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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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| US 07571597 | Delaloye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim E. Delaloye (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for precisely controlling lubricant supply flow to one or more rotating machines in an aircraft includes a motor, a pump, and a motor control unit. The motor is coupled to receive motor speed commands and, in response to the commands, rotates at the commanded motor speed and supplies a drive force to the pump. The pump, upon receipt of the drive force, draws lubricant from a lubricant source and supplies it to a rotating machine. The motor control unit determines a scheduled lubricant supply pressure based at least in part on lubricant temperature, rotating machine rotational speed, and one or more aircraft operating conditions, and to supplies the motor speed commands to the motor that cause the pump to supply lubricant at the scheduled lubricant supply pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339160 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07571912 — Bullet trapping medium, system for employing said medium and method of use of said medium
| US 07571912 | Larson 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) | Steven L. Larson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Charles A. Weiss (Clinton, Mississippi); Joe G. Tom (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Philip G. Malone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward J. Fransen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A stable fire retardant mixture for use in a backstop for decelerating and trapping projectiles. The backstop generally includes a support structure having an inclined surface and the stable fire retardant mixture serving as a projectile trapping medium disposed on the inclined surface. The projectile trapping medium is a resilient granular material intimately mixed with a hydrated super absorbent polymer (SAP) gel and additives. Preferably, the support structure is made of a shock absorbing, foamed, fiber-reinforced concrete, such as SACON®. In embodiments, the support structure also includes an enclosure. The additives control alkalinity, chemically stabilize the mixture, prolong life of the mixture, retard mold formation and bacterial growth and prevent leaching of heavy metals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/979834 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572313 | Palanisamy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thirumalai G. Palanisamy (Morristown, New Jersey); Surojit Gupta (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michel Barsoum (Moorestown, New Jersey); Chien-Wei Li (Livingston, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbomachinery component includes a substrate having a surface, the surface consisting essentially of at least one composite of at least one metal and at least one compound having the chemical formula Mn+1AXn, wherein M is at least one early transition metal selected from groups IIIB, IVB, VB, and VIB, A is at least one element selected from groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, and VIIA, X is one or both of carbon and nitrogen, and n is an integer between 1 and 3. The component is made by compressing a powdered material to form a substrate that consists essentially of the composite and sintering the substrate, or by coating a substrate with the composite. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/127524 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572324 | Tucker 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) | Wayne C. Tucker (Exeter, Rhode Island); Maria G. Medeiros (Bristol, Rhode Island); Richard Brown (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention uses titanate compounds to replace chromates in metal primer paints used for corrosion protection on metal substrates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120480 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/14.440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572392 | Clothier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Allen Clothier (Niskayuna, New York); Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro (Saratoga Springs, New York); Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani (Clifton Park, New York); Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid-state scintillating compositions for detecting neutrons comprise a Li4Zn(PO4)2 host lattice. Methods of making scintillating compositions comprise: dissolving a lithium-6 precursor and a zinc precursor in a solvent to form a solution; combining phosphoric acid with the solution; combining a base with the solution to form a precipitate; and heating the precipitate to form a Li4Zn(PO4)2 host lattice. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651702 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6P0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572426 | Strano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Strano (Champaign, Illinois); Monica Usrey (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Barone (Champaign, Illinois); Christopher A. Dyke (Humble, Texas); James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of selectively functionalizing carbon nanotubes of a specific type or range of types, based on their electronic properties, using diazonium chemistry. The present invention is also directed toward methods of separating carbon nanotubes into populations of specific types or range(s) of types via selective functionalization and electrophoresis, and also to the novel compositions generated by such separations. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566073 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572623 | Mangano et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Mangano (Arlington, Virginia); Henry Eppich (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves methods and devices which enable discrete objects having a conducting inner core, surrounded by a dielectric membrane to be selectively inactivated by electric fields via irreversible breakdown of their dielectric membrane. One important application of the invention is in the selection, purification, and/or purging of desired or undesired biological cells from cell suspensions. According to the invention, electric fields can be utilized to selectively inactivate and render non-viable particular subpopulations of cells in a suspension, while not adversely affecting other desired subpopulations. According to the inventive methods, the cells can be selected on the basis of intrinsic or induced differences in a characteristic electroporation threshold, which can depend, for example, on a difference in cell size and/or critical dielectric membrane breakdown voltage. The invention enables effective cell separation without the need to employ undesirable exogenous agents, such as toxins or antibodies. The inventive method also enables relatively rapid cell separation involving a relatively low degree of trauma or modification to the selected, desired cells. The inventive method has a variety of potential applications in clinical medicine, research, etc., with two of the more important foreseeable applications being stem cell enrichment/isolation, and cancer cell purging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422310 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572741 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mrinal K. Das (Durham, North Carolina); Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John W. Palmour (Cary, North Carolina); Dave Grider (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming oxide layers on silicon carbide layers are disclosed, including placing a silicon carbide layer in a chamber such as an oxidation furnace tube that is substantially free of metallic impurities, heating an atmosphere of the chamber to a temperature of about 500 ° C. to about 1300 ° C., introducing atomic oxygen in the chamber, and flowing the atomic oxygen over a surface of the silicon carbide layer to thereby form an oxide layer on the silicon carbide layer. In some embodiments, introducing atomic includes oxygen providing a source oxide in the chamber and flowing a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen gas over the source oxide. The source oxide may comprise aluminum oxide or another oxide such as manganese oxide. Some methods include forming an oxide layer on a silicon carbide layer and annealing the oxide layer in an atmosphere including atomic oxygen. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229476 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572907 | Dellinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Dellinger (Boulder, Colorado); Geraldine Dellinger (Boulder, Colorado); Marvin H. Caruthers (Boulder, Colorado); Zoltan Kupihar (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming polynucleotides are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118599 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572919 | Brueggemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Brueggemeier (Dublin, Ohio); Young-Woo Kim (Columbus, Ohio); John C. Hackett (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for treating and prevention of cancer, particularly hormone-dependent breast cancer. Provided are compounds of formula I: wherein X is selected from O, N, S, SO, SO2, and S(CH2)n, wherein n=1-10; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and are selected from H, OH, OCH3, OCH2CH3, OCH2C6H5, NH2, NHCH3, N(CH3)2, CH3, CH2CH3, CH2CH2CH3, CH(CH3)2, C(CH3)3, NO2, F, Cl, Br, CF3, SH, SCH3, SCH2CH3, OCOCH3, OCOC(CH3)3, OCOCH2COOH, and CN; and R3 is a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring. Also provided are method for treating or preventing cancer in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a heteroaryl-containing isoflavone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, to a subject in need of treatment. Also provided is a method for the synthesis of 2-substituted isoflavones by first reacting deoxybenzoins with a phase transfer catalyst to provide a 2-(alkylthio)isoflavone; second deprotecting the 2-(alkylthio)isoflavone; and third applying selective debenzylation to form the final compound. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/212229 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572998 | Mohamed et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Abdel-Aleam H. Mohamed (Norfolk, Virginia); Juergen Friedrich Kolb (Norfolk, Virginia); Karl H. Schoenbach (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A microhollow cathode discharge assembly capable of generating a low temperature, atmospheric pressure plasma micro jet is disclosed. The microhollow assembly has at two electrodes: an anode and a cathode separated by a dielectric. A microhollow gas passage is disposed through the three layers, preferably in a taper such that the area at the anode is larger than the area at the cathode. When a potential is placed across the electrodes and a gas is directed through the gas passage into the anode and out the cathode, along the tapered direction, then a low temperature micro plasma jet can be created at atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141723 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573048 | Patel et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N. Patel (Somerset, New Jersey); Paresh Patel (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A tamper resistant and evident, self indicating instant radiation alert dosimeter (referred to as SIRAD) made by encapsulating a radiation sensing system in a polymeric material is disclosed. SIRAD is made from many layers of polymeric materials by multi-step processes. The radiation sensing system of SIRAD is encapsulated in a polymeric media made by a casting or reaction injection molding process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/235892 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/474.