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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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| US 07600348 | Kostka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Kostka (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A ballistic protection shelter includes a soft-walled shelter structure wherein soft wall and soft roof portions are supported on at least one rigid support member, and an internal shelter structure for disposition within the soft-walled shelter structure. The internal shelter structure includes at least rigid side wall panels connectable to each other to form an enclosure. The panels are of a ballistic protective material adapted to provide protection to shelter occupants against explosive detonations and shrapnel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/582779 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600421 | Hollis 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) | Michael Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Matthew Hawkswell (Blairstown, New Jersey); Roger St Ours (Hopatcong, New Jersey); Donald Carlucci (Sparta, New Jersey); Boris Flyash (Wayne, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A ballistic test projectile includes a nose section comprising a windshield and aft of the windshield, an ogive; a body section aft of the nose section, the body section comprising a generally cylindrical body connected to the ogive; a base section aft of the body section, the base section comprising a base adapter connected to the body and a base bottom connected to the base adapter; a base pressure gage disposed in the base bottom; at least one side pressure gage disposed in the body; and an electronics cup disposed in the body, the electronics cup comprising a battery cup, a signal conditioning cup, a multiplexer cup, an accelerometer cup and a transmitter cup. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567938 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600461 | Cler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel L. Cler (Coatesville, Pennsylvania); David Forliti (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A muzzle brake has a rear end, a front end and a central axis. The muzzle brake includes a plurality of axially spaced turning vanes; each turning vane having an inside diameter that is substantially equal to or greater than an inside diameter of a rearmost turning vane, at least one turning vane having an inside diameter that is greater than the inside diameter of the rearmost turning vane; and each turning vane having a thickness that is substantially equal to or greater than a thickness of the rearmost turning vane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/464639 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/14.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600475 | Friedberg 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) | Jason Friedberg (Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania); Olivier T. Nguyen (Somerville, New Jersey); Barry Schwartz (Newton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-mode fuze includes first and second microprocessors, the first microprocessor being connected to a resistor/capacitor oscillator and the second microprocessor being connected to a quartz crystal oscillator, the first and second microprocessors being connected to each other, the second microprocessor being operable to time calibrate the first microprocessor; a safe and arm device connected to the first microprocessor; power storage capacitors connected to the first microprocessor; a nose mounted impact switch connected to the first microprocessor; at least one impact delay circuit connected to the first microprocessor; and at least one acceleration switch connected to the first microprocessor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421229 |
| 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 12/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600476 | Baker 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) | Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey); Arthur S. Daniels (Rockaway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Shaped charges that generate fan-like jets can produce slotted holes in rock formations. A shaped charge includes a case having on open front end, an external surface and a longitudinal axis, all transverse cross-sections of the case being bi-symmetric; an explosive material disposed in the case, the case including at least one opening extending from the external surface to the explosive material for initiation of the explosive material; and a liner disposed over the explosive material; wherein a pair of substantially identical longitudinal slots are formed on the external surface, the longitudinal slots being about 180 degrees apart. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277382 |
| 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 12/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600593 | Filippov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Filippov (Arlington, Massachusetts); John P. O'Brien (Newton, Massachusetts); Adam P. Couture (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic vehicle including a chassis having front and rear ends, an electric power source supported by the chassis, and multiple drive assemblies supporting the chassis. Each drive assembly including a track trained about a corresponding drive wheel and a drive control module. The drive control module including a drive control housing, a drive motor carried by the drive control housing and operable to drive the track, and a drive motor controller in communication with the drive motor. The drive motor controller including a signal processor and an amplifier commutator in communication with the drive motor and the signal processor and is capable of delivering both amplified and reduced power to the drive motor from the power source. In one instance, the drive control module is separately and independently removable from a receptacle of the chassis as a complete unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762458 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600711 | Nyhus |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Nyhus (Payson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Aircraft including a powerplant mounted on an airframe and a rotor/wing rotatably mounted on the airframe. The rotor/wing has multiple blades extending outward from roots adjacent the airframe to tips opposite the roots and having internal conduits extending between inlets adjacent the roots and downstream outlets. The aircraft also includes multiple intermediate ducts having upstream ends including flanges and downstream ends slidably and pivotally connected to corresponding blade inlets. Moreover, the aircraft includes a manifold having an upstream end in fluid communication with the powerplant and multiple downstream ends including flanges connected to upstream ends of corresponding intermediate ducts. The aircraft further includes multiple covers connected to corresponding manifold flanges and covering corresponding intermediate duct flanges. The aircraft also includes multiple absorbers positioned between corresponding intermediate duct flanges and manifold flanges and between the intermediate duct flanges and corresponding covers to control movement of the intermediate duct flanges. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434676 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/7.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600737 | Searle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Searle (Scottsdale, Arizona); Donald J. Christensen (Phoenix, Arizona); George T. Woessner (Phoenix, Arizona); Jason A. Gratton (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A valve includes a valve body and a free floating poppet. The valve body includes an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid flow passage therebetween. The free floating poppet is disposed in the valve body, and is moveable between at least a closed position, in which the free floating poppet at least substantially restricts fluid from flowing through the fluid flow passage, and an open position, in which fluid is allowed to flow through the fluid flow passage. The free floating poppet includes a base section and a cutback section. The base section has a first cross sectional area. The cutback section has a second cross sectional area that is less than the first cross sectional area. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/734910 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/30.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600966 | Devore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Devore (Manchester, Connecticut); Corneil S. Paauwe (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil includes an outer wall and a plurality of cooling passages or minicores formed in the outer wall. A web separates each adjacent pair of the minicores. In order to provide more effective, even cooling of the airfoil, a baffle inside the airfoil includes a plurality of outlets aligned with the webs. The fluid outlets direct the cooling fluid directly onto the web. The cooling fluid then flows through the minicores and out through exits in the minicores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333140 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601206 | Call et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MesoSystems Technology, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Call (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert C. Beckius (Placitas, New Mexico); Ezra L. Merrill (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Seung-Ho Hong (Richland, Washington); Mike Powell (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Potable water is produced by extraction of water vapor from air. Water absorbed inside a desiccant bed is forced into vapor phase by using input heat energy, for example, waste heat from the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. Pre-heating a portion of the desiccant material prior to desorption enhances efficiency. Energy for the pre-heating may be obtained by recovering heat from the desiccant material prior to adsorption. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507711 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601378 | Cholli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok L. Cholli (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vijayendra Kumar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Virinder Singh Parmar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lynne Ann Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: an antioxidant polymer and method of preparing, the antioxidant comprising repeat units that include one or both of Structural Formulas (I) and (II) wherein R is —H or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, acyl or aryl group; Ring A is substituted with at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group; Ring B is substituted with at least one —H and at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group is not taught nor fairly suggested by the prior art or any combination thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/235633 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601421 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Jiang Zhu (Houston, Texas); Haiqing Peng (Houston, Texas); Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); John L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of integrating carbon nanotubes into epoxy polymer composites via chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes, and to the carbon nanotube-epoxy polymer composites produced by such methods. Integration is enhanced through improved dispersion and/or covalent bonding with the epoxy matrix during the curing process. In general, such methods involve the attachment of chemical moieties (i.e., functional groups) to the sidewall and/or end-cap of carbon nanotubes such that the chemical moieties react with either the epoxy precursor(s) or the curing agent(s) (or both) during the curing process. Additionally, in some embodiments, these or additional chemical moieties can function to facilitate dispersion of the carbon nanotubes by decreasing the van der Waals attractive forces between the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559905 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/297.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601424 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Sungjee Kim (Pasadena, California); Nathan E. Stott (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor nanocrystal associated with a polydentate ligand. The polydentate ligand stabilizes the nanocrystal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543829 |
