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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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| US 07574835 | Bohlmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond E. Bohlmann (Creve Coeur, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for joining a composite structural member to a metallic structural member is provided. The apparatus includes a composite structural member, a metallic transitional member, and a metallic structural member. The metallic transitional member may have a substantially H-shaped cross sectional geometry and may include at least two tapered flanges and at least one web portion. An adhesive joint may be used to attach the composite structural member to the tapered flange and the web portion. At least two welds attach the metallic transitional member to the metallic structural member. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100915 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574922 | Doleski 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) | Robert F. Doleski (Middletown, Rhode Island); Stanley J. Olson (Newport, Rhode Island); Stephen F. Oliver (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for determining the strength of composite sandwich beam in which an enclosure and insertable bladder is provided. The apparatus comprises positioning a bladder within the enclosure. The beam to be tested is slid through a cutout or aperture of the enclosure with support feet holding the beam in place within the enclosure. The enclosure supports the bladder sides with one face of the bladder pressuring the composite sandwich beam. For testing, water is pumped under pressure through a fitting into the bladder. The tolerances between the beam, enclosure and an extrusion seal do not allow the bladder to squeeze outward with the result being measurable testing pressure on the face of the composite beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/776776 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/841 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574925 | Khoshnevis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure presents several embodiments for metering devices some of which also have pumping capability. The devices utilize one or more pistons located within a cylindrical rotor. As the cylindrical rotor is turned by a suitable torque/power source, a first face of each piston is exposed to an inlet supplying a fluid to be metered. The piston is then moved within the associated channel or bore within the rotor, allowing the volume of the channel to be filled with fluid. The continuing rotation of the rotor then removes the piston from the fluid supply and moves the channel through an angular displacement. The piston is then moved—either through applied power for active pistons or the force of the fluid supply for passive pistons—in the opposite direction, forcing the fluid out of the channel. In this way, a precise amount of fluid can be metered from each channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933985 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/861.520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574960 | Dockery 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) | Luther Damian Dockery (Waldorf, Maryland); Peter Margiotta (La Plata, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An ignition element is provided for integration into a primer assembly. The ignition element includes an electrode housing including at least one cavity and an electrode disposed in the electrode housing. The electrode housing and electrode are electrically isolated from each other using insulators. A bridgewire and a primary ignition charge are located in the cavity such that upon application of current to the electrode the pyrotechnic ignition charge is ignited. A headstock is provided, and the electrode housing is threadably disposed within the headstock. Burst disks cover the cavity and separate the ignition charge from a primer charge containing powder disposed in a single booster holder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296710 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/202.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574971 | Butts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Butts (Casco, Maine); Stephen F. Oliver (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Donald L. Cox (West Kingston, Rhode Island); David A. Abdow (Somerset, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A torpedo tail mounted dispenser (TMD) for deploying an elongated, flexible article generally along a deployment axis, which includes a receptacle for storing the article in a multiple-turn, multiple-layer configuration about the deployment axis in a storage volume. There is also a torpedo connector mechanism having a terminal forward face and a lateral peripheral surface extending away from the receptacle along the deployment axis. An elastomeric cushioning feature is mounted on the lateral peripheral surface of the connector mechanism. An annular elastomeric bumper is mounted on a forward peripheral face of the cushioning feature, the annular opening of the bumper surrounding the connector mechanism to allow connection of the TMD to a torpedo. The bumper provides protection to the TMD and torpedo under certain shock and vibration levels. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/874465 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575192 | Kish |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Locust USA, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jules G. Kish (Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission system for use with a microturbine engine that includes an input shaft operably coupled to the output shaft of the microturbine engine. The output shaft of the microturbine engine and the input shaft of the transmission system operate at a rotational speed in a range between 50,000 and 250,000 RPM with an output power between 200 and 5 HP. The transmission system includes a gear train having a first gear that interfaces to a second gear, the first and second gears employing teeth with opposite handed helix-angled surfaces that apply axial forces to the input shaft during both normal operation and start-up operations, which pushes the input shaft toward the output shaft of the microturbine engine. Preferably, the helix-angled surfaces on respective normal drive sides of the teeth produce an axial force during normal operation that will not be overcome with the axial force produced by the mass time acceleration of the first gear. The gear train interfaces to a starter-generator preferably through the second gear. The gear train preferably provides a reduction ratio having a value greater than 24. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305711 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575621 | Vanheusden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karel Vanheusden (Placitas, New Mexico); Hyungrak Kiim (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Aaron D. Stump (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Allen B. Schult (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chuck Edwards (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Anthony R. James (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Scott Thomas Haubrich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark H. Kowalski (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the production of metal nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are formed by combining a metal compound with a solution that comprises a polyol and a substance that is capable of being adsorbed on the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are precipitated by adding a nanoparticle-precipitating liquid in a sufficient amount to precipitate at least a substantial portion of the nanoparticles and of a protic solvent in a sufficient amount to improve the separation of the nanoparticles from the liquid phase. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331238 |
| 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 075/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575707 | Xia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (Seattle, Washington); Dan Li (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrospinning nanofibers having a core-sheath, tubular, or composite structure is disclosed. The process uses a spinneret having first and second capillaries that channel first and second fluids in the spinneret, the second capillary surrounding the first. A high voltage is applied between the spinneret and a spaced conductive collector. In one embodiment, the first fluid is a mineral oil and the second fluid is a polymeric solution that may include a polymer, a catalyst, a solvent, and a sol-gel precursor. The as-spun nanofiber includes an oil core and a composite sheath. The oil may be removed to produce a composite tubular fiber or the polymer and oil may be removed by calcination to produce a ceramic tubular fiber. In other embodiments, miscible fluids are used to produce porous nanofibers, selected additives functionalize the surfaces of the nanofibers and/or conjugated polymers are used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097975 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575889 | RayChaudhuri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debrabata RayChaudhuri (Somerville, Massachusetts); Marc Kirschner (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides in vitro assays, e.g., FtsZ GTPase assays, and/or in vivo assays and methods of use thereof to identify particular compounds and combinations of compounds that affect microbial cell division. The invention further provides such compounds and compound combinations, including combinations that result in inhibition of cell survival or growth when present together at concentrations below their individual MICs. Certain of the compound combinations display synergism. Certain of the combinations include a compound that inhibits FtsZ GTPase activity and a compound that inhibits cell growth by a mechanism other than inhibition of FtsZ GTPase activity. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions that have anti-microbial activity and methods of treating microbial infections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376259 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576037 | Engelhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEI Technologies, Inc. (Houston, Texas); Bd. of Regents, Univ. of Texas (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnnie Paul Engelhardt (West Columbia, Texas); David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Bruce A. Luxon (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are described for split synthesis combinatorial chemistry that provides candidate libraries where an even distribution of theoretical products is obtainable through even mixing during the pooling step, followed by controlled redistribution of the mixed pooled products from the prior addition step into separate synthesis columns, one for each different specie of subunit to be added. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282800 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576168 | Keller 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) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A metallized thermoset containing a crosslinked metallized polymer having a backbone having an acetylenic repeat unit and —SiR2—(O—SiR2)n— and/or —SiR2—(O—SiR2)n-[Cb-SiR2—(O—SiR2)n]m—. At least one of the acetylenic repeat units contains a (MLx)y-acetylene complex. The metallized thermoset contains a crosslink between acetylene groups and/or a polycarbosiloxane crosslink. M is a metal, L is a ligand, x and y are positive integers, R is an organic group, Cb is a carborane, and n and m are greater than or equal to zero. A method of making a metallized thermoset by providing a metallized polymer and heating the metallized polymer. The metallized polymer contains the above backbone. Heating the metallized polymer forms crosslinks between acetylene groups and/or polycarbosiloxane crosslinks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239448 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576308 | Gruneisen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark T. Gruneisen (Tijeras, New Mexico); Matthew B. Garvin (Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio); Raymond C. Dymale (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James R. Rotge (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A wave front control system (“WFCS”) organizes the object scene into a mosaic comprised of a grid of segments and transmits each segment in a temporal sequence. The WFCS steers the light fronts emanating from each segment one segment at a time, through a series of optical components that transmit the light fronts respectively emanating from each segment onto a digital imaging sensor. An optical recording device records each sensed segment, and the object scene is composed by assembling the recorded segments. