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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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| US 07578131 | Muldoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc J. Muldoon (Marlborough, Connecticut); Tor W. Sherwood (San Diego, California); Meggan H. Harris (Colchester, Connecticut); Robert T. Brooks (Killingworth, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine augmentor has a centerbody within a gas flowpath from upstream to downstream. The augmentor has upstream and downstream shell sections, a downstream rim of the upstream shell section meeting an upstream rim of the downstream shell section shell section. A plurality of vanes are positioned in the gas flowpath outboard of the centerbody. An augmentor spray bar fuel conduit extends through the centerbody and a first of the vanes to deliver fuel to the centerbody. A seal is mounted to the spray bar and positioned in a recess extending from at least one of the downstream rim of the upstream shell section and upstream rim of the downstream shell section shell section. The seal has a first portion and a second portion engaging the first portion in a backlocked interfitting. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174378 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/761 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578133 | Arbona et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaime A. Arbona (Boqueron, Puerto Rico); Meggan Harris (Colchester, Connecticut); James Allore (Trinity, Florida); Steven Laporte (Southwick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust nozzle assembly includes a plurality of interfitting flap assemblies that are moveable between a maximum area ratio and a minimum area ratio. Each of the pluralities of flap assemblies includes a slot and a wing. The wing fits within an adjacent slot of an adjacent flap assembly. Each of the flap assemblies includes a divergent element that provides a specific geometric shape forming the trailing edge surfaces. The flap element is attached to the divergent element and extends to a static structure. The flap element and the divergent element combine to form a continuous faceted outer surface of the exhaust nozzle assembly substantially void of gaps throughout the range of motion between the maximum and minimum area ratios. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091120 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/771 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578227 | Jacob |
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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) | Adam M. Jacob (Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A fire control mechanism provides semi-automatic, burst, fully automatic, and safe modes for a firearm. The fire control mechanism includes first, second and third shafts. A hammer is rotatably mounted on the first shaft and biased for rotation about the first shaft in a first direction. An auto sear is mounted on the second shaft and engageable with the hammer. A semi disconnect is mounted on the second shaft and engageable with the hammer. A primary sear is mounted on the third shaft and engageable with the hammer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106624 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578238 | Dabiri |
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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) | Shahram Dabiri (Flanders, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile may be used in a boat tail or base bleed configuration. The projectile includes a warhead casing having a nose end and a base end; a payload disposed in the warhead casing; a motor body attached to the base end of the warhead casing and having an igniter disposed therein; a base closure attached to the motor body, an exterior surface of the base closure being tapered to form a boat tail, the base closure and the motor body defining an interior volume; a propellant disposed in the interior volume, the propellant being used for base bleed operation; and a converter attached to the base closure and extending into the interior volume. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/306835 |
| 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 12/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578452 | Gratton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Gratton (Chandler, Arizona); Don Christensen (Phoenix, Arizona); John Perek (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A cured ablative composite assembly comprises a housing enclosing a pair of ablative composite sub-assemblies joined by a film adhesive. The cured ablative composite assembly is made by surface treating both ablative composite sub-assemblies in preparation for joining; coupling one ablative composite sub-assembly to another ablative composite sub-assembly with a film adhesive and enclosing the uncured ablative composite assembly within a housing; and depositing the combination of the housing and uncured ablative composite assembly in a ventilated oven with a load applied to the combination housing and uncured ablative composite assembly. The film adhesive is cured providing a portion of a hot gas valve suitable for use in tactical missiles. The film adhesive does not erode at the high temperatures (5000° F.) encountered in hot gas rocket exhausts, thereby providing a seal that offers high strength, pressure-tight joints. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/650166 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/265.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578480 | Bennett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Aerospace Corporation (South Windsor, Connecticut); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Bennett (Lebanon, Connecticut); Roy L. Fox, Jr. (Belleville, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A reefing apparatus for controlling inflation of a gliding wing parachute which has a generally rectangular or trapezoidal canopy with four outer corners. The reefing mechanism includes a primary reefing loop with four supplemental reefing loops movably secured thereto by loops and connected through mounting rings to the four corners of the canopy to retain it in a general cloverleaf shape during initial stages of deployment and responsive to cutting of the primary reefing loop for release thereof for allowing full deployment or deployment into another reefed stage of the gliding wing canopy. The suspension lines are divided into four groups primarily defined by the corner closest to the point of attachment between the suspension line and the canopy. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788431 |
| 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 244/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578859 | Reynolds 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) | John R. Reynolds (Gainsville, Florida); Kyukwan Zong (Sparatanburg, South Carolina); John D. Stenger-Smith (Ridgecrest, California); Nicole Anderson (Ridgecrest, California); Cynthia K. Webber (Ridgecrest, California); Andrew P. Chafin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A supercapacitor comprising a poly(3,4-ethylendioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene) (PProDOT) as electrode couples for the capacitor and a pair of gel electrolyte layers disposed between the electrodes. The gel electrolytes are separated by a battery paper and are selected from a group consisting of a lithium salt and an organic electrolyte. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169255 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/623.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578895 | Chen 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) | Gary Chen (Succasunna, New Jersey); Mark Motyka (Fairfield, New Jersey); Jay C. Poret (Sparta, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A perchlorate-free solid pyrotechnic flash bang composition is disclosed, which comprises an oxidizer component selected from the group comprising potassium nitrate, strontium nitrate, and basic copper nitrate and combinations thereof, a metallic fuel component selected from the group comprising aluminum, magnesium, magnesium-aluminum alloys, silicon, zirconium, and combinations thereof, and a non-metallic fuel component comprising sulfur. The flash bang pyrotechnic composition may also further comprise a ballistic accelerant component, a pH stabilizer, and a free flow/anti-caking component. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/907206 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07578941 — Length-based liquid-liquid extraction of carbon nanotubes using a phase transfer catalyst