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573157 | Clark |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fiore Industries, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miles Collins Clark (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit and method for creating a high-power electrical pulse which has a smooth or flat-topped configuration as well as a very short rise time. A metal oxide varistor (MOV) is preferably placed in parallel with a load and a switch is preferably placed in series between the MOV and the load. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/321010 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573202 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microdischarge device that includes one or more electrodes encapsulated in a nanoporous dielectric. The devices include a first electrode encapsulated in the nanoporous dielectric and a second electrode that may also be encapsulated with the dielectric. The electrodes are configured to ignite a microdischarge in a microcavity when an AC or a pulsed DC excitation potential is applied between the first and second electrodes. The devices include linear and planar arrays of microdischarge devices. The microcavities in the planar arrays may be selectively excited for display applications. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/958175 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/631 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573235 | Hand |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Unites States of America as repsented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan C. Hand (Logootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a shunt-type, battery-charging device that (through the use of a power dissipation and/or power reduction system and/or method) is designed to reduce the likelihood of overcharging and the possible deleterious effects (and cooling requirements) associated with the generation of heat during the charging process. Generally, the power reduction system and/or method may control the amount of power being used by the battery charger by monitoring the batteries' level of charge during charging, and by correspondingly reducing the magnitude of the charging current in response to such monitored level. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239441 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573272 | Becker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Becker (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); David W. Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Kelly P. Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Douglas R. Carlson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Jerome P. Drexler (Wyoming, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of testing the electrical functionality of an optically controlled switch in a reconfigurable antenna is provided. The method includes configuring one or more conductive paths between one or more feed points and one or more test point with switches in the reconfigurable antenna. Applying one or more test signals to the one or more feed points. Monitoring the one or more test points in response to the one or more test signals and determining the functionality of the switch based upon the monitoring of the one or more test points. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/343006 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573305 | Cosand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert E. Cosand (Agoura Hills, California); Susan Morton (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed divider circuit is disclosed. The circuit contains a plurality of latches and buffers. The maximum input clock frequency of the divider circuit is increased over that implemented with only latches connected in a ring by feed forwarding the output of an early switching latch to the output of a later switching latch through buffers. The feed forward signal aids the later switching latch to complete the next state transition. By choosing the appropriate ratio of the buffer tail current to the latch tail current, the divider circuit can be made into a dynamic divider circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041085 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573561 | Fries |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus to create two dimensional and three dimensional structures using a maskless photolithography system is provided. In an embodiment, the pattern generator comprises a micromirror array wherein the positioning of the mirrors in the micromirror array and the time duration of exposure can be modulated to produce patterns to photoform photosensitive material. The desired pattern can be designed and stored using conventional computer aided drawing techniques and can be used to control the positioning of the individual mirrors in the micromirror array to reflect the corresponding desired pattern. A fixture for mounting of the substrate can be incorporated and can allow the substrate to be moved three dimensions. The fixture can be rotated in one, two, or three directions. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818930 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573564 | 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); Brian C. Redman (Lafayette, Colorado); Barry Lee Stann (Edgewater, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Ladar systems are provided. An exemplary ladar system includes a waveform generator for generating an arbitrary waveform, a laser for transmitting a modulated light signal toward a target, and a Doppler tracking loop for tracking the Doppler frequency shift between the transmitted light signal and a received reflected light signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768354 |
| 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 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573572 | Hamilton |
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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) | Brett J Hamilton (Heltonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A drift tube amplifier having an input and an output. The drift tube amplifier including a current-to-voltage converter for converting input current to a voltage, a band pass filter assembly for reducing unwanted noise within the voltage, a voltage controlled amplifier for adjusting the output voltage level, and a logarithmic ratio converter for converting the voltage from linear to LOG scale. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229443 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573737 | Kent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Kent (New York, New York); Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Brooklyn, New York); Enrique Gonzalez Garcia (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed and low power method to control and switch the magnetization direction and/or helicity of a magnetic region in a magnetic device for memory cells using spin polarized electrical current. The magnetic device comprises a reference magnetic layer with a fixed magnetic helicity and/or magnetization direction and a free magnetic layer with a changeable magnetic helicity. The fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer are preferably separated by a non-magnetic layer, and the reference layer includes an easy axis perpendicular to the reference layer. A current can be applied to the device to induce a torque that alters the magnetic state of the device so that it can act as a magnetic memory for writing information. The resistance, which depends on the magnetic state of the device, is measured to thereby read out the information stored in the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932745 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573902 | Zettwoch |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Neal Zettwoch (St. Charles, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Fibre Channel interface apparatus and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system is provided for interfacing with at least one node in a Fibre Channel network. The system includes at least one input interface that is couplable to receive a plurality of frames of data that are transmitted from or received at a node of the Fibre Channel network. An output telemetry interface is couplable to provide the received frames of data to a telemetry and/or recording device. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650597 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574024 | Bitter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingmar Bitter (Maple, Canada); Ming Wan (Sammamish, Washington); Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Frank Dachille (Mountain View, California); Kevin Kreeger (Port Jefferson, New York); Zhengrong Liang (Stony Brook, New York); Mark R. Wax (Greenlawn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, a method for determining a centerline through a region of interest in a 3D image dataset is provided. The method includes identifying the boundaries of the region of interest and identifying the endpoints of the region of interest. For those points within the boundaries, a penalty value which is a function of the proximity of the point to a boundary is determined. A centerline is then identified by the path connecting the endpoints which has the minimum penalized distance wherein the penalized distance reflects the actual accumulated pathlength and the penalties associated with the points along the path. From the centerline, branches of a complete skeleton can be established by determining branch endpoints and then finding the minimum penalized distance from each endpoint the centerline or another intersecting branch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/380211 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574064 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The lifting transform reduces the number of lifting steps in lossless data compression while improving the overall rounding errors incurred in the real-to-integer conversion process at each of the lifting steps. The compression ratio increases when used for lossless image data compression. The lifting transform further saves memory space and decreases signal delay. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/105277 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574144 | Galli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefano Galli (Morristown, New Jersey); Ronald C. Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for transmitting and receiving encoded signals over a network along with one or more additional signals transported within a spectral gap created by the coded signals. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262657 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574334 | Tiwari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashish Tiwari (Los Altos, California); Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique based on the use of a quantifier elimination decision procedure for real closed fields and simple theorem proving to construct a series of successively finer qualitative abstractions of hybrid automata is taught. The resulting abstractions are always discrete transition systems which can then be used by any traditional analysis tool. The constructed abstractions are conservative and can be used to establish safety properties of the original system. The technique works on linear and non-linear polynomial hybrid systems: the guards on discrete transitions and the continuous flows in all modes can be specified using arbitrary polynomial expressions over the continuous variables. An exemplar tool in the SAL environment built over the theorem prover PVS is detailed. The technique scales well to large and complex hybrid systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775419 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| US 07574340 | Bavari 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) | Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); James J. Schmidt (Frederick, Maryland); James Burnett (Richmond, Virginia); Rick Gussio (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a pharmacophore model for inhibiting Botulinum neurotoxin A metalloprotease activity which comprises a first plane A, a second plane B, a first hydrophobic moiety C, a second hydrophobic moiety D and a positive ionizable substituent E. The pharmacophore model may further comprise a heteroatom in the first plane A. In some embodiments, the distance between the center of the first plane A and the center of the second plane B is about 6.5 to about 9.5 Å. In some embodiments, the distance between the center of the first hydrophobic moiety C and the center of the second hydrophobic moiety D is about 8.0 to about 16.0 Å. In some embodiments, the distance between the center of the first plane to the center of the first hydrophobic moiety C is about 3.0 to about 5.0 Å. In some embodiments, the distance between the center of the second plane to the center of the second hydrophobic moiety C is about 3.0 to about 5.0 Å. In some embodiments, the distance between the center of the first plane to the center of the positive ionizable substituent is about 6.5 to about 9.5 Å. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/935622 |