| 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 07601425 | Stoffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Stoffer (Rolla, Missouri); Thomas O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Eric Morris (Irvine, California); Pu Yu (Rolla, Missouri); Scott A. Hayes (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating composition comprising an effective corrosion-inhibiting amount of a carbon pigment is provided. In one embodiment, the corrosion-inhibiting carbon pigment is further comprising other components such as extenders, including neutral to slightly acidic generating extenders and acidic generating extenders, are earth compounds, amino acids and amino acid derivatives, gelatin and gelatin derivatives, organic-based exchange resins, and combinations thereof, to enhance the corrosion resistance of the resultant coating film. In one embodiment, the carbon pigment is a surface-modified carbon pigment. The coating compositions have good adhesion to substrates such as metals, including aluminum and aluminum alloys. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758973 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601441 | Jenny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Ronald Jenny (Wake Forest, North Carolina); David Phillip Malta (Raleigh, North Carolina); Hudson McDonald Hobgood (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Stephan Georg Mueller (Durham, North Carolina); Mark Brady (Carrboro, North Carolina); Robert Tyler Leonard (Raleigh, North Carolina); Adrian Powell (Apex, North Carolina); Valerl F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A single polytype single crystal silicon carbide wafer is disclosed having a diameter greater than three inches and less than five inches, resistivity greater than 10,000 ohm-cm, a micropipe density less than 200 cm−2, and a combined concentration of shallow level dopants less than 5E16 cm−3. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/876963 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601483 | Guerrero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Guerrero (Rolla, Missouri); Robert Christian Cox (Rolla, Missouri); Marc W. Weimer (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel, wet developable anti-reflective coating compositions and methods of using those compositions are provided. The compositions comprise a polymer and/or oligomer having acid functional groups and dissolved in a solvent system along with a crosslinker and a photoacid generator. The preferred acid functional group is a carboxylic acid, while the preferred crosslinker is a vinyl ether crosslinker. In use, the compositions are applied to a substrate and thermally crosslinked. Upon exposure to light, the cured compositions will decrosslink, rendering them soluble in typical photoresist developing solutions (e.g., alkaline developers). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613704 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601554 | Coutu, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Coutu, Jr. (Beavercreek, Ohio); Paul E. Kladitis (New Carlisle, Ohio); Robert L. Crane (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS switch fabrication process and apparatus inclusive of a bulbous rounded surface movable contact assembly that is integral with the switch movable element and achieving of long contact wear life with low contact electrical resistance. The disclosed process is compatible with semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication materials and procedures and includes an unusual photoresist reflow step in which the bulbous contact shape is quickly defined in three dimensions from more easily achieved integrated circuit mask and etching-defined precursor shapes. A plurality of differing photoresist materials are used in the process. A large part of the contact and contact spring formation used in the invention is accomplished with low temperature processing including electroplating. Alternate processing steps achieving an alloy metal contact structure are included. Use of a subroutine of processing steps to achieve differing but related portions of the electrical contact structure is also included. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/047345 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601747 | Irvin 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) | David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California); Mark H. Mason (Inyokern, California); Richard Hollins (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A one-pot process for making energetic cast cured binders making di-tetrazoles to produce di-functional di-tetrazole diols for making tetrazole base polymers. Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to a process for preparation of a di-functional monomer including reacting an effective amount of nitrile(s) with inorganic azide and a divalent zinc salt in a first solvent, cooling to room temperature producing a di-tetrazole, purifying said di-tetrazole by recrystallization in a second solvent, and reacting an effective amount of said purified di-tetrazole with a third solvent, a soluble reversible or non-reversible base, and 2-chloro-ethanol, cooling to room temperature producing a di-tetrazole diol and is prepared in a one-pot process. Embodiments of the present invention further include the monomers produced by the one-pot process described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/151185 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/381 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601823 | Niu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Niu (Loundonville, New York); Zhen Huang (Albany, New York); Hua Shi (Ithaca, New York); John T. Lis (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel nucleic acid ligands or aptamers that bind to and inhibit the activation of the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate (AMPA) subtype of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Also disclosed is a novel combination of technologies, i.e., SELEX and laser pulse photolysis for the selection and screening of aptamers that inhibit receptor function and are useful therefore, in the treatment of diseases associated with excessive activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256726 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601849 | Jen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Larry R. Dalton (Silverdale, Washington); Hong Ma (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nonlinear optically active compounds, macrostructures that include nonlinear optically active components, and devices including the macrostructures. The nonlinear optically active compounds include dendrimers having two or more nonlinear optically active components. In certain embodiments, the compounds and dendrimers are crosslinkable. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/212473 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602281 | Manz 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) | Paul C. Manz (Matawan, New Jersey); Fernando J. Maymi (West Point, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An information system, method, and computer program product is provided for the distributed warning of existing or developing significant events and/or threats to users carrying a user warning and positioning device, while reporting the location of all user's carrying the user warning and positioning devices of the system to existing command and control systems. The present invention's future event warning capabilities permit those same users to be warned of impending events in enough time for the users to take positive actions in response to these events and/or address those events. The system of the present invention includes a pager-like user warning and positioning device, worn by or carried by the individual user, or mounted in a vehicle or vessel, having a geographical positioning means therein, which periodically transmits the geographical location of the individual user, vehicle or vessel, and listens for warning/notification event messages transmitted by a network bridge or situational awareness workstation (central processing means). When an event/threat warning is received by the user warning and positioning device, the pager-like user warning and positioning alerts the user via indicia relative to the event/situation, including audible spoken warnings and instructions on how to react, and may retransmit the event/threat warning to other user warning and positioning devices in the network, provided the threat has not occurred and the event/threat warning has not been previously relayed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489802 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602332 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chul J. Lee (Lexington, Massachusetts); Brian J. Harkins (Westford, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Simmons (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one example, a method to reduce scattering centers (SC) includes receiving a set of SC data points associated with an object in three-dimensional space, partitioning the SC data points into a plurality of volumes, aggregating the SC data points within each volume based on an aggregate threshold and combining the aggregated SC data points associated with each volume to form a reduced set of SC data points. The method also includes comparing the reduced set of SC data points with the received set of SC data points to determine if the reduced set of SC data points meets a set of comparison metrics and if the reduced set of SC data points meets the set of comparison metrics, increasing the size of the volumes and performing another iteration of reducing the SC data points by volume. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/138814 |
| 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 342/169 |
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| US 07602336 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Samuel J. Curry (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes antenna elements configured to receive a signal including pseudo-random code, and electronics configured to use the pseudo-random code to determine time delays of signals incident upon the antenna elements and to compensate the signals to coherently combine the antenna elements. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761348 |
| 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 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602339 | Fullerton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Time Domain Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry W. Fullerton (Owens Crossroads, Alabama); Mark D. Roberts (Huntsville, Alabama); W. Michael Einhorn, II (Madison, Alabama); Kelly Loum (Athens, Alabama); Irina Dodoukh (Huntsville, Alabama); S. Scott O'Hanian (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for extensible positioning that uses a primary reference node at a known first position and a secondary reference node at a second position, where a range is measured between the secondary reference node and the primary reference node. The second position is determined based upon the first position and the measured range. A second range is measured between the secondary reference node and a non-fixed node. A third position corresponding to the non-fixed node is determined based upon the second position and the second range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/822239 |
| 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 342/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Philip Amidon (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for displaying three-dimensional images includes a base portion forming a housing adapted to house electronics and mechanics, and having a planar surface, a projection member disposed in a position removed from the base portion planar surface, drive rods extending from the base portion and connected to the projection member covered by a layer to mask/reveal selectable pixels, the drive rods being movable by electronics and mechanics disposed in the base portion to move the projection member through planes parallel to the base portion planar surface, and a transparent envelope enclosing the base portion planar surface, the drive rods, and the projection member, the envelope being adapted to contain a near vacuum therein. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185080 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602496 | Harsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sporian Microsystems, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Harsh (Westminster, Colorado); Brian Schaible (Longmont, Colorado); Wenge Zhang (Louisville, Colorado); William Garrett (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Christopher P. Mattison (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved optical sensor and methods for measuring the presence of various materials or constituents in a fluid sample uses one or more reactive materials in a fluid environment. The reactive materials have optical properties that change in the presence of one or more target materials that may be present in the environment. One or more optical emitters generate light that is directed to the reactive material(s), and one or more optical detectors receive light from the reactive material(s), and the presence or absence of the target material is determined based on the light received at the optical detector(s). The reactive material(s), emitter(s), and detector(s) are selected based on the desired target material to be sensed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686820 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602597 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TASER International, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick W. Smith (Scottsdale, Arizona); Magne H. Nerheim (Paradise Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for immobilizing a target such as a human or animal with a stimulus signal coupled to the target via numerous electrodes select particular electrodes to use for the stimulus signal. Subsets of electrodes may be tested by applying a test signal and monitoring the energy or charge delivered during a prescribed time. If the delivered energy or charge using a particular subset of electrodes as indicated by monitoring test pulse amplitude suitably compares to a limit, then the particular subset is selected for applying the stimulus signal. A first stimulus signal may be applied to a first subset of electrodes to prompt movement of the target toward an electrode that, when better coupled to the target as a consequence of movement of the target will provide a more effective subset of electrodes for further stimulus. For example, a projectile with closely spaced electrodes may stimulate a burning sensation to attract the target to impale the target's hand on a rear facing electrode of the projectile. Use of the rear facing electrode and one or more of the closely spaced electrodes may provide a more effective stimulus circuit through tissue of the target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307789 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514577 |