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, and is intended to allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782547 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/201.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576324 | Grossenbacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Griffin Analytical Technologies, L.L.C. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Grossenbacher (Lafayette, Indiana); Garth E. Patterson (Brookston, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Ion detection methods are provided that can include applying a first voltage between a power source and a dynode, and contacting the dynode with first ions to create a first charged species. After applying the first voltage, a second voltage can be applied between the power source and the dynode, and the dynode can be contacted with second ions to create a second charged species. Mass spectrometry instrument circuitry is also provided that can include a power source coupled to a dynode via at least one switch with the switch being operatively configured in one position to apply a first voltage between the dynode and the power source, and, in another position, configured to apply a second voltage between the dynode and the power source. Mass spectrometry analysis methods are also provided that can include detecting sorted ions using a dynode configured according to an ion detection parameter with the ion detection parameter including first and second dynode values associated with first and second time values. Methods and circuitry for portable instrumentation are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570717 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576353 | Diduck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quentin Diduck (Ithaca, New York); Martin Margala (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum well is formed in a substrate to define a hub, ports extending from the hub, and a deflective structure in the hub. Electrons move through the hub and ports according to the ballistic electron effect. Gates control the movement of the electrons, causing them to be incident on the deflective structure on one side or the other, thus controlling the direction in which they are deflected and the port through which they pass. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/878434 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576409 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Chen (Oak Park, California); Marko Sokolich (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer comprising at least one high Ft HBT and at least one high BVceo HBT having various collector profiles on a common III-V compound semiconductor based wafer. The N+ implant in the collector varies the collector profiles of individual HBTs on the wafer. The method for preparing the device comprises forming of HBT layers up to and including collector layer on non-silicon based substrate, performing ion implantation, annealing for implant activation, and forming remaining HBT layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202001 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576569 | Carpenter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Carpenter (Austin, Texas); Alan J. Drake (Round Rock, Texas); Harmander S. Deogun (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Floyd (Austin, Texas); Norman K. James (Liberty Hill, Texas); Robert M. Senger (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit for dynamically monitoring the operation of an integrated circuit under differing temperature, frequency, and voltage (including localized noise and droop), and for detecting early life wear-out mechanisms (e.g., NBTI, hot electrons). |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/549138 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576611 | Glaser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Stanley Glaser (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic power amplifier includes a plurality of cells, each cell comprising a DC input port for accepting a DC input power from a voltage source VG, an AC input port for accepting an AC signal S1 at a frequency FS and having a first magnitude M1, a switching mechanism operatively coupled to the DC input port and to the AC input port for converting the DC input power to an AC output power at the frequency FS and having a second magnitude M2 greater than the first magnitude M1, and an output port capable of applying the AC output power to a load impedance. The plurality of cells includes at least a first cell having a first DC input port and a second cell having a second DC input port. The first and second DC input ports are connected in series for application to the voltage source VG. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624774 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576653 | Smith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angel Secure Networks, Inc. (Orono, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Hewitt Smith (Old Town, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for securing an asset include providing a plurality of dispersed, interconnected electronic components integrally attached to a structural member of the secured asset. Each electronic component of the plurality of components is in communication with a remotely accessible interface and includes a memory for storing a respective sub-division of at least one numeric value. The numeric values can be inserted, altered, or deleted remotely through the remotely accessible interface. Upon detection of an attempted breach of the secured asset or tamper with the structural member, one or more of the stored sub-divisions are selectively destroyed. Detection of an attempted breach or tamper is remotely observable upon inspection of a previously stored numeric value, subsequently altered in response to detection of a breach of the secured asset. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724879 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576682 | Yu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Bor Yu (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for radar target detection and angle estimation in the presence of jamming includes the steps of receiving a signal from a radar array having elements arranged in rows and columns; performing deterministic row-based beamforming on the received signal to obtain row sum azimuth beams; performing deterministic column-based beamforming on the received signal to obtain column sum elevation beams; performing one-dimensional maximum likelihood estimation on the row sum azimuth beams to obtain an estimated target elevation angle and an adaptive array sum azimuth beam; performing one-dimensional maximum likelihood estimation on the column sum elevation beams to obtain an estimated target azimuth angle and an adaptive array sum elevation beam; and performing target detection based on the adaptive array sum azimuth beam and the adaptive array sum elevation beam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375460 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576696 | Walton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syntonics LLC (Columbia, Maryland); The Ohio State Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio); Eugene Y. Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Bruce Montgomery (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Antenna assemblies and corresponding modes of operation are provided where the first antenna assembly of the system is tuned to a first frequency band ν1 and the second antenna assembly of the antenna system is tuned to a second frequency band ν2. The ground plane of the first antenna assembly is configured as a frequency selective surface that is substantially reflective of radiation in the first frequency band and substantially transparent to radiation in the second frequency band. The second ground plane may also be configured as a frequency selective surface and may be reflective of radiation in the second frequency band. Any number of additional antenna arrays may be added so long as the outer arrays are transparent to the inner arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/457327 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576791 | Sonstroem |
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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) | Jaime Sonstroem (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention applies wavefront coding to the front of an electro-optic/infrared device to minimize the amount of light which is retroreflected by systems, such as Fowarding Looking Infrared systems, back to its source. The invention (unlike conventional reduction methods) does not rely on reducing the laser power leaving the interrogated sensor, but primarily on controlling its direction. A sensor according to the present invention, which has been wavefront coded for reduction of reflected light, will also effect the direction of the scattered light, thereby significantly reducing that which returns to the zero bistatic angle position. In contrast, a limitation of conventional methods is that once specular reflections are addressed, the remaining retroreflected signal typically results from scattered light at the focal plane which is largely collected and recollimated by the system optics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110993 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576837 | Liu 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) | Jony Jiang Liu (Olney, Maryland); Christian von der Lippe (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-mirror optical tracking and ranging system comprises an optical transceiver having a Micro-Electro-Optical Mechanical System (MEOMS) micro-mirror beam steering system and an electronic control and operating system for processing electronic signals. An optical transceiver and MEOMS micro-mirror beam steering system comprises two oppositely installed micro-mirrors controlled so that they spin and tilt synchronously and project a laser beam out in a wide solid angle and interval in a substantially conically shaped scanning pattern. Such an optical transmitter system provides a steered frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser beam. When a laser beam waveform reflects off of an object within the scanned patter it is detected by the optical receiver an electronic control and operating system processes the detected laser beam waveform by mixing it with the original transmitted laser beam waveform and calculates the precise distance and location of the object. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845214 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576865 | Chen et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongping Chen (Irvine, California); Tuqiang Xie (Irvine, California); David Mukai (Costa Mesa, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-optic bundle based optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe method is demonstrated in a multimode optical fiber bundle based OCT system. The system can achieve a lateral resolution of 12 μm and an axial resolution of 10 μm using a super-luminescent diode source. This imaging approach eliminates any moving parts in the probe and has a primary advantage for use in extremely compact and safe OCT endoscopes to image internal organs and great potential to be combined with confocal endoscopic microscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405812 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577107 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Zhang (Cupertino, California); Markus P. J. Fromherz (Palo Alto, California); Lara S. Crawford (Mountain View, California); Yi Shang (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented for message-initiated constraint-based routing for digital message communication among nodes in an ad-hoc network, in which each node includes attributes having attribute values. The method includes determining local attributes for each of the nodes in the ad-hoc network and defining constraints on the attributes. Each node is provided access to the attributes of each neighboring node, with a neighboring node being a node that is one hop away. Each message transmitted over the ad-hoc network has a message type, which includes a destination specification, route specification, and objective specification. Constraint checking and cost estimation checking are performed for each message type. The message that is routed within the network includes the address of a sending node, the address of the source node, route and destination constraints, the number of route constraints, the number of destination constraints, message identification number, sequence identification number, and routing objectives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453042 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577108 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Zhang (Cupertino, California); Markus P. J. Fromherz (Palo Alto, California); Yi Shang (Columbia, Missouri); Sergei Vassilvitskii (Kensington, Maryland); Lara S. Crawford (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented for a learning-based strategy utilized within message-initiated constraint-based routing for digital message communication among nodes in an ad-hoc network, in which each node includes attributes. The method includes determining local attributes for each of the nodes and defining constraints on the attributes. Each node is provided access to the attributes of each neighboring node. Each message transmitted over the network has a message type, which includes a destination specification, route specification, and objective specification. Constraint checking and cost estimation checking are performed for each message type. Cost estimation is utilized to converge on an optimal message path. The message that is routed within the network includes the address of a sending node, the address of the source node, route constraints, destination constraints, the number of route constraints, the number of destination constraints, message identification number, sequence identification number, and routing objectives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453174 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577169 | Dinh 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) | Son Dinh (San Diego, California); Keith Church (San Diego, California); Ilya Stevens (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of time stamping by using a modified NTP at the data link/physical layers. The method includes steps of time stamping and recording arrival and transmit times at a lower data link level of a requester and/or a responder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/290254 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577266 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert S. Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Michael E. Lockwood (Champaign, Illinois); Douglas L. Jones (Champaign, Illinois); Carolyn J. Bilger, legal representative (Champaign, Illinois); Charissa R. Lansing (Champaign, Illinois); William D. O'Brien (Champaign, Illinois); Bruce C. Wheeler (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | System (10) is disclosed including an acoustic sensor array (20) coupled to processor (42). System (10) processes inputs from array (20) to extract a desired acoustic signal through the suppression of interfering signals. The extraction/suppression is performed by modifying the array (20) inputs in the frequency domain with weights selected to minimize variance of the resulting output signal while maintaining unity gain of signals received in the direction of the desired acoustic signal. System (10) may be utilized in hearing, cochlear implants, speech recognition, voice input devices, surveillance devices, hands-free telephony devices, remote telepresence or teleconferencing, wireless acoustic sensor arrays, and other applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484838 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577307 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive lifting transform provides lossless image data compression on an improved edge prediction process. The adaptive predictor works on pixel-by-pixel basis that does not need bookkeeping overhead, especially for integer-to-integer wavelet transform for reducing the number of lifting steps for use in JPEG2000 image compression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104703 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577405 | Amidon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Philip Amidon (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A disposable radio communication device includes a body defining an enclosed chamber, a power source mounted in the chamber, an on-off switch mounted on the body and accessible from outside the body, a processor mounted in the chamber and powered by the power source, and a transceiver mounted in the chamber and in communication with the processor. A speaker is mounted in the chamber in communication with the processor. A microphone is mounted in the body and is in communication with the processor. The transceiver is adapted to receive sound signals from a remote unit and input the signals to the speaker for broadcast, and the microphone is adapted to receive sound signals from outside the body and input the received sound signals to the processor for transmittal by the transceiver to the remote unit. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183314 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/90.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577564 | Wenndt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley J. Wenndt (Rome, New York); Edward J. Cupples (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for the classification of speech signals. Speech is classified into two broad classes of speech production—whispered speech and normally phonated speech. Speech classified in this manner will yield increased performance of automated speech processing systems because the erroneous results that occur when typical automated speech processing systems encounter non-typical speech such as whispered speech, will be avoided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378513 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577663 | Crispo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Crispo (Newcastle, Washington); Edward G. Stanley (Bainbridge Island, Washington); Patrick J. Chambers (Kent, Washington); Dennis N. Barr (Burien, Washington); Bruce A. Dike (Issaquah, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for distributed database management are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of accessing information in a distributed database system having one or more data servers includes establishing a plurality of lattice structures configured to store data elements having inter-related information. A data query initiated by a client is then formulated that includes selected data attributes. The data query is processed to generate a query product, and the plurality of lattice structures are searched to identify data elements corresponding to elements in the query product. Pertinent data files located within another data server are accessed that correspond to the data query and generating a result, and the result is transferred to the initiating client system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/171154 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07575742 | Martin 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) | Roland Martin (Bethesda, Maryland); Henry McFarland (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bibiana Bielekova (Kensington, Maryland); Thomas Waldmann (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of administering an interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) antagonist to a subject to treat an autoimmune disease. In particular embodiments, the IL-2R antagonist is an anti-IL-2R monoclonal antibody specific for one or more chains of the IL-2R, such as the alpha-chain, for example daclizumab. In other particular embodiments the autoimmune disease is multiple sclerosis. In certain embodiments administration of interferon-beta is combined with administration of an antagonist of the IL-2R to provide significant clinical improvement in a subject with an autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/519311 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575745 | Ware |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl F. Ware (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel polypeptide ligand, p30, or LIGHT, for herpes virus entry mediator, HVEM, is provided. LIGHT is useful for modulating immune responses and in inhibiting infection and/or subsequent proliferation by herpesvirus. HVEM fusion proteins are also provided. Methods for treating subjects with lymphoid cell disorders, tumors, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders or those having or suspected of having a herpesvirus infection, utilizing p30 and the fusion proteins of the invention, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513290 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575751 | Vale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wylie Vale (La Jolla, California); Craig Harrison (Nunawading, Australia); Peter Gray (Encinitas, California); Wolfgang Fischer (Encinitas, California); Senyon Choe (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Members of the TGF-β superfamily control many physiologic and pathophysiologic processes in multiple tissues and signal via type II and type I receptor serine kinases. Type II activin receptors are promiscuous and known to bind 12 TGF-β ligands including activins, myostatin, BMPs and nodal. Methods are described for the screening and identification of antagonist for TGF-β superfamily members, in particular activin-A antagonist. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/115877 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575759 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Murphy (Chicago, Illinois); Robert G. Dennis (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David J. Mooney (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the production of scaffolds, such scaffolds to be used for a variety of purposes, including tissue engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of fused crystals, such as fused salt crystals to form a framework. The methods for producing the scaffolds of this invention improve the porosity, interconnectivity and ease of manufacture as compared to prior art methods. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/330578 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575763 | Sligar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen G. Sligar (Urbana, Illinois); Timothy H. Bayburt (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Membrane proteins are difficult to express in recombinant form, purify, and characterize, at least in part due to their hydrophobic or partially hydrophobic properties. Membrane scaffold proteins (MSP) assemble with target membrane or other hydrophobic or partially hydrophobic proteins or membrane fragments to form soluble nanoscale particles which preserve their native structure and function; they are improved over liposomes and detergent micelles. In the presence of phospholipid, MSPs form nanoscopic phospholipid bilayer disks, with the MSP stabilizing the particle at the perimeter of the bilayer domain. The particle bilayer structure allows manipulation of incorporated proteins in solution or on solid supports, including for use with such surface-sensitive techniques as scanning probe microscopy or surface plasmon resonance. The nanoscale particles facilitate pharmaceutical and biological research, structure/function correlation, structure determination, bioseparation, and drug discovery. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439458 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/499 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575869 | Wyrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Wyrick (Pasadena, California); Richard A. Young (Weston, Massachusetts); Bing Ren (La Jolla, California); Robert Francois (Boston, Massachusetts); Itamar Simon (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of identifying a region (one or more) of a genome of a cell to which a protein of interest binds. In the methods described herein, DNA binding protein of a cell is linked (e.g., covalently crosslinked) to genomic DNA of a cell. The genomic DNA to which the DNA binding protein is linked is removed and combined or contacted with DNA comprising a sequence complementary to genomic DNA of the cell under conditions in which hybridization between the identified genomic DNA and the sequence complementary to genomic DNA occurs. Region(s) of hybridization are region(s) of the genome of the cell to which the protein of binds. A method of identifying a set of genes where cell cycle regulator binding correlates with gene expression and of identifying genomic targets of cell cycle transcription activators in living cells is also encompassed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/897841 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575873 | Witztum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph L. Witztum (Sand Diego, California); Sotirios Tsimikas (San Diego, California); Wulf Palinski (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel human Mab Fab, cloned by phage display, and its use in diagnostic and therapeutic methods. In particular the invention provides a method for analyzing the OxLDL components of atherosclerotic plaques in vivo and a means to determine their relative pathology. As the method is based on a human Fab rather than a mouse Mab, the progress or regression of the disease may be monitored over time. The antibody may also be used for the analysis of surgical or serum samples ex vivo for the presence of OxLDL. The antibody may also be used to target therapeutic agents to the site of atherosclerotic plaques or may have use as a therapeutic agent itself. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706659 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07575876 | Zhang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Zhang (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for diagnosing neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and dementia with Lewy body disease by detecting a pattern of gene product expression in a cerebrospinal fluid sample and comparing the pattern of gene product expression from the sample to a library of gene product expression pattern known to be indicative of the presence or absence of a neurodegenerative disease. The methods also provide for monitoring neurodegenerative disease progression and assessing the effects of therapeutic treatment. Also provided are kits, systems and devices for practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/441384 |
| 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 07575881 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong-Gui Hu (Pasadena, California); Jun Sheng (Pasadena, California); Yong Tae Kwon (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Anna Kashina (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Alexander Varshavsky (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening assays that allow for the identification of agents that modulate the activity of the arginylation branch of the N-end rule pathway are provided. Also provided are method of using an agent that modulate the activity of the arginylation branch of the N-end rule pathway to increase or decrease protein degradation in a cell, and to modulate physiologic and pathologic associated with N-end rule pathway mediated arginylation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228157 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575885 | Moore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siwa Biotech Corporation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L Moore (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Tyrosylprotein sulfotransferases and nucleic acids encoding the tyrosylprotein sulfotransferases are described. Dual isotopes of the enzyme and of the nucleic acids encoding said enzymes have been identified in human, mouse and C. elegans. The polypeptides and polynucleotides exhibit a wide range of homologies. The polynucleotides can be used to transform or transfect host cells for producing substantially pure forms of the enzyme, or for use in an expression system for post-translational tyrosine sulfation of proteins or peptides produced within the expression system. The enzymes can be used to sulfate peptides or proteins requiring sulfation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969167 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575895 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Ning Wu (Brookline, Massachusetts); Stephen Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal lysyl-tRNAs, orthogonal lysyl-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of lysyl-tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate homoglutamines into proteins are provided in response to a four base codon. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with homoglutamines using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326970 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07575908 | Hage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Hage (Hickman, Nebraska); Hai Xuan (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and kit for immobilization of a glycoprotein. The method may include activating an affinity support. The affinity support may be activated by reacting the affinity support with a compound that is reactive with one or more functional groups included within the glycoprotein. The method may also include oxidizing the glycoprotein in which oxidation conditions are selected to yield an oxidized glycoprotein that is biologically active and contains a sufficient number of reactive aldehyde groups for coupling to a support. For example, the oxidized glycoprotein may include five reactive aldehyde groups. In addition, the method may include reacting the oxidized-glycoprotein with the activated affinity support to immobilize the glycoprotein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402298 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/174 |
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| US 07575926 | Hurst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hurst (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Michael A. Ihnat (Tuttle, Oklahoma); Kimberly D. Kyker (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying compounds capable of targeting suppressed cancer cells, the method including the steps of comparing the response to a test compound of cancer cells grown on a suppressing cell support matrix which causes suppression of a malignant phenotype in a growing cancer cell and on a non-suppressing cell support matrix. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642313 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/374 |
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| US 07576037 | Engelhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEI Technologies, Inc. (Houston, Texas); Bd. of Regents, Univ. of Texas (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnnie Paul Engelhardt (West Columbia, Texas); David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Bruce A. Luxon (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are described for split synthesis combinatorial chemistry that provides candidate libraries where an even distribution of theoretical products is obtainable through even mixing during the pooling step, followed by controlled redistribution of the mixed pooled products from the prior addition step into separate synthesis columns, one for each different specie of subunit to be added. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282800 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/34 |
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| US 07576050 | Greig 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) | Nigel Greig (Phoenix, Maryland); Josephine Egan (Baltimore, Maryland); Maire Doyle (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Tracy Ann Perry (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel polypeptide analogues of GLP-1 and exendin-4. The polypeptide, in a preferred embodiment, is insulinotropic and long-acting. Preferably, the polypeptide's insulinotropic effect is comparable to or exceeds the effect of an equimolar amount of GLP-1 or exendin-4. The invention also relates to a method of treating a subject with diabetes, comprising administering to the subject the polypeptide of the invention in an amount that has an insulinotropic effect. The invention also relates to methods of using GLP-1, exendin-4, and polypeptide analogues thereof for neuroprotective and neurotrophic effects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/485140 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07576052 | Kahn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Children's Hospital Boston (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Ronald Kahn (West Newton, Massachusetts); Yu-Hua Tseng (Newton, Massachusetts); Atul Butte (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for treating obesity and related disorders. The methods include the use of BMP-2, -4, -6 and -7. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968791 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07576058 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yao-Zhong Lin (Nashville, Tennessee); Jack J. Hawiger (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the delivery of biologically active molecules, such as peptides, nucleic acids and therapeutic agents, into the interior of cells by administering to the cells a complex comprising the molecule linked to an importation competent signal peptide. Such delivery can be utilized for purposes such as peptide therapy, gene transfer, and antisense therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/516310 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576060 | Cines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Cines (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Khalil Bdeir (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania); Triantafyllos Chavakis (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Klaus T. Preissner (Giessen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the inhibition of angiogenesis by neutrophil alpha-defensins. Further, the present invention relates to methods involving the inhibition of endothelial cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix, endothelial cell apoptosis, and endothelial cell angiogenesis.mediated by alpha-defensins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185626 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 07576065 | Goldman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (South Salem, New York); Eva Chmielnicki (New York, New York); Aris Economides (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of inducing neuronal production in a subject, a method of recruiting neurons to a subject's brain, and a method of treating a neurodegenerative condition by administering a neurotrophic factor and an inhibitor of pro-gliogenic bone morphogenetic proteins. Also disclosed is a method of suppressing astrocyte generation and inducing neuronal production in a subject, a method of treating a neurologic condition, and a method of suppressing glial scar formation in a subject by administering an inhibitor of pro-gliogenic bone morphogenetic proteins. Finally, the present invention involves a method of introducing a heterogeneous protein into a subject's brain and spinal cord by introducing a nucleic acid molecule encoding the heterogeneous protein introduced into the subject's ependyma, permitting the protein from the nucleic acid molecule to be expressed within the subject's ependyma, and permitting the expressed protein to migrate within the subject's brain and spinal cord. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/368809 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576069 | Rieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren J. Murphree (Rockville, Maryland); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia); Robert Douglas Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196798 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576116 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 (PDK-1) inhibitors of formula I: wherein X is selected from the group consisting of alkyl and haloalkyl; Ar is an aryl radical selected from the group consisting of phenyl, biphenyl, naphthyl, anthryl, phenanthryl, and fluorenyl; and wherein Ar is optionally substituted with one or more radicals selected from the group consisting of halo, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 haloalkyl, azido, C1-C4 azidoalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloaryl, haloalkylaryl, and combinations thereof, and R is selected from the group consisting of nitrile, acetonitrile, ethylnitrile, propylnitrile, carboxamide, amidine, tetrazole, oxime, hydrazone, acetamidine, aminoacetamide, guanidine, and urea. Also provided are methods of using the compounds for the treatment and prevention of cancer in humans. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/864612 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576175 | Lam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Ruiwu Liu (Sacramento, California); Li Peng (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides α4β1 integrin ligands that display high binding affinity, specificity, and stability. The ligands comprise a peptide having n independently selected amino acids, wherein at least one amino acid is an unnatural amino acid or a D-amino acid, and wherein n is an integer of from 3 to 20. Methods are provided for administering the ligands for treating cancer, inflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases. Also provided are methods for administering the ligands for imaging a tumor, organ, or tissue in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140548 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576191 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Liang (Nashville, Tennessee); Yong-jig Cho (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new tumor suppressor, designated Killin. Also described are diagnostic and therapeutic uses of the Killin protein and the killin gene, alone or in combination with traditional cancer therapies. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519193 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576192 | Heyduk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensors and methods to determine the activity of any and all nucleic acid binding factors, proteins, cellular events, nucleic acid binding protein coregulators, or fragments thereof, based upon the stabilization of the interaction of two nucleic acid components, which together comprise a complete nucleic acid binding element, by the binding of a nucleic acid binding factor are provided. Preferably, a fluorescence donor is attached to a nucleic acid comprising one portion or component of a complete nucleic acid binding element and a fluorescence acceptor is attached to a nucleic acid comprising the other portion or component of the same complete binding element. Alternatively, a solid substrate is attached to a nucleic acid comprising one portion of a binding element and a detectable label is attached to a nucleic acid comprising the other portion of the same binding element. Binding of a nucleic acid binding factor to the nucleic acid components affects a change in luminescence or the association of the detectable label with the solid substrate. These biosensors and methods may also be used to detect mediating nucleic acid binding factor coregulators, post-translational modifications and cellular events, to diagnose diseases and/or screen for drugs or other ligands that mediate the activity of nucleic acid binding factors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609628 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576245 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fluorous Technologies Incorporated (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Zhang (Mars, Pennsylvania); Zhiyong Luo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods and compositions for increasing the fluorous nature of an organic compound by reacting it with at least one fluorous compound to produce a fluorous tagged organic compound. The increased fluorous nature of the fluorous tagged organic compound can then be utilized to separate the fluorous organic compound from untagged reagents, reactants, catalysts and/or products derived therefrom. The resultant fluorous tagged organic compound can be subjected to subsequent chemical transformations, wherein the fluorous nature of the tagged compound is utilized to increase the ease of separation of the fluorous tagged organic compound from untagged reagents, reactants, catalysts and/or products derived therefrom, after each chemical transformation. The chemical transformations result in a second fluorous tagged organic compound wherein the fluorous nature of the second fluorous tagged organic compound can then be reduced by removing the fluorous group therefrom, thereby producing a second organic compound that may be employed as a pharmaceutical compound or intermediate, or a combinatorial library component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338378 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576323 | Cotter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert James Cotter (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A point-of-care mass spectrometer system has a sampling system, an ionization component structured to receive a sample for analysis from the sampling system, a mass analyzer structured to receive a source of ions for analysis from the ionization component, and a detector structured to detect ions from the mass analyzer and to generate an output signal. The sampling system selects a subset of peptides from a sample by immunopurification of multiple histocompatability complexes and concentrates the subset of peptides to provide the sample to the ionization component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663844 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576334 | Ashkenazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shai Ashkenazi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Raoul Kopelman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Russell S. Witte (Tucson, Arizona); Thomas D. Horvath (Little Rock, Arkansas); Gwangseong Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring fluorophore excited state lifetimes comprising initiating an excitation laser pulse at a dye to excite dye molecules of the dye from a ground state to an excited state and initiating a probing pulse at the dye molecules thereby generating a first set of photoacoustic waves at a first time delay resulting in a first intensity point. The process can be repeated, optionally introducing a second excitation laser pulse, to generate a second set of photoacoustic waves at a second time delay resulting in a second intensity point. The data can be analyzed to determine a slope between the first intensity point and the second intensity point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050493 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/459.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576535 | Hargreaves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of quantitatively separating tissue signals based on relaxation time differences. The method uses the transient signal decay in steady-state free precession (balanced SSFP) imaging to provide an alternative to standard CPMG methods of T2-relaxometry. The balanced SSFP technique allows 3-4 times the temporal resolution of CPMG, and also slows the short T2 decay so that it can be more accurately measured. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731799 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576865 | Chen et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongping Chen (Irvine, California); Tuqiang Xie (Irvine, California); David Mukai (Costa Mesa, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-optic bundle based optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe method is demonstrated in a multimode optical fiber bundle based OCT system. The system can achieve a lateral resolution of 12 μm and an axial resolution of 10 μm using a super-luminescent diode source. This imaging approach eliminates any moving parts in the probe and has a primary advantage for use in extremely compact and safe OCT endoscopes to image internal organs and great potential to be combined with confocal endoscopic microscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405812 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577472 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MCW Research Foundation Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi-Jiang Li (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Yin Xu (West Allis, Wisconsin); Guofan Xu (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Gaohong Wu (New Berlin, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Time course MRI data is acquired from the hippocampal region of the brain and processed to produce two indices that are a measure of the functional connectivity between locations therein. The MRI data is acquired while the brain is substantially at rest and the spontaneous low frequency component of the time course data at each location in the hippocampus is extracted and compared in a cross-correlation process. Also acquired is fMRI data which indicates those locations in the brain that should be included in the index calculations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375347 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07574816 | Shivvers |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steve D. Shivvers (Prole, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A drier apparatus for removing water or other liquids from various materials includes a mixer, drying chamber, separator and regenerator and a method for use of the apparatus. The material to be dried is mixed with a heated media to form a mixture which then passes through the chamber. While passing through the chamber, a comparatively cool fluid is passed counter current through the mixture so that the mixture becomes cooler and drier and the fluid becomes hotter and more saturated with moisture. The mixture is then separated into drier material and media. The media is transferred to the regenerator and heated therein by the hot fluid from the chamber and supplemental heat is supplied to bring the media to a preselected temperature for mixing with the incoming material to be dried. In a closed loop embodiment of the apparatus, the fluid is also recycled from the regenerator to the chamber and a chiller is utilized to reduce the temperature of the fluid to a preselected temperature and dew point temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881779 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids 034/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574842 | Russell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schott Solar, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miles C. Russell (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Rectangular photovoltaic (PV) modules are mounted on a building roof by mounting stands that are distributed in rows and columns. Each stand comprises a base plate and first and second different height brackets attached to opposite ends of the base plate. Each first and second bracket comprises two module-support members. One end of each module is pivotally attached to and supported by a first module-support member of a first bracket and a second module-support member of another first bracket. At its other end each module rests on but is connected by flexible tethers to module-support members of two different second brackets. The tethers are sized to allow the modules to pivot up away from the module-support members on which they rest to a substantially horizontal position in response to wind uplift forces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243758 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574868 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy L. Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Ho-Kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of storing hydrogen that employs a mixture of hydrogen and a hydrocarbon that can both be used as fuel. In one embodiment, the method involves maintaining a mixture including hydrogen and a hydrocarbon in the solid state at ambient pressure and a temperature in excess of about 10 K. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334348 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/46.