| 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: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr. (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic signals are analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) processing of the one-dimensional (1-D) speech signal in the time-frequency plane. The short-space 2-D Fourier transform of a frequency-related representation (e.g., spectrogram) of the signal is obtained. The 2-D transformation maps harmonically-related signal components to a concentrated entity in the new 2-D plane (compressed frequency-related representation). The series of operations to produce the compressed frequency-related representation is referred to as the “grating compression transform” (GCT), consistent with sine-wave grating patterns in the frequency-related representation reduced to smeared impulses. The GCT provides for speech pitch estimation. The operations may, for example, determine pitch estimates of voiced speech or provide noise filtering or speaker separation in a multiple speaker acoustic signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244086 |
| 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 |
| US 07574497 | Scheidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Scheidt (Edgewater, Maryland); David P. Watson (Severna Park, Maryland); David L. Alger (Severn, Maryland); Christopher B. McCubbin (Baltimore, Maryland); Shon D. Vick (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Open Autonomy Kernel (OAK) addresses critical infrastructure requirements for next generation autonomous and semi-autonomous systems (24), including performance tracking, anomaly detection, diagnosis, fault recovery, and plant “safing”. OAK combines technologies in automated planning and scheduling, control agent-based systems (22), and model based reasoning to form a portable software architecture (26), knowledge-base, and open Application Programming Interface (API) to enable integrated auxiliary subsystem autonomy. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/344876 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/223 |
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| US 07574562 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for latency-aware thread scheduling in non-uniform cache architecture are provided. Instructions may be provided to the hardware specifying in which banks to store data. Information as to which banks store which data may also be provided, for example, by the hardware. This information may be used to schedule threads on one or more cores. A selected bank in cache memory may be reserved strictly for selected data. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491413 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574597 | Cousins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Cousins (Barrington, Rhode Island); Craig Partridge (East Lansing, Michigan); W. Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Rajesh Krishnan (Billerica, Massachusetts); Tushar Saxena (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system acquires information about communication among wired or wireless nodes [110, 210] in a network [100, 200] by intercepting chunks of data in the network by a wired or wireless tap [120, 220] located among the wired or wireless nodes [110, 210] in the network. Characteristic information [400] about the intercepted chunks of data may be obtained. The characteristic information may include times of arrival [410] of the chunks of data at the wired or wireless tap [120, 220] and identifiers of wired or wireless source nodes [420] that sent the chunks of data. At least one signal may be constructed to represent the characteristic information over time. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/212324 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07572434 | Tully et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Tully (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Jerry Chi-Ping Yin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of assessing the effect of a drug on long term memory and for screening a pharmaceutical agent for its ability to modulate long term memory are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066125 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
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| US 07572453 | Polo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Polo (Danville, California); Silvia Perri (Castro Valley, California); Kent Thudium (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric alphaviruses and alphavirus replicon particles are provided including methods of making and using same. Specifically, alphavirus particles are provided having nucleic acid molecules derived from one or more alphaviruses and structural proteins (capsid and/or envelope) from at least two or more alphaviruses. Methods of making, using, and therapeutic preparations containing the chimeric alphavirus particle, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397669 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572466 | Thanavala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York); Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasmin Thanavala (Williamsville, New York); Charles Joel Arntzen (Gold Canyon, New York); Hugh S. Mason (Phoenix, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for obtaining an immune response to a non-enteric pathogen antigen (NEPA) such as hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) by feeding the antigen in a plant material to an animal that is immunoreceptive to the NEPA. It has now been discovered that the animal may be made immunoreceptive to the NEPA such as HBsAg by administering the plant material containing the NEPA in conjunction with a suitable adjuvant. The plant material is a substance comprising a physiologically acceptable plant material, especially potatoes, containing the NEPA, e.g. hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The NEPA, e.g. HBsAg in the plant results from expression by the plant of the NEPA due to genetic alteration. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/464416 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
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| US 07572575 | Guarente et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard Guarente (Brookline, Massachusetts); Homayoun Vaziri (Thornhill, Canada); Shin-Ichiro Imai (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods of screening compounds that modulate cellular and organismal processes by modification of the activity of SIR2 and/or transcription factors, e.g., p53, particularly methods of screening for compounds that modify lifespan and/or metabolism of a cell or an organism by modulation of the activity of SIR2 and/or transcription factors, e.g., p53, and more particularly to methods of screening for compounds that modulate the activity of Sir2 and/or transcription factors, e.g., p53. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for screening a compound, by providing a test mixture comprising a transcription factor, Sir2, and a Sir2 cofactor with the compound, and evaluating an activity of a component of the test mixture in the presence of the compound. The invention further relates to therapeutic uses of said compounds. The invention further relates to a method of modifying the acetylation status of a transcription factor binding site on histone or DNA by raising local concentrations of Sir2. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404146 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572580 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherry Leonard (Denver, Colorado); Robert Freedman (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions related to α7 acetylcholine nicotinic receptor genes, in particular, the human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene. The human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene is associated with the pathophysiological aspects of the disease schizophrenia. The present invention further provides methods and compositions to screen populations for abnormal α7 alleles, as well as methods and compositions for development of therapeutics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723940 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572596 | Bowser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Bowser (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a subject. The method comprises administering to the nervous system of the subject a composition comprising a thyroxine protein or a therapeutic fragment or pharmacologic mimic thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention also provides a method for treating ALS in a subject that comprises administering to the subject a transthyretin protein, 7B2 protein, a cystatin C protein, a neuroendocrine protein, a cysteine protease inhibitor, or an inhibitor of an enzyme that processes a 7B2 protein. In addition, the invention provides methods for determining the susceptibility of a subject to developing ALS and for determining the progression of ALS in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294161 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572599 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland); Daniel S. Greenspan (Madison, Wisconsin); William N. Pappano (Columbia, Maryland); Neil Wolfman (Dover, Massachusetts); Kathy Tomkinson (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been determined that metalloprotease cleavage of a myostatin pro peptide results in activation of a latent inactive myostatin to an active form. Accordingly, methods of identifying agents that modulate metalloprotease mediated activation of myostatin are provided, as are agents identified using such methods. Also provided are methods of modulating muscle growth in an organism by increasing or decreasing metalloprotease mediated cleavage of a myostatin pro peptide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/665374 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 07572600 | Berahovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chemocentryx, Inc. (Mt. View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Berahovich (Berkeley, California); Zhenhua Miao (San Jose, California); Brett Premack (San Francisco, California); Thomas J. Schall (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Truncated chemokines lacking an N-terminal region that activate CCR1 and/or FPRL1 and compositions containing the truncated chemokines are provided. Methods of identifying agents that modulate CCR1 and/or FPRL1 activity either by modulating the production of the truncated chemokines or the ability of the truncated chemokines to activate CCR1 and/or FPRL1 are also disclosed. Methods using the truncated chemokines to inhibit or activate CCR1 and/or FPRL1 mediated biological activities are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198935 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 07572601 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingqi Zhang (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Edmond Confino (Chicago, Illinois); Ralph R. Kazer (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of reproduction (e.g., human reproduction). In particular, the present invention provides markers (e.g., pentraxin 3 and Annexin A6), and methods of using the same to determine oocyte development potential. The present invention also provides compositions and methods for modifying oocyte development potential and assays (e.g., using markers of the present invention) for detecting gene expression associated with oocyte development potential. Such compositions and methods find use in diagnostic, research and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251983 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
