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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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| US 07581382 | Sadil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); Joseph F. Englehart (Gastonia, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine air valve assembly has first and second valving elements. The second element is rotatable about a first axis relative to the first element. The rotation controls a flow of air through the first and second elements. An actuator is coupled by a linkage to the second element. A plurality of follower member assemblies each have an insertion portion extending through a corresponding first aperture in the first valving element and a corresponding second aperture in the second element. The insertion portion is circumferentially fixed relative to one of the first and second valving elements and circumferentially moveable relative to the other of the first and second valving elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118584 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581385 | Farah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge I. Farah (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Michael J. Murphy (Vernon, Connecticut); John R. Buey (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling liner having a liner hot sheet formed as a relatively thick iso-grid structure having iso-grid ribs, which extend from a surface between the ribs. A multitude of metering sheets are mounted directly to the liner hot sheet surface. Each metering sheet is mounted to the iso-grid to define a multitude of discrete chambers. A seal is located in a pattern along a subset of the iso-grid ribs to further segregate the surface covered by each metering sheet into a further number of discrete subchambers. Each metering sheet includes a multitude of metering sheet apertures and the surface between the iso-grid ribs of the liner hot sheet include a multitude of hot sheet apertures. By varying the ratio between the number of metering sheet apertures and the number of hot sheet apertures, the pressure in each chamber is defined to efficiently maintain the minimum desired pressure ratio across the hot sheet without undue wastage of cooling airflow. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265862 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581398 | Mayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Carl Mayer (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Brian Benscoter Roberts (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel shield is configured for use in the afterburner of a turbofan aircraft engine. The shield includes wings obliquely joined together at a nose to conform with the leading edge region of a flameholder vane. A hood is joined to the wings and extends obliquely therefrom to conform with a supporting outer shell of the flameholder. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/478246 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581399 | Farah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge I. Farah (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Michael E. Nackoul (Wethersfield, Connecticut); José M. Cintrón (Tequesta, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a suspension system for mounting an exhaust duct liner within an exhaust duct of a gas turbine engine. An exhaust liner suspension system comprises a hanger, a bracket and a coil pin. The hanger comprises a first end for connecting with an exhaust duct and a second end having a hinge pin socket. The bracket comprises a base for connecting with an exhaust duct liner and a pedestal having a hinge pin bore. The coil pin is insertable in the hinge pin socket and the hinge pin bore thereby pivotably connecting the hanger and the bracket. The coil pin also provides a dampened connection between the hanger and the bracket. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326004 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581450 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mont A. Johnson (Perry, Utah); John L. Shipley (Tremonton, Utah); Robert Graham (Perry, Utah); Lee H. Pearson (Bear River City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for measuring material properties such as the relaxation modulus of a material in situ and a method of measuring material properties of a material are disclosed. The sensor may be substantially embedded in the material, and includes a deformable driver. When actuated, the deformable driver may create a stress in the adjacent material. The movement or deformation of the driver may be measured with a sensing device, for example a strain gage mounted on a surface thereof. The stress in the adjacent material may be measured with a second sensing device, for example a pressure sensor. The measured movement and stress over a predetermined period of time may he used to determine the relaxation modulus of the material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/555029 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581480 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mallory John Boyd (Ridgecrest, California); Jason R. Allen (Ridgecrest, California); William Rodney Ditzler (Ridgecrest, California); Richard James Busse (Camarillo, California); Michael Dennis Barrett (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed ground sensor threat detection system, which is an automated missile warning system designed to provide reliable, timely and accurate missile location information of shoulder-launched SAMs within the volume under surveillance by a network of sensors. Remote sensor nodes position in proximity to an airport runway monitor the area between the nodes to locate threat missiles. Detection information from each remote sensor node is sent to a central processing node which processes the information to determine if a threat missile is launched against a commercial aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392608 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581481 | Hornbeck 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) | William D. Hornbeck (Warwick, Rhode Island); Raymond A. St. Amand (Fairhaven, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A capsule adapted for disposition in a submarine launch tube for retaining the missile until launch thereof. The capsule includes a cylindrically shaped housing including a plurality of layers of glass fibers and layers of graphite, the layers including an outer layer of glass fibers defining an outer skin of the housing, and an inner layer of glass fibers. A titanium flange is fixed on the housing and in contact with the layers of graphite. An adhesive layer is disposed on the outer skin and an interface support pad is mounted on the outer skin and retained thereon by the adhesive layer. A layer of metal foil is disposed inboard of the adhesive layer and between the outer layer of glass fibers and the inner layer of glass fibers, to serve as a barrier to products of galvanic reaction occurring between the graphite layers and the titanium flange. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474229 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.809 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581482 | Cler 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) | Daniel L. Cler (Coatesville, Pennsylvania); David Forliti (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A supersonic turning vane includes a suction side and a pressure side; the suction side including an expansion turning wall wherein the expansion turning wall creates an expansion fan that projects into the supersonic flow passage to turn supersonic flow into the turning vane; the pressure side comprising a large radius curved surface, the pressure side and the suction side converging to form a throat wherein a shock is formed upstream of the throat, the shock decelerating the supersonic flow to subsonic conditions and the pressure side turning the subsonic flow; the suction side including an outer nozzle expansion wall downstream of the throat, the outer nozzle expansion wall diverging from the pressure side to form an expansion nozzle that expands the subsonic flow to supersonic conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460694 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/14.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581484 | Van Dyke-Restifo 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) | Stephen M Van Dyke-Restifo (Voorheesville, New York); George D. Vitetta, Jr. (Albany, New York); Alex Wakulenko (Cohoes, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for retaining an object in a gun tube of a weapon system, the gun tube having a longitudinal axis, a chamber and a breech ring with an opening therein, the apparatus including a plunger that reciprocates in the opening in the breech ring and the chamber; a housing fixed in the opening in the breech ring, the housing holding the plunger; and means for reciprocating the plunger in the opening in the breech ring and the chamber. The object to be retained is propellant. The reciprocating means is automatically operated via electrical and/or mechanical connections to the weapon system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466208 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581497 | Rabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Rabin (Glen Allen, Virginia); Traver J. Sutton (King George, Virginia); Michael J. Bottass (King George, Virginia); Douglas A. Hopkins (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various implementations are disclosed for self-contained, non-intrusive data collection in ammunition. In some implementations, a gun is loaded with a non-explosive, non-firing round of ammunition containing a data acquisition system. Such a data-collecting round of ammunition may be loaded into the gun according to the same procedures as live rounds of ammunition, and, in particular, may be loaded into a firing position immediately after a preceding live round has been fired. In this way, the data-collecting round of ammunition is able to experience temperature or other conditions that are experienced essentially identically by live rounds. After collecting related data while in the firing position, the data-collecting round may be removed from the gun, for analysis of the data for, for example, development of hot gun misfire safety procedures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250690 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581501 | Boone 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) | Donald M. Boone (Bedford, Pennsylvania); Carl Gotzmer (Accokeek, Maryland); Kenneth B. Johnson (Waldorf, Maryland); Leonard D. Lipton (Rockville, Maryland); Michael R. Scherr (Stafford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fin-stabilized projectile suitable for launching from a shotgun or similar weapon. The projectile may penetrate easily breakable materials but will not penetrate tougher materials. The projectile may be shot through an easily breakable surface to gain entry to a target location, but further penetration is inhibited. The projectile is equipped with an on board sensor. The halves of the projectile casing form a dipole antenna for transmitting information gathered by the on board sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447519 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581507 | Kern |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Robert Kern (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a launch/recovery device for both surface and underwater vehicles includes a plurality of driven wet-traction members arranged to form a low drag (e.g., water flow-through) ramp design. The wet-traction members provide traction even when wet between the water vehicle and the launch/recovery device. As a result of utilizing driven wet-traction members, the use of conventional hoists, special capture devices such as hooks and tow lines, and personnel located within the water to attach the capture devices to the water vehicle is eliminated. The wet-traction members provide both strength and flexibility to the launch/recovery device. That is, while the wet-traction members are strong enough to support the weight of the water vehicle, they are at the same time flexible enough to deflect a distance (e.g., about 6 to 15 inches) to accommodate a soft landing of the water vehicle on the ramp, while providing recovery forces and motion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/773242 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581692 | Graziosi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paolo Graziosi (Clifton Park, New York); Kevin Kirtley (Scotia, New York); Ramani Mani (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for jet engine noise control of a jet engine having a main jet stream exiting an exhaust nozzle and flowing along a jet axis includes a thermal acoustic shield directed at a non-zero angle relative to the jet axis. The thermal acoustic shield may be configurable about the main jet stream. The system may further include at least a fluidic chevron injected at a location relative to the nozzle exit for enhancing mixing in the main jet stream and creating a non-circular jet stream. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/610718 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/1.N00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581933 | Bruce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schnectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert William Bruce (Loveland, Ohio); Jerry Donald Schell (Evendale, Ohio); Mark Daniel Gorman (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil having an improved impact and erosion resistance. The airfoil comprises: (a) a base segment having an impact resistant leading edge section proximate to the leading edge comprising a material having having a yield strength of least about 250 ksi and an elongation percentage of about 12% or less; and (b) an erosion resistant coating overlaying the base segment at least in the leading and trailing edge portions of the pressure side, the erosion resistant coating comprising at least one ceramic layer having at least one of the following properties: (1) an erosion value of at least about 200 g. of erodent to cause a thickness loss of about 15-20 microns; (2) an erosion volume loss value (V) of about 1.9 or less as defined by the equation V=H−0.18×E0.75×F−1.65 where H is hardness, E is elastic modulus and F is fracture toughness; and (3) an F value of at least about 1.5 MPa*m1/2. The erosion resistant coating can comprise alternating ceramic and metallic layers and is typically formed by a method involving the step of forming on the pressure side of the base segment of the airfoil in alternating fashion at least one ceramic layer and at least one metallic layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/656974 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/241.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582004 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Schwartz (West Hartford, Connecticut); Robert N. Davie, Jr. (East Haddam, Connecticut); Bernard D. Vaillette (Tolland, Connecticut); Jon C. Hammett (Windham, Connecticut); Allan B. Packman (West Hartford, Connecticut); Timothy L. Brown (Colchester, Connecticut); James D. Campbell, Jr. (East Hampton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A coolant nozzle is used in a machine tool having a rotating bit. The nozzle includes a through-aperture for accommodating the bit. The nozzle has a coolant inlet and a number of coolant outlets at more than one angular position about the through-aperture. Internal surface portions define one or more passageways between the inlet and the outlets. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/618059 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07582134 — Aerosol method and apparatus, particulate products, and electronic devices made therefrom
| US 07582134 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Skamser (Simpsonville, South Carolina); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an aerosol method, and accompanying apparatus, for preparing powdered products of a variety of materials involving the use of an ultrasonic aerosol generator (106) including a plurality of ultrasonic transducers (120) underlying and ultrasonically energizing a reservoir of liquid feed (102) which forms droplets of the aerosol. Carrier gas (104) is delivered to different portions of the reservoir by a plurality of gas delivery ports (136) delivering gas from a gas delivery system. The aerosol is pyrolyzed to form particles, which are then cooled and collected. The invention also provides powders made by the method and devices made using the powders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/555139 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582275 | Maruyama |
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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) | Benji Maruyama (Yellow Springs, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The method of the present invention utilizes high pressure, near-supercritical CO2 within a pressure vessel to process filamentary nanocarbon to debulk, disperse, purify, surface treat, pre-impregnate, and micronize the carbon nanofibers. In accordance with the invention, near-supercritical CO2 is utilized within a pressure vessel to effect the desired process upon filamentary nanocarbon. For example, a quantity of filamentary nanocarbon can be effectively debulked, de-agglomerated and disentangled by agitating the mixture within the pressure vessel. When the CO2 is released from the pressure vessel, the filamentary nanocarbon exhibits a dramatic reduction in volume. Other nanofiber processes can be performed such as surface treating and pre-impregnation by introduction of the desirable species into the near-supercritical CO2 prior to processing. Purification processing can additionally be performed by introducing a co-solvent into the near-supercritical CO2. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767498 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582334 | Carreiro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Wahington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis G. Carreiro (Westport, Massachusetts); Charles J. Patrissi (Newport, Rhode Island); Steven P. Tucker (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A new treatment method for ion exchange membranes used in semi-fuel cells that accelerates the wetting of the membranes by aqueous electrolyte solutions, thus reducing the start up time for metal/hydrogen peroxide-based semi-fuel cells. Specifically, a NAFION® membrane that is intended for dry storage in a semi-fuel cell is treated with glycerin (glycerol) to enhance its rate of absorption of electrolyte solution when the semi-fuel cell is activated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923611 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/430.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582430 | O'Leary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. O'Leary (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jeffrey T. Mason (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunoliposomes and use thereof in highly specific and sensitive nucleic acid amplification assays relying on amplification of specific nucleic acid sequences released from encapsulation within a liposome after a receptor on the liposome couples with a targeted analyte/antigen immobilized on a select surface. The immunoliposome nucleic acid amplification assay permits both quantitative and qualitative analyte detection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/759099 |
| 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 07582438 | Pasquale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elena B. Pasquale (San Diego, California); Mitchell Koolpe (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The application is related to the identification of peptides that selectively bind to Eph receptors of the B class. Also disclosed are uses of such peptides in the treatment of a variety of diseases. Additionally, imaging tumors in patients is described by administrating labeled peptides to patients and then obtaining an image of the labeled peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342247 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 07582490 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gregor M. Schürmann (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling a gap in an electrically conducting solid state structure provided with a gap. The structure is exposed to a fabrication process environment conditions of which are selected to alter an extent of the gap. During exposure of the structure to the process environment, a voltage bias is applied across the gap. Electron tunneling current across the gap is measured during the process environment exposure and the process environment is controlled during process environment exposure based on tunneling current measurement. A method for controlling the gap between electrically conducting electrodes provided on a support structure. Each electrode has an electrode tip separated from other electrode tips by a gap. The electrodes are exposed to a flux of ions causing transport of material of the electrodes to corresponding electrode tips, locally adding material of the electrodes to electrode tips in the gap. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767102 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582536 | Rajavel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh D. Rajavel (Oak Park, California); Mary Y. Chen (Oak Park, California); Steven S. Bui (Simi Valley, California); David H. Chow (Newbury Park, California); James Chingwei Li (Simi Valley, California); Mehran Mokhtari (Thousand Oaks, California); Marko Sokolich (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device contains a substrate, a sub-collector supported by the substrate, an un-doped layer having a selectively implanted buried sub-collector and supported by the sub-collector, an As-based nucleation layer partially supported by the un-doped layer, a collector layer supported by the As-based nucleation layer, a base layer supported by the collector layer, an emitter layer and a base contact supported by the base layer, an emitter cap layer supported by the emitter layer, an emitter contact supported by the emitter cap layer, and a collector contact supported by the sub-collector. A method provides for selecting a first InP layer, forming an As-based nucleation layer on the first InP layer, and epitaxially growing a second InP layer on the As-based nucleation layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191482 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582594 | Delcomyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuqurque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carrie Delcomyn (Lynn Haven, Florida); Jean Renard (Panama City, Florida); William Wallace (Panama City, Florida); Michael Henley (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A universal decontamination formulation is disclosed based on the in situ generation dioxirane(s) under non-corrosive neutral conditions for the neutralization of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) agents. The composition relates to the generation of dioxiranes by mixing a monopersulfate-containing compound in the presence of a ketone in water buffered with a carbonate-type buffer, producing a pH neutral formulation that provides effective reactivity towards CBW agents over a wide range of temperatures. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/687864 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582680 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia); National Science Foundation (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating an injured vertebrate spinal cord are described. In one aspect of the invention, a method of treating an injured vertebrate spinal cord includes contacting the spinal cord with a biomembrane fusion agent such as a polyalkylene glycol, especially polyethylene glycol. In alternative embodiments of the invention, methods of treating an injured vertebrate spinal cord include contacting the cord with a biomembrane fusion agent and a potassium channel blocker. Other aspects of the invention include compositions for treating a vertebrate nervous system. A preferred composition includes a biomembrane fusion agent, such as a polyalkylene glycol, and a potassium channel blocker, such as an amino-substituted pyridine. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/438206 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582719 | Tan 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) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); Jong-Beom Baek (Chungbuk, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Hyperbranched benzazole polymers having repeating units of the formula: wherein Q is —O—, —S— or —NH—, and the terminal groups R are carboxylic acids with their total number equals n+1. A generic method for preparing the polymers is provided. Also provided are the star block copolymers derived from these hyperbranched benzazole polymers and linear poly(ether-ketones) having the following generic formula where x and y are the numbers of repeat units for each poly(ether-ketone) chain; the placement of the carbonyl moieties in the repeat units of the poly(ether-ketone) chains can be either meta or para to the phenoxy groups; the maximal number of poly(ether-ketone) chains is n+1, where n=number of repeat units for hyperbranched polybenzazole). A general method for synthesizing these star block copolymers is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193990 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582722 | Tan 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) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David H. Wang (Beavercreek, Ohio); Fred E. Arnold, Jr. (Centerville, Ohio); Tara M. Storage (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel ether-ketone-imide hyperbranched polymers with non-reactive benzophenone or thermally reactive phenylethynyl endgroups were prepared from the corresponding AB2 monomer and benzophenone-based endcapping agent in one-pot fashion. The resulting polymer has repeating units of the formula: where the chain-end groups, Ar's, are 4-benzophenone or 4-benzophenone with ortho, meta- or para-phenylethynyl substituents in the 4′-position. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700971 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582857 | Gruev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Viktor Gruev (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jan Van der Spiegel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Nader Engheta (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarimetric imaging system employs a pixel pitch matched filter for use within, for example, a 2 by 2 pixel neighborhood, in which one pixel samples the scene via a 0 degree polarization filter and a second pixel samples the scene via a 45 degree polarization filter. The remaining two pixels record the intensity of the light within the 2 by 2 neighborhoods. The polarization filters employ organic materials such as polymers or metallic materials that are patterned and etched using reactive ion etching (RIE) or other appropriate etching technique in order to create 14 micron or smaller circular (or square) periodic structures that are patterned into polarization thin films that are deposited on an imaging sensor that includes a processor that computes from the polarization-filtered inputs the first three Stokes parameters in real-time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/406993 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582891 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Corporate Body Organized Under Arizona Law, Acting on Behalf of Arizona State University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Jose Menendez (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Ling Liao (Santa Clara, California); Dean Samara-Rubio (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures having at least one quantum well heterostructure grown strain-free on Si(100) via a Sn1-xGex buffer layer and their uses are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663024 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582975 | Kamins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore I. Kamins (Palo Alto, California); Philip J. Kuekes (Palo Alto, California); Carrie L. Donley (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason J. Blackstock (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanowire device includes a nanowire formed between two surfaces, and a gap formed at a predetermined location in the nanowire. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/741218 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/785 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583010 | Goodemote |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Goodemote (Oneida, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is directed to a hybrid geometry type acoustic transducer. A hybrid geometry type acoustic transducer as embodied herein leverages different type transducer physical configurations. More specifically, embodiments of the hybrid transducer combine specific features of traditional Tonpilz resonators and PZT-composite transducers to exploit the beneficial characteristics of both. The outward construction of an embodied hybrid transducer mimics a Tonpilz resonator incorporating a headmass and a tailmass sandwiching a piezoelectric active material. However, rather than using a conventional ceramic ring stack or plate form of active material, a layer of diced or “pillared” active material is provided between the headmass and the tailmass with no filler material other than a gas, such as air, for example, or others, or a vacuum environment. Acoustic projectors constructed using this invention benefit with higher bandwidth and efficiency due to coupling loss that is lower than in prior designs. Likewise, when a hydrophone is constructed using aspects of this invention, exceptional hydrophone figure of merits are obtained. A method for making a hybrid transducer is described. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566383 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583167 | Celinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zbigniew J. Celinski (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Robert E. Camley (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered microstrip device is described, in which at least two layers of different high internal field/high resonance frequency materials serve as the active elements of the device. The device is designed to filter ranges of high frequency electromagnetic waves, and is on a small scale to enable integration with high frequency electronics. The ranges of frequencies to be filtered depend on the active elements and device geometry selected for the device. The tradeoffs regarding active material and device geometry choices are explored in detail. The ranges of frequencies to be filtered can be modified in real time with the application of an external magnetic field. A variety of the devices were fabricated, and a number of experimental and theoretical studies were carried out. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076132 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/219.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583229 | Apostolos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Apostolos (Lyndeborough, New Hampshire); Richard C. Ball (Loudon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for early detection of faulty antenna arrays comprising the step of treating said detection as a special case of target recognition; wherein targets of interest are all previous examples of defective antenna arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/659772 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583275 | Neumann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Neumann (Manhattan Beach, California); Suya You (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques to implement augmented virtual environments. In one implementation, the technique includes: generating a three dimensional (3D) model of an environment from range sensor information representing a height field for the environment, tracking orientation information of image sensors in the environment with respect to the 3D model in real-time, projecting real-time video from the image sensors onto the 3D model based on the tracked orientation information, and visualizing the 3D model with the projected real-time video. Generating the 3D model can involve parametric fitting of geometric primitives to the range sensor information. The technique can also include: identifying in real time a region in motion with respect to a background image in real-time video, the background image being a single distribution background dynamically modeled from a time average of the real-time video, and placing a surface that corresponds to the moving region in the 3D model. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676377 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/633 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583360 | Fritze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Fritze (Acton, Massachusetts); Brian Tyrrell (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method forms a feature pattern on a substrate by exposing the substrate, using a mask having a pattern of features thereon, with illumination having a first set of settings. The substrate is exposed a second time, using the same mask having the pattern of features thereon, with illumination having a second set of settings. The mask having the pattern of features thereon remains stationary between the two illumination exposures of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135197 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583442 | Cathey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OmniVision CDM Optics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado); Edward R. Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system is characterized at least by an ambiguity function (“AF”) and a point spread function (“PSF”). The AF is a function of parameters u and v related to a misfocus parameter ψ; the PSF is at least a function of ψ. The system includes (1) an image recording device, (2) an optical arrangement for imaging an object to the image recording device, and (3) a post processor that renders an in-focus electronic image over a range of distances between the object and the optical arrangement. The optical arrangement alters phase such that a main lobe of the AF is broader in v for a specific u. The PSF has a functionally different form for a specific ψ, in comparison to a PSF characterizing the system when the optical arrangement does not alter the phase for those specific values of u and ψ over the range of distances. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748326 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583715 | Hill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter O. Hill (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Larry R. Dawson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Philip Dowd (Mesa, Arizona); Sanjay Krishna (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Structures and methods for electronic devices with improved conductive regions are provided. The conductive region may include digital alloy superlattice structures, which allow higher doping levels to be achieved than for a bulk (random) alloy with the same average composition. Furthermore, the superlattice structures may improve the resistivity of the region, improving the current spreading of the region and hence the electronic properties of electronic devices such as optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153245 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583759 | Moulthrop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Alfred Moulthrop (Los Angeles, California); Michael Steven Muha (Torrance, California); Christopher Patrick Silva (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications system reduces downconverter inaccuracies in time-domain measurements or samples of received microwave communications I and Q complex signals by converting received signal to baseband taking measurements or samples of the I and Q waveforms at differing phase shifts of a demodulating carrier signal for a local oscillator or carrier tracking loop used during downconversion so that I and Q imbalances may be detected and removed by lowpass equivalent averaging for improved characterization of downconverters or for improved signal reception. In the preferred form, the phase shifts are 0 and π/2 for a conventional measurement, and then at θ, and θ+π/2, with θ=π/4+mπ/2 for an integer m for the second measurement where I and Q imbalances and baseband nonlinearities are indicated by differences between the two measured or sampled signals, where θ provides for optimum error detection for reducing the errors by averaging the measurements. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016638 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583789 | MacDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York); X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc. (East Greenbush, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn A. MacDonald (Duanesburg, New York); Noor Mail (East York, Canada); Zewu Chen (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray imaging system includes an optical device having at least one point-focusing, curved monochromating optic for directing x-rays from an x-ray source towards a focal point. The at least one point-focusing, curved monochromating optic provides a focused monochromatic x-ray beam directed towards the focal point, and a detector is aligned with the focused monochromatic x-ray beam. The optical device facilitates x-ray imaging of an object when the object is located between the optical device and the detector within the focused monochromatic x-ray beam. In various embodiments: each point-focusing, curved monochromatic optic has an optical surface that is doubly-curved; the optical device facilitates passive image demagnification or magnification depending upon placement of the object and detector relative to the focal point; and at least one second point-focusing, curved monochromatic optic can be employed to facilitate refractive index or polarized beam imaging of the object. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496561 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583874 | Rakich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Rakich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Milos Popovic (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Influence of distance between two coupled strong-confinement photonic devices on optically resonant condition thereof and/or on optical forces. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262999 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584060 | Hull |