| US 07578941 | Ziegler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk J. Ziegler (Gainesville, Florida); Daniel J. Schmidt (Troy, Michigan); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Irene Morin Marek, legal representative (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally directed to new liquid-liquid extraction methods for the length-based separation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and other 1-dimensional nanostructures. In some embodiments, such methods are directed to separating SWNTs on the basis of their length, wherein such methods comprise the steps of: (a) functionalizing SWNTs to form functionalized SWNTs with ionizable functional moieties; (b) dissolving said functionalized SWNTs in a polar solvent to form a polar phase; (c) dissolving a substoichiometric (relative to the amount of ionizable functional moieties present on the SWNTs) amount of a phase transfer agent in a non-polar solvent to form a non-polar phase; (d) combining the polar and non-polar phases to form a bi-phase mixture; (e) adding a cationic donor species to the bi-phase mixture; and (f) agitating the bi-phase mixture to effect the preferential transport of short SWNTs into the non-polar phase such that the non-polar phase is enriched in short SWNTs and the polar phase is enriched in longer SWNTs. In other embodiments, analogous methods are used for the length-based separation of any type of CNT, and more generally, for any type of 1-dimensional nanostructure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/289000 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579094 | Subramanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio); James Dale Steibel (Hamilton, Ohio); Douglas Melton Carper (Trenton, Ohio); Brian Keith Flandermeyer (Rocky Hill, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a ceramic matrix composite turbine engine component, wherein the component has a direction of maximum tensile stress during normal engine operation. The component comprises a plurality of biased ceramic plies, wherein each biased ply comprises ceramic fiber tows, the tows being woven in a first warp direction and a second weft direction, the second weft direction lying at a preselected angular orientation with respect to the first warp direction, wherein a greater number of tows are woven in the first warp direction than in the second weft direction, and wherein a number of tows in the second weft direction allows the biased plies to maintain their structural integrity when handled. The plurality of biased plies are laid up in a preselected arrangement to form the component, and a preselected number of the plurality of biased plies are oriented such that the orientation of the first warp direction of the preselected number of biased plies lie about in the direction of maximum tensile stress during normal engine operation. A coating is applied to the plurality of biased plies. The coating is selected from the group consisting of BN, SiC, and combinations thereof. A ceramic matrix material lies in interstitial regions between the tows of each biased ply and the interstitial region between the biased plies. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424722 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579147 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); Deborah Meyers (Mocksville, North Carolina); Sigun Zheng (Clemmons, North Carolina); Patrick C. Walsh (Hunt Valley, Maryland); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Eugene Bleecker (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); David Herrington (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of screening a subject for increased likelihood or risk of certain diseases or disorders. This method comprises detecting the presence or absence of at least one mutation in the MSR1 gene wherein the presence or absence of such mutation indicates an increased risk for certain diseases, such as cancer asthma and/or cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426262 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579152 | Yeh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward T. H. Yeh (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the use of SENP1 as a marker for cancer diagnosis, specifically prostate cancer. Still further, it relates to the use of inhibitors of SENP1 to inhibit cell proliferation of a neoplasm or tumor cell and to treat a hyperproliferative disease. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214440 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579424 | 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 K Kolel-veetil (Alexandria, Virginia); Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic made by providing a composition and pyrolyzing the composition. The composition has siloxane polymer, metallic polymer, siloxane thermoset, and/or metallic thermoset 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—. R is an organic group, Cb is a carborane, and n and m are integers greater than or equal to zero. Any crosslinking is a crosslink between acetylene groups and/or a polycarbosiloxane crosslink. The composition also has free metal atoms, metal clusters, or metal nanoparticles dispersed homogeneously throughout the composition; (MLx)y-acetylene complex in the backbone; and/or a metallic compound for forming a (MLx)y-acetylene complex. M is a metal, L is a ligand, x and y are positive integers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239454 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579430 | 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 (Akexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A 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. 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 composition containing a siloxane polymer and a metallic compound. The siloxane polymer has a backbone having one or more acetylene groups and —SiR2—(O—SiR2)n— and/or —SiR2—(O—SiR2)n-[Cb-SiR2—(O—SiR2)n]m—. The metallic compound is capable of reacting with the acetylene group to form a (MLx)y-acetylene complex. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239452 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579618 | Adam |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Douglas Adam (Millersville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonant transistor includes a substrate, a source and a drain formed on the substrate, an input electrode and a carbon nanotube gate. A gap is formed between the source and the drain. The input electrode is formed on the substrate. The carbon nanotube gate is clamped on one end by a contact electrode and positioned, preferably cantilevered, over the gap and over the input electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068750 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579887 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Bsuiness Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Joseph Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Phillip John Restie (Katonah, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for generating an electronic circuit clock signal that can optimize operating frequency margins by responding to short term effects by quickly varying the clock frequency and long term effects by finding an optimal frequency point. A sensor indicates frequency margins associated with safe use of the clock signal, and these frequency margins are input into a frequency compensator and used to determine whether the system is operating within acceptable margins, or alternatively to modify the operating clock frequency on a short-term basis in order to achieve acceptable operating margins. The requests for frequency adjustment by the frequency compensator are provided to a frequency filter, which combines such request with a maintained/accumulated history of previous short-term frequency requests that have previously been made in order to determine whether an update needs to be made to the target frequency to provide long-term frequency control. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024457 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579979 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer K. Park (Winter Springs, Florida); Gene D. Tener (Oviedo, Florida); William H. Barrow (Clermont, Florida); Gary E. Wiese (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus combining an optical sensor and a bomb impact assessment system, and corresponding method for facilitating bomb impact assessment, comprising means for receiving an optical signal, means for splitting off a portion of the optical signal from a primary optical path to form a secondary optical path, a lens in the secondary optical path, the lens comprising a plurality of facets generating a plurality of tertiary optical paths, means for combining signals from the primary and one or more of the tertiary optical paths, means for detecting the combined signals, and means for projecting onto a focal plane array bomb impact assessment data comprising detected signals from one or more of the tertiary optical paths. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/648989 |