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| US 07572603 | Small et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kersten M. Small (Cincinnati, Ohio); Stephen B. Liggett (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes polymorphisms in nucleic acids encoding the alpha-2B, alpha-2A, and alpha-2C adrenergic receptor and expressed alpha-2B, alpha-2A and alpha-2C adrenergic receptor molecule. The invention also pertains to methods and molecules for detecting such polymorphisms. The invention further pertains to the use of such molecules and methods in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases such as cardiovascular and central nervous system disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/232805 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572788 | Glick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Glick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony W. Opipari (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel chemical compounds, methods for their discovery, and their therapeutic use. In particular, the present invention provides benzodiazepine derivatives and methods of using benzodiazepine derivatives as therapeutic agents to treat a number of conditions associated with the faulty regulation of the processes of programmed cell death, autoimmunity, inflammation, and hyperproliferation, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427211 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572828 | Shoemaker 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) | Robert H. Shoemaker (Boyds, Maryland); Michael Currens (Frederick, Maryland); Alan Rein (Columbia, Maryland); Hang Yuan, legal representative (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert Fisher (Sharpsburg, Maryland); Andrew Stephen (Catonsville, Maryland); Karen Worthy (Germantown, Maryland); Shizuko Sei (Bethesda, Maryland); Bruce Crise (Washington Grove, Maryland); Louis E. Henderson (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting viral replication, particularly retroviral replication. The methods comprise administration of stibonic acid or diphenyl compounds that disrupt viral nucleocapsid binding to nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/528747 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/503 |
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| US 07572887 | Pastan 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) | Ira Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Tapan K. Bera (Germantown, Maryland); Byungkook Lee (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polypeptide is disclosed that is specifically detected in the cells of the prostate, termed Splice Variant-Novel Gene Expressed in Prostate (SV-NGEP). Polynucleotides encoding SV-NGEP are also disclosed, as are vectors including these polynucleotides. Host cells transformed with these polynucleotides are also disclosed. Antibodies and immunoconjugages are disclosed that specifically bind SV-NGEP. Methods are disclosed for using an NGEP polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds SV-NGEP, or a polynucleotide encoding SV-NGEP. Assays are disclosed for the detection of prostate cancer. Pharmaceutical compositions including an SV-NGEP polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds SV-NEGP, or a polynucleotide encoding SV-NGEP are also disclosed. These pharmaceutical compositions are of use in the treatment of prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/552515 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07572888 | Barak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence S. Barak (Durham, North Carolina); Marc G. Caron (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Stephen S. Ferguson (London, Canada); Jie Zhang (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods of detecting G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) activity in vivo and in vitro; methods of assaying GPCR activity; and methods of screening for GPCR ligands, G protein-coupled receptor kinase (GRK) activity, and compounds that interact with components of the GPCR regulatory process. Constructs useful in such methods are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/785841 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07572949 | Blackwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immune Disease Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T. Keith Blackwell (Waban, Massachusetts); Jae Hyung An (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to the C. elegans SKN-1 gene and protein (a transcription factor), and target genes thereof. The invention includes various therapeutic methods and screening methods for identifying antioxidants. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/560563 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
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| US 07573978 | Kamath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srijit Kamath (Gainesville, Florida); Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Jonathan Li (Gainesville, Florida); Jatinder Palta (Gainesville, Florida); Sanjay Ranka (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and associated system 300 for delivering intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) uses variable feathering field splitting for intensity modulated fields of large size. A processor controls a beam-shaping device that splits the radiation beam into a plurality of radiation fields delivered to a patient. The processor in cooperation with the beam-shaping device implements a variable feathering method which includes providing an intensity matrix for the treatment of a patient, the intensity matrix having a plurality of rows and columns for spanning a prescribed radiation field including a prescribed field width. The prescribed width is compared to a maximum field width provided by the radiation treatment system. The intensity matrix is split into a plurality of spatially overlapping intensity submatrices by variably feathering the intensity matrix when the prescribed width exceeds the maximum field width, Radiotherapy is then provided to the patient using a leaf sequencing method to generate the submatrices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/995303 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
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| US 07574024 | Bitter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingmar Bitter (Maple, Canada); Ming Wan (Sammamish, Washington); Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Frank Dachille (Mountain View, California); Kevin Kreeger (Port Jefferson, New York); Zhengrong Liang (Stony Brook, New York); Mark R. Wax (Greenlawn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, a method for determining a centerline through a region of interest in a 3D image dataset is provided. The method includes identifying the boundaries of the region of interest and identifying the endpoints of the region of interest. For those points within the boundaries, a penalty value which is a function of the proximity of the point to a boundary is determined. A centerline is then identified by the path connecting the endpoints which has the minimum penalized distance wherein the penalized distance reflects the actual accumulated pathlength and the penalties associated with the points along the path. From the centerline, branches of a complete skeleton can be established by determining branch endpoints and then finding the minimum penalized distance from each endpoint the centerline or another intersecting branch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/380211 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 07574306 | Baker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Brian Kuhlman (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method and system for designing the monomer sequence of a polymer to produce a particular polymer that adopts an initially specified, 3-dimensional conformation in a specified chemical environment. In one specific embodiment, the method and system produces amino-acid sequences for polypeptides in order to generate polypeptides that adopt initially specified, 3-dimensional conformations. Additional embodiments determine sequences for various other types of biopolymers in order to produce biopolymers that adopt specific conformations in specified chemical environments. For example, these method embodiments may be used to design sequences for polysaccharides, polynucleotides, and hybrid biopolymers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/043907 |
| 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 72/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574421 | Pahno |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Achilles N. Pahno (Douglasville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of retrieving a page of records from a database system may include receiving a first query from a client device that, when processed by a database system, identifies a plurality of records that have a specified order and that are transmittable to the client device in pages that each have a fixed number of records. The method may further include receiving input identifying a specific page of records; generating a second query from the first query and the received input; submitting the second query to the database system for processing to retrieve the determined records; and transmitting the retrieved, determined records to the client device. When processed, the second query may (i) identify a first subset of the plurality of records; (ii) identify a second subset; and (iii) determine records in the first subset that are not in the second subset. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473427 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07572355 | Arumugam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhu U. Arumugam (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ingrid Fritsch (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods of enhancing mass transport proximate a surface of an electrode immersed in a liquid are disclosed. One aspect of the device comprises an electrode embedded in a sintered or bonded magnetic material. The device is contacted with a solvent containing a redox material dissolved therein. An external voltage or current is applied to the electrode, which external voltage or current is sufficient to enhance mass transport proximate the surface of the electrode. Magnetic field effects can be effectively applied to the microstirring of fluids in conjunction with microelectrochemical systems in a lab-on-a-chip format. Suitable applications include bioassays, drug discovery, and high throughput screening, and other applications where magnetohydrodynamics can enhance chemical detection and/or reagent mixing, which otherwise rely on diffusional processes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031519 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572380 | Cannon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred S. Cannon (State College, Pennsylvania); Weifang Chen (State College, Pennsylvania); Robert Parette (Throop, Pennsylvania); Brian A. Dempsey (State College, Pennsylvania); Fenglong Sun (State College, Pennsylvania); Jiying Zou (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbonaceous material that has been loaded with at least one ionic organic species or hydroxide species and at least one metal or alkaline earth metal. The ionic organic species or hydroxide species is at least one selected from the group consisting of: fatty acids, surfactants, organic carboxyl species, organic sulfonate species, organic hydroxyl species, organic phenolic species, organic lactone species, organic amine species, or hydroxide species. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257727 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/681 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572426 | Strano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Strano (Champaign, Illinois); Monica Usrey (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Barone (Champaign, Illinois); Christopher A. Dyke (Humble, Texas); James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of selectively functionalizing carbon nanotubes of a specific type or range of types, based on their electronic properties, using diazonium chemistry. The present invention is also directed toward methods of separating carbon nanotubes into populations of specific types or range(s) of types via selective functionalization and electrophoresis, and also to the novel compositions generated by such separations. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566073 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572665 | Datta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arindom Datta (Madison, Wisconsin); Xiaochun Li (Madison, Wisconsin); Hongseok Choi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Fabricating a microelectronics grade metal substrate comprises forming the metal substrate on a sacrificial substrate. An adhesion layer can be deposited on or over the surface of the sacrificial substrate. A seed layer of the metal can be deposited on or over the adhesion layer. The metal material can be deposited on the seed layer by electroplating or other low-temperature, low-stress process to form a microelectronics-grade metal substrate. Thin film sensors and/or other microelectronic devices, followed by appropriate insulating layer(s), may be fabricated on or over the sacrificial substrate before forming the metal substrate. The sacrificial silicon substrate can then be etched away, leaving the microelectronics-grade metal substrate, and possibly the microelectronics device. Another insulating layer(s), followed by another adhesion layer, another seed layer and additional amounts of the material forming the metal substrate can then be deposited over the now-exposed microelectronics device to encapsulate it within a metal shell. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255892 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572669 | Tuominen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Tuominen (Shutesbury, Massachusetts); Joerg Schotter (Bielefeld, Germany); Thomas Thurn-Albrecht (Freiburg, Germany); Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Pathways to rapid and reliable fabrication of nanocylinder arrays are provided. Simple methods are described for the production of well-ordered arrays of nanopores, nanowires, and other materials. This is accomplished by orienting copolymer films and removing a component from the film to produce nanopores, that in turn, can be filled with materials to produce the arrays. The resulting arrays can be used to produce nanoscale media, devices, and systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708735 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572894 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea); Jae-Hyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Regina Valluzzi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a fibrous protein smectic hydrogel by way of a solvent templating process, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; and collecting the resulting fibrous protein smectic hydrogel and allowing it to dry. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining predominantly one enantiomer from a racemic mixture, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; allowing the enantiomers of racemic mixture to diffuse selectively into the smectic hydrogel in solution; removing the smectic hydrogel from the solution; rinsing predominantly one enantiomer from the surface of the smectic hydrogel; and extracting predominantly one enantiomer from the interior of the smectic hydrogel. The present invention also relates to a smectic hydrogel prepared according to an aforementioned method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533611 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572925 | Dumesic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Madison, Wisconsin); Yuriy Rom{acute over (α)}n-Leshkov (Madison, Wisconsin); Juben N. Chheda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a catalytic process for converting sugars to furan derivatives (e.g. 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, furfural, dimethylfuran, etc.) using a biphasic reactor containing a reactive aqueous phase and an organic extracting phase. The process provides a cost-effective route for producing di-substituted furan derivatives. The furan derivatives are useful as value-added intermediates to produce polymers, as precursors to diesel fuel, and as fuel additives. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757461 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573022 | Choo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyuck Choo (Albany, California); David Garmire (El Cerrito, California); Richard S. Muller (Kensington, California); James Demmel (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for fabricating microscanners. The fabrication processes employed pursuant to some embodiments are compatible with well known CMOS fabrication techniques, allowing devices for control, monitoring and/or sensing to be integrated onto a single chip. Both one- and two-dimensional microscanners are described. Applications including optical laser surgery, maskless photolithography, portable displays and large scale displays are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/492270 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573737 | Kent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Kent (New York, New York); Barbaros Ozyilmaz (Brooklyn, New York); Enrique Gonzalez Garcia (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed and low power method to control and switch the magnetization direction and/or helicity of a magnetic region in a magnetic device for memory cells using spin polarized electrical current. The magnetic device comprises a reference magnetic layer with a fixed magnetic helicity and/or magnetization direction and a free magnetic layer with a changeable magnetic helicity. The fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer are preferably separated by a non-magnetic layer, and the reference layer includes an easy axis perpendicular to the reference layer. A current can be applied to the device to induce a torque that alters the magnetic state of the device so that it can act as a magnetic memory for writing information. The resistance, which depends on the magnetic state of the device, is measured to thereby read out the information stored in the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932745 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573866 | Nikolova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evdokia V. Nikolova (Somerville, Massachusetts); Matthew E. Brand (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method finds an optimal path from a source to a destination. The possible paths from the source to the destination are represented as a stochastic graph of nodes connected by edges. Each edge has an independent probability distribution over a cost of the edge. A constraint for reaching the destination is defined. The graph is reduced to a relatively small set of deterministic minimum cost problems, which can be solved to determine an optimal path that maximizes a probability of reaching the destination within the constraint. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512849 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573975 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit (GmbH) (Neuherberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Xu (Eugene, Oregon); Oleg Tischenko (München, Germany); Christoph Hoeschen (Hebertshausen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An irradiation method, in particular for imaging a region of investigation (2) of an object (1), comprises generating at least one energy input beam (3) with at least one energy input beam source (210), wherein the at least one energy input beam (3) comprises a plurality of individual energy input beam components (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, . . . ), and irradiating the region of investigation (2) with the at least one energy input beam (3) along a plurality of projection directions, wherein the energy input beam components (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, . . . ) are formed with at least one beam mask (211) made of an energy input shielding material with through holes. Furthermore, imaging methods and devices for irradiating or imaging the object are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/794557 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574091 | Sturgis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Silversun Sturgis (Socorro, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber wrap and a method of rotating the fiber wrap without twisting a data cable are disclosed. The fiber wrap includes a sun gear, a sun cylinder coupled to the sun gear, a planetary gear in contact with the sun gear, a planetary cylinder coupled to the planetary gear, an outer housing in contact with the planetary gear, and a data cable coupled to the sun cylinder, the planetary cylinder, and the outer housing. The data cable is coupled in such a way as to only bend the data cable during use of the fiber wrap. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925464 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574253 | Edney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Edney (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph T. Walsh, Jr. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing signals, such as a tomography signal, in the time domain provides both high spatial resolution and high frequency resolution but at low cost. The method uses non-linear regression with a sinusoidal model to fit a sine wave to a portion of the signal that is less than a full cycle of a wave of the signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672863 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07571493 | Purvis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Purvis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jack F. Jones, II (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry D. Whinery (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Richard Brazfield (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Catherine Lawrie (Tijeras, New Mexico); David Lawrie (Tijeras, New Mexico); Dale S. Preece (Watkins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight, armored protective garment for protecting an arm or leg from blast superheated gases, blast overpressure shock, shrapnel, and spall from a explosive device, such as a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) or a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The garment has a ballistic sleeve made of a ballistic fabric, such as an aramid fiber (e.g., KEVLAR®) cloth, that prevents thermal burns from the blast superheated gases, while providing some protection from fragments. Additionally, the garment has two or more rigid armor inserts that cover the upper and lower arm and protect against high-velocity projectiles, shrapnel and spall. The rigid inserts can be made of multiple plies of a carbon/epoxy composite laminate. The combination of 6 layers of KEVLAR® fabric and 28 plies of carbon/epoxy laminate inserts (with the inserts being sandwiched in-between the KEVLAR® layers), can meet the level IIIA fragmentation minimum V50 requirements for the US Interceptor Outer Tactical Vest. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197245 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/2.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572332 | Gruen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dimerond Technologies, LLC (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dieter M. Gruen (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | One provides nanocrystalline diamond material that comprises a plurality of substantially ordered diamond crystallites that are sized no larger than about 10 nanometers. One then disposes a non-diamond component within the nanocrystalline diamond material. By one approach this non-diamond component comprises an electrical conductor that is formed at the grain boundaries that separate the diamond crystallites from one another. The resultant nanowire is then able to exhibit a desired increase with respect to its ability to conduct electricity while also preserving the thermal conductivity behavior of the nanocrystalline diamond material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/380283 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572534 | Frey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew H. Frey (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Gregory M. Haugen (Edina, Minnesota); Phat T. Pham (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies and fuel cell polymer electrolyte membranes are provided comprising bound anionic functional groups and polyvalent cations, such as Mn or Ru cations, which demonstrate increased durability. Methods of making same are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/945178 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572669 | Tuominen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Tuominen (Shutesbury, Massachusetts); Joerg Schotter (Bielefeld, Germany); Thomas Thurn-Albrecht (Freiburg, Germany); Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Pathways to rapid and reliable fabrication of nanocylinder arrays are provided. Simple methods are described for the production of well-ordered arrays of nanopores, nanowires, and other materials. This is accomplished by orienting copolymer films and removing a component from the film to produce nanopores, that in turn, can be filled with materials to produce the arrays. The resulting arrays can be used to produce nanoscale media, devices, and systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708735 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573001 | Dane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metal Improvement Company, LLC (Paramus, New Jersey); Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Brent Dane (Livermore, California); Lloyd Hackel (Livermore, California); Fritz B. Harris (Rocklin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a laser to obtain an output pulse having a single wavelength, comprises inducing an intracavity loss into a laser resonator having an amount that prevents oscillation during a time that energy from the pump source is being stored in the gain medium. Gain is built up in the gain medium with energy from the pump source until formation of a single-frequency relaxation oscillation pulse in the resonator. Upon detection of the onset of the relaxation oscillation pulse, the intracavity loss is reduced, such as by Q-switching, so that the built-up gain stored in the gain medium is output from the resonator in the form of an output pulse at a single frequency. An electronically controllable output coupler is controlled to affect output pulse characteristics. The laser acts a master oscillator in a master oscillator power amplifier configuration. The laser is used for laser peening. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/258807 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.850 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573053 | Lewellen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Lewellen (Willowbrook, Illinois); John Noonan (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an electron source are provided for generating polarized electrons for an electron microscope. The electron source includes a photoemissive cathode and a low-power drive laser. The geometry of the photoemissive cathode uses a generally planar emission surface, which is imaged to approximately 1/100 its initial size via electrostatic focusing elements. The virtual emitter, or image spot, then is used as an electron source by a conventional microscope column. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/625454 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/493.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573168 | Carl, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph James Carl, Jr. (Clifton Park, New York); Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli (Niskayuna, New York); Patrick Lee Jansen (Scotia, New York); Richard Nils Dawson (Voorheesville, New York); Ronghai Qu (Clifton Park, New York); Mikhail Avramovich Avanesov (Moscow, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A pole assembly for a rotor, the pole assembly includes a permanent magnet pole including at least one permanent magnet block, a plurality of laminations including a pole cap mechanically coupled to the pole, and a plurality of laminations including a base plate mechanically coupled to the pole. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256718 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573264 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shoujun Xu (Berkeley, California); Thomas L. Lowery (Belmont, Massachusetts); Dmitry Budker (El Cerrito, California); Valeriy V. Yashchuk (Richmond, California); David E. Wemmer (Berkeley, California); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser-based atomic magnetometer (LBAM) apparatus measures magnetic fields, comprising: a plurality of polarization detector cells to detect magnetic fields; a laser source optically coupled to the polarization detector cells; and a signal detector that measures the laser source after being coupled to the polarization detector cells, which may be alkali cells. A single polarization cell may be used for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) by prepolarizing the nuclear spins of an analyte, encoding spectroscopic and/or spatial information, and detecting NMR signals from the analyte with a laser-based atomic magnetometer to form NMR spectra and/or magnetic resonance images (MRI). There is no need of a magnetic field or cryogenics in the detection step, as it is detected through the LBAM. |
| FILED | Monday, November 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/563537 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573268 | Volegov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Petr L. Volegov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrei N. Matlashov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Mosher (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michelle A. Espy (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert H. Kraus, Jr. (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Using resonant interactions to directly and tomographically image neural activity in the human brain using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques at ultra-low field (ULF), the present inventors have established an approach that is sensitive to magnetic field distributions local to the spin population in cortex at the Larmor frequency of the measurement field. Because the Larmor frequency can be readily manipulated (through varying Bm), one can also envision using ULF-DNI to image the frequency distribution of the local fields in cortex. Such information, taken together with simultaneous acquisition of MEG and ULF-NMR signals, enables non-invasive exploration of the correlation between local fields induced by neural activity in cortex and more ‘distant’ measures of brain activity such as MEG and EEG. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678023 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573571 | Creek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn Louise Creek (San Diego, California); Alonso Castro (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Perry Clayton Gray (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for rapid and accurate detection and discrimination of biological, radiological, and chemical particles in air. A suspect aerosol of the target particulates is treated with a taggant aerosol of ultrafine particulates. Coagulation of the taggant and target particles causes a change in fluorescent properties of the cloud, providing an indication of the presence of the target. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871678 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
07571598 — Plasma torch for ignition, flameholding and enhancement of combustion in high speed flows
| US 07571598 | O'Brien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter F. O'Brien (Blacksburg, Virginia); Matthew C. Billingsley (Blacksburg, Virginia); Darius D. Sanders (Dayton, Ohio); Joseph A. Schetz (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Preheating of fuel and injection into a plasma torch plume fro adjacent the plasma torch plume provides for only ignition with reduced delay but improved fuel-air mixing and fuel atomization as well as combustion reaction enhancement. Heat exchange also reduced erosion of the anode of the plasma torch. Fuel mixing atomization, fuel mixture distribution enhancement and combustion reaction enhancement are improved by unsteady plasma torch energization, integral formation of the heat exchanger, fuel injection nozzle and plasma torch anode in a more compact, low-profile arrangement which is not intrusive on a highspeed air flow with which the invention is particularly effective and further enhanced by use of nitrogen as a feedstock material and inclusion of high pressure gases in the fuel to cause effervescence during injection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/419168 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.826 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572426 | Strano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Strano (Champaign, Illinois); Monica Usrey (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Barone (Champaign, Illinois); Christopher A. Dyke (Humble, Texas); James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of selectively functionalizing carbon nanotubes of a specific type or range of types, based on their electronic properties, using diazonium chemistry. The present invention is also directed toward methods of separating carbon nanotubes into populations of specific types or range(s) of types via selective functionalization and electrophoresis, and also to the novel compositions generated by such separations. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566073 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572623 | Mangano et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Mangano (Arlington, Virginia); Henry Eppich (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves methods and devices which enable discrete objects having a conducting inner core, surrounded by a dielectric membrane to be selectively inactivated by electric fields via irreversible breakdown of their dielectric membrane. One important application of the invention is in the selection, purification, and/or purging of desired or undesired biological cells from cell suspensions. According to the invention, electric fields can be utilized to selectively inactivate and render non-viable particular subpopulations of cells in a suspension, while not adversely affecting other desired subpopulations. According to the inventive methods, the cells can be selected on the basis of intrinsic or induced differences in a characteristic electroporation threshold, which can depend, for example, on a difference in cell size and/or critical dielectric membrane breakdown voltage. The invention enables effective cell separation without the need to employ undesirable exogenous agents, such as toxins or antibodies. The inventive method also enables relatively rapid cell separation involving a relatively low degree of trauma or modification to the selected, desired cells. The inventive method has a variety of potential applications in clinical medicine, research, etc., with two of the more important foreseeable applications being stem cell enrichment/isolation, and cancer cell purging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/422310 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572894 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea); Jae-Hyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Regina Valluzzi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a fibrous protein smectic hydrogel by way of a solvent templating process, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; and collecting the resulting fibrous protein smectic hydrogel and allowing it to dry. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of obtaining predominantly one enantiomer from a racemic mixture, comprising the steps of pouring an aqueous fibrous protein solution into a container comprising a solvent that is not miscible with water; sealing the container and allowing it to age at about room temperature; allowing the enantiomers of racemic mixture to diffuse selectively into the smectic hydrogel in solution; removing the smectic hydrogel from the solution; rinsing predominantly one enantiomer from the surface of the smectic hydrogel; and extracting predominantly one enantiomer from the interior of the smectic hydrogel. The present invention also relates to a smectic hydrogel prepared according to an aforementioned method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533611 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573272 | Becker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Becker (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); David W. Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Kelly P. Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Douglas R. Carlson (Woodbury, Minnesota); Jerome P. Drexler (Wyoming, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of testing the electrical functionality of an optically controlled switch in a reconfigurable antenna is provided. The method includes configuring one or more conductive paths between one or more feed points and one or more test point with switches in the reconfigurable antenna. Applying one or more test signals to the one or more feed points. Monitoring the one or more test points in response to the one or more test signals and determining the functionality of the switch based upon the monitoring of the one or more test points. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/343006 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574137 | Lekki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lekki (Elyria, Ohio); Quang-Viet Nguyen (Richmond Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical communications transmitter includes a oscillator source, producing a clock signal, a data source, producing a data signal, a modulating circuit for modulating the clock signal using the data signal to produce modulating signals, optical drivers, receiving the modulating signals and producing optical driving signals based on the modulating signals and optical emitters, producing small numbers of photons based on the optical driving signals. The small numbers of photons are time-correlated between at least two separate optical transmission wavelengths and quantum states and the small number of photons can be detected by a receiver to reform the data signal. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418304 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574334 | Tiwari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashish Tiwari (Los Altos, California); Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique based on the use of a quantifier elimination decision procedure for real closed fields and simple theorem proving to construct a series of successively finer qualitative abstractions of hybrid automata is taught. The resulting abstractions are always discrete transition systems which can then be used by any traditional analysis tool. The constructed abstractions are conservative and can be used to establish safety properties of the original system. The technique works on linear and non-linear polynomial hybrid systems: the guards on discrete transitions and the continuous flows in all modes can be specified using arbitrary polynomial expressions over the continuous variables. An exemplar tool in the SAL environment built over the theorem prover PVS is detailed. The technique scales well to large and complex hybrid systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/775419 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574338 | Kaul |
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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) | Upender K. Kaul (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Modeling and simulation of free and forced structural vibrations is essential to an overall structural health monitoring capability. In the various embodiments, a first principles finite-difference approach is adopted in modeling a structural subsystem such as a mechanical gear by solving elastodynamic equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates. Such a capability to generate a dynamic structural response is widely applicable in a variety of structural health monitoring systems. This capability (1) will lead to an understanding of the dynamic behavior of a structural system and hence its improved design, (2) will generate a sufficiently large space of normal and damage solutions that can be used by machine learning algorithms to detect anomalous system behavior and achieve a system design optimization and (3) will lead to an optimal sensor placement strategy, based on the identification of local stress maxima all over the domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340002 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574357 | Jorgensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Admimnistrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Charles Jorgensen (Palo Alto, California); Bradley J. Betts (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating electromyographic or sub-audible signals (“SAWPs”) and for transmitting and recognizing the SAWPs that represent the original words and/or phrases. The SAWPs may be generated in an environment that interferes excessively with normal speech or that requires stealth communications, and may be transmitted using encoded, enciphered or otherwise transformed signals that are less subject to signal distortion or degradation in the ambient environment. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169265 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07571676 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Nelson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard H. Linton (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yingchang Han (West Lafayette, Indiana); Travis L. Selby (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an apparatus and method for processing produce to reduce microorganisms thereon by treating the produce in a treatment chamber. The treatment chamber comprises a produce receiver disposed in the treatment chamber, a means for providing a gas stream comprising chlorine dioxide and a carrier gas into the treatment chamber, a chlorine dioxide sensor in communication with the treatment chamber, and a means for controlling the concentration of chlorine dioxide in the treatment chamber. The method comprises exposing the produce to an atmosphere comprising gaseous chlorine dioxide and a carrier gas in a treatment chamber and can comprise controlling the concentration of chlorine dioxide in the treatment chamber, moving the produce in the treatment chamber during exposure to the gaseous chlorine dioxide, spraying water to remove the gaseous chlorine dioxide, and purging the treatment chamber to remove any residual chlorine dioxide. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/993133 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods and beverages: Apparatus 099/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572468 | Ishida et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); United Technologies (Mt. Prospect, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Betty K. Ishida (El Cerrito, California); Mary H. Chapman (El Cerrito, California); Sarabjit Singh Randhava (Evanston, Illinois); Sikander Singh Randhava (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for extraction of carotenoids from carotenoid-containing plant material using an extraction solvent comprising ethyl lactate. The invention is also directed to products obtained thereby. In the method, a sample of dry, particulate carotenoid-containing plant material is contacted with the ethyl lactate extraction solvent to extract the carotenoids. The method also includes the use of an ethyl lactate-ethanol blend as the extraction solvent. After extraction, the solvent containing the extracted carotenoids is separated from the extracted plant solids and treated to separate the dissolved carotenoids from the extraction solvent and obtain a carotenoid-containing concentrate. The concentrated carotenoid product may be used directly or may be subjected to further treatment. After removal of the dissolved carotenoids, the extraction solvent can be recycled for further use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/319148 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572602 | Donovan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Donovan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns a recombinant nucleic acid molecule encoding an antimicrobial fusion peptidoglycan endopeptidase. The recombinant nucleic acid molecule according to the invention is formed from a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial endopeptidase (lysostaphin) from Staphylococcus simulans and a nucleic acid encoding a second endopeptidase (endolysin) module from Group B streptococcal bacteriophage B30. The encoded fusion endopeptidase has antimicrobial activity and kills both Staphylococcus bacteria and Streptococcus bacteria. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294156 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572610 | Laszlo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biotechnology Research and Development Corporation (Peoria, Illinois); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Laszlo (Peoria, Illinois); David L. Compton (Peoria, Illinois); Louis J. DeFilippi (Palatine, Illinois); Steven Grall (Lemont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a compound having the structural formula: wherein at least two of R1, R2, and R3 are non-fatty acid carboxylates, and the other of R1, R2, and R3 are each either a C2-C24 fatty acid moiety, OH, or a non-fatty acid carboxylate, wherein the first and second non-fatty acid carboxylates, when present, are the same or different, comprising (a) partially deacylating a triacylglycerol so as to provide a mono- or diacylglycerol, (b) reacting in a reaction mixture an acyl ester of the phytochemical with said mono- or diacylglycerol in the presence of a esterase catalyst under conditions that permit transesterification of said ester with said mono- or diacylglycerol, and (c) recovering said compound from said reaction mixture. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/425096 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572620 | Olsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher W. Olsen (Madison, Wisconsin); Gabriele A. Landolt (Madison, Wisconsin); Alexander I. Karasin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated H3 equine influenza A virus, as well as methods of preparing and using the virus, and genes or proteins thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/033248 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572925 | Dumesic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dumesic (Madison, Wisconsin); Yuriy Rom{acute over (α)}n-Leshkov (Madison, Wisconsin); Juben N. Chheda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a catalytic process for converting sugars to furan derivatives (e.g. 