| 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 07602858 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514460 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602997 | Young |
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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) | Shiqiong Susan Young (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention presents a super-resolution image reconstruction from a sequence of aliased imagery. The sub-pixel shifts (displacement) among the images are unknown due to uncontrolled natural jitter of the imager. A correlation method is utilized to estimate sub-pixel shifts between each low resolution aliased image with respect to a reference image. An error-energy reduction algorithm is derived to reconstruct the high-resolution alias-free output image. The main feature of this proposed error-energy reduction algorithm is that we treat the spatial samples from low-resolution images that possess unknown and irregular (uncontrolled) sub-pixel shifts as a set of constraints to populate an over-sampled (sampled above the desired output bandwidth) processing array. The estimated sub-pixel locations of these samples and their values constitute a spatial domain constraint. Furthermore, the bandwidth of the alias-free image (or the sensor imposed bandwidth) is the criterion used as a spatial frequency domain constraint on the over-sampled processing array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038401 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Soref (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A CMOS compatible ten-gigabit-per-second region nano-waveguide included photonic communication link apparatus of low energy use per transmitted bit. An embodiment of the link includes an electrically pumped laser, an electro absorption modulator and a photodetector for the 1.5 to 2.0 micrometer infrared spectral region; omission of the separate electro absorption modulator is additionally disclosed. Each of these three nano-scale elements preferably includes active semiconductor crystal material situated in a preferably Silicon resonator within a nano-strip waveguide. The resonator is defined by dispersed resonator mirrors having tapered separation distance one dimensional photonic crystal lattice apertures of oxide holes or slots. Each of the three devices may be a semiconductor heterodiode pumped or controlled by laterally disposed wings enclosing the resonator to form a lateral PIN heterodiode for current injection or high E-field generation depending on bias and composition conditions selected. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801766 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603041 | Varshneya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Varshneya (Del Mar, California); Larry Jeffers (Minerva, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic optical tag system and method that allows for operation over a wide temperature range. A variable wavelength optical source, such as a dual wavelength fiber laser, is generated by combining the outputs from two distributed feedback lasers having separate operating wavelengths using a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM). A quantum well optical modulator mounted on the front surface of a retro-reflector in the remote receiver end of the communication link is biased to modulate one of the two laser wavelengths. At higher temperatures, the optical modulator can be biased to operate at the wavelength of one of the two lasers. At a lower temperature, the optical modulator can be biased to operate at the second of the two wavelengths. The DC bias required to tune the optical modulator is reduced by operating at two separate wavelengths depending on temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150828 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603166 | Casscells, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Ward Casscells, III (Houston, Texas); James T. Willerson (Houston, Texas); Morteza Naghavi (Houston, Texas); Bujin Guo (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the detection of inflammation associated with vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque to prevent heart attack and stroke are disclosed. The methods are also applicable to detection of infection, cancer, wounds or auto-immune disease in the body. Certain embodiments of the new methods provide a way of predicting the level of vulnerability of an atherosclerotic plaque to rupture or thrombus formation by assessing via fiber optic NIR spectrophotometry the status of two or more parameters associated with inflamed atherosclerotic plaque in a vessel of a living patient. From these measurements such conditions as low pH, hypoxia, low glucose, oxidative stress or compounds abundant in vulnerable plaque such as oxidized LDL cholesterol and oxidized metabolites of NO, significant active macrophage population, thin plaque cap, as well as senescence and/or apoptosis of smooth muscle or endothelial cells are determined with the assistance of a suitably programmed microprocessor. By considering together the status of some or all of these conditions with respect to successive sites along a vessel wall, particular plaques which are at significant risk of rupturing or thrombosing can be distinguished from “normal” vessel wall and from “intermediate” and relatively stable or “lower risk” plaques. Sites having more of the indicator conditions would be considered most in need of prompt intervention, and certain combinations of parameter levels would be suggestive of relatively stable plaque. Also disclosed is a multi-parameter catheter and analytical processing assembly for use in the methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/640570 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603212 | Ariyur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kartik B. Ariyur (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Daniel P. Johnson (Fridley, Minnesota); Dharmashankar Subramanian (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of implementing a plurality of unmanned vehicles over an obstacle field. The method includes obtaining a physical map of the obstacle field. Discretizing the physical map into traversable edges that avoid the obstacles, the traversable edges meeting at nodes. Replacing sections of the traversable edges that are beyond the maneuverability of the unmanned vehicles with traversable arcs. Determining traverse time parameters associated with paths through the obstacle fields, each path made up of select traversable edges and select traversable arcs and using the traverse time parameters in planning and scheduling the vehicles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/393086 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603251 | Wiegert 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) | Roy Wiegert (Panama City, Florida); John Oeschger (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic anomaly sensing system and method uses at least eight triaxial magnetometer (TM) sensors arranged to define a cubic space. Each TM sensor measures a local magnetic field associated with a target region and generates magnetic field data indicative thereof. The magnetic field data is processed in accordance with a magnetic scalar triangulation and ranging (STAR) processing scheme to determine a plurality of gradient contractions CT,I at a corresponding plurality of measurement points I to include at least at the center of each face of the cubic space. Gradient contraction pairs are defined for each sensors' X, Y, Z magnetic sensing axes. A directional derivative ∇CT is determined using the gradient contraction pairs and the baseline distances therebetween. A unit vector, calculated using the directional derivative ∇CT, is used in determining a projection distance from each of the measurement points toward the target region. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214803 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603642 | Subasic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pero Subasic (Santa Clara, California); Xuejin Wang (Chandler, Arizona); Enis A. Dengi (Tempe, Arizona); Ibraz H. Mohammed (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of placement of components and networks (nets), utilized for interconnecting the components, of a circuit layout. The method includes forming for electrical devices, pads (or lands) and networks (nets) of a circuit layout a listing of the positions thereof with respect to one another, connections therebetween and the orientation of each net or subnet thereof in the circuit layout. The thus formed list is processed subject to at least one objective regarding the size of the circuit layout, whereupon a placement of the electrical devices and the pads is determined simultaneously with the placement of the networks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/528235 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603704 | Bruening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek L. Bruening (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir L. Kiriansky (Mountain View, California); Saman P. Amarasinghe (Waltham, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Hijacking of an application is prevented by monitoring control flow transfers during program execution in order to enforce a security policy. At least three basic techniques are used. The first technique, Restricted Code Origins (RCO), can restrict execution privileges on the basis of the origins of instruction executed. This distinction can ensure that malicious code masquerading as data is never executed, thwarting a large class of security attacks. The second technique, Restricted Control Transfers (RCT), can restrict control transfers based on instruction type, source, and target. The third technique, Un-Circumventable Sandboxing (UCS), guarantees that sandboxing checks around any program operation will never be bypassed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/739499 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603709 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Computer Associates Think, Inc. (Islandia, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lundy M. Lewis (Mason, New Hampshire); Joao B. D. Cabrera (Woburn, Massachusetts); Raman K. Mehra (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment of a method and apparatus for predicting and preventing network attacks, data is collected from network devices during an attack. The collected data is analyzed to identify specific temporal precursors of the attack. The future network activity is then monitored for the presence of the identified temporal attack precursors. When the presence of a precursor is detected, appropriate protective action is taken. Preferably, all steps in this process occur automatically. In the preferred embodiment, the process is performed under the control of one or more network or element management systems. The possible network domain includes data, voice, and video networks and multiple, interconnected network technologies. In one embodiment, triggers responsive to the presence of the identified precursors are placed into a network or element management system. The preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes machine-learning algorithms for discovering precursors of attacks, but any suitable algorithm may be used. The invention may be used in “attack autopsy” mode only, monitoring mode only, or both. Among other uses, the invention allows integration of Intrusion Detection Systems with Network Management Systems. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/138836 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Sliwa, Jr. (Los Altos, California); Prasanna Hariharan (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald A. Robinson (Germantown, Maryland); Matthew R. Myers (Potomac, Maryland); Subha Maruvada (North Bethesda, Maryland); Rupak K. Banerjee (Mason, Ohio); Gerald R. Harris (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for optically characterizing an acoustic beam generally includes an immersant, which is an immersion medium seeded with a plurality of seed particles that respond to illumination with fluorescence indicative of at least one parameter of the immersant such as flow or temperature. Optical transmitters illuminate the immersant slicewise, and optical receptors receive the fluorescence in order to generate a three-dimensional map of the parameter over time. A processor back-calculates one or more characteristics of an acoustic beam that results in the map. The processor initially generates a behavior model of an acoustic beam propagating in the immersant by utilizing initial guesses for the characteristics. The initial guess model is compared to the map, and an optimization routine is used to refine the initial guesses. The process repeats iteratively with refined guesses until the difference between the model and the map is minimized. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642989 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07600604 | Babcock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hearing Components, Inc. (Oakdale, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin P. Babcock (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Robert J. Oliveira (Maplewood, Minnesota); William Parish (Maplewood, Minnesota); Vasant V. Kolpe (Mendota Heights, Minnesota); Michael T. Venem (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A user-disposable member for placement and retention within the auditory anatomy, such as an ear canal. The user-disposable member includes a polymeric foam material, wherein the user-disposable member has a first portion having a peripheral outer surface having a first coefficient of friction, and a second portion having a peripheral outer surface having a second coefficient of friction different from the first coefficient of friction. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/347600 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601104 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Agrawal (Newark, Delaware); Abbas Fattah (Newark, Delaware); Glenn Catlin (Bloomfield, New Jersey); John Hamnett (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive gravity balancing assist device for human sit-to-stand motion is provided. The design combines the use of auxiliary parallelograms with springs to produce an orthotic device wherein the total potential energy of the system is constant during standing and sitting motion. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409163 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601122 | Zagzebski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Zagzebski (Madison, Wisconsin); Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrasonic strain measurements, which characterize the structure of tissue, may be obtained by combining multiple echo signals acquired at different compressions and at different angles. Such angular compounding may improve the quality of the elastic signal and provide at one time both an axial and lateral strain measurement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/765293 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601270 | Unger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Pasadena, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/605520 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601341 | Rosenblum |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Rosenblum (Sugarland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The 121-amino acid isoform of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF121) is linked by a flexible G4S tether to a cytotoxic molecule such as toxin gelonin or granzyme B and expressed as a soluble fusion protein. The VEGF121, fusion protein exhibits significant anti-tumor vascular-ablative effects that inhibit the growth of primary tumors and inhibit metastatic spread and vascularization of metastases. The VEGF121 fusion protein also target osteoclast precursor cells in vivo and inhibits osteoclastogenesis. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/919193 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601355 | Howard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence Howard (Vienna, Austria); Stephen Miller (Oak Park, Illinois); Brian Shoichet (San Francisco, California); John Irwin (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to molecules that stabilize and/or enhance CD154 activity, compositions comprising these molecules, methods for using these molecules and compositions (e.g., pharmaceutical compositions) comprising them. Specifically, the molecules can be used for enhancing immune function (e.g., enhancing Th1 cytokine expression), stimulating immune responses, and/or treating certain disorders (e.g., cancer, infectious disease, and immune compromised states). The invention also relates to kits and compositions comprising the molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444591 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601357 | Kolattukudy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pappachan E. Kolattukudy (Orlando, Florida); Chirajyoti Deb (Oviedo, Florida); Jaiyanth Daniel (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel methods for screening for compounds useful in treating or preventing tuberculosis. In exemplary embodiments, screening methods are based on the implementation or manipulation of triacylglycerol hydrolase like polypeptides or polynucleotides encoding the same. The methods are useful in identifying agents active against TB infection. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561460 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601358 | Fox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Yong Chang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins and protein compositions that are components of a desaturase complex are provided. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis desaturase complex may include a desaturase and an oxidoreductase. The complex may include the rv3229c and rv3230c gene products of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Vectors for expressing the desaturase and the oxidoreductase can be packaged together, including a label that indicates their use as a complex for analyzing desaturation of fatty acids. In addition, methods for screening target ligands specific for a desaturase complex are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899080 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fordham University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pramod K. Srivastava (Riverdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for eliciting an immune response and the prevention and treatment of primary and metastatic neoplastic diseases and infectious diseases. The methods of the invention comprise administering a composition comprising an effective amount of a complex, in which the complex consists essentially of a heat shock protein (hsp) noncovalently bound to an antigenic molecule. “Antigenic molecule” as used herein refers to the peptides with which the hsps are endogenously associated in vivo as well as exogenous antigens/immunogens (i.e., with which the hsps are not complexed in vivo) or antigenic/immunogenic fragments and derivatives thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the complex is autologous to the individual. The effective amounts of the complex are in the range of 10-600 micrograms for complexes comprising hsp70, 50-1000 micrograms for hsp90, and 10-600 micrograms for gp96. The invention also provides a method for measuring tumor rejection in vivo in an individual, preferably a human, comprising measuring the generation by the individual of MHC Class I-restricted CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes specific to the tumor. Methods of purifying hsp70-peptide complexes are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/090754 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
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07601489 — Manganese ion regulation of reverse transcriptase activity and methods of modulating same
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jef D. Boeke (Baltimore, Maryland); Eric C. Bolton (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying agents that modulate reverse transcriptase activity in a cell by affecting manganese ion transport across a membrane of the cell are provided, as are agents identified using such methods. Also provided are methods of modulating reverse transcriptase activity by affecting manganese ion concentration. In addition, methods of reducing or inhibiting infection of cells with a retrotransposable element are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/507252 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07601490 | Krug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Krug (Austin, Texas); Karen Y. Twu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, methods and systems to isolate and characterize novel antiviral agents by contacting the antiviral agent with the F2F3 zinc fingers of a CPSF30 protein and an Influenza A NS1A protein; and determining whether the binding between the CPSF30 protein and the Influenza A NS1A protein is reduced. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566214 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07601492 | Fu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Dong Fu (San Diego, California); Young-Soo Kwon (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of examining the binding of proteins to DNA across a genome (e.g., the entire genome or a portion thereof, such as one or more chromosomes or a chromosome regions). In particular, the disclosure relates to a method of identifying a regulatory region (e.g., a protein or enhancer region) of genomic DNA to which a protein of interest binds. In one aspect, the disclosure looks at tissue related regulation. In another aspect, the disclosure looks at developmental related regulation. In yet another aspect, the disclosure looks at regulation of expression in a particular disease state or disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561764 |
| 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 |
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| US 07601494 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xianbin Tian (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Peijin Zhang (Apex, North Carolina); Kim L. R. Brouwer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening a candidate compound for susceptibility to biliary excretion by a hepatocyte transport protein. The method includes the steps of providing a culture of hepatocytes comprising a transport protein, the culture having at least one bile canaliculus; exposing a candidate compound to the culture; and determining an amount of candidate compound in the at least one bile canaliculus, the amount of candidate compound in the at least one bile canaliculus indicating the susceptibility of the candidate compound to biliary excretion by the transport protein. In some embodiments determining the amount of candidate compound in the bile canaliculus comprises inhibiting expression of the transport protein, measuring the amount of candidate compound in the bile canaliculus and comparing amounts of compound in the canalicules with and without inhibition of the transport protein. A difference in the amount of candidate compound in the canaliculus indicates susceptibility of the candidate compound to biliary excretion by the transport protein. In one embodiment, expression of the transport protein is inhibited through introduction of a RNA having a sequence corresponding to a coding strand of the gene encoding the transport protein into the hepatocyte. Optionally, the culture of hepatocytes is a long-term culture in a sandwich configuration. The method is particularly applicable to the screening of multiple candidate compounds in a single effort. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/842404 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07601499 | Berka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 454 Life Sciences Corporation (Branford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Berka (Guilford, Connecticut); Zhoutao Chen (Milford, Connecticut); Michael Egholm (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Brian C. Godwin (North Haven, Connecticut); Stephen Kyle Hutchison (Branford, Connecticut); John Harris Leamon (Guilford, Connecticut); Gary James Sarkis (Guilford, Connecticut); Jan Fredrik Simons (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method of preparing a target nucleic acid fragments to produce a smaller nucleic acid which comprises the two ends of the target nucleic acid. Specifically, the invention provides cloning and DNA manipulation strategies to isolate the two ends of a large target nucleic acid into a single small DNA construct for rapid cloning, sequencing, or amplification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448462 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07601517 | Gambhir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Portola Valley, California); Paulmurugan Ramasamy (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include split protein systems, fusion proteins, methods of producing the split protein systems, methods of screening macromolecular delivery vehicles, methods of cellular localization of proteins, methods of monitoring cell fusion, methods of detecting phosphorylation, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651956 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
