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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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| US 07587978 | Mock, Jr. 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) | Willis Mock, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Bradley L. Hanna (Fredericksburg, Virginia); William H. Holt (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An initiator is provided for a munitions device that is intended to strike a target substantially along a trajectory direction and contains an explosive within a case. The initiator includes a sleeve, first and second anvils and an initiation pellet disposed between the anvils. The sleeve is disposed within the case and adjacent to the explosive, and defines an initiator interior aligned substantially parallel to the trajectory direction. The sleeve includes one or more orifices that extend therethrough between the explosive and the interior, the orifices being disposed adjacent to the pellet. The pellet is composed of a reactive material that chemically responds as a non-explosive to kinetic and thermal stimuli. The first anvil is disposed transverse to the interior and forward of the pellet, while the second anvil is disposed within the interior behind of the pellet, wherein the second anvil translates towards the first anvil substantially along the trajectory direction in response to the device striking the target. The pellet discharges particles through the orifices, the particles being directed into the explosive in response to the second anvil translating towards the first anvil. The sleeve can be disposed within the explosive. The reactive material can be a solid or powdered mixture of powdered aluminum and polytetrafluoroethylene or other fluoropolymer, or alternatively a thermite mixture of powdered metal and metal oxide and may include added polytetrafluoroethylene or other fluoropolymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974005 |
| 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 12/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07587980 | Rastegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omnitek Partners LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jahangir S. Rastegar (Stony Brook, New York); Richard Murray (Sayville, New York); Thomas Spinelli (East Northport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertia igniter including: a housing; and a movable striker supported by first and second stages, the first stage having a first locking element for releasing the second stage upon a first predetermined acceleration of the housing and the second stage having a second locking element for releasing the striker upon a second predetermined acceleration of the housing greater than the first predetermined acceleration. Wherein the first and second locking elements of the first and second stages occupy a common cross-sectional volume along a longitudinal axis of the housing. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888814 |
| 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 12/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588105 | Hillis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Minds, Inc. (Glendale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Daniel Hillis (Encino, California); Bran Ferren (Beverly Hills, California); Luke Khanlian (Grenada Hills, California); Mark Setrakian (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual wheel provides a leg pair as a conveyance mechanism for a land vehicle. The virtual wheel propels the vehicle across a surface using a repetitive motion of the legs that contact the ground as would a wheel, due to their geometry. Vehicle embodiments include at least two-, three-, four- and six-wheeled vehicles, both transverse and in-line. Additionally, the invention provides a bipedal walking robot. One embodiment provides a robotic mule—a payload-carrying vehicle. The invention combines the flexible mobility of bipedal vehicles with the stability and functionality of very large-wheeled vehicles. Additionally, a bimodal conveyance mechanism readily converts between walking and rolling modes. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243305 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588415 | Giaimo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Giaimo (Weston, Florida); John P. Tirone, III (Moodus, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable vane assembly includes a sync ring mechanism for synchronously rotating an array of variable vanes. The variable vane assembly comprises a drive vane, a synch ring, a vane arm and a plurality of follower vanes and follower arms. An inner diameter end of the drive vane rotates in an inner diameter vane shroud. The synch ring rotates in an inner channel of the inner diameter vane shroud. The vane arm connects the inner diameter end of the drive vane with the synch ring. The plurality of follower vanes are connected to the synch ring by the follower arms. When the drive vane is rotated by an actuation source, the plurality of follower vanes rotate a like amount by the synch ring and follower arms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185623 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588624 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Jill E. Millstone (Jacksonville, Florida); Sungho Park (Evanston, Illinois); Gabriella Metraux (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of producing gold nanoprisms. In particular, gold nanoprisms having uniform shapes and edge lengths and thickness are produced utilizing a three step growth process. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372687 |
| 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 075/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588657 | Russel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B Russel (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Y Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Leonard F Pease, III (Richland, Washington); Parikshit A Deshpande (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, substrate-supported linear arrays are formed by the steps of adhering a thin layer of polymer between a pair of substrates and separating the substrates perpendicular to the layer. The polymer layer separates to form substrate-supported polymer gratings on both substrates, each grating having a period proportional to the thickness of the layer. The process has been used to make gratings with periods in the sub-micron range or larger over areas covering square centimeters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953906 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588827 | Nie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuming Nie (Atlanta, Georgia); William Doering (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles, methods of preparation thereof, and methods of detecting a target molecule using embodiments of the nanoparticle, are disclosed. One embodiment of an exemplary nanoparticle, among others, includes a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic active composite nanostructure. The surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic active composite nanostructure includes a core, at least one reporter molecule, and an encapsulating material. The reporter molecule is bonded to the core. The reporter molecule is selected from: an isothiocyanate dye, a multi-sulfur organic dye, a multi-heterosulfur organic dye, a benzotriazole dye, and combinations thereof. The encapsulating material is disposed over the core and the reporter molecule. After encapsulation with the encapsulating material, the reporter molecule has a measurable surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic signature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919944 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588894 | Hoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancern Institute (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California); Naoyuki Umetani (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosis and treatment of cancer using ID4 are disclosed. Specifically, epigenetic inactivation of ID4 in colorectal carcinomas and breast correlates with poor differentiation and unfavorable prognosis. Further, aberrant hypermethylation of ID4 gene promoter region increases risk of metastasis in colorectal and breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345836 |
| 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 07588938 | Ma |
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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) | Wu Ma (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating tissue from stem and progenitor cells is disclosed. Primary mammalian stem cells and progenitor cells are placed in an extracellular matrix. The matrix is maintained in a culture medium and a microgravity environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911766 |
| 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 435/394 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589003 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University, A Corporate Body Organized Under Arizona Law (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Matthew Bauer (Hillsboro, Oregon); Jose Menendez (Tempe, Arizona); Chang Wu Hu (Gilbert, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for depositing an epitaxial Ge—Sn layer on a substrate in a CVD reaction chamber includes introducing into the chamber a gaseous precursor comprising SnD4 under conditions whereby the epitaxial Ge—Sn layer is formed on the substrate. the gaseous precursor comprises SnD4 and high purity H2 of about 15-20% by volume. The gaseous precursor is introduced at a temperature in a range of about 250° C. to about 350° C. Using the process device-quality Sn—Ge materials with tunable bandgaps can be grown directly on Si substrates. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559981 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589041 | Ying et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie Y. Ying (Winchester, Massachusetts); Javier Garcia Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/830714 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589240 | Emrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd S. Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Habib Skaff (Tampa, Florida); Kevin Sill (Palmer, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Cadmium selenide, and other quantum dot materials, can be integrated into thin films of poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) or other polymer compounds without aggregation of the nanocrystals. Solid-state photoluminescence spectra of composite materials prepared by these novel techniques reveal the effect of this greatly enhanced quantum dot-polymer interface relative to cases where the nanoparticles are aggregated, such that electronic communication and energy transfer between the nanoparticle and polymer components is made more efficient. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199033 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589409 | Gibson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gibson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Andy Stavros (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectronic assembly includes units superposed on one another to form at least one stack having a vertical direction. Each unit includes one or more microelectronic devices and has top and bottom surfaces. Top unit terminals are exposed at the top surfaces and bottom unit terminals are exposed at the bottom surfaces. The top and bottom unit terminals are provided at a set of ordered column positions. Each top unit terminal of the set, except the top unit terminals at the highest ordered column position, is connected to a respective bottom unit terminal of the same unit at a next higher ordered column position. Each bottom unit terminal of the set, except the bottom unit terminals of the lowest unit in the stack, is connected to a respective upper unit terminal of the next lower unit in the stack at the same column position. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710752 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589565 | Sigal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon J. Sigal (Monsey, New York); James D. Warnock (Somers, New York); Dieter F. Wendel (Schoenaich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved circuit for reducing a capacitance load on a processor. The circuit includes a global clock circuit capable of producing a primary timing signal. The circuit further includes a local clock buffer circuit having a plurality of outputs. The local clock buffer circuit is connected to the global clock circuit. The local clock buffer circuit is capable of producing a secondary timing signal based on the primary timing signal. The circuit also includes a latch connected to the local clock buffer circuit. The latch is capable of producing a select signal that controls which outputs of the plurality of outputs are active. Only a third signal, based on the secondary timing signal, controls an operation of the latch. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024753 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589662 | Hulbert 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) | Douglas S. Hulbert (San Diego, California); Ayax D. Ramirez (Chula Vista, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shlmabukuro (Kapolei, Hawaii); Mark W. Roberts (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a radar receiver path, comprising the steps of: obtaining a transmitter position; obtaining a target position and velocity; obtaining a radar receiver position and velocity; determining a transmitter aspect angle gradient, a transmitter aspect angle time derivative and a transmitter co-state vector time derivative; determining a target aspect angle gradient, a target aspect angle time derivative and a target co-state vector time derivative; generating a radar platform heading variable, and a group of differential variables over a defined time span; inputting the group of differential variables into a differential equation solver; receiving a group of possible headings for the radar receiver path; and finding an optimum radar receiver path from the group of possible headings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765557 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589663 | Goldman 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) | Geoffrey H. Goldman (Ellicott City, Maryland); William O. Coburn (Dumfries, Virginia); Thomas J. Pizzillo (Colesvlle, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for the measurement of an angle of roll of a projectile is disclosed. The projectile has a casing with a rear end, a front end, and a side wall extending therebetween. The system includes a radar configured to transmit a polarized electromagnetic signal toward the projectile and a groove disposed on the side wall of the casing. The groove has a width, a depth, and a length, the width extending along a longitudinal axis of the projectile, the depth extending inwardly from an outer surface of the casing toward the longitudinal axis, and the length extending along the outside of the casing. The radar is further configured to receive a return signal from the projectile, wherein the return signal from the groove is modulated as a function of the angle of roll of the projectile. Amplitude or phase modulation of the return signal from the groove can be used to uniquely determine the roll angle of the projectile. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335678 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589674 | Anagnostou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Anagnostou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Guizhen Zheng (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ioannis Papapolymerou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christos Christodoulou (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-similar multiband reconfigurable antenna includes a planar antenna structure formed on a surface of a substrate, the antenna structure including symmetrically opposed self-similar geometry antenna arms defining a self-similar or Sierpinski gasket configuration for each arm of the antenna. MEMS type switches are provided for operatively connecting adjacent antenna patches on each arm of the antenna configuration, and a voltage source is provided for selectively actuating the switches. Selective actuation of the switches enables up to four different antenna configurations each having a different resonant frequency, and wherein each resonant frequency demonstrates a similar radiation pattern. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488142 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589683 | McKivergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick D. McKivergan (Londonderry, New Hampshire); Court E. Rossman (Merrimack, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight broadband blade antenna assembly is incorporated into the surface of an airfoil, such as a structure component of an aircraft, or a separate airfoil (blade antenna) attached thereto. A first metallized area is formed on the airfoil adjacent a leading edge of the airfoil. A second metallized area is formed on trailing edge of the airfoil and is spaced from the first metallized area by a first gap which is configured to provide a capacitive coupling between the first and second metallized areas. A third metallized area is formed on the cap portion of the airfoil and is spaced from the first metallized area by a second gap and is electrically connected in series with the first and second metallized areas. RLC circuits are electrically connected across tuning gaps formed in the third metallized area to provide a broadband response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579370 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/708 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589684 | Apostolos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Apostolos (Lyndeborough, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial antenna is implemented that combines a VHF and UHF antenna on a common radiating element. The antenna may further include a satellite antenna that, together with the VHF/UHF antenna fits into a whip antenna footprint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641045 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589827 | Nelson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Nelson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detecting an object of interest in a search space, comprising a radiation signal generator capable of generating a spatially-encoded radiation signal in the search space. The spatially-encoded radiation signal comprises a series of n beams, each having a unique characteristic, radially extending from the radiation signal generator, where n is a positive integer greater than one. The system also comprises a radiation signal collector disposed to detect and transform a reflected radiation signal reflected from the object of interest into a first data signal. The system also comprises a processor capable of transforming the first data signal into positional and vectoral data of the object of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499969 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589880 | Kempa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jakub A. Rybczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for manipulating light using nanoscale cometal structures are disclosed. A nanoscale optics apparatus for manipulating light includes a plurality of nanoscale cometal structures each comprising a dielectric material located between a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor. A method of fabricating a nanoscale optics apparatus for manipulating light includes preparing a plurality of nanoscale planar structures; coating a plurality of planar surfaces of the plurality of planar structures with a dielectric while leaving space between the plurality of planar surfaces; and coating the dielectric with an outer electrical conductor layer, wherein a portion of the outer electrical conductor layer is located between the planar structures to form coplanar structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509209 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590063 | Binns |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela A. Binns (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for binning aperiodic latency sample data using a data representation called latency band graphs. A fluid flow analysis produces a small, fixed size set of automatically generated bins dependent only on the timeline defined by periodic traffic. The compact number of bins yields a parameterized latency representation suitable for real-time estimation and goodness-of-fit tests. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705802 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590161 | Hug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon Systems (Covina, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Hug (Covina, California); Ray D. Reid (Covina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electron-beam-pumped semiconductor ultra-violet optical sources (ESUVOSs) are disclosed that use ballistic electron pumped wide bandgap semiconductor materials. The sources may produce incoherent radiation and take the form of electron-beam-pumped light emitting triodes (ELETs). The sources may produce coherent radiation and take the form of electron-beam-pumped laser triodes (ELTs). The ELTs may take the form of electron-beam-pumped vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (EVCSEL) or edge emitting electron-beam-pumped lasers (EEELs). The semiconductor medium may take the form of an aluminum gallium nitride alloy that has a mole fraction of aluminum selected to give a desired emission wavelength, diamond, or diamond-like carbon (DLC). The sources may be produced from discrete components that are assembled after their individual formation or they may be produced using batch MEMS-type or semiconductor-type processing techniques to build them up in a whole or partial monolithic manner, or combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245418 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590188 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for channel estimation of block transmissions over time- and frequency-selective wireless fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols that include at least two blocks of training symbols separated by at least one information-bearing symbol. Each block of training symbols comprises a first block of zero symbols and a second block of zero symbols separated by at least one training symbol. Each block of training symbols is equally long and equally spaced between information-bearing symbols. The training and information-bearing symbols are transmitted with equal power, respectively. A wireless receiver receives a wireless transmission signal formed according to the blocks of symbols and forms an estimate of a wireless communication channel based on the training symbols within the received signal. The structure and selected parameters of the symbols enabling symbol detection and channel estimation to be decoupled at the receiver while maximizing the average capacity of the channel. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850825 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590292 | Peter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Peter (Bethesda, Maryland); Don Lemons (Wichita, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An information-theoretic method clusters and merges bi-variate normal data or ‘error ellipses’ lying in a plane. Two or more error ellipses are clustered and then merged into a single error ellipse if the information lost in the merging process is sufficiently small. This criterion is numerically implemented and tested in a code developed for this purpose. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228323 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590358 | Grigoryan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vladimir Grigoryan (Elkridge, Maryland); Prem Kumar (Skokie, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Grigoryan (Elkridge, Maryland); Prem Kumar (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided an optical regenerative amplifier for regenerative amplification of a binary phase shift-keying (BPSK) sequence of optical signals having a predetermined time slot between any adjacent signals. The optical regenerative amplifier comprises a first delay interferometer, wherein an input sequence of BPSK signals is split between two arms of an interferometer, a relative delay by the time slot between the adjacent signals is introduced in one of the arms of the interferometer to produce two mutually anti-symmetric trains of amplitude shift-keying (ASK) signals; a discriminative limiting amplifier to amplify the said two trains of anti-symmetric ASK signals, wherein the amplification for the spaces is smaller compared to the amplification for the marks and the amplification for the marks is limiting; and a second delay interferometer, wherein the said two trains of anti-symmetric ASK signals are recombined, delayed, and interfered to reproduce a regeneratively amplified BPSK sequence of signals and to separate noise from the signals. |
| FILED | Sunday, February 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307868 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590495 | 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 determining a dilatational wavespeed and a shear wave speed. The dilatational wavespeed is determined by conducting vertical vibration tests of two specimens of the material, one specimen being twice as thick as the other. Transfer functions are obtained from these tests and used to calculate the dilatational wavespeed. The shear wavespeed is determined by conducting horizontal vibration tests of two specimens with one specimen being twice as thick as the other. The shear wavespeed can be calculated from transfer functions obtained from these tests and the dilatational wavespeed. Other material properties can be calculated from the dilatational and shear wavespeeds. Frequency dependence of the properties can be determined by conducting the tests at different frequencies. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772280 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590496 | Blemel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Gerald Blemel (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of sensors to be used with an apparatus providing a means for assessment of the integrity of insulated conduits, harnesses, cables, pipelines and other interconnection systems constructed with integral sensitized media, discrete sensors, and electronics providing a means for transforming sensed data into information and a means for communicating information for the purpose of understanding the location, degree and risk of damage and deterioration, and the probable causes thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/646780 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07588760 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (Los Angeles, California); Jingsong Xu (Los Angeles, California); Eric Petitclerc (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes methods for inhibiting angiogenesis in a tissue by administering an antagonist that specifically binds to a proteolyzed or denatured collagen but not to native triple helical forms of the collagen. Antagonists of the invention can target, for example, denatured collagens type-I, type-II, type-III, type-IV, type-V and combinations thereof. Methods utilizing such antagonists for therapeutic treatment of tumor growth, tumor metastasis or of restenosis also are described, as are methods to use such antagonists as diagnostic markers of angiogenesis in normal or diseased tissues both in vivo and ex vivo. Antagonists include monoclonal antibodies referred to as HU177, HUIV26, and XL313. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016048 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588768 | Palese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Thomas Muster (Vienna, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated negative-strand RNA viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. The invention also relates to the development and use of IFN-deficient systems for selection of such attenuated viruses. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated influenza viruses having modifications to the NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. The mutant viruses replicate in vivo but demonstrate reduced pathogenicity, and therefore are well suited for live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/713732 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588769 | Kawaoka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to prepare viruses with a mutant membrane protein gene, and viruses obtained by the method, are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/827995 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/209.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588770 | Oomens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonius G. P. Oomens (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Wertz (King George, Virginia); Alexander George Megaw (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides recombinant viruses comprising heterologous envelope proteins capable of mediating entry of the recombinant viruses into host cells. In one embodiment, a recombinant virus of the invention is a member of the Paramyx-ovirzdae family (e.g., a respiratory syncytial virus), and the heterologous envelope protein includes the ectodomain of a baculovirus envelope protein (e.g., the GP64 protein). In some cases, the heterologous envelope protein is provided in addition to homologous envelope proteins) which may or may not be functional. The heterologous protein can provide the recombinant virus with enhanced stability (e.g., at 4° C., 22° C., or 37° C.), and allows production of high-titer virus stocks. The heterologous protein can also impart temperature sensitivity to the replication of the recombinant virus. In addition, the recombinant virus can be designed to be infectious but incapable of spreading between host cells by providing the heterologous protein by complementation in trans. These features attenuate the disease-causing potential of the recombinant virus, therefore increasing its safety of use as vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575279 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588772 | Kay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the Leland Stamford Junior University (Stamford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Kay (Los Altos, California); Dirk Grimm (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant adeno-associated viral (AAV) capsid proteins are provided. Methods for generating the recombinant adeno-associated viral capsid proteins and a library from which the capsids are selected are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/731314 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/233.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588773 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Jeannine Brady (Gainesville, Florida); Kyle N. Seifert (Harrisonburg, Virginia); Elisabeth E. Adderson (Memphis, Tennessee); John F. Bohnsack (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a group B streptococcal (GBS) surface antigen, designated epsilon antigen, that is co-expressed with the delta antigen on a subset of serotype III GBS. Epsilon is expressed on more pathogenic Restriction Digest Pattern (RDP) III-3 GBS, but not on RDP types 1, 2, or 4. Accordingly, the present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting a group B streptococcus serotype III, RDP III-3 strain. Vaccines and methods of identifying agents which inhibit adhesion of a group B streptococcal cell to a host cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/574067 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588827 | Nie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuming Nie (Atlanta, Georgia); William Doering (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticles, methods of preparation thereof, and methods of detecting a target molecule using embodiments of the nanoparticle, are disclosed. One embodiment of an exemplary nanoparticle, among others, includes a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic active composite nanostructure. The surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic active composite nanostructure includes a core, at least one reporter molecule, and an encapsulating material. The reporter molecule is bonded to the core. The reporter molecule is selected from: an isothiocyanate dye, a multi-sulfur organic dye, a multi-heterosulfur organic dye, a benzotriazole dye, and combinations thereof. The encapsulating material is disposed over the core and the reporter molecule. After encapsulation with the encapsulating material, the reporter molecule has a measurable surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic signature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919944 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588887 | Franza, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Robert Franza, Jr. (Seattle, Washington); Yvan P. Rochon (Sedona, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the determination of the rate of synthesis of biopolymer synthesis and degradation in cells, tissues, or cell-free systems using monomer which has been labeled with a stable isotope are provided. Further, the present invention provides methods for the determination or identification of an unknown biopolymer and for the identification of an unknown cell type, a physiological state of a cell or tissue. Also, the present invention provides a database of descriptors which can be used to define an organism, tissue type, cell type, and the like, and which database can be used in conjunction with other public and private databases to identify or characterize an organism, tissue type, cell type, state of differentiation, or physiologic state of an organism, or tissue or cell sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/722161 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588894 | Hoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancern Institute (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California); Naoyuki Umetani (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosis and treatment of cancer using ID4 are disclosed. Specifically, epigenetic inactivation of ID4 in colorectal carcinomas and breast correlates with poor differentiation and unfavorable prognosis. Further, aberrant hypermethylation of ID4 gene promoter region increases risk of metastasis in colorectal and breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345836 |
