujiwara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hideo Fujiwara (Duncanville, Alabama); Sheng-Yuan Wang (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A toggle-MRAM device is disclosed that uses an SAF composite and lowers the operating field substantially with a wide operating field margin and high thermal stability using specific magnetic parameters. Consequently, this device enhances the performance of MRAM's, especially in its large operating field margin and high thermal stability characteristics with a low current. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/589676 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569941 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy D. Sands (Moraga, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Samuel S. Mao (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Russo (Walnut Creek, California); Henning Feick (Kensington, California); Eicke R. Weber (Oakland, California); Hannes Kind (Schaffhausen, Switzerland); Michael Huang (Los Angeles, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Yiying Wu (Albany, California); Rong Fan (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN). |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645241 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/798 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570063 | Van Veen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry D. Van Veen (McFarland, Wisconsin); Susan C. Hagness (Madison, Wisconsin); Essex Julian Bond (Madison, Wisconsin); Xu Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming is carried out by transmitting microwave signals from multiple antenna locations into an individual to be examined and receiving the backscattered microwave signals at multiple antenna locations to provide received signals from the antennas. The received signals are processed in a computer to remove the skin interface reflection component of the signal at each antenna to provide corrected signal data. The corrected signal data is provided to a beamformer process that time shifts the received signals to align the returns from a scatterer at a candidate location, and then passes the time aligned signals through a bank of filters, the outputs of which are summed, time-gated and the power therein calculated to produce the beamformer output signal at a candidate location. The beamformer is then scanned to a plurality of different locations in the individual by changing the time shifts, filter weights and time-gating of the beamformer process. The output power may be displayed as a function of scan location, with regions of large output power corresponding to significant microwave scatterers such as malignant lesions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190352 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571302 | Chen et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Chen (Austin, Texas); David Albonesi (Ithaca, New York); Steve Dropsho (CH1010, Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A data dependence table in RAM relates physical register addresses to instructions such that for each instruction, the registers on whose data the instruction depends are identified. The table is updated for each instruction added to the pipeline. For a branch instruction, the table identifies the registers relevant to the branch instruction for branch prediction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/050454 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07569188 | Stockman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramot At Tel-Aviv University Ltd (Tel-Aviv, Israel); The Georgia State University Research Foundation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark I. Stockman (Atlanta, Georgia); David J. Bergman (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanostructure is used to generate a highly localized nanoscale optical field. The field is excited using surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (SPASER). The SPASER radiation consists of surface plasmons that undergo stimulated emission, but in contrast to photons can be localized within a nanoscale region. A SPASER can incorporate an active medium formed by two-level emitters, excited by an energy source, such as an optical, electrical, or chemical energy source. The active medium may be quantum dots, which transfer excitation energy by radiationless transitions to a resonant nanosystem that can play the same role as a laser cavity in a conventional laser. The transitions are stimulated by the surface plasmons in the nanostructure, causing the buildup of a macroscopic number of surface plasmons in a single mode. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/751368 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569192 | Tranter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy J. Tranter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry A. Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho); Leroy C. Lewis (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Joseph P. Henscheid (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of separating isotopes from a mixture containing at least two isotopes in a solution is disclosed. A first isotope is precipitated and is collected from the solution. A daughter isotope is generated and collected from the first isotope. The invention includes a method of producing an actinium-225/bismuth-213 product from a material containing thorium-229 and thorium-232. A solution is formed containing nitric acid and the material containing thorium-229 and thorium-232, and iodate is added to form a thorium iodate precipitate. A supernatant is separated from the thorium iodate precipitate and a second volume of nitric acid is added to the thorium iodate precipitate. The thorium iodate precipitate is stored and a decay product comprising actinium-225 and bismuth-213 is generated in the second volume of nitric acid, which is then separated from the thorium iodate precipitate, filtered, and treated using at least one chromatographic procedure. A system for producing an actinium-225/bismuth-213 product is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/117046 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569252 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Richard Piner (St. Louis, Missouri); Seunghun Hong (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a lithographic method referred to as “dip pen” nanolithography (DPN). DPN utilizes a scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip (e.g., an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip) as a “pen,” a solid-state substrate (e.g., gold) as “paper,” and molecules with a chemical affinity for the solid-state substrate as “ink.” Capillary transport of molecules from the SPM tip to the solid substrate is used in DPN to directly write patterns consisting of a relatively small collection of molecules in submicrometer dimensions, making DPN useful in the fabrication of a variety of microscale and nanoscale devices. The invention also provides substrates patterned by DPN and kits for performing DPN. The invention further provides a method of performing AFM imaging in air. The method comprises coating an AFM tip with a hydrophobic compound, the hydrophobic compound being selected so that AFM imaging performed using the coated AFM tip is improved compared to AFM imaging performed using an uncoated AFM tip. Finally, the invention provides AFM tips coated with the hydrophobic compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/449685 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569297 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Cynthia A. York (Newington, Connecticut); Piotr Waszczuk (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Andrzej Wieckowski (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane electrode assembly for use with a direct organic fuel cell containing a formic acid fuel includes a solid polymer electrolyte having first and second surfaces, an anode on the first surface and a cathode on the second surface and electrically linked to the anode. The solid polymer electrolyte has a thickness t: where Cf is the formic acid fuel concentration over the anode, Df is the effective diffusivity of the fuel in the solid polymer electrolyte, Kf is the equilibrium constant for partition coefficient for the fuel into the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, ℑ is Faraday's constant nf is the number of electrons released when 1 molecule of the fuel is oxidized, and jfc is an empirically determined crossover rate of fuel above which the fuel cell does not operate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/303505 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569340 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Rafael A. Vega (Evanston, Illinois); Daniel Maspoch (Evanston, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoarray template utilizing coordination chemistry or metal ion binding to control the site-isolation and orientation of virus particles is provided. The nanoarray template is generated by lithography including Dip Pen Nanolithography. The surface chemistry that is inherent in many viruses, metal-ion based or inorganic coordination chemistry is used to immobilize individual virus particles without the need for their genetic modification. Single particle control enables a wide variety of studies involving viruses that are not possible with microarrays, including single particle, single cell infectivity studies, exploration of such structures as templates in materials synthesis and molecular electronics, and studies aimed at understanding how surface presentation influences their bioactivity. This is an example of such control at the single-particle level, and therefore, commercial use of nanoarrays in biological systems. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506200 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569709 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); John Kramer (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocycles, e.g., epoxides, are carbonylated at low pressure with high percentage conversion to cyclic, ring expanded products using the catalyst where L is tetrahydrofuran (THF). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/705528 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569737 | Phelps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy J. Phelps (Knoxville, Tennessee); Costas Tsouris (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Anthony V. Palumbo (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David E. Riestenberg (Knoxville, Tennessee); Scott D. McCallum (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing the salinity, as well as the hydrocarbon concentration of produced water to levels sufficient to meet surface water discharge standards. Pressure vessel and coflow injection technology developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is used to mix produced water and a gas hydrate forming fluid to form a solid or semi-solid gas hydrate mixture. Salts and solids are excluded from the water that becomes a part of the hydrate cage. A three-step process of dissociation of the hydrate results in purified water suitable for irrigation. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/171561 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569847 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy D. Sands (Moraga, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Samuel S. Mao (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Russo (Walnut Creek, California); Henning Feick (Kensington, California); Eicke R. Weber (Oakland, California); Hannes Kind (Schaffhausen, Switzerland); Michael Huang (Los Angeles, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Yiying Wu (Albany, California); Rong Fan (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN). |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040664 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569850 | Noy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksandr Noy (Belmont, California); Alexander B. Artyukhin (Menlo Park, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California); Pieter Stoeve (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lipid bilayer on a nano-template comprising a nanotube or nanowire and a lipid bilayer around the nanotube or nanowire. One embodiment provides a method of fabricating a lipid bilayer on a nano-template comprising the steps of providing a nanotube or nanowire and forming a lipid bilayer around the polymer cushion. One embodiment provides a protein pore in the lipid bilayer. In one embodiment the protein pore is sensitive to specific agents. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338513 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569941 | Majumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun Majumdar (Orinda, California); Ali Shakouri (Santa Cruz, California); Timothy D. Sands (Moraga, California); Peidong Yang (Berkeley, California); Samuel S. Mao (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Russo (Walnut Creek, California); Henning Feick (Kensington, California); Eicke R. Weber (Oakland, California); Hannes Kind (Schaffhausen, Switzerland); Michael Huang (Los Angeles, California); Haoquan Yan (Albany, California); Yiying Wu (Albany, California); Rong Fan (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One-dimensional nanostructures having uniform diameters of less than approximately 200 nm. These inventive nanostructures, which we refer to as “nanowires”, include single-crystalline homostructures as well as heterostructures of at least two single-crystalline materials having different chemical compositions. Because single-crystalline materials are used to form the heterostructure, the resultant heterostructure will be single-crystalline as well. The nanowire heterostructures are generally based on a semiconducting wire wherein the doping and composition are controlled in either the longitudinal or radial directions, or in both directions, to yield a wire that comprises different materials. Examples of resulting nanowire heterostructures include a longitudinal heterostructure nanowire (LOHN) and a coaxial heterostructure nanowire (COHN). |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645241 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/798 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569995 | Rostoker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Rostoker (Irvine, California); Michl Binderbauer (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatically in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. The simultaneous electrostatic confinement of electrons and magnetic confinement of ions avoids anomalous transport and facilitates classical containment of both electrons and ions. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions ions are fused together by nuclear force, thus releasing fusion energy. Moreover, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement system and method are not limited to neutronic fuels only, but also advantageously include advanced fuels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498404 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570101 | Short 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) | James Evans Short (Monongahela, Pennsylvania); Shawn Michael West (West Mifflin, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Fabean (Donora, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A gate drive for an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) includes a control and protection module coupled to a collector terminal of the IGBT, an optical communications module coupled to the control and protection module, a power supply module coupled to the control and protection module and an output power stage module with inputs coupled to the power supply module and the control and protection module, and outputs coupled to a gate terminal and an emitter terminal of the IGBT. The optical communications module is configured to send control signals to the control and protection module. The power supply module is configured to distribute inputted power to the control and protection module. The control and protection module outputs on/off, soft turn-off and/or soft turn-on signals to the output power stage module, which, in turn, supplies a current based on the signal(s) from the control and protection module for charging or discharging an input capacitance of the IGBT. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/037991 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571345 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and program product logically divide a group of nodes and causes node pairs comprising a node from each section to communicate. Results from the communications may be analyzed to determine performance characteristics, such as bandwidth and proper connectivity. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196889 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07568608 | Ding |
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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) | R. Jeffrey Ding (Harvest, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasonic stir welding device provides a method and apparatus for elevating the temperature of a work piece utilizing at least one ultrasonic heater. Instead of relying on a rotating shoulder to provide heat to a workpiece an ultrasonic heater is utilized to provide ultrasonic energy to the workpiece. A rotating pin driven by a motor assembly performs the weld on the workpiece. A handheld version can be constructed as well as a fixedly mounted embodiment. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700972 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/110.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569625 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Keller (Urbana, Illinois); Nancy R. Sottos (Champaign, Illinois); Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material includes an elastomer matrix, a set of first capsules containing a polymerizer, and a set of second capsules containing a corresponding activator for the polymerizer. The polymerizer may be a polymerizer for an elastomer. The composite material may be prepared by combining a first set of capsules containing a polymerizer, a second set of capsules containing a corresponding activator for the polymerizer, and a matrix precursor, and then solidifying the matrix precursor to form an elastomeric matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421993 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569774 | Huston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dryver R. Huston (S. Burlington, Vermont); Bernard R. Tolmie (Grand Isle, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-healing cable apparatus and methods disclosed. The self-healing cable has a central core surrounded by an adaptive cover that can extend over the entire length of the self-healing cable or just one or more portions of the self-healing cable. The adaptive cover includes an axially and/or radially compressible-expandable (C/E) foam layer that maintains its properties over a wide range of environmental conditions. A tape layer surrounds the C/E layer and is applied so that it surrounds and axially and/or radially compresses the C/E layer. When the self-healing cable is subjected to a damaging force that causes a breach in the outer jacket and the tape layer, the corresponding localized axially and/or radially compressed portion of the C/E foam layer expands into the breach to form a corresponding localized self-healed region. The self-healing cable is manufacturable with present-day commercial self-healing cable manufacturing tools. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803430 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/120.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570202 | Raney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell K. Raney (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for suppressing cross-track clutter in a sounding radar utilize polarimetric selectivity in two ways: (1) transmitting full-beam circular polarization and separating the desired signal of interest from the clutter based on the signal and clutter having different polarizations, and (2) transmitting and receiving circular polarization at the radar's nadir and elliptical polarization at the radar's off-nadir regions and filtering out the elliptical polarization. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/121841 |
| 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 342/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07570850 | Matsko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey B. Matsko (Pasadena, California); Anatoliy A. Savchenkov (Glendale, California); Lute Maleki (Pasadena, California); Dmitry V. Strekalov (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system, device, and method that are capable of generating high-order Bessel beams and determining the orbital angular momentum of at least one of the photons of a Bessel beam are provided. The optical system and device include a tapered waveguide having an outer surface defined by a diameter that varies along a longitudinal axis of the waveguide from a first end to an opposing second end. The optical system and device include a resonator that is arranged in optical communication with the first end of the tapered waveguide such that an evanescent field emitted from (i) the waveguide can be coupled with the resonator, or (ii) the resonator can be coupled with the waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424916 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07569380 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); Ailen Sanchez (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Cheryl Renee Dittrich (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In vivo method of producing esters from acetyle coA, such as isoamyl acetate and succinate, has been developed by producing null mutants in pathways that use acetyl coA and by overexpressing products that use NADH and in order to maintain the proper redox balance between NADH and NAD+. The method is exemplified with null mutations in ldhA, adhE, ackA-pta and overexpression of pyruvate carboxylase and alcohol acetyltransferase. This strain produces higher levels of both isoamyl acetate and succinate. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315453 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569748 | Ensign et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerald C. Ensign (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Bowen (Oregon, Wisconsin); James Petell (Zionsville, Indiana); Raymond Fatig (Zionsville, Indiana); Sue Schoonover (Brownsburg, Indiana); Richard H. Ffrench-Constant (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas A. Rocheleau (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael B. Blackburn (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy D. Hey (Zionsville, Indiana); Donald J. Merlo (Carmel, Indiana); Gregory L Orr (Indianapolis, Indiana); Jean L. Roberts (Arcadia, Indiana); James A. Strickland (Lebanon, Indiana); Lining Guo (Brownsburg, Indiana); Todd A. Ciche (Madison, Wisconsin); Kitisri Sukhapinda (Zionsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Proteins from the genus Photorhabdus are toxic to insects upon exposure. Photorhabdus luminescens (formerly Xenorhabdus luminescens) have been found in mammalian clinical samples and as a bacterial symbiont of entomopathogenic nematodes of genus Heterohabditis. These protein toxins can be applied to, or genetically engineered into, insect larvae food and plants for insect control. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/262794 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07571061 | Cai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiyong Cai (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The teachings provided herein are generally directed to a non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a dimension of a hygroexpansive, composite material using radiation and a volumetric shrinkage correction. The measurement of a series of moisture content profiles over time can provide, for example, a measure of the movement of moisture during the process of drying of the composite material. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079868 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07569186 | Bedingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); James E. Aysta (Stillwater, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample processing systems for processing sample materials located in sample processing devices that are separate from the system are disclosed. The sample processing systems include a rotating base plate with raised and/or non-planar thermal structures on which the sample processing devices are located during operation of the systems. The systems may also include structure to urge the sample processing devices against the base plate and thermal structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082374 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07569511 | Castellano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Catalysts LLC (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Castellano (Ringoes, New Jersey); Ye Liu (Holmdel, New Jersey); Ahmad Moini (Princeton, New Jersey); Gerald Stephen Koermer (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Robert Joseph Farrauto (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An alcohol steam reforming catalyst for generating hydrogen contains palladium, yttrium, and at least one of cerium and a metal oxide. The catalyst displays both an improved alcohol conversion rate and improved carbon dioxide selectivity. Methods of making and using the alcohol steam reforming catalyst are described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/381802 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07571093 | Cusmariu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolf Cusmariu (Eldersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying duplicate voice recording by receiving digital voice recordings, selecting one of the recordings; segmenting the selected recording, extracting a pitch value per segment, estimating a total time that voice appears in the recording, removing pitch values that are less than and equal to a user-definable value, identifying unique pitch values, determining the frequency of occurrence of the unique pitch values, normalizing the frequencies of occurrence, determining an average pitch value, determining the distribution percentiles of the frequencies of occurrence, returning to the second step if additional recordings are to be processed, otherwise comparing the total voice time, average pitch value, and distribution percentiles for each recording processed, and declaring the recordings duplicates that compared to within a user-definable threshold for total voice time, average pitch value, and distribution percentiles. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506090 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07570853 | Mahapatra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Linden Photonics, Inc. (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amaresh Mahapatra (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert J. Mansfield (Sterling, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to high-strength, abrasion-resistant optical fiber cable having a supplemental layer consisting essentially of a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) to enhance the cable's tensile strength and hermetically seal it, and an outermost encasing layer to protect the LCP supplemental layer from damage that could otherwise diminish the tensile strength or destroy the moisture barrier properties of the cable gained by adding the supplemental liquid crystal polymer layer. The encasing layer is preferably a thin layer of a smooth, non-crystalline thermoplastic that can be easily removed with chemicals that do not affect the properties of the supplemental layer so that the supplemental layer can be made accessible for promoting the formation of hermetically sealed interfaces between the cable and other structures. Cross-head extrusion methods for coating optical fibers with LCP and encasing layers are described along with laser and ultrasonic bonding techniques for fabricating hermetic packages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986815 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07568802 | Phinney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Phinney (Glendale, Arizona); Jan Jelinek (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for eye-safe near infra-red (NIR) optical imaging illumination. An eye of an intended subject are imaged with visible light or NIR light at an unconditionally eye-safe illumination level and the maximum permissible eye-safe NIR illumination that can be applied to the eye is determined from the captured images. The eye of the intended subject can then be illuminated with at least one substantially maximal NIR light pulse having a pulse intensity and duration selected to provide the substantially maximum permissible eye-safe NIR illumination intensity at the eye. NIR light pulse illumination can be inhibited in response to detection of other subjects either within the vicinity of a volume extending between an NIR illuminator illuminating the eye and the intended subject. The likelihood that an intended subject has been recently illuminated can also be determined and statistical measures can be used to avoid re-illuminating subject unnecessarily. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801517 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 04, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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