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07574947 | Montesanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Montesanti (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David L. Trumper (Plaistow, New Hampshire); James L. Kirtley, Jr. (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A high bandwidth rotary fast tool servo provides tool motion in a direction nominally parallel to the surface-normal of a workpiece at the point of contact between the cutting tool and workpiece. Three or more flexure blades having all ends fixed are used to form an axis of rotation for a swing arm that carries a cutting tool at a set radius from the axis of rotation. An actuator rotates a swing arm assembly such that a cutting tool is moved in and away from the lathe-mounted, rotating workpiece in a rapid and controlled manner in order to machine the workpiece. One or more position sensors provides rotation and position information for a swing arm to a control system. A control system commands and coordinates motion of the fast tool servo with the motion of a spindle, rotating table, cross-feed slide, and in-feed slide of a precision lathe. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/940427 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning 082/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575052 | Sandberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chester Ledlie Sandberg (Palo Alto, California); Thomas David Fowler (Houston, Texas); Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Willen Jan Antoon Henri Schoeber (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An in situ conversion system for producing hydrocarbons from a subsurface formation is described. The system includes a plurality of u-shaped wellbores in the formation. Piping is positioned in at least two of the u-shaped wellbores. A fluid circulation system is coupled to the piping. The fluid circulation system is configured to circulate hot heat transfer fluid through at least a portion of the piping to form at least one heated portion of the formation. An electrical power supply is configured to provide electrical current to at least a portion of the piping located below an overburden in the formation to resistively heat at least a portion of the piping. Heat transfers from the piping to the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409556 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575053 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Billy John McKinzie, II (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for monitoring temperature of a subsurface low temperature zone is described. The system includes a plurality of freeze wells configured to form the low temperature zone, one or more lasers, and a fiber optic cable coupled to at least one laser. A portion of the fiber optic cable is positioned in at least one freeze well. At least one laser is configured to transmit light pulses into a first end of the fiber optic cable. An analyzer is coupled to the fiber optic cable. The analyzer is configured to receive return signals from the light pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409563 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/250.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575389 | Nance |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A quick connect/disconnect coupling apparatus is provided in which a base member is engaged by a locking housing through a series of interengagement pins. The pins maintain the shaft in a locked position. Upon exposure to an appropriately positioned magnetic field, pins are removed a sufficient distance such that the shaft may be withdrawn from the locking housing. The ability to lock and unlock the connector assembly requires no additional tools or parts apart from a magnetic key. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299448 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/109.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575614 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Lian Zhao (Belmont, Massachusetts); William F. Northrop (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy Bosco (Dallas, Texas); Vincent Rizzo (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Changsik Kim (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A startup burner for rapidly heating a catalyst in a reformer, as well as related methods and modules, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132157 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/198.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575688 | Rohrbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald P. Rohrbach (Flemington, New Jersey); Gary B. Zulauf (Findlay, Ohio); Peter D. Unger (Convent Station, New Jersey); Daniel E. Bause (Flanders, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fuel filters and process for removing sulfur-containing compounds from a post refinery fuel stream. In one embodiment, the disclosed process requires passing the post refinery fuel stream through a fuel filter to provide a clean fuel stream having a reduced concentration of sulfur-containing compounds relative to the post-refinery fuel stream, wherein the fuel filter comprises an adsorbent comprising an inorganic oxide having a surface acidity characterized by a pKa of less than or equal to −3. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/674913 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575709 | Mukundan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rangachary Mukundan (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Eric L. Brosha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Fernando H. Garzon (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making electrochemical sensors in which an electrolyte material is cast into a tape. Prefabricated electrodes are then partially embedded between two wet layers of the electrolyte tape to form a green sensor, and the green sensor is then heated to sinter the electrolyte tape around the electrodes. The resulting sensors can be used in applications such as, but not limited to, combustion control, environmental monitoring, and explosive detection. A electrochemical sensor formed by the tape-casting method is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110086 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575735 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes pure single-crystalline metal oxide and metal fluoride nanostructures, and methods of making same. These nanostructures include nanorods and nanoarrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/592704 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/593.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575815 | Henager, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Henager, Jr. (Kennewick, Washington); Yongsoon Shin (Richland, Washington); William D. Samuels (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are aluminide coatings. In one embodiment coatings are used as a barrier coating to protect a metal substrate, such as a steel or a superalloy, from various chemical environments, including oxidizing, reducing and/or sulfidizing conditions. In addition, the disclosed coatings can be used, for example, to prevent the substantial diffusion of various elements, such as chromium, at elevated service temperatures. Related methods for preparing protective coatings on metal substrates are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338952 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575824 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jong-Ho Choi (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of removing contaminants from a fuel cell catalyst electrode. The method includes providing a getter electrode and a fuel cell catalyst electrode having at least one contaminant to a bath and applying a voltage sufficient to drive the contaminant from the fuel cell catalyst electrode to the getter electrode. Methods of removing contaminants from a membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell and of improving performance of a fuel cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493259 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575895 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Ning Wu (Brookline, Massachusetts); Stephen Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal lysyl-tRNAs, orthogonal lysyl-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of lysyl-tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate homoglutamines into proteins are provided in response to a four base codon. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with homoglutamines using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326970 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576183 | Gupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Goutam Gupta (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Elizabeth Hong-Geller (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Patrick R. Shiflett (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nancy M. Lehnert (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides therapeutic compositions useful in the treatment of bacterial superantigen mediated conditions, such as Toxic Shock Syndrome. The compositions comprise genetically engineered bifunctional polypeptides containing a specific T-cell receptor binding domain and a specific MHC class II receptor binding domain, each targeting non-overlapping epitopes on a superantigen molecule against which they are designed. The anti-superantigen “receptor mimetics” or “chimeras” are rationally designed to recreate the modality of superantigen binding directly to both the TCR and the MHC-II receptor, and are capable of acting as decoys for superantigen binding, effectively out-competing the host T-cell and MHC-II receptors, the natural host receptors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746959 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576296 | Fincke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Fincke (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Brent A. Detering (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for thermal conversion of one or more reactants to desired end products includes an insulated reactor chamber having a high temperature heater such as a plasma torch at its inlet end and, optionally, a restrictive convergent-divergent nozzle at its outlet end. In a thermal conversion method, reactants are injected upstream from the reactor chamber and thoroughly mixed with the plasma stream before entering the reactor chamber. The reactor chamber has a reaction zone that is maintained at a substantially uniform temperature. The resulting heated gaseous stream is then rapidly cooled by passage through the nozzle, which “freezes” the desired end product(s) in the heated equilibrium reaction stage, or is discharged through an outlet pipe without the convergent-divergent nozzle. The desired end products are then separated from the gaseous stream. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843965 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576499 | Caporaso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Caporaso (Livermore, California); Scott D. Nelson (Patterson, California); Brian R. Poole (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sequentially pulsed traveling wave compact accelerator having two or more pulse forming lines each with a switch for producing a short acceleration pulse along a short length of a beam tube, and a trigger mechanism for sequentially triggering the switches so that a traveling axial electric field is produced along the beam tube in synchronism with an axially traversing pulsed beam of charged particles to serially impart energy to the particle beam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586377 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576738 | Litke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan J. Litke (San Francisco, California); Martin Rumpf (Bonn, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to construct an optimal parameterization for a discrete surface patch. A three-dimensional image having a surface is selected. An initial parameterization of the surface onto a two-dimensional plane is constructed. A distortion of the initial parameterization is measured. A length parameter, an area parameter, and an angle parameter are specified. The initial parameterization is then optimized through a discrete deformation of a parameter domain that minimizes the distortion based on the length, area, and angle parameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/442816 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07574868 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy L. Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Ho-Kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of storing hydrogen that employs a mixture of hydrogen and a hydrocarbon that can both be used as fuel. In one embodiment, the method involves maintaining a mixture including hydrogen and a hydrocarbon in the solid state at ambient pressure and a temperature in excess of about 10 K. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334348 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/46.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575707 | Xia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (Seattle, Washington); Dan Li (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electrospinning nanofibers having a core-sheath, tubular, or composite structure is disclosed. The process uses a spinneret having first and second capillaries that channel first and second fluids in the spinneret, the second capillary surrounding the first. A high voltage is applied between the spinneret and a spaced conductive collector. In one embodiment, the first fluid is a mineral oil and the second fluid is a polymeric solution that may include a polymer, a catalyst, a solvent, and a sol-gel precursor. The as-spun nanofiber includes an oil core and a composite sheath. The oil may be removed to produce a composite tubular fiber or the polymer and oil may be removed by calcination to produce a ceramic tubular fiber. In other embodiments, miscible fluids are used to produce porous nanofibers, selected additives functionalize the surfaces of the nanofibers and/or conjugated polymers are used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097975 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575735 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes pure single-crystalline metal oxide and metal fluoride nanostructures, and methods of making same. These nanostructures include nanorods and nanoarrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/592704 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/593.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07575758 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn F. King (Simsbury, Connecticut); Ashis K. Mukherjee (Assam, India); Stephen K. Wikel (Unionville, Connecticut); Brianna Sollod McFarland (Fenton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling acarine pests comprises applying to the locus of the acarine pests, an isolated polypeptide toxin, wherein the polypeptide toxin has acaricidal activity. In one embodiment, the polypeptide toxin comprises three intrachain disulfide bonds and/or is a component of a venom of an Australian funnel web spider of the genus Atrax or Hadronyche. The polypeptide toxins may be applied to the acarine pests themselves, to the environment of the acarine pests, to the hosts of the acarine pests, or to an animal vector of the acarine pests, for example. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520384 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576334 | Ashkenazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shai Ashkenazi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Raoul Kopelman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Russell S. Witte (Tucson, Arizona); Thomas D. Horvath (Little Rock, Arkansas); Gwangseong Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring fluorophore excited state lifetimes comprising initiating an excitation laser pulse at a dye to excite dye molecules of the dye from a ground state to an excited state and initiating a probing pulse at the dye molecules thereby generating a first set of photoacoustic waves at a first time delay resulting in a first intensity point. The process can be repeated, optionally introducing a second excitation laser pulse, to generate a second set of photoacoustic waves at a second time delay resulting in a second intensity point. The data can be analyzed to determine a slope between the first intensity point and the second intensity point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050493 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/459.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576427 | Potter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stellar Micro Devices (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis Nathan Potter (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cold welded hermetic micro or nano package sealed in an inert atmosphere with optional force maintenance means for ensuring permanent closure. A package cap 410 coated with precursor weld material is sealed to a package base 405 containing integral device 445 then cold welded with an external force mechanism to compress and flow cold seal preform material 435 creating a hermetic peripheral seal in an inert or vacuum atmosphere. Arrays of devices can be sealed with individual caps or arrays of caps which are interconnected. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139960 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576538 | Meersmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Meersmann (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Meersmann (Fort Collins, Colorado); Galina E. Pavlovskaya (Fort Collins, Colorado); Zackary I. Cleveland (Fort Collins, Colorado); Karl F. Stupic (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and related devices are provided for probing a surface by application of a hyperpolarized noble gas having a nuclear electric quadrupole moment to the surface. In an embodiment, the hyperpolarized noble gas is substantially free of alkali metal vapor, such as rubidium vapor used to hyperpolarize the noble gas. Noble gas interaction with the surface of interest is detected by measuring quadrupolar-driven events such as T1, T2 relaxation or coherent processes by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy or by magnetic resonance imaging, for example. The method is capable of probing a variety of surfaces that are difficult to analyze by conventional methods, including biological or non-biological surfaces, to obtain detailed and reliable information related to surface chemical composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686009 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576738 | Litke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan J. Litke (San Francisco, California); Martin Rumpf (Bonn, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to construct an optimal parameterization for a discrete surface patch. A three-dimensional image having a surface is selected. An initial parameterization of the surface onto a two-dimensional plane is constructed. A distortion of the initial parameterization is measured. A length parameter, an area parameter, and an angle parameter are specified. The initial parameterization is then optimized through a discrete deformation of a parameter domain that minimizes the distortion based on the length, area, and angle parameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/442816 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576865 | Chen et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Zhongping Chen (Irvine, California); Tuqiang Xie (Irvine, California); David Mukai (Costa Mesa, California); Matthew Brenner (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-optic bundle based optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe method is demonstrated in a multimode optical fiber bundle based OCT system. The system can achieve a lateral resolution of 12 μm and an axial resolution of 10 μm using a super-luminescent diode source. This imaging approach eliminates any moving parts in the probe and has a primary advantage for use in extremely compact and safe OCT endoscopes to image internal organs and great potential to be combined with confocal endoscopic microscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405812 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576907 | Bartels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy A. Bartels (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jesse W. Wilson (Fort Collins, Colorado); Philip Schlup (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Simultaneous amplitude and phase control of ultrafast laser pulses using a single, linear (one-dimensional) liquid crystal spatial light modulator is described. Amplitude shaping is accomplished by writing a high-frequency phase grating having a spatial period much smaller than the spectral focus (over-sampling), onto the modulator, and diffracting away selected frequencies in a controllable manner, while spectral phase control is imparted by adding an appropriate slow phase bias to the modulator. The close pixel spacing, large number of pixels, and small footprint of the reflective spatial light modulator employed with an angular wavelength dispersive element in a folded Martinez stretcher, enables a simple and compact apparatus to be achieved. The high reflectivity of the spatial light modulator results in a highly efficient pulse shaper when either a prism or diffractive grating is used for the angular dispersive element. The use of a transmissive spatial light modulator in an unfolded Martinez stretcher configuration is also described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119443 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577110 | Zimmermann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Zimmermann (Walnut, California); Leslie S. Liu (Alhambra, California); Beomjoo Seo (Culver City, California); Kemal Oral Cansizlar (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A peer to peer audio communication screen in system with adaptive bandwidth control. The peer-to-peer system can be used, for example, in classroom applications. More interactive peers are moved to a position where they will receive lower latency from the peer-to-peer system. This may be done by maintaining a score indicative of the amount of interactivity, and then using that score to move a peer either close to the source of audio packets, e.g., the core or further from that source. |
| FILED | Friday, August 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504536 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07574868 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy L. Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Ho-Kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of storing hydrogen that employs a mixture of hydrogen and a hydrocarbon that can both be used as fuel. In one embodiment, the method involves maintaining a mixture including hydrogen and a hydrocarbon in the solid state at ambient pressure and a temperature in excess of about 10 K. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334348 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/46.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576562 | Whitaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sterling Whitaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lowell Miles (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jody Gambles (Post Falls, Idaho); Gary K. Maki (Coeur D'Alene, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A diagnosable structured logic array and associated process is provided. A base cell structure is provided comprising a logic unit comprising a plurality of input nodes, a plurality of selection nodes, and an output node, a plurality of switches coupled to the selection nodes, where the switches comprises a plurality of input lines, a selection line and an output line, a memory cell coupled to the output node, and a test address bus and a program control bus coupled to the plurality of input lines and the selection line of the plurality of switches. A state on each of the plurality of input nodes is verifiably loaded and read from the memory cell. A trusted memory block is provided. The associated process is provided for testing and verifying a plurality of truth table inputs of the logic unit. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818845 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576971 | Lipka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Nanocorp, Inc. (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Lipka (Nicholasville, Kentucky); John R. Miller (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); Jinxiang Dai (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetric supercapacitors comprise: a positive electrode comprising a current collector and a first active material selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, silver oxide, iron sulfide, lithium manganese oxide, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium nickel oxide, lithium iron phosphate, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing active materials; a negative electrode comprising a carbonaceous active material; an aqueous electrolyte solution selected from the group consisting of aqueous solutions of hydroxides of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of carbonates of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of chlorides of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of sulfates of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of nitrates of alkali metals, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing aqueous solutions; and a separator plate. Alternatively, the electrolyte can be a non-aqueous ionic conducting electrolyte or a solid electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711376 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577482 | Steele 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) | Glen F. Steele (Webster, Texas); George A. Salazar (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system comprising an interchangeable electronic controller is provided with programming that allows the controller to adapt a behavior that is dependent upon the particular type of function performed by a system or subsystem component. The system reconfigures the controller when the controller is moved from one group of subsystem components to another. A plurality of application programs are provided by a server from which the application program for a particular electronic controller is selected. The selection is based on criteria such as a subsystem component group identifier that identifies the particular type of function associated with the system or subsystem group of components. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/683770 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07577534 | Hill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monika C. Hill (League City, Texas); Henning W. Leidecker (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assessing metal vapor arcing risk for a component is provided. The method comprises acquiring a current variable value associated with an operation of the component; comparing the current variable value with a threshold value for the variable; evaluating compared variable data to determine the metal vapor arcing risk in the component; and generating a risk assessment status for the component. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751195 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07575752 | Meng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Martijn Fenaux (Redwood City, California); Patrick G. Halbur (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to infectious DNA clones, infectious chimeric DNA clones of porcine circovirus (PCV), vaccines and means of protecting pigs against viral infection or postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) caused by PCV2. The new chimeric infectious DNA clone and its derived, avirulent chimeric virus are constructed from the nonpathogenic PCV1 in which the immunogenic ORF gene of the pathogenic PCV2 replaces a gene of the nonpathogenic PCV1, preferably in the same position. The chimeric virus advantageously retains the nonpathogenic phenotype of PCV1 but elicits specific immune responses against the pathogenic PCV2. The invention further embraces the immunogenic polypeptide expression products. In addition, the invention encompasses two mutations in the PCV2 immunogenic capsid gene and protein, and the introduction of the ORF2 mutations in the chimeric clones. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/893182 |
| 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 07576261 | Hussey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Hussey (Athens, Georgia); Guozhong Huang (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/249919 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07575722 | Arnold |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eksigent Technologies, Inc. (Dublin, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don W. Arnold (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic systems including a principal microfluidic conduit (24), an adjacent dead volume (1) and a drain conduit (70) which mitigates the adverse effects of the dead volume on the operation of the system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/599525 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576000 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jurgen H. Daniel (San Francisco, California); Ana C. Arias (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method forms a first active electronic layer, prints an array of pillars on the first active electronic layer, dispenses a curable polymer over the array of pillars, molds the curable polymer by contacting the curable polymer with a mold structure to displace the curable polymer from upper surfaces of the pillars, cures the curable polymer to produce a hardened polymer, and removes the array of pillars to leave an array of holes in the hardened polymer. Another method provides a substrate having selected areas, prints an array of pillars on the substrate, dispenses a curable polymer over the array of pillars, molds the curable polymer by contacting the array of pillars with a mold structure to displace the curable polymer from upper surfaces of the pillars, cures the curable polymer to produce a hardened polymer, and removes the array of pillars to leave an array of holes in the hardened polymer corresponding to the selected areas. Another method forms a first active electronic layer on a substrate, prints an array of conductive pillars on the active electronic layer on a substrate, dispenses a curable polymer on the array of conductive pillars, molds the curable polymer by contacting the array of pillars with a mold structure to displace the curable polymer from the upper surfaces of the conductive pillars, curing the curable polymer to produce a hardened polymer, and forms a second active electronic layer on the hardened polymer such that the second active electronic layer is in electrical connection with the first active electronic layer through the conductive pillars. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/615229 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07576324 | Grossenbacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Griffin Analytical Technologies, L.L.C. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Grossenbacher (Lafayette, Indiana); Garth E. Patterson (Brookston, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Ion detection methods are provided that can include applying a first voltage between a power source and a dynode, and contacting the dynode with first ions to create a first charged species. After applying the first voltage, a second voltage can be applied between the power source and the dynode, and the dynode can be contacted with second ions to create a second charged species. Mass spectrometry instrument circuitry is also provided that can include a power source coupled to a dynode via at least one switch with the switch being operatively configured in one position to apply a first voltage between the dynode and the power source, and, in another position, configured to apply a second voltage between the dynode and the power source. Mass spectrometry analysis methods are also provided that can include detecting sorted ions using a dynode configured according to an ion detection parameter with the ion detection parameter including first and second dynode values associated with first and second time values. Methods and circuitry for portable instrumentation are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570717 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07576696 | Walton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syntonics LLC (Columbia, Maryland); The Ohio State Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio); Eugene Y. Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Bruce Montgomery (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Antenna assemblies and corresponding modes of operation are provided where the first antenna assembly of the system is tuned to a first frequency band ν1 and the second antenna assembly of the antenna system is tuned to a second frequency band ν2. The ground plane of the first antenna assembly is configured as a frequency selective surface that is substantially reflective of radiation in the first frequency band and substantially transparent to radiation in the second frequency band. The second ground plane may also be configured as a frequency selective surface and may be reflective of radiation in the second frequency band. Any number of additional antenna arrays may be added so long as the outer arrays are transparent to the inner arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/457327 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Classified Government Agency
| US 07576701 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. McGrath (McKinney, Texas); Kuang-Yu Wu (Plano, Texas); Matthew Fassett (Tucson, Arizona); James C. McRae (Frisco, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for steering a beam includes a main reflector that receives a signal from a subreflector and reflects the signal in a reflection direction. A prism refracts the signal in a refraction direction. One or more motors adjust a relative orientation between the main reflector and the prism to change a relative orientation between the reflection direction and the refraction direction to steer a beam resulting from the signal. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695112 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07576971 | Lipka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Nanocorp, Inc. (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Lipka (Nicholasville, Kentucky); John R. Miller (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Tongsan D. Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); Jinxiang Dai (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetric supercapacitors comprise: a positive electrode comprising a current collector and a first active material selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, silver oxide, iron sulfide, lithium manganese oxide, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium nickel oxide, lithium iron phosphate, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing active materials; a negative electrode comprising a carbonaceous active material; an aqueous electrolyte solution selected from the group consisting of aqueous solutions of hydroxides of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of carbonates of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of chlorides of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of sulfates of alkali metals, aqueous solutions of nitrates of alkali metals, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing aqueous solutions; and a separator plate. Alternatively, the electrolyte can be a non-aqueous ionic conducting electrolyte or a solid electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711376 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07575856 | Khuri 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); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shukri Khuri (Westwood, Massachusetts); Hemant Thatte (Medfield, Massachusetts); Vladimir Birjinuik (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes devices, solutions, and methods for the ex-vivo assessment, resuscitation, triage, and maintenance of human candidate cadaveric hearts. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/261860 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07575829 | Nakahara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroshi Nakahara (Santa Clarita, California); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery case is disclosed. The case includes a cover bonded to a body such that a bottom of the cover and the body define at least a portion of the interior of a battery. The cover includes a second metal which is bonded to a first metal included in the battery body. The second metal is clad with a third metal such that the third metal covers less than 90% of an upper surface of the second metal. A hole extends through the second metal and the third metal. The case also includes a feedthrough assembly extending through the hole. The feedthrough assembly includes a feedthrough pin surrounded by a feedthrough body. The feedthrough body includes a fourth metal bonded to the third metal in the cover. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100266 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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