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, furfural, dimethylfuran, etc.) using a biphasic reactor containing a reactive aqueous phase and an organic extracting phase. The process provides a cost-effective route for producing di-substituted furan derivatives. The furan derivatives are useful as value-added intermediates to produce polymers, as precursors to diesel fuel, and as fuel additives. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757461 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07572357 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ross (Silver Spring, Maryland); Wyatt N. Vreeland (Washington, District of Columbia); Karin M. Balss (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device are provided for concentrating and separating materials in fluids within a fluidic device having a fluid conduit such as a channel or capillary. The concentration is achieved by balancing the electrophoretic velocity of a material against the bulk flow of fluid in the presence of a temperature gradient. An additive is added to the fluid which interacts with the material and which modifies the normal electrophoretic mobility of the material. Using an appropriate fluid, the temperature gradient can generate a corresponding gradient in the electrophoretic velocity so that the electrophoretic and bulk velocities sum to zero at a unique position along the conduit and the material will be focused at that position. The method and device may be adapted for use with a variety of materials including fluorescent dyes, amino acids, proteins, DNA and to concentrate a dilute material. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039955 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07572554 | Koike et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tsuneaki Koike (Yokohama, Japan); Hiroyuki Yumoto (Stevenson Ranch, California); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolyte for a battery comprises a lithium organoborate salt in a lactone and a low viscosity solvent. The lithium organoborate salt may comprise LiBOB, or a mono[bidentate]borate salt. The lactone may comprise gamma butyrolactone. The low viscosity solvent may comprise a nitrile, an ether, a linear carbonate, or a linear ester. The electrolyte is suitable for use in lithium ion batteries having graphite negative electrodes. Batteries using this electrolyte have high conductivity, low polarization, and high discharge capacity. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/072740 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573072 | Setlur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumination LLC (Valley View, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York); Holly Ann Comanzo (Niskayuna, New York); Dan Hancu (Clifton Park, New York); Linda Jane Valyou Briel (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphor compositions having the formula (Ba,Sr,Ca)SiO4:Eu and light emitting devices including a semiconductor light source and the above phosphor. Also disclosed are blends of (Ba,Sr,Ca)SiO4:Eu and one or more additional phosphors and light emitting devices incorporating the same. Preferred blends include (Sr,Ba,Ca)2SiO4:Eu and at least one of (Sr,Mg,Ca,Ba,Zn)2P2O7:Eu,Mn; (Ca,Sr,Ba,Mg)5(PO4)3(Cl,F,OH):Eu,Mn; (Sr,Ba,Ca)MgAl10O17:Eu,Mn; and Mg4FGeO6:Mn4+; and one or more garnet phosphors having the general formula (Y,Gd,La,Lu,T,Pr,Sm)3(Al,Ga,In)5O12:Ce. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/797784 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07574352 | Quatieri, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr. (Newtonville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic signals are analyzed by two-dimensional (2-D) processing of the one-dimensional (1-D) speech signal in the time-frequency plane. The short-space 2-D Fourier transform of a frequency-related representation (e.g., spectrogram) of the signal is obtained. The 2-D transformation maps harmonically-related signal components to a concentrated entity in the new 2-D plane (compressed frequency-related representation). The series of operations to produce the compressed frequency-related representation is referred to as the “grating compression transform” (GCT), consistent with sine-wave grating patterns in the frequency-related representation reduced to smeared impulses. The GCT provides for speech pitch estimation. The operations may, for example, determine pitch estimates of voiced speech or provide noise filtering or speaker separation in a multiple speaker acoustic signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/244086 |
| 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 |
| US 07574416 | Aparicio, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saffron Technology, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel Aparicio, IV (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); David R. Cabana (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A location of a missing object is predicted based on past sightings of objects including the missing object, and a new sighting of the objects except for the missing object. For a respective given object in the objects, the past sightings are memorized based on respective distances of respective remaining objects from the respective given object. Distance-based memorization may take place using an agent or associative memory for a respective given object. Then, for a respective given object, except for the missing object, a distance of the missing object from the respective given object is predicted, based on the past sightings that have been memorized and the new sighting, to obtain candidate locations for the missing object. The candidate locations are then disambiguated, to predict the location of the missing object. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/036641 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07572392 | Clothier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Allen Clothier (Niskayuna, New York); Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro (Saratoga Springs, New York); Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani (Clifton Park, New York); Alok Mani Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid-state scintillating compositions for detecting neutrons comprise a Li4Zn(PO4)2 host lattice. Methods of making scintillating compositions comprise: dissolving a lithium-6 precursor and a zinc precursor in a solvent to form a solution; combining phosphoric acid with the solution; combining a base with the solution to form a precipitate; and heating the precipitate to form a Li4Zn(PO4)2 host lattice. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651702 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6P0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07572580 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherry Leonard (Denver, Colorado); Robert Freedman (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions related to α7 acetylcholine nicotinic receptor genes, in particular, the human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene. The human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene is associated with the pathophysiological aspects of the disease schizophrenia. The present invention further provides methods and compositions to screen populations for abnormal α7 alleles, as well as methods and compositions for development of therapeutics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/723940 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07572584 | Shanks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orin C. Shanks (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jorge Santo Domingo (Cincinnati, Ohio); James E. Graham (Louisville, Kentucky); Jingrang Lu (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Targeted sequencing of genetic regions that differ between two DNA preparations uses genomic fragment enrichment. This method can be used to study genetic variation among closely related species and microbial communities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316888 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07572426 | Strano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Strano (Champaign, Illinois); Monica Usrey (Champaign, Illinois); Paul Barone (Champaign, Illinois); Christopher A. Dyke (Humble, Texas); James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward methods of selectively functionalizing carbon nanotubes of a specific type or range of types, based on their electronic properties, using diazonium chemistry. The present invention is also directed toward methods of separating carbon nanotubes into populations of specific types or range(s) of types via selective functionalization and electrophoresis, and also to the novel compositions generated by such separations. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566073 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07573975 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit (GmbH) (Neuherberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Xu (Eugene, Oregon); Oleg Tischenko (München, Germany); Christoph Hoeschen (Hebertshausen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An irradiation method, in particular for imaging a region of investigation (2) of an object (1), comprises generating at least one energy input beam (3) with at least one energy input beam source (210), wherein the at least one energy input beam (3) comprises a plurality of individual energy input beam components (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, . . . ), and irradiating the region of investigation (2) with the at least one energy input beam (3) along a plurality of projection directions, wherein the energy input beam components (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, . . . ) are formed with at least one beam mask (211) made of an energy input shielding material with through holes. Furthermore, imaging methods and devices for irradiating or imaging the object are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/794557 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07572771 | Remaley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Departments of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Remaley (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen J. Demosky (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John A. Stonik (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Marcele J. A. Amar (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Edward B. Neufeld (Washington, District of Columbia); H. Bryan Brewer (Potomac, Maryland); Fairwell Thomas (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are peptides or peptide analogs with multiple amphipathic α-helical domains that promote lipid efflux from cells via an ABCA1-dependent pathway. Also provided herein are methods of using multi-domain amphipathic α-helical peptides or peptide analogs to treat or inhibit dyslipidemic disorders. Methods for identifying non-cytotoxic peptides that promote ABCA1-dependent lipid efflux from cells are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/577259 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07573889 | Milliken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter C. Milliken (Dover, New Hampshire); Christine E. Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed in which one or more cells are buffered in a communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a cell; classifying the cell as one of a set of flows; transmitting the cell to one of a set of queues of static memory, such that the queue corresponds to one of a set of banks of dynamic memory; and writing the cell to the corresponding one of the set of banks. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850563 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 11, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20090811.html
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