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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) | Andrew J. Hull (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for calculating material properties of a material includes conducting two insertion loss tests of the material having a single thickness and a double thickness. These tests are conducted at a zero wavenumber. Utilizing these insertion loss tests, a dilatational wavespeed is computed. The method continues by calculating a shear wavespeed by performing three insertion loss tests of the material at single, double and triple thicknesses. These tests are conducted at a non-zero wavenumber. A shear wavespeed can be calculated from the dilatational wavespeed and these insertion loss tests. Lamé constants, Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, and the shear modulus for the material of interest can then be calculated using the dilatational and shear wavespeeds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769106 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584308 | Gower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory system is provided that supports partial cache line write operations to a memory module to reduce write data traffic on a memory channel. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in the memory module and a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises burst logic integrated in the memory hub device. The burst logic determines an amount of write data to be transmitted to the set of memory devices and generates a burst length field corresponding to the amount of write data. The memory hub also comprises a memory hub controller integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub controller controls the amount of write data that is transmitted using the burst length field. The memory hub device transmits the amount of write data that is equal to or less than a conventional data burst amount. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848342 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584332 | Kogge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana); Cray, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Kogge (Granger, Indiana); Jay B. Brockman (Granger, Indiana); David Tennyson Harper, III (Seattle, Washington); Burton Smith (Seattle, Washington); Charles David Callahan, II (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a class of computer architectures generally referred to as lightweight multi-threaded architectures (LIMA). Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/675549 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584336 | Tremaine |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing data modification operations in memory subsystems. Systems include a plurality of memory devices, a memory controller, one or more memory busses connected to the memory controller and a memory hub device. The memory controller receives and responds to memory access requests including memory update requests from a processor. The memory controller also generates a memory update command in response to receiving a memory update request. The memory hub device includes a first port, a second port and a control unit. The first port is in communication with the memory controller via one or more of the memory busses for transferring data and control information between the memory hub device and the memory controller. The second port is in communication with one or more of the memory devices. The control unit decodes the memory update command from the data and control information and accesses the memory devices via the second port to perform the memory update command local to the memory hub devices as a logical read-modify-write sequence. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422915 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07582260 | Dratz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Dratz (Bozeman, Montana); Paul A. Grieco (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the labeling and identification of proteins. The invention provides for highly soluble zwitterionic dye molecules where the dyes and associated side groups are non-titratable and maintain their net zwitterionic character over a broad pH range, for example, between pH 3 and 12. These dye molecules find utility in a variety of applications, including use in the field of proteomics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761818 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582300 | Gelfand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin Gelfand (Englewood, Colorado); Willi K. Born (Denver, Colorado); Michael F. Lahn (Denver, Colorado); Arihiko Kanehiro (Okayama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for regulation of airway hyperresponsiveness by modulating the action of γδ T cells in a patient. Also disclosed are methods for identifying compounds that regulate airway hyperresponsiveness by modulating γδ T cell action. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808846 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582303 | Meng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Gholamreza Haqshenas (Tehran, Iran); Fang-Fang Huang (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel isolated avian hepatitis E virus having a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 or its complementary strand. The invention further concerns immunogenic compositions comprising this new virus or recombinant products such as the nucleic acid and vaccines that protect an avian or mammalian species from viral infection or hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome caused by the hepatitis E virus. Also included in the scope of the invention is a method for propagating, inactivating or attenuating a hepatitis E virus comprising inoculating an embryonated chicken egg with a live, pathogenic hepatitis E virus and recovering the virus or serially passing the pathogenic virus through additional embryonated chicken eggs until the virus is rendered inactivated or attenuated. Further, this invention concerns diagnostic reagents for detecting an avian hepatitis E viral infection or diagnosing hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome in an avian or mammalian species comprising an antibody raised or produced against the immunogenic compositions and antigens such as ORF2 proteins expressed in a baculovirus vector, E. coli, etc. The invention additionally encompasses methods for detecting avian HEV nucleic acid sequences using nucleic acid hybridization probes or oligonucleotide primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/184574 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/225.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582304 | Dattwyler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York); Brook Biotechnologies, Inc. (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Dattwyler (Setauket, New York); Gerald Seinost (Graz, Australia); Daniel Dykhuizen (St. James, New York); Benjamin J. Luft (Setauket, New York); Maria J. C. Gomes-Solecki (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to an immunogenic composition comprising OspC polypeptides from Lyme Disease causing Borrelia. In one embodiment, the immunogenic composition of the present invention comprises at least one OspC polypeptide or immunogenic fragment thereof from each of Borrelia burgdorferi OspC families A, B, I and K. In another embodiment, the immunogenic composition of the present invention comprises at least one OspC polypeptide or immunogenic fragment thereof from each of Borrelia afzelii OspC families A and B. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371564 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582417 | Wehrman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Wehrman (Fremont, California); Georges J. Von Degenfeld (Leverkusen, Germany); Helen M. Blau (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sequential reporter enzyme luminescence (SRL) methods are provided. In the subject methods, the activity of a reporter enzyme is evaluated using a secondary reporter system that employs a product of a reporter enzyme mediated reaction as a luminescent substrate, e.g., luciferase substrate. Also provided are kits and other compositions that find use in practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706838 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582420 | Oliphant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold Oliphant (Poway, California); John R. Stuelpnagel (Encinitas, California); Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, California); Scott L. Butler (Sandwick, United Kingdom); Jian-Bing Fan (San Diego, California); Min-Jui Richard Shen (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a variety of multiplexing methods used to amplify and/or genotype a variety of samples simultaneously. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/194958 |
| 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 07582424 | Trucksis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele Trucksis (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Vibrio cholerae accessory cholera enterotoxin (ACE) activates a calcium dependent chloride channel. Ace and Ace analogs can be administered to patients to treat diseases involving defects in chloride secretion by the cystitis fibrosis transmembrane receptor (CFTR). Cystic fibrosis, Dent's disease, X-linked nephrolithiasis, X-linked recessive hypophosphatemic rickets, autosomal dominant myotonia congenita and autosomal recessive general myotonia can be treated by the administration of Ace or an Ace analog. For cystic fibrosis, administration of Ace or an Ace analog increases chloride secretion in the lungs which increases the amount of airway surface water in the lumen of the lungs. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/333610 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07582425 | Fink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Fink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xinping Zhao (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions of a novel gene and the peptide encoded by the gene. Mutations in the gene, named atlastin, are factors in the disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and related disorders. The present invention will be used for the in the research, diagnosis and treatment of these disabling diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364748 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582429 | Wittwer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl T. Wittwer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gudrun Reed (Salt Lake City, Utah); Virginie Dujols (Sandy, Utah); Luming Zhou (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for nucleic acid analysis wherein a target nucleic acid that is at least partially double stranded is mixed with a dsDNA binding dye having a percent saturation of at least 50% to form a mixture. In one embodiment, the nucleic acid is amplified in the presence of the dsDNA binding dye, and in another embodiment a melting curve is generated for the target nucleic acid by measuring fluorescence from the dsDNA binding dye as the mixture is heated. Dyes for use in nucleic acid analysis and methods for making dyes are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/531966 |
| 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 07582432 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Novato, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Cook (Novato, California); Matt Lyttle (Fairfax, California); Daren Dick (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers (“BHQs”), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437991 |