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| US 07601526 | Berman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Affinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Toronto, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judd M. Berman (Toronto, Canada); Molly B. Schmid (Toronto, Canada); Donald E. Awrey (Mississauga, Canada); Teresa Clarke (Toronto, Canada); Bryan Beattie (Oakville, Canada); Mandy Dorsey (Brantford, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel drug targets for pathogenic bacteria. Accordingly, the invention provides purified protein derived from Fransicella tularensis comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention also provides biochemical and biophysical characteristics of the polypeptides of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/647506 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 07601694 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (Carmel, New York); Jennifer M. Roth (North Babylon, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes methods for inhibiting angiogenesis in a tissue by administering an antagonist that specifically binds to a proteolyzed or denatured collagen type-IV with substantially greater affinity than to the native triple helical form of collagen type-IV. 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. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782728 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
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| US 07601695 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Hsing Liang (San Diego, California); Jonathan Duffield (San Diego, California); Alex Romero (San Diego, California); Yu-Hung Chiu (San Diego, California); David Rabuka (San Diego, California); Sulan Yao (San Diego, California); Steve Sucheck (Maumee, Ohio); Kenneth Marby (San Diego, California); Youe-kong Shue (San Diego, California); Yoshi Ichikawa (San Diego, California); Chan-Kou Hwang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel macrolides, the preparation of novel macrolides, to the use of novel macrolides for preventing, treating, or ameliorating various conditions, and the use of novel macrolides as antibacterial agents. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/548698 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/29 |
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| US 07601696 | Blanck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Blanck (Tampa, Florida); Kimberly Palubin (Atlanta, Georgia); Aaron Osborne (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Oct-1 is shown to be an oncoprotein because of its known role as an activator of the histone H2B gene and the importance of this gene during DNA synthesis. To determine the role of Oct-1 as an oncoprotein, the cell line 5637 (ATCC HTB9) was transfected with the vector pcDNA3 containing full length, antisense Oct-1 cDNA. This cell line is Rb-defective and has been shown to have increased Oct-1 binding activity as compared to Rb reconstituted clones. After transfection, Oct-1 antisense clones were grown and assayed for the loss of oncogenic characteristics as compared to control transformants. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711101 |
| 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 07601697 | Cheever et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington); Mary L Disis (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions for eliciting or enhancing immune reactivity to HER-2/neu protein are disclosed. The compounds include polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding such peptides. The compounds may be used for the prevention or treatment of malignancies in which the HER-2/neu oncogene is associated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/121347 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07601750 | Guy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Kiplin Guy (Concord, California); Irwin D. Kuntz (Greenbrae, California); Jose Haresco (San Francisco, California); Naoaki Fujii (South San Francisco, California); Kathleen P. Novak (Watham, Massachusetts); David Stokoe (San Francisco, California); Biao He (South San Francisco, California); Liang You (San Francisco, California); Zhidong Xu (San Francisco, California); David M. Jablons (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds that have been found effective in inhibiting PDZ domain interactions, and particularly interactions of PDZ domains in MAGIs with the oncogenic (tumor suppressor) protein PTEN and interactions between the PDZ domain in the Dishevelled (Dvl) protein and other proteins such as the Frizzled (Fz) protein, have the general formula The invention also includes combinatorial libraries, arrays and methods for screening and studying proteins using such compounds. Compounds of the invention have produced apoptosis in certain cell lines that overexpress the Dishevelled protein (Dvl); inhibiting Wnt signaling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580001 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
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| US 07601802 | Bielicki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Bielicki (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cysteine containing amphipathic alpha helices of the exchangeable apolipoproteins, as exemplified by apolipoprotein (apo) A-IMilano (R173C) and apoA-IParis, (R151C) were found to exhibit potent antioxidant activity on phospholipid surfaces. The addition of a free thiol, at the hydrophobic/hydrophilic interface of an amphipathic alpha helix of synthetic peptides that mimic HDL-related proteins, imparts a unique antioxidant activity to these peptides which inhibits lipid peroxidation and protects phospholipids from water-soluble free radical initiators. These peptides can be used as therapeutic agents to combat cardiovascular disease, ischemia, bone disease and other inflammatory related diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177225 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/333 |
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| US 07601806 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Thompson (Houston, Texas); Chenghui Ren (Houston, Texas); Chengzhen Ren (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to purified and isolated novel RGL polypeptides, the nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, processes for production of recombinant forms of such polypeptides, antibodies generated against these polypeptides, fragmented peptides derived from these polypeptides, and the uses of the above. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559994 |
| 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 |
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| US 07601816 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Simmons (Provo, Utah); N. Vishvanath Chandrasekharan (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the isolation of novel cyclooxygenase type 1 (COX-1) variant enzymes. More specifically, the invention relates to the identification of cyclooxygenase transcripts harboring inton 1, or fragment thereof, of cyclooxygenase 1. The invention further relates to the diagnosis of aberrant cyclooxygenase type 1 variant gene or gene product; the identification, production, and use of compounds which modulate cyclooxygenase type 1 variant gene expression or the activity of the cyclooxygenase type 1 variant gene product including but not limited to nucleic acid encoding cyclooxygenase type 1 variants and homologues, analogues, and deletions thereof, as well as antisense, ribozyme, triple helix, antibody, and polypeptide molecules as well as small inorganic molecules; and pharmaceutical formulations and routes of administration for such compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601208 |
| 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 530/387.900 |
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| US 07601823 | Niu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Niu (Loundonville, New York); Zhen Huang (Albany, New York); Hua Shi (Ithaca, New York); John T. Lis (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel nucleic acid ligands or aptamers that bind to and inhibit the activation of the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate (AMPA) subtype of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Also disclosed is a novel combination of technologies, i.e., SELEX and laser pulse photolysis for the selection and screening of aptamers that inhibit receptor function and are useful therefore, in the treatment of diseases associated with excessive activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256726 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07601846 | Cottam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard B. Cottam (Escondido, California); Dennis A. Carson (La Jolla, California); Sylvie Barchechath (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that can protect mammalian cells from the damaging effects of chemotherapy, irradiation, or in other situations in which it is desirable to protect tissue from the consequences of clinical or environmental stress. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271511 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/151 |
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| US 07601883 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Zuker (Del Mar, California); Angela L. Huang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Acid/sour taste receptors are provided. CSF pH sensing receptors are provided. Methods and systems for screening for tastants and receptor modulators are provided. Knock out and transgenic animals, antibodies to the receptors, methods of detecting polymorphisms, and methods of correcting taste defects are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483423 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
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| US 07602183 | Lustig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Lustig (Stanford, California); Juan M. Santos (Stanford, California); David L Donoho (Setauket, New York); John M. Pauly (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dynamic resonance imaging is provided. A magnetic resonance imaging excitation is applied. Data in 2 or 3 spatial frequency dimensions, and time is acquired, where an acquisition order in at least one spatial frequency dimension and the time dimension are in a pseudo-random order. The pseudo-random order and enforced sparsity constraints are used to reconstruct a time series of dynamic magnetic resonance images. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029583 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07602501 | Ralston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tyler S. Ralston (Waltham, Massachusetts); Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois); Paul Scott Carney (Champaign, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional imaging of a sample. A source is provided of a beam of substantially collimated light characterized by a temporally dependent spectrum. The beam is focused in a plane characterized by a fixed displacement along the propagation axis of the beam, and scattered light from the sample is superposed with a reference beam derived from the substantially collimated source onto a focal plane detector array to provide an interference signal. A forward scattering model is derived relating measured data to structure of an object to allow solution of an inverse scattering problem based upon the interference signal so that a three-dimensional structure of the sample may be inferred in near real time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775572 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
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| US 07603240 | Halligan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Halligan (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Edward A. Dratz (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a peptide identification method along with related peptide databases, method of generating the databases, computer usable media, and computer program products. The peptide identification method involves the use of qualitative amino acid composition or partial qualitative amino acid composition information of a query peptide obtained by mass spectrometry to correlate the query peptide to one or more peptides with defined amino acid sequences in a peptide database generated according to the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038642 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/20 |