| 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 07588895 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. W. Wong (Beverly Hills, California); Xiaofeng Zhou (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the first time molecular diagnostic and prognostic markers for tongue cancer metastasis and extracapsular spread that are independent of histopathological evaluation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/622061 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588900 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S Zuker (San Diego, California); Nicholas J. P. Ryba (Bethesda, Maryland); Jayaram Chandrashekar (San Diego, California); Mark A Hoon (Kensington, Maryland); Yifeng Zhang (Boston, Massachusetts); Greg Nelson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of sweet or amino acid taste receptors comprising two heterologous G-protein coupled receptor polypeptides from the T1R family of sensory G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of sweet and amino acid taste receptors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/190417 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588901 | Kwon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Tae Kwon (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Anna Kashina (Boca Raton, Florida); Alexander Varshavsky (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for modulating angiogenesis in a subject. The methods of modulating angiogenesis in a subject include administering to the subject a modulator of N-terminal arginylation activity. The invention also provides a method of identifying such a modulator and a method of in vitro screening for modulators of N-terminal arginylation activity. Additionally, the invention provides a method of treating an angiogenesis-related disorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473568 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588902 | Katze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumigen Biosciences, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Katze (Seattle, Washington); Roger Bumgarner (Kenmore, Washington); Mariya Smit (Mukilteo, Washington); Gary Rosenberg (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are set forth. Improved assay methods and scanning methods are included that employ non-cell-associated and cell-associated HCC related proteins. Such methods are based upon the discovery of genes that were up-regulated in diseased versus normal tissue as well as in HCC tissue when compared to the tissue of patients with other ailments. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/520322 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07588904 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sui Huang (Chicago, Illinois); Rajesh V. Kamath (Chicago, Illinois); David Spector (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Ann Thor (Winnetka, Illinois); Chen Wang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnostics, prognostics and predictions, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention provides perinucleolar compartments and their resident molecules as cancer markers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651733 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07588906 | Brueggemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn B. Brueggemeier (East Windsor, New Jersey); Stephen J. Kron (Oak Park, Illinois); Sean P. Palecek (Verona, Wisconsin); Laurie Parker (St. Joseph, Illinois); Stephen Brian Henry Kent (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyacrylamide-based methods of fabricating surface-bound peptide and protein arrays, the arrays themselves, and a method of using the arrays to detect biomolecules and to measure their concentration, binding affinity, and kinetics are described. Peptides, proteins, fusion proteins, protein complexes, nucleic acids, and the like, are labeled with an acrylic moiety and attached to acrylic-functionalized glass surfaces through a copolymerization with acrylic monomer. The specific attachment of glutathione S-transferase-green fluorescent protein (GST-GFP) fusion protein was more than 7-fold greater than the nonspecific attachment of non-acrylic labeled GST-GFP. Surface-attached GST-GFP (0.32 ng/mm2) was detectable by direct measurement of green fluorescent protein fluorescence and this lower detection limit was reduced to 0.080 ng/mm2 using indirect antibody-based detection. The polyacrylamide-based surface attachment strategy was also used to measure the kinetics of substrate phosphorylation by the kinase c-Src which is encoded by the Rous Sarcoma virus. The surface attachment strategy is applicable to the proteomics field and addresses denaturation and dehydration problems associated with protein microarray development. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305671 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
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| US 07588912 | Rest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Rest (Rosemont, Pennsylvania); Michael Karin (La Jolla, California); Jin Mo Park (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods for identifying compounds and methods for using compounds which modulate interaction of lethal factor and anthrolysin O in the treatment and prevention of anthrax diseases are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248081 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/32 |
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| US 07588914 | Godzik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Godzik (San Diego, California); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated Bcl-2 domain-containing polypeptides from Mycobacterial species, including M. tuberculosis, M. avium, M. bovis, M. leprae and M. smegmatis, and from Streptomyces species, including S. coelicolor, as well as modifications of such polypeptides, functional fragments therefrom, encoding nucleic acid molecules and specific antibodies. Also provided are methods for identifying polypeptides and compounds that associate with or modulate the activity of the Bcl-2 domain-containing polypeptides. Further provided are methods of modulating apoptosis and treating pathological conditions using the described nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides and compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294445 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07588927 | Yeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); U.S. Government NIH Divisional of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward T. H. Yeh (Houston, Texas); Limin Gong (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a novel protease, called SENP1, which is active against sentrin-modified proteins in vivo. The invention more specifically relates to the genomic and amino acid sequences for SENP1, compositions related to and based on these sequences, and methods of using these sequences and compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/624945 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/226 |
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| US 07588930 | Paterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christian Peters (Radnor, Pennsylvania); George Gunn (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, methods and kits for enhancing the immunogenicity of an antigen via fusion to a Listerial protein. The present invention further encompasses Listeria vaccine strains for enhancing the immunogenicity of an antigen. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835662 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589069 | Wold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. M. Wold (Chesterfield, Missouri); Karoly Toth (St. Louis, Missouri); Konstantin Doronin (St. Louis, Missouri); Ann E. Tollefson (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel vectors which are replication competent in neoplastic cells and which overexpress an adenovirus death protein are disclosed. Some of the disclosed vectors are replication-restricted to neoplastic cells or to neoplastic alveolar type II cells. Compositions and methods for promoting the death of neoplastic cells using these replication-competent vectors are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/351778 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07589074 | Brenner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Brenner (Newton, Massachusetts); Xavier Valencia (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating inflammatory joint diseases by inhibiting cadherin-11 mediated cellular function using a cadherin-11 modulating agent is provided. Also provided are screening assays for identifying pharmaceutical lead compounds capable of modulating cellular functions of cadherin-11 such as cell proliferation, apoptosis, factor secretion, and binding of cadherin-11 to cadherin-11 counter-receptor inhibiting binding of cadherin-11 to its counter-receptor either in the context of a cell or in soluble form. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986471 |
| 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 |
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| US 07589078 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yung-chi Cheng (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Hiromichi Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan); Masanori Baba (Kagoshima, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds according to the general formula: wherein B is or and the remaining variables are defined in the specification, and compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds are useful as anti-viral agents in viral therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781305 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/49 |
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| US 07589080 | Hildreth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Hildreth (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reducing the risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted pathogen by contacting the pathogen or cells susceptible to infection by the pathogen with a β-cyclodextrin are provided. Methods for reducing the risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted pathogen to or from a subject by contacting the pathogen or cells susceptible to the pathogen in the subject with a pharmaceutical composition containing a β-cyclodextrin also are provided. Accordingly, pharmaceutical compositions, which include 1) a β-cyclodextrin, which is in an amount that blocks passage of the pathogen through lipid rafts in the membrane of a cell susceptible to the pathogen, and 2) a contraceptive, an agent for treating a sexually transmitted disease, a lubricant, or a combination thereof, are provided, as are composition formulated from a solid substrate that contains an amount of β-cyclodextrin useful for reducing the risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted pathogen. |