| 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 07582438 | Pasquale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elena B. Pasquale (San Diego, California); Mitchell Koolpe (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The application is related to the identification of peptides that selectively bind to Eph receptors of the B class. Also disclosed are uses of such peptides in the treatment of a variety of diseases. Additionally, imaging tumors in patients is described by administrating labeled peptides to patients and then obtaining an image of the labeled peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342247 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 07582442 | Shayman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Shayman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Akira Abe (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Miki Hiraoka (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for improving pulmonary surfactant catabolism. More specifically, the specification describes methods and compositions for making and using a lysosomal phospholipase A2 in methods for the diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of phospholipid catabolism such as pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/080257 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582475 | Horanyi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter S. Horanyi (Athens, Georgia); James Griffith (Watkinsville, Georgia); Bi-Cheng Wang (Athens, Georgia); Francis E. Jenney, Jr. (Hoschton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes vectors and methods for high throughput co-expression. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327200 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582479 | Thomson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified preparation of primate embryonic stem cells is disclosed. This preparation is characterized by the following cell surface markers: SSEA-1 (−); SSEA-4 (+); TRA-1-60 (+); TRA-1-81 (+); and alkaline phosphatase (+). In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the cells of the preparation are human embryonic stem cells, have normal karyotypes, and continue to proliferate in an undifferentiated state after continuous culture for eleven months. The embryonic stem cell lines also retain the ability, throughout the culture, to form trophoblast and to differentiate into all tissues derived from all three embryonic germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). A method for isolating a primate embryonic stem cell line is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/036245 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582603 | Fasano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessio Fasano (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide antagonists of zonulin are disclosed, as well as methods for the use of the same. The peptide antagonists bind to the zonula occludens receptor, yet do not physiologically modulate the opening of mammalian tight junctions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842763 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — 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 07582606 | Valente et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University Of Texas System (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Valente (San Antonio, Texas); Robert A. Clark (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified polypeptide includes an NADPH oxidase cytosolic cofactor polypeptide NOXA1 or p67phox having a C-terminal SH3 domain insertion mutation of at least three consecutive amino acids positioned between PEDL (SEQ ID NO: 35) and GIFPK (SEQ ID NO: 34) motifs of said SH3 domain so as to reduce activity of the purified polypeptide relative to the wild-type cofactor polypeptide. A process for treating, inhibiting, or prophylactically preventing a disease associated with the overproduction of reactive oxygen species involving NOXn where n is 1-4 inclusive includes the administration of a therapeutically effective amount with a purified polypeptide to a subject tissue that is overproducing reactive oxygen species through a NOXn pathway. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556314 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582610 | Haskell-Luevano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carrie Haskell-Luevano (Archer, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel chimeric peptides and templates containing a combination of antagonist and agonist endogenous ligand residues. In particular, the present invention relates to novel chimeric peptides and templates thereof based upon melanocortin agonist peptides and agouti related protein (AGRP). The present invention provides multifunctional chimeric peptides having specific bioactivity at melanocortin receptors and their use as drugs to treat various diseases and conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491596 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582615 | Neuman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AVI Biopharma, Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Neuman (Brightwell-Cum-Sotwell, United Kingdom); David A. Stein (Corvallis, Oregon); Michael Buchmeier (Encinitas, California); Patrick L. Iversen (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides antisense antiviral compounds and methods of their use and production in inhibition of growth of viruses of the Arenaviridae family and in the treatment of a viral infection. The compounds are particularly useful in the treatment of Arenavirus infection in a mammal. The antisense antiviral compounds are substantially uncharged morpholino oligonucleotides have a sequence of 12-40 subunits, including at least 12 subunits having a targeting sequence that is complementary to a region associated with viral RNA sequences within a 19 nucleotide region of the 5′-terminal regions of the viral RNA, viral complementary RNA and/or mRNA identified by SEQ ID NO:1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715572 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — 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 07582623 | Mascharak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip K. Mascharak (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nitric oxide delivery agents and methods of their use, more specifically to photoactive compounds, which are able to perform targeted delivery of nitric oxide in vitro and in vivo and are useful for medicinal applications including, but not limited, to blood pressure regulation and cancer treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134807 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582736 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Liu (Hercules, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel prostate cancer specific internalizing human antibodies. The antibodies are useful by themselves to prevent growth and/or proliferation of prostate cancer cells. The antibodies can also be formulated as chimeric molecules to direct an effector (e.g. a cytotoxin, an imaging reagent, a drug, etc.) to a prostate tumor site. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/972130 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582740 | Briese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University In the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Briese (White Plains, New York); W. Ian Lipkin (New York, New York); Gustavo Palacios (New York, New York); Omar Jabado (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a synthetic nucleic acid sequence comprising 10-30 nucleotides of the N gene region and/or the 3′ non-coding region of the SARS-associated coronavirus genome, and a synthetic nucleic acid sequence comprising 10-30 nucleotides of a nucleic acid sequence that is complementary to at least one of those regions. Also provided are compositions comprising the sequences, and uses of the sequences in diagnostic kits. The present invention further provides a primer set for determining the presence or absence of SARS-associated coronavirus in a biological sample, wherein the primer set comprises at least one of the synthetic nucleic acid sequences. Also provided are a composition comprising the primer set, and use of the primer set in a diagnostic kit. Finally, the present invention provides kits and methods for determining the presence or absence of SARS-associated coronavirus in a biological sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/764075 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582751 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Arumugham Balakumar (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a porphyrin (I) is carried out by condensing (i) a bis(imino)dipyrromethane of Formula II: with (ii) a dipyrromethane to produce a reaction product; then (b) optionally oxidizing said reaction product with an oxidizing agent; and then (c) optionally demetallating said reaction product to produce the porphyrin. Methods of making compounds of Formula II are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193562 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582764 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Deng (Newton, Massachusetts); Hongming Li (Waltham, Massachusetts); Yi Wang (Waltham, Massachusetts); Fanghui Wu (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts. In certain embodiments, the quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts contain a hydroxy group at the 6′ position. In certain embodiments, the quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts contain an O-aryl group or an O-aroyl group at the C9 position. In certain embodiments, the quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts contain an optionally substituted O-diazene group or an optionally substituted O-benzoyl group at the C9 position. In certain embodiments, the quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts contain a thiourea at the C9 position. In certain embodiments, the quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts contain an NH(═S)NH-aryl group at the C9 position. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a chiral, non-racemic compound from a prochiral electron-deficient alkene or prochiral imine, comprising the step of: reacting a prochiral alkene or imine with a nucleophile in the presence of a catalyst; thereby producing a chiral, non-racemic compound; wherein said catalyst is a derivatized quinine or quinidine. In certain embodiments, the nucleophile is a malonate or β-ketoester. In certain embodiments the nucleophile is an alkyl or aryl or aralkyl 2-cyano-2-alkylacetate. In certain embodiments the nucleophile is an alkyl or aryl or aralkyl 2-cyano-2-alkylacetate. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of kinetic resolution, comprising the step of: reacting a racemic aldehyde or racemic ketone with a nucleophile in the presence of a derivatized quinine or quinidine, thereby producing a non-racemic, chiral compound. In certain embodiments, the kinetic resolution is dynamic. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/442742 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582785 | Petasis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods for the preparation of naturally occurring trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoids and their structural analogs. The invention further provides new derivatives and analogs of trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoids that can be prepared according to these methods. The invention also provides compositions and methods using trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoid derivatives for the prevention, amelioration and treatment of a variety of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation or inflammatory response, autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, or abnormal cell proliferation or cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093757 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583082 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peng Hu (Charlottesville, Virginia); Craig H. Meyer (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In a first step of image formation by MRI or the like, a gridding convolution is performed for each coil using a Kaiser-Bessel kernel, so that each coil channel now contains data on grid points. In the second step, another 2D convolution is performed on each of the gridded coil data sets in either k-space or image space, and all the convolutions are summed up to produce the composite k-space data set for the target coil. In the third step, the composite data set is then transformed to form an un-aliased image for that coil. In the fourth step, the un-aliased images for all the coils are combined using square-root-of-sum-of-squares to form the final reconstructed image. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785734 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583379 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Stephen Chaney (Athens, Georgia); Sarat Shanmukh (Athens, Georgia); Leslie P. Jones (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems and methods for detecting biomolecules of interest, such as a virus, bacterium, or other infectious agent, are provided. A spectroscopic assay based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using a silver nanorod array substrate fabricated by oblique angle deposition has been developed that allows for rapid detection of trace levels of viruses or bacteria with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity. This novel and improved SERS assay can detect minor spectral differences within strains of a single virus type such as respiratory syncytial virus or influenza virus in the presence of biological media. The method provides rapid diagnostics for direct molecular and structural characterization of virus strains and virus gene deletion mutants generating reproducible viral spectra without viral manipulation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495980 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583381 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denise M. Wilson (Lynnwood, Washington); Andrew E. Moe (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | According to embodiments of the present invention, a fluorescence analysis system includes a light emitting diode to excite a fluorophor sample for analysis. The system includes an LED driver that pulses the LEDs in the array with currents in excess of maximum rated current at low duty cycles. One embodiment receives a first drive current at a light emitting diode (LED), emits excitation light having a first color and/or first wavelength band in response to the first drive current, receives a second drive current at the LED, and emits excitation light having a second color and/or second wavelength band in response to the second drive current, wherein at least one of the drive currents is greater than a nominal drive current for the LED. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107718 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/417 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