| 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 342/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580474 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514552 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580604 | D'Aguanno 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) | Giuseppe D'Aguanno (Huntsville, Alabama); Mark J. Bloemer (Athens, Alabama); Nadia Mattiucci (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael Scalora (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | We have shown that a single layer of a 3D Zero Index Material (ZIM) has omnidirectional reflection properties. In the range between the electric plasma frequency and the magnetic plasma frequency, ZIM reflect radiation for all angles of incidence and polarization with reflectivities of ˜99%. In addition, with increasing angles of incidence, the reflecting band does not shift in frequency but actually widens. The operational bandwidth can be 100% or greater by increasing the separation between the electric and magnetic plasma frequencies. We have also shown that in the spectral region that allows the omnidirectional gap, ZIM can be used as the cladding of hollow waveguides with better performance than traditional hollow waveguides. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278521 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580830 | Al-Onaizan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaser Al-Onaizan (Elmsford, New York); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Translating named entities from a source language to a target language. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: generating potential translations of a named entity from a source language to a target language using a pronunciation-based and spelling-based transliteration model, searching a monolingual resource in the target language for information relating to usage frequency, and providing output including at least one of the potential translations based on the usage frequency information. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811384 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581028 | Han 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) | Keesook J. Han (Utica, New York); Bruce W. Suter (Whitesboro, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for efficient image distribution and management Invention employs compact image data structures and packet delivery techniques for Internet applications. Images on a Web page are inefficiently stored, using a single image per file. Invention uses clustering to merge similar images into a single file in order to exploit the redundancy between images. A 30-50% image data size reduction is achieved by eliminating the redundancies of color indexes. A metadata file permits an easy extraction of images. Present invention permits a more efficient use of the cache, since a shorter list of cache references is required. Packet and transmission delays are reduced by 50% eliminating redundant TCP/IP headers and connection time. Present invention eliminates redundancy and provides valuable benefits for optimizing packet delivery in IP networks by reducing latency and minimizing the bandwidth requirements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041076 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07578998 | Goldschneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving Goldschneider (Avon, Connecticut); Laijun Lai (Newington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a single-chain or chimeric polypeptide comprising a cytokine and a growth factor linked by at least one amino acid residue, and wherein the chimeric polypeptide enhances the proliferation and/or differentiation of hematopoietic precursor cells. In particular the invention relates to, a chimeric polypeptide comprising the beta-chain of hepatocyte growth factor, and IL-7 linked by at least one amino acid, and wherein the chimeric polypeptide demonstrates pre-pro-B proliferation and growth stimulating activity. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601059 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579004 | Poland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Poland (Rochester, Minnesota); Inna G. Ovsyannikova (Rochester, Minnesota); David C. Muddiman (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth L. Johnson (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A preparation of peptides eluted from class II HLA molecules is disclosed. Methods of decreasing measles infections comprising inoculating human patients with a vaccine comprising one or more of the peptides and methods of diagnosing measles infections or immunity comprising analyzing human patients for the presence of one or more of the peptides or antibodies to the peptide(s) are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266957 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 07579012 | Kolattukudy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pappachan E. Kolattukudy (Orlando, Florida); Tatiano Sirakova (Orlando, Florida); Vinod S. Dubey (Waukegan, Illinois); Jaiyanth Daniel (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel methods for screening for compounds useful in treating or preventing tuberculosis. In exemplary embodiments, screening methods are based on the implementation or manipulation of triacylglycerol synthase like polypeptides or polynucleotides encoding the same. The methods are useful in identifying agents active against TB infection. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561477 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579146 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Vincent W. Coljee (Gentofte, Denmark); William Donahue (Quincy, Massachusetts); Svetlana Mikheeva (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system for linking nucleic acids to one another. In particular, the present invention provides techniques for producing DNA product molecules that may be easily and directly ligated to recipient molecules. The product molecules need not be cleaved with restriction enzymes in order to undergo such ligation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the DNA product molecules are produced through iterative DNA synthesis reactions, so that the product molecules are amplified products. The invention further provides methods for directed ligation of product molecules (i.e., for selective ligation of certain molecules within a collection of molecules), and also for methods of exon shuffling, in which multiple different product molecules are produced in a single ligation reaction. Preferred embodiments of the invention involve ligation of product molecules encoding functional protein domains, particularly domains naturally found in conserved gene families. The inventive DNA manipulation system is readily integrated with other nucleic acid manipulation systems, such as ribozyme-mediated systems, and also is susceptible to automation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/897712 |
| 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 07579147 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianfeng Xu (Clemmons, North Carolina); Deborah Meyers (Mocksville, North Carolina); Sigun Zheng (Clemmons, North Carolina); Patrick C. Walsh (Hunt Valley, Maryland); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland); Eugene Bleecker (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); David Herrington (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of screening a subject for increased likelihood or risk of certain diseases or disorders. This method comprises detecting the presence or absence of at least one mutation in the MSR1 gene wherein the presence or absence of such mutation indicates an increased risk for certain diseases, such as cancer asthma and/or cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/426262 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579152 | Yeh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward T. H. Yeh (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the use of SENP1 as a marker for cancer diagnosis, specifically prostate cancer. Still further, it relates to the use of inhibitors of SENP1 to inhibit cell proliferation of a neoplasm or tumor cell and to treat a hyperproliferative disease. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214440 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579156 | Tsao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis H. C. Tsao (Madison, Wisconsin); Keith C. Meyer (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorescent phospholipase assay is disclosed. Further disclosed are the identification of alpha-1-antitrypsin as a phospholipase A2 stimulator and phospholipase C inhibitor and the identification of mercaptalbumin as a phospholipase A2 inhibitor. Various applications involving the use of the phospholipase assay, alpha-1-antitrypsin and mercaptalbumin are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/365738 |