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| US RE40937 | Tabibzadeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siamak Tabibzadeh (Albertson, New York); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the early diagnosing of selected adenocarcinomas in a human comprising the steps of removing a bodily sample from the human, and assaying the bodily sample for elevated expression of a specific gene. The gene being assayed for in the bodily sample is the TGFB-4 gene (hereinafter referred to as the endometrial bleeding associated factor (ebaf) gene. The bodily sample can be tissue from a specific organ in the body, or a blood sample. Increased levels of ebaf in the sample relative to basal levels may be indicative of a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon or ovaries, or an adenocarcinoma of the testis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801427 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Triveni Srinivasan-Rao (Shoreham, New York); Ilan Ben-Zvi (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron gun for generating an electron beam is provided, which includes a secondary emitter. The secondary emitter includes a non-contaminating negative-electron-affinity (NEA) material and emitting surface. The gun includes an accelerating region which accelerates the secondaries from the emitting surface. The secondaries are emitted in response to a primary beam generated external to the accelerating region. The accelerating region may include a superconducting radio frequency (RF) cavity, and the gun may be operated in a continuous wave (CW) mode. The secondary emitter includes hydrogenated diamond. A uniform electrically conductive layer is superposed on the emitter to replenish the extracted current, preventing charging of the emitter. An encapsulated secondary emission enhanced cathode device, useful in a superconducting RF cavity, includes a housing for maintaining vacuum, a cathode, e.g., a photocathode, and the non-contaminating NEA secondary emitter with the uniform electrically conductive layer superposed thereon. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/734400 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/23 |
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| US 07601215 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qi Wang (Littleton, Colorado); Paul Stradins (Golden, Colorado); Charles Teplin (Boulder, Colorado); Howard M. Branz (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing epitaxial silicon films on a c-Si wafer substrate using hot wire chemical vapor deposition by controlling the rate of silicon deposition in a temperature range that spans the transition from a monohydride to a hydrogen free silicon surface in a vacuum, to obtain phase-pure epitaxial silicon film of increased thickness is disclosed. The method includes placing a c-Si substrate in a HWCVD reactor chamber. The method also includes supplying a gas containing silicon at a sufficient rate into the reaction chamber to interact with the substrate to deposit a layer containing silicon thereon at a predefined growth rate to obtain phase-pure epitaxial silicon film of increased thickness. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560886 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601262 | Tepper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Argonide Corporation (Sanford, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Tepper (Sanford, Florida); Leonid Kaledin (Port Orange, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminum hydroxide fibers approximately 2 nanometers in diameter and with surface areas ranging from 200 to 650 m2/g have been found to be highly electropositive. When dispersed in water they are able to attach to and retain electronegative particles. When combined into a composite filter with other fibers or particles they can filter bacteria and nano size particulates such as viruses and colloidal particles at high flux through the filter. Such filters can be used for purification and sterilization of water, biological, medical and pharmaceutical fluids, and as a collector/concentrator for detection and assay of microbes and viruses. The alumina fibers are also capable of filtering sub-micron inorganic and metallic particles to produce ultra pure water. The fibers are suitable as a substrate for growth of cells. Macromolecules such as proteins may be separated from each other based on their electronegative charges. |
| FILED | Monday, December 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/023281 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/502.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601286 | Benett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Benett (Livermore, California); Peter Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Mariam Maghribi (Livermore, California); Julie Hamilton (Tracy, California); Klint Rose (Boston, Massachusetts); Amy W. Wang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a polymer-based microfluidic system platform using network building blocks selected from a set of interconnectable network building blocks, such as wire, pins, blocks, and interconnects. The selected building blocks are interconnectably assembled and fixedly positioned in precise positions in a mold cavity of a mold frame to construct a three-dimensional model construction of a microfluidic flow path network preferably having meso-scale dimensions. A hardenable liquid, such as poly (dimethylsiloxane) is then introduced into the mold cavity and hardened to form a platform structure as well as to mold the microfluidic flow path network having channels, reservoirs and ports. Pre-fabricated elbows, T's and other joints are used to interconnect various building block elements together. After hardening the liquid the building blocks are removed from the platform structure to make available the channels, cavities and ports within the platform structure. Microdevices may be embedded within the cast polymer-based platform, or bonded to the platform structure subsequent to molding, to create an integrated microfluidic system. In this manner, the new microfluidic platform is versatile and capable of quickly generating prototype systems, and could easily be adapted to a manufacturing setting. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/107933 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601294 | Ripley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan S. Morrell (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for high volume production of nanoparticles, nanotubes, and items incorporating nanoparticles and nanotubes. Microwave, radio frequency, or infrared energy vaporizes a metal catalyst which, as it condenses, is contacted by carbon or other elements such as silicon, germanium, or boron to form agglomerates. The agglomerates may be annealed to accelerate the production of nanotubes. Magnetic or electric fields may be used to align the nanotubes during their production. The nanotubes may be separated from the production byproducts in aligned or non-aligned configurations. The agglomerates may be formed directly into tools, optionally in compositions that incorporate other materials such as abrasives, binders, carbon-carbon composites, and cermets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415840 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metallurgical apparatus 266/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601430 | Finkikoglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alp T. Finkikoglu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vladimir Matias (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible polymer-based template having a biaxially oriented film grown on the surface of a polymeric substrate. The template having the biaxially oriented film can be used for further epitaxial growth of films of interest for applications such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, and the like. Methods of forming such a flexible template and providing the polymeric substrate with a biaxially oriented film deposited thereon are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345106 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/473.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601450 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diane M. England (Bloomfield, New York); Lane Wilson (Bruceton Mills, West Virginia); Subhasish Mukerjee (Rochester, New York); Catherine Vavonese (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical interconnect for a fuel cell assembly comprising a peripheral frame formed of one or more materials having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of adjacent elements to which the interconnect must be bonded and a central portion formed of a corrosion-resistant material for conducting electric current between adjacent fuel cells. Preferably, the central portion is attached to the peripheral frame via a brazed corrugated lap joint for relieving thermal expansion differences between the frame and the central portion. Preferably, the joint includes an interlayer of a ductile material, for example, a nickel, copper, silver or gold layer, which helps to relieve thermal stress between the frame and the central portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087904 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Bielicki (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cysteine containing amphipathic alpha helices of the exchangeable apolipoproteins, as exemplified by apolipoprotein (apo) A-IMilano (R173C) and apoA-IParis, (R151C) were found to exhibit potent antioxidant activity on phospholipid surfaces. The addition of a free thiol, at the hydrophobic/hydrophilic interface of an amphipathic alpha helix of synthetic peptides that mimic HDL-related proteins, imparts a unique antioxidant activity to these peptides which inhibits lipid peroxidation and protects phospholipids from water-soluble free radical initiators. These peptides can be used as therapeutic agents to combat cardiovascular disease, ischemia, bone disease and other inflammatory related diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177225 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601865 | Verser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ZeaChem, Inc. (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan W. Verser (Golden, Colorado); Timothy J. Eggeman (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for the recovery of an organic acid from a dilute salt solution in which the cation of the salt forms an insoluble carbonate salt. A tertiary amine and CO2 are introduced to the solution to form the insoluble carbonate salt and a complex between the acid and an amine. A water immiscible solvent, such as an alcohol, is added to extract the acid/amine complex from the dilute salt solution to a reaction phase. The reaction phase is continuously dried and a product between the acid and the solvent, such as an ester, is formed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046206 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601965 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zane William Bell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Lynn Allen Boatner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting an activator, the method including impinging with an activator a receptor material that includes a photoluminescent material that generates infrared radiation and generating a by-product of a nuclear reaction due to the activator impinging the receptor material. The method further includes generating light from the by-product via the Cherenkov effect, wherein the light activates the photoluminescent material so as to generate the infrared radiation. Identifying a characteristic of the activator based on the infrared radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228659 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602105 | Auciello |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlando H. Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact large density memory piezoactuated storage device and process for its fabrication provides an integrated microelectromechanical (MEMS) and/or nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) system and structure that features an integrated large density array of nanotips made of wear-resistant conductive ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) in which the tips are actuated via a piezoelectric thin film integrated with the UNCD tips. The tips of the special piezoactuated storage device effectively contact an underlying metal layer (top electrode) deposited on a polarizable ferroelectric layer that is grown on top of another metal layer (bottom electrode) to form a ferroelectric capacitor. Information is imprinted in the ferroelectric layer by the polarization induced by the application of a voltage pulse between the top and bottom electrodes through the conductive UNCD tips. This integrated microelectromechanical (MEMS) and/or nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) system and structure can be efficiently used to imprint data in the ferroelectric layer for memory storage with high density in the gigabit (Gb) to terabit (Tb) range. An alternative memory media to the ferroelectric layer can be a phase change material that exhibits two orders of magnitude difference in electrical resistance between amorphous and crystalline phases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789344 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602181 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Lela Vukovic (Westchester, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glenn, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and a method for the production of a magnetic field using a Charge Holding Object that is mechanically rotated. In a preferred embodiment, a Charge Holding Object surrounding a sample rotates and subjects the sample to one or more magnetic fields. The one or more magnetic fields are used by NMR Electronics connected to an NMR Conductor positioned within the Charge Holding Object to perform NMR analysis of the sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955438 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602307 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Brennan (Rodeo, California); Anup Singh (Danville, California); Daniel J. Throckmorton (Tracy, California); James F. Stamps (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are portable and modular detection devices and systems for detecting electromagnetic radiation, such as fluorescence, from an analyte which comprises at least one optical element removably attached to at least one alignment rail. Also disclosed are modular detection devices and systems having an integrated lock-in amplifier and spatial filter and assay methods using the portable and modular detection devices. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559154 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/686.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602669 | Korneev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valeri A. Korneev (Lafayette, California); Andrey Bakulin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The detailed analysis of cross well seismic data for a gas reservoir in Texas revealed two newly detected seismic wave effects, recorded approximately 2000 feet above the reservoir. A tube-wave (150) is initiated in a source well (110) by a source (111), travels in the source well (110), is coupled to a geological feature (140), propagates (151) through the geological feature (140), is coupled back to a tube-wave (152) at a receiver well (120), and is and received by receiver(s) (121) in either the same (110) or a different receiving well (120). The tube-wave has been shown to be extremely sensitive to changes in reservoir characteristics. Tube-waves appear to couple most effectively to reservoirs where the well casing is perforated, allowing direct fluid contact from the interior of a well case to the reservoir. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978573 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603038 | Berman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennady P. Berman (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alan R. Bishop (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dinh C. Nguyen (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Boris M. Chernobrod (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Vacheslav N. Gorshkov (Kiev, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-speed (Gbps), free space optical communication system is based on spectral encoding of radiation from a wide band light source, such as a laser. By using partially coherent laser beams in combination with a relatively slow photosensor, scintillations can be suppressed by orders of magnitude for distances of more than 10 km. To suppress the intensity fluctuations due to atmospheric turbulence, a source with partial transverse coherence in combination with slow response time photodetector is used. Information is encoded in the spectral domain of a wideband optical source by modulation of spectral amplitudes. A non-coherent light source with wide spectrum (an LED, for example) may be used for high-speed communication over short (less than about a mile) distances. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516136 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Po-Jui Chen (Pasadena, California); Damien C. Rodger (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Micro check valves having a free-floating member for controlling flow of fluid in microfluidic and biomedical applications and methods of fabrication. A micro check valve includes a valve seat, a valve cap that contacts the valve seat and an untethered floating member that can move between the valve seat and the valve cap. Certain micro check valves have zero cracking pressure and no reverse leakage. Certain other valves may be configured to permit flow of fluid within a pressure range. The floating member can be solid or define an orifice, and the valve seat can have one or two levels. Valves can be configured to allow fluid to flow when the floating member is pushed by fluid against the valve cap or against the valve seat. The valve seat may be silicon or another material that is compatible with micromachining processes, and the valve cap and the floating member may be a polymer such as Parylene. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/837450 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/516.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601274 | Mather et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick T. Mather (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Ingrid A. Rousseau (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Haihu Qin (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Shape memory main-chain smectic-C elastomers are described. The elastomers are prepared by hydrosilylation of a reaction mixture including a liquid crystalline diene, a crosslinking agent, and a bis(silyl hydride) compound. The elastomers exhibit shape-memory properties and spontaneously reversible shape changes. They are useful for fabrication of shape memory articles including, for example, implantable medical devices, contact lenses, reversible embossing media, and Fresnel lenses. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096021 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601378 | Cholli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok L. Cholli (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vijayendra Kumar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Virinder Singh Parmar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lynne Ann Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: an antioxidant polymer and method of preparing, the antioxidant comprising repeat units that include one or both of Structural Formulas (I) and (II) wherein R is —H or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, acyl or aryl group; Ring A is substituted with at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group; Ring B is substituted with at least one —H and at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group is not taught nor fairly suggested by the prior art or any combination thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/235633 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601403 | Anselmi-Tamburini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Umberto Anselmi-Tamburini (Davis, California); Zuhair A. Munir (Davis, California); Javier E. Garay (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing highly dense functional oxides with crystallite size in the range of 10-20 nm. Using a high pressure modification of a the Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) technique, rapid thermal cycles (<10 min) coupled with very rapid pressure increase up to 1 GPa can be obtained allowing high degree of compaction and very limited grain growth. This combination of techniques was employed to produce the finest-grained ceramics ever prepared in bulk form in the case of fully stabilized zirconia and Sm-doped Ceria. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107321 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/545 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601542 | Emmett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Emmett (Monticello, Florida); Sasa Kazazic (Tallahassee, Florida); Alan G. Marshall (Tallahassee, Florida); Michael J. Greig (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Analytical methods using hydrogen/deuterium exchange are provided which reduce or eliminate the back-exchange of deuterium for hydrogen. The methods, which are useful in protein and peptide mapping, include the steps of (a) providing a peptide or protein comprising a solvent accessible hydrogen; (b) exchanging the solvent accessible hydrogen for a deuterium; (c) separating the peptide or protein with supercritical fluid chromatography; and (d) analyzing by mass spectrometry the mass of the separated peptide or protein. Supercritical fluid chromatography enables the observation of fast exchanging hydrogen atoms missed using conventional liquid chromatography methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672789 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601910 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Aharon Yakimov (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices. More specifically, it is directed to organic photovoltaic devices, e.g., organic solar cells. Further, it is directed to an optimized organic solar cell comprising multiple stacked subcells in series. High power conversion efficiency are achieved by fabrication of a photovoltaic cell comprising multiple stacked subcells with thickness optimization and employing an electron blocking layer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719784 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601977 | Yeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Lo Yeh (Singapore, Singapore); Eric Statz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are disclosed for directing optical radiation to make multiple passes across an extended region of an electro-optic material, where during each pass the electro-optic material converts a portion of the optical radiation into terahertz radiation, and where the optical radiation is directed into the electro-optic material to cause an amplitude of the terahertz radiation generated from one or more earlier passes of the optical radiation to be constructively enhanced by the terahertz radiation generated from a later pass of the optical radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638100 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/504.R00 |
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| US 07602159 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuo Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Fred C. Lee (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A negative capacitance is developed by configuring an inductor as two inversely or opposingly coupled windings having different numbers of turns and connecting a capacitance to a center tap between the two windings. The negative capacitance is developed on the side of the inductor having the winding with the greater number of turns. The negative capacitance so developed may advantageously be used to cancel any capacitance or parasitic capacitance desired for reducing power loss, increasing switching speed or reducing or eliminating common mode noise in a switched circuit such as a switched power converter |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678864 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602317 | Liu et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Zhixin Liu (College Station, Texas); Samuel S. Cheng (Houston, Texas); Angelos D. Liveris (Stafford, Texas); Zixiang Xiong (Spring, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for realizing a Wyner-Ziv encoder may involve the following steps: (a) apply nested quantization to input data from an information source in order to generate intermediate data; and (b) encode the intermediate data using an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf encoder in order to generate compressed output data representing the input data. Similarly, a Wyner-Ziv decoder may be realized by: (1) applying an asymmetric Slepian-Wolf decoder to compressed input data using side information to generate intermediate values, and (b) jointly decoding the intermediate values using the side information to generate decompressed output data. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/868885 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602320 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ari Klein (Flushing, New York); Yannis Tsividis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for resizing a signal for use with a fixed-point DSP are provided. More specifically, a process called companding is used in conjunction with fixed-point devices to resize a signal to make use of the available range of these devices. In some embodiments, companding is used to improve the signal-to-noise and distortion ratio. Also, information loss associated with quantization and rounding errors can be reduced in some embodiments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901661 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602501 | Ralston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tyler S. Ralston (Waltham, Massachusetts); Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois); Paul Scott Carney (Champaign, Illinois); Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional imaging of a sample. A source is provided of a beam of substantially collimated light characterized by a temporally dependent spectrum. The beam is focused in a plane characterized by a fixed displacement along the propagation axis of the beam, and scattered light from the sample is superposed with a reference beam derived from the substantially collimated source onto a focal plane detector array to provide an interference signal. A forward scattering model is derived relating measured data to structure of an object to allow solution of an inverse scattering problem based upon the interference signal so that a three-dimensional structure of the sample may be inferred in near real time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775572 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602580 | Ratliff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents for Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan T. Ratliff (O'Fallon, Missouri); Prabhakar R. Pagilla (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for loading and offloading a read/write head from a load ramp onto a disc are disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a basedeck supporting a spindle motor with an attached disc and an actuator assembly with a read/write head configured for communication with the disc, and a load ramp positioned adjacent the disc and configured for receipt of the read/write head. The actuator assembly includes at least an actuator motor magnet mounted to said basedeck, an actuator body attached to the basedeck and providing a voice coil configured for interaction with the actuator motor magnet, and a bias feature secured to said actuator body and configured for communication with the motor magnet such that when the read/write head is parked on the load ramp, the bias feature mitigates an unintentional engagement of the read/write head with the disc. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757295 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/78.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602985 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert X. Gao (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ruqiang Yan (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal processing technique that decomposes complex, dynamically changing non-stationary signals from machine components such as bearings into different scales by means of a continuous wavelet transform. The envelope signal in each scale is then calculated from the modulus of the wavelet coefficients. Subsequently, Fourier transform is performed repetitively on the envelope of the signal at each scale, resulting in an “envelope spectrum” of the original signal at the various scales. The final output is a three-dimensional scale-frequency map that indicates the intensity and location of the defect-related frequency lines. The technique is generic in nature, and applicable not only to machine condition monitoring, but also to the health monitoring of a wide range of dynamic systems, including human beings. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521090 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07601091 | Vranish |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Vranish (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A gearing system using modular gear bearing components. Each component is composed of a core, one or more modules attached to the core and two or more fastening modules rigidly attaching the modules to the core. The modules, which are attached to the core, may consist of gears, rollers or gear bearing components. The core orientation affects the orientation of the modules attached to the core. This is achieved via the keying arrangement of the core and the component modules that attach to the core. Such an arrangement will also facilitate the phase tuning of gear modules with respect to the core and other gear modules attached to the core. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426134 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Planetary gear transmission systems or components 475/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601114 | Goodwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regenetech, Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Goodwin (Kemah, Texas); Clayton R. Parker (Safety Harbor, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is introduced for the use of enhancing tissue repair in mammals. The apparatus includes a sleeve; an electrically conductive coil; a sleeve support; an electrical circuit configured to supply the coil with a square wave time varying electrical current sufficient to create approximately 0.05 gauss to 0.5 gauss. When in use, the sleeve of the apparatus is placed on a mammalian body part and the time varying electromagnetic force of from approximately 0.05 gauss to 0.5 gauss is generated on the mammalian body for an extended period of time so that the tissue is encouraged to be regenerated in the mammalian body part at a rate in excess of the normal tissue regeneration rate relative to regeneration without application of the time varying electromagnetic force |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/563934 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602336 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Samuel J. Curry (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes antenna elements configured to receive a signal including pseudo-random code, and electronics configured to use the pseudo-random code to determine time delays of signals incident upon the antenna elements and to compensate the signals to coherently combine the antenna elements. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761348 |
| 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 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07600378 | Yeghiazarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lilit L. Yeghiazarian (Los Angeles, California); Ulrich Wiesner (Ithaca, New York); Carlo D. Montemagno (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Movement of a gel structure is propagated by successively applying external stimuli to cause volume phase transition in the gel structure by alternately causing the gel structure to collapse and swell to move the center of mass of the gel structure in the direction of successive stimuli application. The movement is mediated by confining structure for the gel and anchoring the starting side of the gel in the swelling cycle. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/166164 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601346 | Schisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Schisler (Morton, Illinois); Naseem I. Khan (Peoria, Illinois); Michael J. Boehm (Worthington, Ohio); Patricia J. Slininger (Metamora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Three choline utilizing strains of microorganisms isolated from the anthers of wheat, Aureobasidium pullulans strain AS 55.2, Arthrobacter species strain OH 221.3, and Pseudomonas species strain AS 64.4, are superior antagonists of F. graminearum. These microorganisms are effective for suppression and control of FHB in cereals, particularly in wheat and barley. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/640091 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07602857 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514577 |
| 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 07602858 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514460 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07602937 | Mian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Electronic Machines Corporation (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, New York); William G. vonAchen (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an image-based visibility measurement solution in which an image is used to calculate a visibility (visual range). In one embodiment, a lighting condition for the image is determined and the visibility calculation is adjusted based on the lighting condition. Further, the invention can obtain image data for a set of portions of the image and estimate a visual range based on each portion. The estimated visual ranges can be combined to calculate the visibility for the image. Still further, multiple metrics can be calculated, each of which is used to estimate a visual range. Subsequently, the visual ranges can be used to calculate the visibility for the image. Even further, configuration data that is based on a set of training images can be used to calculate the visibility for a new image. To this extent, the invention can incorporate the lighting condition, portions of the image having differing features, multiple metrics, and/or feedback through training images to accurately measure visibility based on an image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/149089 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07601421 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Jiang Zhu (Houston, Texas); Haiqing Peng (Houston, Texas); Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); John L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of integrating carbon nanotubes into epoxy polymer composites via chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes, and to the carbon nanotube-epoxy polymer composites produced by such methods. Integration is enhanced through improved dispersion and/or covalent bonding with the epoxy matrix during the curing process. In general, such methods involve the attachment of chemical moieties (i.e., functional groups) to the sidewall and/or end-cap of carbon nanotubes such that the chemical moieties react with either the epoxy precursor(s) or the curing agent(s) (or both) during the curing process. Additionally, in some embodiments, these or additional chemical moieties can function to facilitate dispersion of the carbon nanotubes by decreasing the van der Waals attractive forces between the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559905 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/297.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07600423 | Fluhler et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert U. Fluhler (Huntsville, Alabama); Hans Schantz (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A volume or fluid level sensing system as taught by the present invention comprises a flexible bladder, a solenoidal coil, a means for volume or fluid level measurement, and a user interface. Means for volume or fluid level measurement are preferentially means for inductance measurement which may be selected from the set including timing inductive measurement means, AC voltage divider inductive measurement means, resonance inductive measurement means. A user interface may be selected from the set including a digital display, a data interface, a voltage level display device, or a current level display device. The solenoidal coil may be embedded in the flexible bladder or in a flexible sock encompassing the flexible bladder. In addition, a bladder volume or fluid level indicating method as taught by the present invention comprises the steps of inductance measurement, volume or fluid level inference, and volume or fluid level reporting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977307 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/290.B00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07601124 | Goldberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ary L. Goldberger (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); Chung-Kang Peng (Sharon, Massachusetts); Madalena D. Costa (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a subject undergoing therapeutic intervention, efficacy of the therapeutic intervention is assessed based on a series of physiologic data associated with the subject. The series of physiologic data is analyzed to produce a measure of complexity. The complexity measure is then compared to a control. The efficacy of the therapeutic intervention is assessed based on the comparison of the complexity measure to the control. The control may be, for example, a complexity measure taken prior to initiation of the therapeutic intervention, a complexity measure taken from a different subject, or a predetermined threshold value. The measure of complexity is generated using, for example, a multiscale entropy measurement (MSE), a time asymmetry measurement, and/or an information-based similarity measurement. An increase in complexity indicates a positive effect of the therapeutic intervention, while a decrease in complexity indicates a negative effect of the therapeutic intervention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356044 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07602480 | Romain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Romain (Morristown, New Jersey); Robert D. Trachtenberg (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for target acquisition and tracking of a moving station or target (e.g., an unmanned aerial vehicle) for carrying out free space optical communications uses an “elapsed time”-based approach to determine the position of the moving station at any future time, based on the time difference since the moving station's last known position. For example, the vehicle may be for purposes of reconnaissance, where the optical link provides a secure and high-bandwidth communications pathway between the moving station and a ground station. A mathematical model of the moving station's expected periodic flight path is combined with position and time elements to accurately predict the future position of the moving station for target re-acquisition. The model is a cubic spline interpolation of known flight path waypoints. The system may also employ multiple waypoints in initial acquisition, by alternating acquisition attempts over several waypoints instead of “staring” at a single waypoint. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259501 |
| 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 356/139.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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