07581589 — Methods of producing alkylated hydrocarbons from an in situ heat treatment process liquid
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustinus Wilhelmus Maria Roes (Houston, Texas); Weijian Mo (Sugar Land, Texas); Michel Serge Marie Muylle (Houston, Texas); Remco Hugo Mandema (Houston, Texas); Vijay Nair (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing alkylated hydrocarbons is disclosed. Formation fluid is produced from a subsurface in situ heat treatment process. The formation fluid is separated to produce a liquid stream and a first gas stream. The first gas stream includes olefins. The liquid stream is fractionated to produce at least a second gas stream including hydrocarbons having a carbon number of at least 3. The first gas stream and the second gas stream are introduced into an alkylation unit to produce alkylated hydrocarbons. At least a portion of the olefins in the first gas stream enhance alkylation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584817 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581765 | Minford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Minford (Laurys Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Seal assembly comprising (a) two or more seal elements, each element having having a coefficient of thermal expansion; and (b) a clamping element having a first segment, a second segment, and a connecting segment between and attached to the first and second segments, wherein the two or more seal elements are disposed between the first and second segments of the clamping element. The connecting segment has a central portion extending between the first segment of the clamping element and the second segment of the clamping element, and the connecting segment is made of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the connecting segment is intermediate the largest and smallest of the coefficients of thermal expansion of the materials of the two or more seal elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/281663 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07581921 | Bagepalli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli (Niskayuna, New York); Patrick Lee Jansen (Scotia, New York); Gary R. Barnes (Delanson, New York); Thomas Frank Fric (Greer, South Carolina); James Patrick Francis Lyons (Niskayuna, New York); Kirk Gee Pierce (Simpsonville, South Carolina); William Edwin Holley (Greer, South Carolina); Corneliu Barbu (Guilderland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for a rotary machine is provided. The rotary machine has at least one rotating member and at least one substantially stationary member positioned such that a clearance gap is defined between a portion of the rotating member and a portion of the substantially stationary member. The control system includes at least one clearance gap dimension measurement apparatus and at least one clearance gap adjustment assembly. The adjustment assembly is coupled in electronic data communication with the measurement apparatus. The control system is configured to process a clearance gap dimension signal and modulate the clearance gap dimension. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424951 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582232 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alfred P. Sattelberger (Darien, Illinois); Charles Yeamans (Berkeley, California); Thomas Hartmann (Idaho Falls, Idaho); G. W. Chinthaka Silva (Las Vegas, Nevada); Gary Cerefice (Henderson, Nevada); Kenneth R. Czerwinski (Henderson, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing an actinide nitride fuel for nuclear reactors is provided. The method comprises the steps of a) providing at least one actinide oxide and optionally zirconium oxide; b) mixing the oxide with a source of hydrogen fluoride for a period of time and at a temperature sufficient to convert the oxide to a fluoride salt; c) heating the fluoride salt to remove water; d) heating the fluoride salt in a nitrogen atmosphere for a period of time and at a temperature sufficient to convert the fluorides to nitrides; and e) heating the nitrides under vacuum and/or inert atmosphere for a period of time sufficient to convert the nitrides to mononitrides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739147 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/641 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582273 | Huynh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Almos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | My Hang V. Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael A. Hiskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The high-nitrogen compound 3,6-di(azido)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (DiAT) was synthesized by a relatively simple method and used as a precursor for the preparation of carbon nanospheres and nanopolygons, and nitrogen-rich carbon nitrides. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257546 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582375 | Daniel, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Daniel, Jr. (Burton, Michigan); Robert J. Svoboda (Fenton, Michigan); Haskell Simpkins (Grand Blanc, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for severing a solid-oxide fuel cell bi-layer element including a structural anode and an electrolyte layer, comprising the steps of orienting the bi-layer element such that the surface thereof is accessible to laser treatment; impinging a laser beam on the electrolyte surface; moving the impinged laser beam past the surface along a path in a plane corresponding to the desired severed edge to form a groove in the element extending partially through the element to a predetermined depth; and applying a bending moment across the groove to cause the element to break into first and second portions. The groove depth is preferably about 15% of the total thickness of the element. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199533 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582462 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc., Genencor Division (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl6, and the corresponding BGL6 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL6, recombinant BGL6 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/530556 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582490 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gregor M. Schürmann (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling a gap in an electrically conducting solid state structure provided with a gap. The structure is exposed to a fabrication process environment conditions of which are selected to alter an extent of the gap. During exposure of the structure to the process environment, a voltage bias is applied across the gap. Electron tunneling current across the gap is measured during the process environment exposure and the process environment is controlled during process environment exposure based on tunneling current measurement. A method for controlling the gap between electrically conducting electrodes provided on a support structure. Each electrode has an electrode tip separated from other electrode tips by a gap. The electrodes are exposed to a flux of ions causing transport of material of the electrodes to corresponding electrode tips, locally adding material of the electrodes to electrode tips in the gap. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767102 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582683 | Pivovar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan S. Pivovar (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Anion-conducing polymers and membranes with enhanced stability to aqueous alkali include a polymer backbone with attached sulfonium, phosphazenium, phosphazene, and guanidinium residues. Compositions also with enhanced stability to aqueous alkali include a support embedded with sulfonium, phosphazenium, and guanidinium salts. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283143 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582801 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodolfo A. Martinez (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Clifford J. Unkefer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Marc A. Alvarez (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to labeled compounds, of the formulae wherein C* is each independently selected from the group consisting of 13C and 12C with the proviso that at least one C* is 13C, each hydrogen of the methylene group can independently be either hydrogen or deuterium, the methyl group includes either zero or three deuterium atoms, Q is from the group of sulfide, sulfinyl, and sulfone, Z is an aryl group from the group of 1-naphthyl, substituted 1-naphthyl, 2-naphthyl, substituted 2-naphthyl, and phenyl groups with the structure wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently from the group of hydrogen, a C1-C4 lower alkyl, a halogen, and an amino group from the group of NH2, NHR and NRR′ where R and R′ are each independently from the group of a C1-C4 lower alkyl, a phenyl, and an alkoxy group, and the methyl group can include either zero or three deuterium atoms. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052589 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582880 | Wallace et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neutron Sciences, Inc. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Wallace (Knoxville, Tennessee); Andrew C. Stephan (Knoxville, Texas); Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hee-Jung Im (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector composed of a matrix of scintillating particles imbedded in a lithiated glass is disclosed. The neutron detector detects the neutrons by absorbing the neutron in the lithium-6 isotope which has been enriched from the natural isotopic ratio to a commercial ninety five percent. The utility of the detector is optimized by suitably selecting scintillating particle sizes in the range of the alpha and the triton. Nominal particle sizes are in the range of five to twenty five microns depending upon the specific scintillating particle selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393300 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582886 | Trbojevic |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dejan Trbojevic (Flanders, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle therapy gantry for delivering a particle beam to a patient includes a beam tube having a curvature defining a particle beam path and a plurality of fixed field magnets sequentially arranged along the beam tube for guiding the particle beam along the particle path. In a method for delivering a particle beam to a patient through a gantry, a particle beam is guided by a plurality of fixed field magnets sequentially arranged along a beam tube of the gantry and the beam is alternately focused and defocused with alternately arranged combined function focusing and defocusing fixed field magnets. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433644 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583743 | Dimsdle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey William Dimsdle (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of quadrature amplitude modulation involving encoding phase differentially and amplitude absolutely, allowing for a high data rate and spectral efficiency in data transmission and other communication applications, and allowing for amplitude scaling to facilitate data recovery; amplitude scale tracking to track-out rapid and severe scale variations and facilitate successful demodulation and data retrieval; 2N power carrier recovery; incoherent demodulation where coherent carrier recovery is not possible or practical due to signal degradation; coherent demodulation; multipath equalization to equalize frequency dependent multipath; and demodulation filtering. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672671 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583776 | Newell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew R. Newell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David Carl Jones (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable multiplicity counter has signal input circuitry, processing circuitry and a user/computer interface disposed in a housing. The processing circuitry, which can comprise a microcontroller integrated circuit operably coupled to shift register circuitry implemented in a field programmable gate array, is configured to be operable via the user/computer interface to count input signal pluses receivable at said signal input circuitry and record time correlations thereof in a total counting mode, coincidence counting mode and/or a multiplicity counting mode. The user/computer interface can be for example an LCD display/keypad and/or a USB interface. The counter can include a battery pack for powering the counter and low/high voltage power supplies for biasing external detectors so that the counter can be configured as a hand-held device for counting neutron events. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/673679 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: Circuits and systems 377/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584020 | Bruemmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Bruemmer (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Douglas A. Few (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A robot platform includes perceptors, locomotors, and a system controller. The system controller executes instructions for producing an occupancy grid map of an environment around the robot, scanning the environment to generate a current obstacle map relative to a current robot position, and converting the current obstacle map to a current occupancy grid map. The instructions also include processing each grid cell in the occupancy grid map. Within the processing of each grid cell, the instructions include comparing each grid cell in the occupancy grid map to a corresponding grid cell in the current occupancy grid map. For grid cells with a difference, the instructions include defining a change vector for each changed grid cell, wherein the change vector includes a direction from the robot to the changed grid cell and a range from the robot to the changed grid cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428646 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584024 | Wroblewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pegasus Technologies, Inc. (Mentor, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Wroblewski (Mentor, Ohio); Alexander M. Katrompas (Concord, Ohio); Neel J. Parikh (Richmond Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for optimizing the operation of a power generating plant using artificial intelligence techniques. One or more decisions D are determined for at least one consecutive time increment, where at least one of the decisions D is associated with a discrete variable for the operation of a power plant device in the power generating plant. In an illustrated embodiment, the power plant device is a soot cleaning device associated with a boiler. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053734 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07582260 | Dratz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward A. Dratz (Bozeman, Montana); Paul A. Grieco (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods useful in the labeling and identification of proteins. The invention provides for highly soluble zwitterionic dye molecules where the dyes and associated side groups are non-titratable and maintain their net zwitterionic character over a broad pH range, for example, between pH 3 and 12. These dye molecules find utility in a variety of applications, including use in the field of proteomics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/761818 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582422 | Strother et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd C. Strother (Cottage Grove, Wisconsin); Lloyd M. Smith (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Chemically-modified surfaces on unoxidized carbon, silicon, and germanium substrates are disclosed. Ultraviolet radiation mediates the reaction of protected ω-modified, α-unsaturated aminoalkenes (preferred) with hydrogen-terminated carbon, silicon, or germanium surfaces. Removal of the protecting group yields an aminoalkane-modified silicon surface These amino groups can be coupled to terminal-modified oligonucleotides using a bifunctional crosslinker, thereby permitting the preparation of modified surfaces and arrays. Methods for controlling the surface density of molecules attached to the substrate are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269561 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582490 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gregor M. Schürmann (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling a gap in an electrically conducting solid state structure provided with a gap. The structure is exposed to a fabrication process environment conditions of which are selected to alter an extent of the gap. During exposure of the structure to the process environment, a voltage bias is applied across the gap. Electron tunneling current across the gap is measured during the process environment exposure and the process environment is controlled during process environment exposure based on tunneling current measurement. A method for controlling the gap between electrically conducting electrodes provided on a support structure. Each electrode has an electrode tip separated from other electrode tips by a gap. The electrodes are exposed to a flux of ions causing transport of material of the electrodes to corresponding electrode tips, locally adding material of the electrodes to electrode tips in the gap. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/767102 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582680 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia); National Science Foundation (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating an injured vertebrate spinal cord are described. In one aspect of the invention, a method of treating an injured vertebrate spinal cord includes contacting the spinal cord with a biomembrane fusion agent such as a polyalkylene glycol, especially polyethylene glycol. In alternative embodiments of the invention, methods of treating an injured vertebrate spinal cord include contacting the cord with a biomembrane fusion agent and a potassium channel blocker. Other aspects of the invention include compositions for treating a vertebrate nervous system. A preferred composition includes a biomembrane fusion agent, such as a polyalkylene glycol, and a potassium channel blocker, such as an amino-substituted pyridine. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/438206 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582891 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Corporate Body Organized Under Arizona Law, Acting on Behalf of Arizona State University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Jose Menendez (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Ling Liao (Santa Clara, California); Dean Samara-Rubio (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures having at least one quantum well heterostructure grown strain-free on Si(100) via a Sn1-xGex buffer layer and their uses are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663024 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583275 | Neumann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Neumann (Manhattan Beach, California); Suya You (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques to implement augmented virtual environments. In one implementation, the technique includes: generating a three dimensional (3D) model of an environment from range sensor information representing a height field for the environment, tracking orientation information of image sensors in the environment with respect to the 3D model in real-time, projecting real-time video from the image sensors onto the 3D model based on the tracked orientation information, and visualizing the 3D model with the projected real-time video. Generating the 3D model can involve parametric fitting of geometric primitives to the range sensor information. The technique can also include: identifying in real time a region in motion with respect to a background image in real-time video, the background image being a single distribution background dynamically modeled from a time average of the real-time video, and placing a surface that corresponds to the moving region in the 3D model. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/676377 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/633 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583364 | 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 | An eye-safe atmospheric aerosol lidar featuring high transmit pulse energy to generate strong backscatter from long ranges in a single pulse together with an optically efficient receiver is disclosed. The transmitter employs a gas cell and non-focused laser beam geometry to convert short wavelength laser light to substantially safer and longer wavelength light by stimulated Raman scattering. The longer wavelength light is substantially safer than the shorter wavelength light thereby allowing the safe transmission of high energy pulses. The transmitter also features a diode injection seed and a beam expander which are effective to reduce the divergence of the long wavelength light below the field-of-view of the receiver. The receiver employs a telescope, collimating lens, interference filter, focusing lens, avalanche photodiode detector, amplifier and analog to digital converter. The transmit beam and receiver field of view are coaxial. Initial results demonstrate the ability of such technology to elucidate the structure of the atmosphere with high temporal and spatial resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/804863 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583379 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Stephen Chaney (Athens, Georgia); Sarat Shanmukh (Athens, Georgia); Leslie P. Jones (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems and methods for detecting biomolecules of interest, such as a virus, bacterium, or other infectious agent, are provided. A spectroscopic assay based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using a silver nanorod array substrate fabricated by oblique angle deposition has been developed that allows for rapid detection of trace levels of viruses or bacteria with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity. This novel and improved SERS assay can detect minor spectral differences within strains of a single virus type such as respiratory syncytial virus or influenza virus in the presence of biological media. The method provides rapid diagnostics for direct molecular and structural characterization of virus strains and virus gene deletion mutants generating reproducible viral spectra without viral manipulation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495980 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583442 | Cathey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OmniVision CDM Optics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado); Edward R. Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system is characterized at least by an ambiguity function (“AF”) and a point spread function (“PSF”). The AF is a function of parameters u and v related to a misfocus parameter ψ; the PSF is at least a function of ψ. The system includes (1) an image recording device, (2) an optical arrangement for imaging an object to the image recording device, and (3) a post processor that renders an in-focus electronic image over a range of distances between the object and the optical arrangement. The optical arrangement alters phase such that a main lobe of the AF is broader in v for a specific u. The PSF has a functionally different form for a specific ψ, in comparison to a PSF characterizing the system when the optical arrangement does not alter the phase for those specific values of u and ψ over the range of distances. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748326 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07584324 | Zimmerman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Zimmerman (West Covina, California); Kun Fu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Admission of a new disk stream is based on the probability of overcommitting disk bandwidth based on parameters related to the disk. These fixed parameters are determined either by retrieval from the disk or by investigating the disk. Probability functions of the disk parameters may be obtained. Exemplary disk parameters may be average disk seek time, probabilistic determination of the amount of data exchange during a single exchange, and probabilistic information about reading versus writing. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203567 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07582147 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald S. Parker (Winter Springs, Florida); Louis G. MacDowell (Satellite Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid coating composition including a coating vehicle and composite powder particles disposed within the coating vehicle. Each composite powder particle may include a magnesium component, a zinc component, and an indium component. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208122 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/14.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582271 | Parrish et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clyde F. Parrish (Melbourne, Florida); J. Landy Chung (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus utilizing hydrogen peroxide are useful to reduce SOx and mercury (or other heavy metal) emissions from combustion flue gas streams. The methods and apparatus may further be modified to reduce NOx emissions. Continuous concentration of hydrogen peroxide to levels approaching or exceeding propellant-grade hydrogen peroxide facilitates increased system efficiency. In this manner, combustion flue gas streams can be treated for the removal of SOx and heavy metals, while isolating useful by-products streams of sulfuric acid as well as solids for the recovery of the heavy metals. Where removal of NOx emissions is included, nitric acid may also be isolated for use in fertilizer or other industrial applications. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040294 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/243.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07582682 | Quinn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacqueline W. Quinn (Titusville, Florida); Christian A. Clausen (Chuluota, Florida); Cherie L. Geiger (Geneva, Florida); Christina Coon (Marietta, Georgia); Laura B. Filipek (Deltona, Florida); Cristina M. Berger (Cape Canaveral, Florida); Kristen M. Milum (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Emulsified systems of a surfactant-stabilized, biodegradable water-in-solvent emulsion with bimetallic particles contained with the emulsion droplets are useful at removing PCBs from ex situ structures. The hydrophobic emulsion system draws PCBs through the solvent/surfactant membrane. Once inside the membrane, the PCBs diffuse into the bimetallic particles and undergo degradation. The PCBs continue to enter, diffuse, degrade, and biphenyl will exit the particle maintaining a concentration gradient across the membrane and maintaining a driving force of the reaction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838916 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583169 | Scardelletti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maximillian C Scardelletti (Brunswick, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A RF MEMS switch comprising a crossbeam of SiC, supported by at least one leg above a substrate and above a plurality of transmission lines forming a CPW. Bias is provided by at least one layer of metal disposed on a top surface of the SiC crossbeam, such as a layer of chromium followed by a layer of gold, and extending beyond the switch to a biasing pad on the substrate. The switch utilizes stress and conductivity-controlled non-metallic thin cantilevers or bridges, thereby improving the RF characteristics and operational reliability of the switch. The switch can be fabricated with conventional silicon integrated circuit (IC) processing techniques. The design of the switch is very versatile and can be implemented in many transmission line mediums. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689770 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07582891 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Corporate Body Organized Under Arizona Law, Acting on Behalf of Arizona State University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Jose Menendez (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Ling Liao (Santa Clara, California); Dean Samara-Rubio (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures having at least one quantum well heterostructure grown strain-free on Si(100) via a Sn1-xGex buffer layer and their uses are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663024 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07583360 | Fritze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Fritze (Acton, Massachusetts); Brian Tyrrell (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method forms a feature pattern on a substrate by exposing the substrate, using a mask having a pattern of features thereon, with illumination having a first set of settings. The substrate is exposed a second time, using the same mask having the pattern of features thereon, with illumination having a second set of settings. The mask having the pattern of features thereon remains stationary between the two illumination exposures of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/135197 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07582809 | Kochian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon Kochian (Ithaca, New York); Jiping Liu (Ithaca, New York); Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes (Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil); Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes (Sete Lagoas-MG, Brazil); Robert Eugene Schaffert (Sete Lagoas-MG, Brazil); Vera Maria Carvalho Alves (Sete Lagoas-MG, Brazil); Patricia Klein (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The major aluminum tolerance gene, the SbMATE gene, encodes a root citrate efflux transporter that is Al-inducible at the level of gene transcription and is also Al-activated at the level of protein function. High level of expression of the SbMATE gene and the protein was found in roots. SbMATE orthologs with high degree of sequence homology were found in other higher plants, including rice. Successful transformation of Arabidopsis provides strong evidence that SbMATE can work across species to enhance tolerance to Al in other important crops grown in localities worldwide where Al3+ cations are present in acid soils and are toxic to plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804164 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07582403 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Greenville, Delaware); Jonathan V. Caspar (Wilmington, Delaware); John W. Catron (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Wilmington, Delaware); Thomas C. Felder (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Roupen Leon Keusseyan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dalen E. Keys (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Irina Malajovich (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Geoffrey Nunes (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Gerard O'Neil (Newark, Delaware); Rinaldo S. Schiffino (Wilmington, Delaware); Nancy G. Tassi (Gibbstown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides metal compositions, including silver compositions, and thermal imaging donors prepared with the compositions. The donors are useful for thermal transfer patterning of a metal layers and optionally, a corresponding proximate portion of an additional transfer layer onto a thermal imaging receiver. The compositions are useful for dry fabrication of electronic devices. Also provided are patterned multilayer compositions comprising one or more base film(s), and one or more patterned metal layers, including EMI shields and touchpad sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488247 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07581497 | Rabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Rabin (Glen Allen, Virginia); Traver J. Sutton (King George, Virginia); Michael J. Bottass (King George, Virginia); Douglas A. Hopkins (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various implementations are disclosed for self-contained, non-intrusive data collection in ammunition. In some implementations, a gun is loaded with a non-explosive, non-firing round of ammunition containing a data acquisition system. Such a data-collecting round of ammunition may be loaded into the gun according to the same procedures as live rounds of ammunition, and, in particular, may be loaded into a firing position immediately after a preceding live round has been fired. In this way, the data-collecting round of ammunition is able to experience temperature or other conditions that are experienced essentially identically by live rounds. After collecting related data while in the firing position, the data-collecting round may be removed from the gun, for analysis of the data for, for example, development of hot gun misfire safety procedures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250690 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07582425 | Fink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Fink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xinping Zhao (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions of a novel gene and the peptide encoded by the gene. Mutations in the gene, named atlastin, are factors in the disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and related disorders. The present invention will be used for the in the research, diagnosis and treatment of these disabling diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364748 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07584332 | Kogge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana); Cray, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Kogge (Granger, Indiana); Jay B. Brockman (Granger, Indiana); David Tennyson Harper, III (Seattle, Washington); Burton Smith (Seattle, Washington); Charles David Callahan, II (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a class of computer architectures generally referred to as lightweight multi-threaded architectures (LIMA). Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/675549 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07584480 | Schwalenberg |
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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) | David D. Schwalenberg (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of monitoring computer system calls by determining the system calls to be monitored. Then, determining data to be recorded for each system call. Then, creating a configuration file that includes the system calls and associated data. Then, modifying a system call table in a computer operating system to replace pointers to routines that correspond to system calls with pointers to a user-definable routine. If a system call occurs in a computer program then jumping to the user-definable routine, which reads the configuration file, jumps to a system call routine to execute the system call, returns to the user-definable routine with data produced by the system call routine, and records any returned data that is in the configuration file for that system call. Then, monitoring the computer program for other system calls. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/190208 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07582880 | Wallace et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neutron Sciences, Inc. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Wallace (Knoxville, Tennessee); Andrew C. Stephan (Knoxville, Texas); Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hee-Jung Im (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector composed of a matrix of scintillating particles imbedded in a lithiated glass is disclosed. The neutron detector detects the neutrons by absorbing the neutron in the lithium-6 isotope which has been enriched from the natural isotopic ratio to a commercial ninety five percent. The utility of the detector is optimized by suitably selecting scintillating particle sizes in the range of the alpha and the triton. Nominal particle sizes are in the range of five to twenty five microns depending upon the specific scintillating particle selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393300 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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