| FILED | Monday, November 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/605037 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589171 | Bashkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanovir, LLC (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James K. Bashkin (St. Louis, Missouri); Kevin J. Koeller (Richmond Heights, Missouri); Terri Grace Edwards (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Christopher Fisher (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polyamide compositions and therapies for treating cells infected with human papilloma virus (HPV). |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800105 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589173 | Quigley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Quigley (La Jolla, California); John D. Hooper (Mitchelton, Australia); Jacqueline E. Testa (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a protein that is a tumor marker protein. This protein can be used to prepare antibodies that bind to the tumor marker protein. These antibodies can be used to reduce, or eliminate metastasis by cancer cells that produce the tumor marker protein. In addition, the invention provides methods that can be used to diagnose cancer, and metastasis by cancer cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/781564 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589174 | Argon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yair Argon (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Tali Gidalevitz (Evanston, Illinois); Chhanda Biswas (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Mini chaperones and methods of use thereof for the treatment of cancer and other disorders are provided. Also provided are tools to facilitate screening therapeutic agents which have selective binding affinity for GRP94. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844711 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07589181 | Kashmiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Syed V. S. Kashmiri (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Eduardo A. Padlan (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Humanized anti-TAG-72 CC49 monoclonal antibodies are disclosed herein. The antibodies include a light chain Complementarity Determining Region (L-CDR)1, a L-CDR2, and a L-CDR3; and a heavy chain Complementarity Determining Region (H-CDR)1, a H-CDR2, and a H-CDR3 from humanized antibody HuCC49V10. The L-CDR1, L-CDR2, L-CDR3 are within a HuCC49V10 light chain framework region that includes the corresponding amino acid from LEN at position 5, 19, 21, and 106 in the light chain. The H-CDR1, H-CDR2, and H-CDR3 are within a heavy chain HuCC49V10 framework comprising a human 21/28′ CL residue at positions 20, 38, 48, 66, 67, 69, and 80 in the heavy chain. These humanized CC49 antibodies retain binding affinity for TAG-72 and have reduced immunogenicity, as compared to a parental HuCC49V10 antibody. Methods are disclosed herein for using these antibodies in the treatment or diagnosis of a tumor, such as a carcinoma, expressing TAG-72. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570220 |
| 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 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xumu Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a chiral ligand, represented by a formula or its enantiomer: X and X′ can be independently O, NH, NR, NCOR or S; each of Z1-Z7 and Z1′-Z7′ can be independently H, alkyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, alkoxyl, aryloxyl, nitro, amide, aryloxide, halide, hydroxyl, carboxylate, heteroaryl, or a cyclic alkene, fused aryl, or cyclic ether group formed from any two adjacent Z groups or any two adjacent Z′ groups; Y and Y′ can be independently OH, OR, NH2, NHR, NR2, SH, PR2, OPR2, NHPR2, OP(OR)2, COOH, COOR, CONHR, or a linking group formed from Y and Y′ groups together. Processes of preparing these ligands, catalysts that employ them and methods of using the catalysts are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/218467 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07588518 | LaStayo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul LaStayo (Flagstaff, Arizona); Stan Lindstedt (Flagstaff, Arizona); Hans Hoppeler (Bolligen, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for increasing locomotor muscle size and strength at low training intensities using eccentric ergometry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/203909 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588624 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Jill E. Millstone (Jacksonville, Florida); Sungho Park (Evanston, Illinois); Gabriella Metraux (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of producing gold nanoprisms. In particular, gold nanoprisms having uniform shapes and edge lengths and thickness are produced utilizing a three step growth process. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372687 |
| 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 075/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588657 | Russel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William B Russel (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Y Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Leonard F Pease, III (Richland, Washington); Parikshit A Deshpande (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, substrate-supported linear arrays are formed by the steps of adhering a thin layer of polymer between a pair of substrates and separating the substrates perpendicular to the layer. The polymer layer separates to form substrate-supported polymer gratings on both substrates, each grating having a period proportional to the thickness of the layer. The process has been used to make gratings with periods in the sub-micron range or larger over areas covering square centimeters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953906 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588906 | Brueggemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn B. Brueggemeier (East Windsor, New Jersey); Stephen J. Kron (Oak Park, Illinois); Sean P. Palecek (Verona, Wisconsin); Laurie Parker (St. Joseph, Illinois); Stephen Brian Henry Kent (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyacrylamide-based methods of fabricating surface-bound peptide and protein arrays, the arrays themselves, and a method of using the arrays to detect biomolecules and to measure their concentration, binding affinity, and kinetics are described. Peptides, proteins, fusion proteins, protein complexes, nucleic acids, and the like, are labeled with an acrylic moiety and attached to acrylic-functionalized glass surfaces through a copolymerization with acrylic monomer. The specific attachment of glutathione S-transferase-green fluorescent protein (GST-GFP) fusion protein was more than 7-fold greater than the nonspecific attachment of non-acrylic labeled GST-GFP. Surface-attached GST-GFP (0.32 ng/mm2) was detectable by direct measurement of green fluorescent protein fluorescence and this lower detection limit was reduced to 0.080 ng/mm2 using indirect antibody-based detection. The polyacrylamide-based surface attachment strategy was also used to measure the kinetics of substrate phosphorylation by the kinase c-Src which is encoded by the Rous Sarcoma virus. The surface attachment strategy is applicable to the proteomics field and addresses denaturation and dehydration problems associated with protein microarray development. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305671 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588914 | Godzik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Godzik (San Diego, California); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated Bcl-2 domain-containing polypeptides from Mycobacterial species, including M. tuberculosis, M. avium, M. bovis, M. leprae and M. smegmatis, and from Streptomyces species, including S. coelicolor, as well as modifications of such polypeptides, functional fragments therefrom, encoding nucleic acid molecules and specific antibodies. Also provided are methods for identifying polypeptides and compounds that associate with or modulate the activity of the Bcl-2 domain-containing polypeptides. Further provided are methods of modulating apoptosis and treating pathological conditions using the described nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides and compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/294445 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588939 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Satoh Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Newark, Delaware); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA). |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942036 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588940 | Grier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Grier (Chicago, Illinois); Eric R. Dufresne (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for manipulating, effecting interaction of, photochemically transforming and/or sorting small dielectric particles or other materials. The apparatus and method involves use of one or more diffractive optical elements which each receive a laser beam and form a plurality of laser beams. These laser beams are operated on by a telescope lens system and then an objective lens element to create an array of optical traps for manipulating, effecting interaction of, photochemically transforming and/or sorting small dielectric particles or other materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029396 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589003 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University, A Corporate Body Organized Under Arizona Law (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Matthew Bauer (Hillsboro, Oregon); Jose Menendez (Tempe, Arizona); Chang Wu Hu (Gilbert, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for depositing an epitaxial Ge—Sn layer on a substrate in a CVD reaction chamber includes introducing into the chamber a gaseous precursor comprising SnD4 under conditions whereby the epitaxial Ge—Sn layer is formed on the substrate. the gaseous precursor comprises SnD4 and high purity H2 of about 15-20% by volume. The gaseous precursor is introduced at a temperature in a range of about 250° C. to about 350° C. Using the process device-quality Sn—Ge materials with tunable bandgaps can be grown directly on Si substrates. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559981 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589122 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MSTRS Technologies, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junwei Zhu (Ames, Iowa); Thomas Baker (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Soybean volatile compounds, soybean aphid-induced volatile compounds and soybean aphid sex pheromones are semiochemicals of the invention used to suppress soybean aphid population. Methyl salicylate is an embodiment of a soybean aphid-induced volatile compound useful in the invention. Benzaldehyde is an embodiment of a soybean host plant volatile compound useful in the invention. Also useful as sex pheromones are nepetalactol and nepetalactone. The compounds may be blended in a preferred embodiment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123668 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589240 | Emrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd S. Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Habib Skaff (Tampa, Florida); Kevin Sill (Palmer, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Cadmium selenide, and other quantum dot materials, can be integrated into thin films of poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) or other polymer compounds without aggregation of the nanocrystals. Solid-state photoluminescence spectra of composite materials prepared by these novel techniques reveal the effect of this greatly enhanced quantum dot-polymer interface relative to cases where the nanoparticles are aggregated, such that electronic communication and energy transfer between the nanoparticle and polymer components is made more efficient. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199033 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589255 | Azpiroz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricardo Azpiroz (Dallas, Texas); Sunghwa Choe (Tucson, Arizona); Kenneth A. Feldmann (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel, polynucleotides isolated from dwarf plants. The dwf4 polynucleotides that encode all, or a portion of, a DWF4 polypeptide, a cytochrome P450 enzyme that mediates multiple steps in synthesis of brassinosteriods. The present invention also relates to isolated polynucleotides that encode regulatory regions of dwf4. Uses of the dwf4 polypeptides and polynucleotides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333636 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589674 | Anagnostou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Anagnostou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Guizhen Zheng (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ioannis Papapolymerou (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christos Christodoulou (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-similar multiband reconfigurable antenna includes a planar antenna structure formed on a surface of a substrate, the antenna structure including symmetrically opposed self-similar geometry antenna arms defining a self-similar or Sierpinski gasket configuration for each arm of the antenna. MEMS type switches are provided for operatively connecting adjacent antenna patches on each arm of the antenna configuration, and a voltage source is provided for selectively actuating the switches. Selective actuation of the switches enables up to four different antenna configurations each having a different resonant frequency, and wherein each resonant frequency demonstrates a similar radiation pattern. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488142 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590188 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for channel estimation of block transmissions over time- and frequency-selective wireless fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols that include at least two blocks of training symbols separated by at least one information-bearing symbol. Each block of training symbols comprises a first block of zero symbols and a second block of zero symbols separated by at least one training symbol. Each block of training symbols is equally long and equally spaced between information-bearing symbols. The training and information-bearing symbols are transmitted with equal power, respectively. A wireless receiver receives a wireless transmission signal formed according to the blocks of symbols and forms an estimate of a wireless communication channel based on the training symbols within the received signal. The structure and selected parameters of the symbols enabling symbol detection and channel estimation to be decoupled at the receiver while maximizing the average capacity of the channel. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850825 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590236 | Boneh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Voltage Security, Inc. (Palo Alto, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Xavier Boyen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for supporting symmetric-bilinear-map and asymmetric-bilinear-map identity-based-encryption (IBE) key exchange and encryption schemes are provided. IBE key exchange schemes use an IBE encapsulation engine to produce a secret key and an encapsulated version of the secret key. An IBE unencapsulation engine is used to unencapsulate the encapsulated key. IBE encryption schemes use an IBE encryption engine to produce ciphertext from plaintext. An IBE decryption engine is used to decrypt the ciphertext to reveal the plaintext. The IBE unencapsulation engine and decryption engines use bilinear maps. The IBE encapsulation and encryption engines perform group multiplication operations without using bilinear maps, improving efficiency. IBE private keys for use in decryption and unencapsulation operations may be generated using a distributed key arrangement in which each IBE private key is assembled from private key shares. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090450 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07588626 | Gopalan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srikanth Gopalan (Westborough, Massachusetts); Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts); Annamalai Karthikeyan (Quincy, Massachusetts); Cui Hengdong (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixed ionic and electronic conducting membrane includes a two-phase solid state ceramic composite, wherein the first phase comprises an oxygen ion conductor and the second phase comprises an n-type electronically conductive oxide, wherein the electronically conductive oxide is stable at an oxygen partial pressure as low as 10−20 atm and has an electronic conductivity of at least 1 S/cm. A hydrogen separation system and related methods using the mixed ionic and electronic conducting membrane are described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255650 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588694 | Bradshaw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Bradshaw (Livermore, California); Douglas A. Brosseau (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-melting point, heat transfer fluid made of a mixture of four inorganic nitrate salts: 9-18 wt % NaNO3, 40-52 wt % KNO3, 13-21 wt % LiNO3, and 20-27 wt % Ca(NO3)2. These compositions can have liquidus temperatures less than 100 C; thermal stability limits greater than 500 C; and viscosity in the range of 5-6 cP at 300 C; and 2-3 cP at 400 C. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120257 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588773 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Jeannine Brady (Gainesville, Florida); Kyle N. Seifert (Harrisonburg, Virginia); Elisabeth E. Adderson (Memphis, Tennessee); John F. Bohnsack (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a group B streptococcal (GBS) surface antigen, designated epsilon antigen, that is co-expressed with the delta antigen on a subset of serotype III GBS. Epsilon is expressed on more pathogenic Restriction Digest Pattern (RDP) III-3 GBS, but not on RDP types 1, 2, or 4. Accordingly, the present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting a group B streptococcus serotype III, RDP III-3 strain. Vaccines and methods of identifying agents which inhibit adhesion of a group B streptococcal cell to a host cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/574067 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588798 | Alford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kentin L. Alford (Pasco, Washington); Kevin L. Simmons (Kennewick, Washington); William D. Samuels (Richland, Washington); Thomas S. Zemanian (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yongsoon Shin (Richland, Washington); Glen E. Fryxell (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to methods of forming monolayers on various surfaces. The surfaces can be selected from a wide array of materials, including, for example, aluminum dioxide, silicon dioxide, carbon and SiC. The substrates can be planar or porous. The monolayer is formed under enhanced pressure conditions. The monolayer contains functionalized molecules, and accordingly functionalizes a surface of the substrate. The properties of the functionalized substrate can enhance the substrate's applicability for numerous purposes including, for example, utilization in extracting contaminants, or incorporation into a polymeric matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433315 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588857 | Alonso-Vante et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolas Alonso-Vante (Buxerolles, France); Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jong-Ho Choi (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrzej Wieckowski (Champaign, Illinois); Dianxue Cao (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A methanol-tolerant cathode catalyst and a membrane electrode assembly for fuel cells that includes such a cathode catalyst. The cathode catalyst includes a support having at least one transition metal in elemental form and a chalcogen disposed on the support. Methods of making the cathode catalyst and membrane electrode assembly are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295361 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588859 | Oh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The electrolyte includes one or more polysiloxanes, one or more alkali metal salts, and one or more silanes. At least one polysiloxane includes side chains having poly(alkylene oxide) moieties. At east one silane includes at least one moiety selected from a first group consisting of an alkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogenated aryl group, an alkoxy group and an oxyalkylene group and at least one moiety selected from a second group consisting of an alkoxy group, an oxyalkylene group and a carbonate group. In one example, the electrochemical device is a secondary battery. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810080 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589004 | Usov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Usov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method that combines alternate low/medium ion dose implantation with rapid thermal annealing at relatively low temperatures. At least one dopant is implanted in one of a single crystal and an epitaxial film of the wide band gap compound by a plurality of implantation cycles. The number of implantation cycles is sufficient to implant a predetermined concentration of the dopant in one of the single crystal and the epitaxial film. Each of the implantation cycles includes the steps of: implanting a portion of the predetermined concentration of the one dopant in one of the single crystal and the epitaxial film; annealing one of the single crystal and the epitaxial film and implanted portion at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time to repair damage to one of the single crystal and the epitaxial film caused by implantation and activates the implanted dopant; and cooling the annealed single crystal and implanted portion to a temperature of less than about 100° C. This combination produces high concentrations of dopants, while minimizing the defect concentration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438887 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589047 | Uribe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francisco A. Uribe (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mahlon S. Wilson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Fernando H. Garzon (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing noble metals on a metal hexaboride support. The hexaboride support is sufficiently electropositive to allow noble metals to deposit spontaneously from solutions containing ionic species of such metals onto the support. The method permits the deposition of metallic films of controlled thickness and particle size at room temperature without using separate reducing agents. Composite materials comprising noble metal films deposited on such metal hexaborides are also described. Such composite materials may be used as catalysts, thermionic emitters, electrical contacts, electrodes, adhesion layers, and optical coatings. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449407 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589176 | Altier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Johnston, Iowa); E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Altier (Waukee, Iowa); Irina Ellanskaya (Kyiv, Ukraine); Natalia Ellanskaya, legal representative (Kyiv, Ukraine); Jacob T. Gilliam (Norwalk, Iowa); Jennie Hunter-Cevera (Elliott City, Maryland); James K. Presnail (Avondale, Pennsylvania); Eric Schepers (Port Deposit, Maryland); Carl R. Simmons (Des Moines, Iowa); Tamas Torok (Richmond, California); Nasser Yalpani (Johnston, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to antifungal compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a fungal pathogen. Compositions including antifungal polypeptides isolated from a fungal fermentation broth are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657710 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589182 | Bertozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Berkeley, California); John Kehoe (Saint Davids, Pennsylvania); Andrew M. Bradbury (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides anti-sulfotyrosine specific antibodies capable of detecting and isolating polypeptides that are tyrosine-sulfated. The sulfotyrosine antibodies and antibody fragments of the invention may be used to discriminate between the non-sulfated and sulfated forms of such proteins, using any number of immunological assays, such ELISAs, immunoblots, Western Blots, immunoprecipitations, and the like. Using a phage-display system, single chain antibodies (scFvs) were generated and screened against tyrosine-sulfated synthetic peptide antigens, resulting in the isolation of scFvs that specifically recognize sulfotyrosine-containing peptides and/or demonstrate sulfotyrosine-specific binding in tyrosine sulfated proteins. The VH and VL genes from one such sulfotyrosine-specific scFv were employed to generate a full length, sulfotyrosine-specific immunoglobulin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900689 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589248 | Fuhrmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Fuhrmann (Silver Spring, Maryland); John Heiser (Bayport, New York); Paul Kalb (Wading River, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mercury is removed from contaminated waste by firstly applying a sulfur reagent to the waste. Mercury in the waste is then permitted to migrate to the reagent and is stabilized in a mercury sulfide compound. The stable compound may then be removed from the waste which itself remains in situ following mercury removal therefrom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137046 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07587899 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gangbing Song (Pearland, Texas); Ning Ma (Nanjing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The proposed adaptive exhaust nozzle features an innovative use of the shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators for actively control of the opening area of the exhaust nozzle for jet engines. The SMA actuators remotely control the opening area of the exhaust nozzle through a set of mechanism. An important advantage of using SMA actuators is the reduction of weight of the actuator system for variable area exhaust nozzle. Another advantage is that the SMA actuator can be activated using the heat from the exhaust and eliminate the need of other energy source. A prototype has been designed and fabricated. The functionality of the proposed SMA actuated adaptive exhaust nozzle is verified in the open-loop tests. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214418 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/771 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588699 | Park 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) | Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Kent A. Watson (New Kent, Virginia); Zoubeida Ounaies (Norfolk, Virginia); John W. Connell (Yorktown, Virginia); Joseph G. Smith (Smithfield, Virginia); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the effective dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into polymer matrices. The nanocomposites are prepared using polymer matrices and exhibit a unique combination of properties, most notably, high retention of optical transparency in the visible range (i.e., 400–800 nm), electrical conductivity, and high thermal stability. By appropriate selection of the matrix resin, additional properties such as vacuum ultraviolet radiation resistance, atomic oxygen resistance, high glass transition (Tg) temperatures, and excellent toughness can be attained. The resulting nanocomposites can be used to fabricate or formulate a variety of articles such as coatings on a variety of substrates, films, foams, fibers, threads, adhesives and fiber coated prepreg. The properties of the nanocomposites can be adjusted by selection of the polymer matrix and CNT to fabricate articles that possess high optical transparency and antistatic behavior. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/288797 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588703 | Morrison |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis R. Morrison (Kemah, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A microencapsulation apparatus is provided which is configured to form co-axial multi-lamellar microcapsules from materials discharged from first and second microsphere dispensers of the apparatus. A method of fabricating and processing microcapsules is also provided which includes forming distinct droplets comprising one or more materials and introducing the droplets directly into a solution bath to form a membrane around the droplets such that a plurality of microcapsules are formed. A microencapsulation system is provided which includes a microcapsule production unit, a fluidized passage for washing and harvesting microcapsules dispensed from the microcapsule production unit and a flow sensor for sizing and counting the microcapsules. In some embodiments, the microencapsulation system may further include a controller configured to simultaneously operate the microcapsule production unit, fluidized passage and flow sensor to process the microcapsules in a continuous manner. |
| FILED | Monday, July 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428465 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589525 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic field response sensor comprises an inductor placed at a fixed separation distance from a conductive surface to address the low RF transmissivity of conductive surfaces. The minimum distance for separation is determined by the sensor response. The inductor should be separated from the conductive surface so that the response amplitude exceeds noise level by a recommended 10 dB. An embodiment for closed cavity measurements comprises a capacitor internal to said cavity and an inductor mounted external to the cavity and at a fixed distance from the cavity's wall. An additional embodiment includes a closed cavity configuration wherein multiple sensors and corresponding antenna are positioned inside the cavity, with the antenna and inductors maintained at a fixed distance from the cavity's wall. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421886 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590161 | Hug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon Systems (Covina, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Hug (Covina, California); Ray D. Reid (Covina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electron-beam-pumped semiconductor ultra-violet optical sources (ESUVOSs) are disclosed that use ballistic electron pumped wide bandgap semiconductor materials. The sources may produce incoherent radiation and take the form of electron-beam-pumped light emitting triodes (ELETs). The sources may produce coherent radiation and take the form of electron-beam-pumped laser triodes (ELTs). The ELTs may take the form of electron-beam-pumped vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (EVCSEL) or edge emitting electron-beam-pumped lasers (EEELs). The semiconductor medium may take the form of an aluminum gallium nitride alloy that has a mole fraction of aluminum selected to give a desired emission wavelength, diamond, or diamond-like carbon (DLC). The sources may be produced from discrete components that are assembled after their individual formation or they may be produced using batch MEMS-type or semiconductor-type processing techniques to build them up in a whole or partial monolithic manner, or combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245418 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590313 | Strekalov |
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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) | Dmitry V. Strekalov (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator device and method capable of filtering sidebands of optical modulators are provided. The method includes providing an optical resonator adapted to support whispering gallery modes and forming a first field and a second field from a first location and a second location, respectively, at the circumference of the optical resonator and being separated by an arc angle, α. The method includes adjusting relative phase between the first field and the second field in accordance to a differential phase, β, and combining the first and the second fields into an output. Particular selection of the arc angle, α, and the differential phase, β, can determine the function of the output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251607 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590606 | Keller 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 (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Keller (San Francisco, California); Tina L. Panontin (Mountain View, California); Robert E. Carvalho (San Jose, California); Ian Sturken (Morgan Hill, California); James F. Williams (San Francisco, California); Shawn R. Wolfe (Sunnyvale, California); Yuri O. Gawdiak (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that allows a team of geographically dispersed users to collaboratively analyze a mishap event. The system includes a reconfigurable ontology, including instances that are related to and characterize the mishap, a semantic network that receives, indexes and stores, for retrieval, viewing and editing, the instances and links between the instances, a network browser interface for retrieving and viewing screens that present the instances and links to other instances and that allow editing thereof, and a rule-based inference engine, including a collection of rules associated with establishment of links between the instances. A possible conclusion arising from analysis of the mishap event may be characterized as one or more of: not a credible conclusion; an unlikely conclusion; a credible conclusion; conclusion needs analysis; conclusion needs supporting data; conclusion proposed to be closed; and an un-reviewed conclusion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703039 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590607 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin P. Williams (Half Moon Bay, California); Robert M. Gingrich (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum circuit performing quantum computation in a quantum computer. A chosen transformation of an initial n-qubit state is probabilistically obtained. The circuit comprises a unitary quantum operator obtained from a non-unitary quantum operator, operating on an n-qubit state and an ancilla state. When operation on the ancilla state provides a success condition, computation is stopped. When operation on the ancilla state provides a failure condition, computation is performed again on the ancilla state and the n-qubit state obtained in the previous computation, until a success condition is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007792 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590904 | Ng 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) | Tak-Kwong Ng (Yorktown, Virginia); Jeffrey A. Herath (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment generally relates to a method of self-detecting an error in a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The method includes writing a signature value into a signature memory in the FPGA and determining a conclusion of a configuration refresh operation in the FPGA. The method also includes reading an outcome value from the signature memory. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531703 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07588438 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugao Xu (Austin, Texas); Wurong Yu (Zhejiang, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an apparatus, system and method for preparing samples for analysis including a mechanical fiber cutting apparatus. The mechanical fiber cutting apparatus has two or more cutter blades under the control of a blade moving mechanism. A fiber chamber is positioned to receive the one or more cut fibers created by the cutting action of the two or more cutter blades. The pressurized gas source connected to the fiber chamber transfers the one or more cut fibers into a sample preparation housing. The one or more cut fibers are distributed randomly onto a sample slide within the sample preparation housing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590067 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07588939 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Jackson (New York, New York); Namiko Satoh Nagasawa (Huntington, New York); Nobuhiro Nagasawa (Newark, Delaware); Hajime Sakai (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, meristem growth, inflorescence development and arrangement, and ultimately to improve yield of plants. The invention includes the gene and protein product as well as the use of the same for temporal and spatial expression in transgenic plants to alter plant morphology and affect yield in plants. The invention also includes the gene and protein product for SISTER OF RAMOSA3 (SRA). |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942036 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589262 | Coors et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Coors (Madison, Wisconsin); Dustin T. Eilert (Mazomanie, Wisconsin); Patrick J. Flannery (Barneveld, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated W701BC. This inbred variety yields multiple ears, and is ideal for production of baby corn. The invention further relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety W701BC, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety W701BC with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention also relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety W701BC with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety W701BC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460109 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07589122 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MSTRS Technologies, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junwei Zhu (Ames, Iowa); Thomas Baker (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Soybean volatile compounds, soybean aphid-induced volatile compounds and soybean aphid sex pheromones are semiochemicals of the invention used to suppress soybean aphid population. Methyl salicylate is an embodiment of a soybean aphid-induced volatile compound useful in the invention. Benzaldehyde is an embodiment of a soybean host plant volatile compound useful in the invention. Also useful as sex pheromones are nepetalactol and nepetalactone. The compounds may be blended in a preferred embodiment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123668 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07589409 | Gibson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tessera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gibson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Andy Stavros (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectronic assembly includes units superposed on one another to form at least one stack having a vertical direction. Each unit includes one or more microelectronic devices and has top and bottom surfaces. Top unit terminals are exposed at the top surfaces and bottom unit terminals are exposed at the bottom surfaces. The top and bottom unit terminals are provided at a set of ordered column positions. Each top unit terminal of the set, except the top unit terminals at the highest ordered column position, is connected to a respective bottom unit terminal of the same unit at a next higher ordered column position. Each bottom unit terminal of the set, except the bottom unit terminals of the lowest unit in the stack, is connected to a respective upper unit terminal of the next lower unit in the stack at the same column position. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710752 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590496 | Blemel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Gerald Blemel (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of sensors to be used with an apparatus providing a means for assessment of the integrity of insulated conduits, harnesses, cables, pipelines and other interconnection systems constructed with integral sensitized media, discrete sensors, and electronics providing a means for transforming sensed data into information and a means for communicating information for the purpose of understanding the location, degree and risk of damage and deterioration, and the probable causes thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/646780 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07588859 | Oh et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The electrolyte includes one or more polysiloxanes, one or more alkali metal salts, and one or more silanes. At least one polysiloxane includes side chains having poly(alkylene oxide) moieties. At east one silane includes at least one moiety selected from a first group consisting of an alkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogenated aryl group, an alkoxy group and an oxyalkylene group and at least one moiety selected from a second group consisting of an alkoxy group, an oxyalkylene group and a carbonate group. In one example, the electrochemical device is a secondary battery. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810080 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07590292 | Peter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Advanced Technologies, Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Peter (Bethesda, Maryland); Don Lemons (Wichita, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An information-theoretic method clusters and merges bi-variate normal data or ‘error ellipses’ lying in a plane. Two or more error ellipses are clustered and then merged into a single error ellipse if the information lost in the merging process is sufficiently small. This criterion is numerically implemented and tested in a code developed for this purpose. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228323 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07590544 | Snapp |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the Postal Service to provide updated address information to its customers such as mass mailers. The method includes comparing information on old delivery point files with information on current delivery point files. The delivery point files include unique identifiers that are keyed to each delivery point. Thus a comparison of older and newer files identifies delivery points that have been changed by, for example, changes in street name or renumbering of address numbers. The comparison of files generates a file with updated delivery and address information. In modified format this updated address information can be made available to mass mailers so that mass mailers will have the most up-to-date address information for mailings. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384915 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07589220 | Makriyannis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Makriyannis (Mystic, Connecticut); Andreas Goutopoulos (Boston, Massachusetts); Chen Li (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds that are anandamide transport inhibitors and their pharmacological use. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/899191 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590247 | Dinsmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | McAfee, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T Dinsmore (Ellicott City, Maryland); Michael Heyman (Columbia, Maryland); Peter Kruus (Clarksville, Maryland); Alan T Sherman (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for reusable efficient key distribution is disclosed. Key distribution is effected through the application of self-repairing groups that obviate the need for key distribution messages in portions of a hierarchical tree. In one embodiment, the self-repairing group is based on a reusable power set. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/836214 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07590517 | Doerksen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Doerksen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bin Chen (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); William F. DeGrado (Media, Pennsylvania); Michael L. Klein (Ocean City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for computational polymer processing including, without limitation, computational amphiphilic polymer design, conformational energy minimization, generation and refinement of torsional parameters for sub-units of potential polymers, generation of modified force field parameters, and prediction of conformational information for potential polymers. A target polymer backbone or portion thereof is identified. Small model compounds that have structural connectivities that are similar to structural connectivities of the target polymer backbone or portion thereof, are identified, whereby the combination of the small model compounds serve as a model of the target polymer or portion thereof. Gradient-corrected density functional theory (“DFT”) torsional potentials are calculated for the small model compounds, wherein energies are calculated at unconstrained and constrained geometries of the selected small model compounds. New torsional parameters are then obtained from the DFT torsional potentials. The new torsional parameters are combined with other terms to form a modified (or new) force field for the target polymer backbone or portion thereof. Molecular dynamics and configurational-biased Monte Carlo (“MD/MC”) simulations are performed using the modified force field, whereby results of the MD/MC simulations serve as predicted conformation properties of the target polymer backbone. The predicted conformation properties for the multiple target polymer backbones are then used to select one or more of the target polymer backbones as candidate amphiphilic polymer backbones for synthesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/446171 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20090915.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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