| 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 07579313 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Richard Edward Watts (Palo Alto, California); Matthew John Siegel (Stanford, California); Daniel M. Pinkas (Menlo Park, California); Kihang Choi (Seoul, South Korea); Keith M. Rich (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Transglutaminase inhibitors and methods of use thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/213173 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579319 | Fogelman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Fogelman (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the unexpected finding that vessels smaller than even the smallest arteries (i.e. arterioles) thicken, become dysfunctional and cause end organ damage to tissues as diverse as the brain and the kidney. This invention provides a method to improve the structure and function of arterioles and preserve the function of end organs such as the brain and kidney. In certain embodiments, the methods involve administering to a human having thickened arterioles in brain, kidney or alveoli a peptide that ranges in length up to 30 amino acids, and that comprises a class A amphipathic helix, and bears at least one protecting group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296582 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579328 | Steinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Steinman (Palo Alto, California); Pedro Ruiz (Menlo Park, California); Hideki Garren (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pro-inflammatory T cell response is specifically suppressed by the injection into a recipient of DNA encoding an autoantigen associated with autoimmune disease. The recipient may be further treating by co-vaccination with a DNA encoding a Th2 cytokine, particularly encoding IL4. In response to the vaccination, the proliferation of autoantigen-reactive T cells and the secretion of Th1 cytokines, including IL-2, IFN-γ and IL-15, are reduced. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/289226 |
| 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 07579330 | Fisher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B Fisher (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for reversing the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell by introducing a nucleic acid having the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) into the cell under conditions that permit the expression of the gene so as to thereby reverse the cancerous phenotype of the cell. This invention also provides a method for reversing the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell by introducing the gene product of the above-described gene into the cancerous cell so as to thereby reverse the cancerous phenotype of the cell. This invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition having the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) or the gene product of the melanoma differentiation associated gene (mda-7) effective to reverse the cancerous phenotype of a cancer cell and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935816 |
| 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 07579350 | Rebek, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julius Rebek, Jr. (La Jolla, California); Shen Gu (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Shannon Biros (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized pyridazine derivatives having a low molecular weight and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful as alpha-helix mimetics and for treating conditions and/or disorders mediated by alpha-helix-binding receptors and proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368302 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579366 | Nicolaou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyriacos C. Nicolaou (La Jolla, California); Nigel Paul King (Hitchen, United Kingdom); Maurice Raymond Verschoyle Finlay (Macclesfield, United Kingdom); Yun He (Carlsbad, California); Frank Roschangar (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Dionisios Vourloumis (San Diego, California); Hans Vallberg (Huddinge, Sweden); Antony Bigot (Paris, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to epothilone analog represented by the formula I wherein (i) R2 is absent or oxygen; “a” can be either a single or double bond; “b” can be either absent or a single bond; and “c” can be either absent or a single bond, with the proviso that if R2 is oxygen then “b” and “c” are both a single bond and “a” is a single bond; if R2 is absent then “b” and “c” are absent and “a” is a double bond; and if “a” is a double bond, then R2, “b” and “c” are absent; R3 is a radical selected from the group consisting of hydrogen; lower alkyl; —CH═CH2; —C≡CH; —CH2F; —CH2Cl; —CH2—OH; —CH2—O—(C1-C6-alkyl); and —CH2—S—(C1-C6-alkyl); R4 and R5 are independently selected from hydrogen, methyl or a protecting group; and R1 is as defined in the specification, or a salt of a compound of the formula I where a salt-forming group is present. A further aspect of the invention is related to the synthesis of epothilone E. These compounds have inter alia microtubuli depolymerisation inhibiting activity and are e.g. useful against proliferative diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/386999 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579373 | Farrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Farrell (Richmond, Virginia); Alexander Hegmans (Kingston, Canada); John D. Roberts (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Pro-drug forms of linear polyamine-bridged platinum compounds and methods for their production and use are provided. The polyamine-bridge portion of the compounds is based on spermine or spermidine, and the central amines of the polyamine-bridge are chemically bonded to labile blocking groups. The presence of the blocking groups serves to minimize the toxicity of the Pt compounds upon administration. Selective removal of the blocking groups and release of the active, unblocked species occurs upon exposure to suitable environmental conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/225436 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579439 | Strom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry B. Strom (Brookline, Massachusetts); Xian Chang Li (Newton, Massachusetts); Xin Xiao Zheng (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based, in part, on expression studies of IL-2 and IL-15 receptor subunits by cycling T cells in vivo. In one embodiment, the invention generally features novel combinations of IL-2 and IL-15 antagonists and methods of suppressing the immune response by administering these antagonists. In each case, suppression is achieved by administration of a first agent that targets an IL-15 molecule or an IL-15 receptor (IL-15R) and a second agent that targets an IL-2 molecule or an IL-2 receptor (IL-2R). More generally, the invention features novel combinations of agents that, when administered to a patient (or to a transplant ex vivo), reduce the number of antigen-reactive T cells. For example, the invention features compositions (e.g., pharamaceutically acceptable compositions) that include two or more agents, each of which promote T cell death. Alternatively, the composition can contain at least one agent that promotes T cell death and at least one agent that inhibits T cell proliferation. The agent that promotes T cell death can promote AICD (activation induced cell death), passive cell death, ADCC (antibody dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity) or CDC (complement directed cytotoxicity). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/749699 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579486 | Puerta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Puerta (Melrose, Massachusetts); Seth M. Cohen (San Marcos, California); Jana A. Lewis (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to metalloprotein inhibitors comprising: a. an organic substituent and at least one zinc binding group (ZBG) covalently attached thereto; or b. a ZBG substituted by a side chain wherein the ZBG is of formula (I): wherein X is O or S and each R1, R2, R3, and R4 is individually hydrogen or an organic radical. The metalloprotein inhibitors are useful for preventing or treating a pathological disease, condition, or symptom that is associated with pathological metalloprotein activity and/or that is alleviated by inhibition of said activity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/554475 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579494 | Serhan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation, through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838012 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07578130 | Kraemer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Balachandar Varatharajan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Shiva Srinivasan (Greer, South Carolina); John Joseph Lynch (Wilmington, North Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Albany, New York); Kwanwoo Kim (Greer, South Carolina); Benjamin Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Sarah Crothers (Greenville, South Carolina); Kapil Kumar Singh (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for combustion dynamics reduction are provided. A combustion chamber may include a first premixer and a second premixer. Each premixer may include at least one fuel injector, at least one air inlet duct, and at least one vane pack for at least partially mixing the air from the air inlet duct or ducts and fuel from the fuel injector or injectors. Each vane pack may include a plurality of fuel orifices through which at least a portion of the fuel and at least a portion of the air may pass. The vane pack or packs of the first premixer may be positioned at a first axial position and the vane pack or packs of the second premixer may be positioned at a second axial position axially staggered with respect to the first axial position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123876 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578781 | Thomadsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce R. Thomadsen (Madison, Wisconsin); Warren D. D'Souza (Baltimore, Maryland); Michael Meltsner (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic stage allows rapid and more precise needle placement for radiation therapy using implantable radioactive seeds. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944034 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578915 | Karger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry L. Karger (Newton, Massachusetts); Lev Kotler (Brighton, Massachusetts); Frantisek Foret (Malden, Massachusetts); Marek Minarik (Winthrop, Massachusetts); Karel Kleparnik (Brno, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular multiple lane or capillary electrophoresis (chromatography) system that permits automated parallel separation and comprehensive collection of all fractions from samples in all lanes or columns, with the option of further on-line automated sample fraction analysis, is disclosed. Preferably, fractions are collected in a multi-well fraction collection unit, or plate. The multi-well collection plate is preferably made of a solvent permeable gel, most preferably a hydrophilic, polymeric gel such as agarose or cross-linked polyacrylamide. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/652773 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578976 | Northrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Allen Northrup (Berkeley, California); Barton V. Beeman (San Mateo, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Dean R. Hadley (Manteca, California); Phoebe Landre (Livermore, California); Stacy L. Lehew (Livermore, California); Peter A. Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical reaction chamber system that combines devices such as doped polysilicon for heating, bulk silicon for convective cooling, and thermoelectric (TE) coolers to augment the heating and cooling rates of the reaction chamber or chambers. In addition the system includes non-silicon-based reaction chambers such as any high thermal conductivity material used in combination with a thermoelectric cooling mechanism (i.e., Peltier device). The heat contained in the thermally conductive part of the system can be used/reused to heat the device, thereby conserving energy and expediting the heating/cooling rates. The system combines a micromachined silicon reaction chamber, for example, with an additional module/device for augmented heating/cooling using the Peltier effect. This additional module is particularly useful in extreme environments (very hot or extremely cold) where augmented heating/cooling would be useful to speed up the thermal cycling rates. The chemical reaction chamber system has various applications for synthesis or processing of organic, inorganic, or biochemical reactions, including the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and/or other DNA reactions, such as the ligase chain reaction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/568618 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579042 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Y. Austin Chang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jianhua J. Yang (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter F. Ladwig (Hutchinson, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic tunnel junctions and method for making the magnetic tunnel junctions are provided. The magnetic tunnel junctions are characterized by a tunnel barrier oxide layer sandwiched between two ferromagnetic layers. The methods used to fabricate the magnetic tunnel junctions are capable of completely and selectively oxidizing a tunnel junction precursor material using an oxidizing gas containing a mixture of gases to provide a tunnel junction oxide without oxidizing the adjacent ferromagnetic materials. In some embodiments the gas mixture is a mixture of CO and CO2 or a mixture of H2 and H2O. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/902281 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
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| US 07579052 | Boiadjiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vassil I. Boiadjiev (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gilbert M. Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lal A. Pinnaduwage (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Peter V. Bonnesen (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gudrun Goretzki (Nottingham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly sensitive sensor platforms for the detection of specific reagents, such as chromate, gasoline and biological species, using microcantilevers and other microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) whose surfaces have been modified with photochemically attached organic monolayers, such as self-assembled monolayers (SAM), or gold-thiol surface linkage are taught. The microcantilever sensors use photochemical hydrosilylation to modify silicon surfaces and gold-thiol chemistry to modify metallic surfaces thereby enabling individual microcantilevers in multicantilever array chips to be modified separately. Terminal vinyl substituted hydrocarbons with a variety of molecular recognition sites can be attached to the surface of silicon via the photochemical hydrosilylation process. By focusing the activating UV light sequentially on selected silicon or silicon nitride hydrogen terminated surfaces and soaking or spotting selected metallic surfaces with organic thiols, sulfides, or disulfides, the microcantilevers are functionalized. The device and photochemical method are intended to be integrated into systems for detecting specific agents including chromate groundwater contamination, gasoline, and biological species. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859047 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/595 |
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| US 07579112 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | A123 Systems, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yet Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); William Douglas Moorehead (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Antoni S. Gozdz (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Richard K. Holman (Belmont, Massachusetts); Andrew Loxley (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gilbert N. Riley, Jr. (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Michael S. Viola (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy storage device includes a first electrode comprising a first material and a second electrode comprising a second material, at least a portion of the first and second materials forming an interpenetrating network when dispersed in an electrolyte, the electrolyte, the first material and the second material are selected so that the first and second materials exert a repelling force on each other when combined. An electrochemical device, includes a first electrode in electrical communication with a first current collector; a second electrode in electrical communication with a second current collector; and an ionically conductive medium in ionic contact with said first and second electrodes, wherein at least a portion of the first and second electrodes form an interpenetrating network and wherein at least one of the first and second electrodes comprises an electrode structure providing two or more pathways to its current collector. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/206662 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579773 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hiroshi Kanno (Osaka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), and more specifically to OLEDS that emit light using a combination of fluorescent emitters and phosphorescent emitters. The emissive region of the devices of the present invention comprise at least one phosphor-sensitized layer which has a combined emission from a phosphorescent emitter and a fluorescent emitter. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to white-emitting OLEDS (WOLEDs). |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447473 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07579146 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Vincent W. Coljee (Gentofte, Denmark); William Donahue (Quincy, Massachusetts); Svetlana Mikheeva (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system for linking nucleic acids to one another. In particular, the present invention provides techniques for producing DNA product molecules that may be easily and directly ligated to recipient molecules. The product molecules need not be cleaved with restriction enzymes in order to undergo such ligation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the DNA product molecules are produced through iterative DNA synthesis reactions, so that the product molecules are amplified products. The invention further provides methods for directed ligation of product molecules (i.e., for selective ligation of certain molecules within a collection of molecules), and also for methods of exon shuffling, in which multiple different product molecules are produced in a single ligation reaction. Preferred embodiments of the invention involve ligation of product molecules encoding functional protein domains, particularly domains naturally found in conserved gene families. The inventive DNA manipulation system is readily integrated with other nucleic acid manipulation systems, such as ribozyme-mediated systems, and also is susceptible to automation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/897712 |
| 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 07579150 | Hannapel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Hannapel (Ames, Iowa); Anjan K. Banerjee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode a BEL transcription factor from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and the amino acid sequences encoded by such nucleic acid molecules. The present invention also relates to a method of screening a biomolecule for its ability to assist in mediating long-distance movement of a mobile RNA in a plant. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172023 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579173 | DeAngelis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma); Wei Jing (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methodology for polymer grafting by a polysaccharide synthase and, more particularly, polymer grafting using the hyaluronate or chondroitin or heparin/heparosan synthases from Pasteurella, in order to create a variety of glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides having a natural or chimeric or hybrid sugar structure with a targeted size that are substantially monodisperse in size. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651379 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579263 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Qiming Li (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a virtually defect free lattice mismatched nanoheteroepitaxial layer is disclosed. The method includes forming an interface layer on a portion of a substrate. A plurality of seed pads are then formed by self-directed touchdown by exposing the interface layer to a material comprising a semiconductor material. The plurality of seed pads, having an average width of about 1 nm to 10 nm, are interspersed within the interface layer and contact the substrate. An epitaxial layer is then formed by lateral growth of the seed pads over the interface layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/935228 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579757 | Kulah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haluk Kulah (Ankara, Turkey); Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a micro power generator for generating electrical power from low frequency, vibrational energy includes a frequency up-conversion process. The generator is preferably an electromagnetic, vibration-to-electrical power generator which can efficiently scavenge energy from low frequency external vibrations. The generator up-converts low frequency environmental vibrations to a much higher frequency through a mechanical frequency up-converter, and hence provides efficient energy conversion even at low frequencies. This mechanical frequency up-conversion process can be realized in a number of ways. A magnetic method is described as an example. After frequency up-conversion, voltage is induced on coils mounted on resonators by electromagnetic induction. Due to the movement of the coils on their respective resonating cantilevers with respect to the magnet, voltage is generated on the coils and energy conversion is realized. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/597321 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580127 | Mayor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Mayor (Boulder, Colorado); Scott Spuler (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarization lidar system capable of remotely identifying characteristics of atmospheric aerosol particles by transmitting a polarized beam of light and analyzing polarization characteristics of received backscatter is disclosed. The transmitter features high pulse energy to remotely identify aerosol particles with substantially one pulse. The transmitter employs a thin film plate polarizer and a Raman wavelength shifter to achieve eye-safe, single-plane linearly polarized energy. The transmit beam and receiver field of view are coaxial. The receiver employs a telescope, a collimating lens, and a beam splitter. The beam splitter splits the received backscatter into a single-plane polarized beam whose polarization plane is parallel to the plane of transmission and a single-plane polarized beam whose polarization plane is perpendicular to the plane of transmission. Each split beam is directed through separate focusing lenses onto separate detectors. The detector signals are amplified and processed to remotely determine atmospheric aerosol particle characteristics. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459267 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580582 | Marcellin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Marcellin (Tucson, Arizona); Ali Bilgin (Tucson, Arizona); Zhenyu Wu (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for decoding corrupt codestreams for encoded digital imagery and video and, in particular, JPEG2000 codestreams with improved error resilience properties. The decoding techniques apply to a class of coding algorithms in which the data from underlying images are partitioned, typically to allow decoding of different spatial sections of the image, and the rules governing the dependencies within and perhaps between partitioned sets are known. Corrupt codestreams are decoded with improved image quality by observing the partitions imposed by the underlying algorithm (200), detecting an error in a partition set (202), analyzing the dependencies within and perhaps between the partitions (204), determining what sections of encoded data that follow the error in the partition set can be salvaged (206), and decoding those sections (208). Even though there might be errors in a particular partition, portions of that partition might still be completely or partially decodable, depending on certain modes or “switches” used during the creation of the codestream. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/534620 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07578912 | Buehler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Buehler (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-active sensor includes a nonconductive platform with a first electrode set attached with a first side of a nonconductive platform. The first electrode set serves as an electrochemical cell that may be utilized to detect electro-active species in solution. A plurality of electrode sets and a variety of additional electrochemical cells and sensors may be attached with the nonconductive platform. The present invention also includes a method for constructing the aforementioned electro-active sensor. Additionally, an apparatus for detection and observation is disclosed, where the apparatus includes a sealable chamber for insertion of a portion of an electro-active sensor. The apparatus allows for monitoring and detection activities. Allowing for control of attached cells and sensors, a dual-mode circuitry is also disclosed. The dual-mode circuitry includes a switch, allowing the circuitry to be switched from a potentiostat to a galvanostat mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750162 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07578992 | Mohajeri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nahid Mohajeri (Rockledge, Florida); Ali Tabatabaie-Raissi (Melbourne, Florida); Gary Bokerman (Rapid City, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating hydrogen includes the steps of providing an amine borane (AB) complex, at least one hydrogen generation catalyst, and a solvent, and mixing these components Hydrogen is generated. The hydrogen produced is high purity hydrogen suitable for PEM fuel cells. A hydrolytic in-situ hydrogen generator includes a first compartment that contains an amine borane (AB) complex, a second container including at least one hydrogen generation catalyst, wherein the first or second compartment includes water or other hydroxyl group containing solvent. A connecting network permits mixing contents in the first compartment with contents in the second compartment, wherein high purity hydrogen is generated upon mixing. At least one flow controller is provided for controlling a flow rate of the catalyst or AB complex. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/864371 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579085 | Hazel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schnectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an article is disclosed. The article comprises a gas turbine engine component substrate comprising a silicon material; and an environmental barrier coating overlying the substrate, wherein the environmental barrier coating comprises cerium oxide, and the cerium oxide reduces formation of silicate glass on the substrate upon exposure to corrodant sulfates. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208245 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579618 | Adam |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Douglas Adam (Millersville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonant transistor includes a substrate, a source and a drain formed on the substrate, an input electrode and a carbon nanotube gate. A gap is formed between the source and the drain. The input electrode is formed on the substrate. The carbon nanotube gate is clamped on one end by a contact electrode and positioned, preferably cantilevered, over the gap and over the input electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068750 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580323 | Allison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adninistration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney G. Allison (Williamsburg, Virginia); Qamar A. Shams (Yorktown, Virginia); Robert L. Fox (Hayes, Virginia); Christopher L. Fox, legal representative (Yorktown, Virginia); Melanie L. Fox Chattin, legal representative (Hayes, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical assembly is formed by one or more piezoelectric fiber composite actuators having one or more optical fibers coupled thereto. The optical fiber(s) experiences strain when actuation voltage is applied to the actuator(s). Light passing through the optical fiber(s) is wavelength tuned by adjusting the actuation voltage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/419818 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07579016 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aijun Zhang (Silver Spring, Maryland); John F. Carroll (Beltsville, Maryland); Shifa Wang (Nanjing, China PRC); Jerome A. Klun (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for for repelling arthropods involving treating an object or area with an arthropod repelling effective amount of at least one isolongifolenone analog (and optionally a carrier or carrier material). |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106505 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579150 | Hannapel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Hannapel (Ames, Iowa); Anjan K. Banerjee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode a BEL transcription factor from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and the amino acid sequences encoded by such nucleic acid molecules. The present invention also relates to a method of screening a biomolecule for its ability to assist in mediating long-distance movement of a mobile RNA in a plant. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/172023 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579183 | Hua |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sui-Sheng T. Hua (Orinda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A biologically pure culture of a yeast of the species Pichia anomala (WRL-076). The yeast is identified as NRRL Y-30842 and is capable of inhibiting growth of a deleterious microorganism on a plant or portion thereof to which a biologically effective amount of a culture of the yeast is applied. Further disclosed is a composition for use in protection of agricultural crops. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607713 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/255.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579515 | Miller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Miller (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing the production of gametes in a transgenic non-human animal is carried out by: (a) providing a transgenic non-human animal comprising cells that contain: (i) a response element; (ii) a nucleic acid encoding FSHβ operatively associated with the response element; (iii) an FSHβ promoter; (iv) an FSHβ locus control region operatively associated with the FSHβ promoter; and (v) a nucleic acid encoding a ligand-controllable receptor operatively associated with the FSHβ promoter, wherein the receptor binds to the response element in the presence of the ligand when expressed in a host cell; and (b) administering the ligand to the animal in an amount effective to (i) stimulate the production of FSHβ in the animal above that found in a corresponding untransformed type animal; and (ii) stimulate the production of gametes in the animal to a level greater than that found in the corresponding untransformed animal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/534953 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07579252 | Goulakov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microsemi Corporation (Bend, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arkadi Goulakov (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming a SiC BJT having a low base resistance and minimal emitter width are provided. The methods incorporate a plated shadow metal layer overhanging the emitter mesa. The mushroom-shaped shadow metal layer can then act as either a deposition shadow mask or an ion implantation mask in subsequent steps for forming base contacts. In this way, base contacts can be formed with a variable and controllable distance from the emitter mesa defined by the lateral extent of overhang of the shadow metal layer. The same shadow masking effect can also be used to form self-aligned emitter and base wiring metals for reduction of resistance. Plating of the emitter contact layer allows avoiding subsequent photolithography steps on the top of emitter mesa; thus emitter mesa width could be minimized. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536581 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580602 | Itagi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Vasant Itagi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Albert Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a planar waveguide, first and second gratings for coupling electromagnetic radiation into the planar waveguide, and a beam shaper for controlling the amplitude distribution of the electromagnetic radiation that impinges on the first and second gratings. A method of coupling electromagnetic radiation into a planar waveguide is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856151 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07580551 | Srihari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of NY (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sargur Srihari (Williamsville, New York); Yong-Chul Shin (Williamsville, New York); Sangjik Lee (Buffalo, New York); Venugoal Govindaraju (Williamsville, New York); Sung-Hyuk Cha (Pleasantville, New York); Catalin I. Tomai (Tonawanda, New York); Bin Zhang (Tonawanda, New York); Ajay Shekhawat (Buffalo, New York); Dave Bartnik (Elma, New York); Wen-Jann Yang (Amherst, New York); Srirangaraj Setlur (Getzville, New York); Phil Kilinskas (East Amherst, New York); Fred Kunderman (Niagara Falls, New York); Xia Liu (Williamsville, New York); Zhixin Shi (Williamsville, New York); Vemulapati Ramanaprasad (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based method of biometric analysis which compares a first vector from a first biometric sample with a second vector from a second biometric sample. The vectors have at least one biometric feature. A method which compares two biometric samples. The samples form at least one cluster of at least one vector based on feature similarities between the samples. An apparatus incorporating a means for performing the method taught herein. A computer-readable medium and a propagated computer data signal transmitted via a propagation medium, with instructions which when executed by a processor, carry out the method of the present invention. A method of handwriting analysis which calculates a first metric from a first vector having at least one feature from a sample, calculates a second metric from a second vector having at least one feature from a second sample, and calculates the distance in two-dimensional feature space between metrics. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/611329 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07579006 | Offner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affair (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of ameliorating a Th1-mediated immune pathology in a mammal. The method is practiced by administering a low dose of estrogen to the mammal. Optionally, an immunotherapeutic agent can also be administered to the mammal. Also provided are kits containing a low dose of estrogen and an immunotherapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062476 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07578939 | Masten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan J. Masten (East Lansing, Michigan); Simon H. R. Davies (East Lansing, Michigan); Melissa Baumann (East Lansing, Michigan); Bhavana Karnik (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for combined ozone degradation and filtration using a multi-layered, nanocrystalline, sintered ceramic, metal oxide catalyst and ceramic membrane filter is described. The process reduces fouling of the membrane and degrades ozone remaining in the water from ozonation of water to kill microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294812 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 07580886 | Schulz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Schulz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Managing foreign payments in an International ACH. An originating depository financial institution (“ODFI”) can create an ACH item designating a fixed amount of foreign currency to be credited to, or a fixed amount of domestic currency to be debited from, a receiving depository financial institution. In a variable to fixed payment, a conversion module of the ODFI or a gateway operator can determine a foreign exchange (“FX”) conversion rate. Using the FX conversion rate, the conversion module can calculate a domestic currency amount or a foreign currency amount corresponding to the desired foreign/domestic currency payment. The conversion module can enter the FX conversion rate and/or the determined domestic/foreign currency amount into the ACH item for processing via the International ACH. In a fixed to fixed payment, the ODFI can transmit information about the foreign currency payment via the International ACH and settle the payment via ACH or non-ACH means. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224380 |
| ART UNIT | 3693 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07580474 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514552 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07581089 | White |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew H. White (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting a return address on a computer stack is disclosed. Two stacks are created, the first a normal stack, and the second, or shadow, having shadow frames containing the return address upon a subroutine call, the address on the first stack where the return address is stored, and a user-definable state variable which is used to identify a shadow frame as a return address. Before returning from a subroutine, the two return addresses are compared, and if they do not match, the second stack is searched down, and then up, for a matching return address. If there is a match, the shadow is re-synchronized with the first stack by comparing the stored values of the first stack pointer with the first stack pointer and adjusting appropriately the shadow stack pointer. The matching shadow frame must also be a return address datatype of return address. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787832 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07578481 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory H. Smith (Placentia, California); James D. Spear (Orange, California); Fernando C. Teran (Placentia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital programmable driver for a solenoid valve comprises at least one valve driver circuit for opening and closing the valve and a controller capable of sending an output signal to the valve driver circuit. The valve driver circuit comprises a power switch for providing current to the valve in order to open the valve. The output signal sent by the controller directs the power switch of the valve driver circuit to provide current to the valve, thereby causing the valve to open. The controller receives a plurality of parameter values, and responsive to the plurality of parameter values, calculates a rise time, a pull-in duty cycle, a fall time, and a hold duty cycle so as to modify the output signal sent to the valve driver circuit. The plurality of parameter values comprises valve resistance, valve inductance, supply voltage, valve pull-in current, valve hold current, and valve pull-in time. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066176 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/171.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579453 | Drayna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Dapartment of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Drayna (Potomac, Maryland); Un-Kyung Kim (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Identified herein are different forms of bitter receptor genes that occur in different humans. These alleles are generated by numerous coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (cSNP's) that occur within the members of the T2R gene family. Some SNP's cause amino acid substitutions, while others introduce chain termination codons, rendering the allele non-functional. Differences in these genes are believed to have a large effect on those individuals' sense of bitter taste, such that these individuals perceive the taste of bitter substances differently than the rest of the population. The ability to assay this allelic information is useful in the development of flavorings and flavor enhancers, as it can be used to define large groups and populations who perceive bitter tastes differently. This in turn allows the taste preferences of these groups to be addressed at the molecular level for the first time. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561487 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07579578 | Deaconu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Hunstville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stelu Deaconu (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a pseudospark switch that overcomes the aforementioned limitations of existing pseudospark switches and proved e-beams for applications such as FELs, pulsed lasers, X-ray machines, and radar. The improvement in e-beam quality is obtained by inductively ionizing gas inside the hollow cathode chamber (HCC), prior to main gap breakdown using a HCC that incorporates a spiral induction coil. The gas in the hollow cathode chamber is ionized by the discharge of an auxiliary capacitor bank through the spiral coil that forms the back surface of the HCC. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/692982 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.LS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07580003 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Davis (Bellevue, Washington); Richard N. Bostwick (North Bend, Washington); David N. Rasmussen (Renton, Washington); Gary E. Miller (Auburn, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna aperture for mounting on the outside mast structure of a submarine is disclosed. The antenna aperture is designed to withstand hydrostatic pressure cycles as would be experienced by a submarine. The antenna is constructed of a highly corrosion resistant housing upon which a wide angle impedance (WAIM) cover designed to meet antenna RF requirements is integrated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/557227 |
| 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 343/872 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 25, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20090825.html
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