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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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| US 07603951 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Rose (Tremonton, Utah); Daniel W. Doll (Marriott Slaterville, Utah); James R. Hodgson (Newton, Utah); Robert K. Goodell (Honeyville, Utah); Randall T. Busky (Independence, Missouri); Edward J. Bray, II (Overland Park, Kansas); Daniel B. Nielson (Tremonton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile having a reactive material disposed therein is provided. The projectile includes a housing which defines a cavity, the cavity being open at one end of thereof. A reactive material is disposed within the cavity. A tip is coupled with the housing and substantially encloses the opening of the cavity. The housing, the reactive material and the tip are cooperatively positioned and configured so as to define a void space between a surface of the tip and a surface of the reactive material. Upon impact with a target, the tip of the projectile is designed to become displaced within the cavity until it contacts the reactive material and transfers kinetic energy thereto, thereby causing ignition of the reactive material. The void space may be defined to provide a desired amount of time between initial impact of the projectile with a target and the subsequent ignition of the reactive material. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/079925 |
| 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 12/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604129 | Gin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Univeristy of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas L. Gin (Longmont, Colorado); Meijuan Zhou (Boulder, Colorado); Richard D. Noble (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides composite nanofiltration membranes (FIG. 5) with lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) polymer porous membranes (30) attached to a porous support (20). The LLC membranes are prepared from LLC monomers which form the inverted hexagonal or bicontinuous cubic phase. The arrangement, size, and chemical properties of the pores can be tailored on the molecular level. The composite membrane of the invention is useful for separation processes involving aqueous and nonaqueous solutions as well as gases. Methods for making and using the composite nanofiltration membranes of the inventions are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/529409 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604394 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Jianjun Feng (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are disclosed for mixing and self-cleaning elements in microfluidic systems based on electrothermally induced fluid flow. The apparatus and methods provide for the control of fluid flow in and between components in a microfluidic system to cause the removal of unwanted liquids and particulates or mixing of liquids. The geometry and position of electrodes is adjusted to generate a temperature gradient in the liquid, thereby causing a non-uniform distribution of dielectric properties within the liquid. The dielectric non-uniformity produces a body force and flow in the solution, which is controlled by element and electrode geometries, electrode placement, and the frequency and waveform of the applied voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516358 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604422 | Julian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian John Julian (Burlington, Massachusetts); Anthony Mark Smith (Medway, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a compact focal plane shutter system adapted for large-format exposure shutters. The focal plane shutter includes at least one multi-segmented screen having multiple rigid blades. Each blade can be moved at a different velocity. By using multiple blades, the rotational inertia about a drive axis can be reduced compared to a conventional single screen shutter system, thus a greater acceleration can be achieved with the same amount of torque about the drive axis. Using smaller blades allows for greater acceleration, resulting in faster shutter speeds to support a wider range of applications. Additionally, the overlap between blades of a multi-segmented screen in an open position is greater than the overlap of the blades in a closed position, providing a compact system. A drive mechanism linearly translates the blades of the multi-segmented screen between the open and closed positions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/608915 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photography 396/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604453 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Eric Alan Estill (Morrow, Ohio); James Harvey Laflen (Loveland, Ohio); Katherine Jaynetorrence Andersen (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for cooling a shroud segment of a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes providing a turbine shroud assembly including a shroud segment having an inner surface and a leading edge that is substantially perpendicular to the inner surface, and coupling a turbine nozzle to the turbine shroud segment such that a gap is defined between an aft edge of an outer band of the turbine nozzle and the leading edge. The method also includes directing cooling air into the gap, circumferentially mixing the cooling air in a plenum defined within the leading edge to substantially uniformly distribute the cooling air throughout the gap, and directing the cooling air in the gap through at least one cooling hole formed between the plenum and the inner surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565180 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604705 | Orbey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nese Orbey (Acton, Massachusetts); B. Michael Cushman (Millbury, Massachusetts); Marina Temchenko (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Lev Bromberg (Swampscott, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the separation of targeted components from gun propellant formulations. In particular, the methods separate targeted components in a usable/useful form. Preferred methods are directed to the separation of nitrocellulose, nitroguanidine and/or nitroglycerine from a formulation containing one or more of these components. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/848557 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604811 | Jarboe 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. Jarboe (Sebastian, Florida); Robert H. Reid (Kensington, Maryland); Edgar C. Boedeker (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Frederick J. Cassels (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to oral-intestinal vaccines and their use against diseases caused by enteropathogenic organisms using antigens encapsulated within biodegradable-biocompatible microspheres. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 10, 1996 |
| APPL NO | 08/762757 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604953 | Porter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Agriculture/Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service (USDA/CSREES) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc D. Porter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Betsy Jean Yakes (Alexandria, Virginia); Robert J. Lipert (Ames, Iowa); John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of detection of the causative agent of Johne's disease (Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis) (MAP) by detecting shedding of surface protein of MAP. A preferred way is use of surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. The system of detecting MAP shedding of protein provides early detection and diagnosis, and therefore allows early treatment for Johne's disease in ruminant animals. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130528 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604981 | Harris, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Harris, Jr. (Stanford, California); Stephen J. Smith (Los Altos, California); Evan P. Thrush (Sunnyvale, California); Ofer Levi (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variety of types of molecules are detected and/or analyzed using an integrated micro-circuit arrangement. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a micro-circuit arrangement detects excitable target markers in response to an excitation source. The excitation source emits a first electromagnetic radiation to excite one or more target markers into emitting a second electromagnetic radiation. The excitation source and detector combination can be optimized to detect a specific characteristic of a biological specimen. In this manner, an excitation source can be combined with several optical-detectors or detection channels, where each optical-detector is measuring or sensing the same or different characteristic of the biological specimen. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/384166 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605218 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A carborane-siloxane compound is provided having the repeat unit Q contains any of —SiR2—, —SiR2—O—, —C≡C—C≡C—, carboranyl, and U′. Each R and R′ is alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl, or mixtures thereof. Each U′ is derivable from hydrosilation of an alkenyl or alkynyl group. Each T is alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, haloalkyl, haloaryl mixtures thereof, —(O—SiR′2)xH, or the repeat unit. Each x and x′ is a positive integer. The compounds may be made be reacting a carborane-siloxane precursor having unsaturated end groups with a siloxane crosslinker in the presence of a hydrosilation catalyst. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688311 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605225 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Gang Lu (Midland, Michigan); Hakan Usta (Chicago, Illinois); Joseph Letizia (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide silole-based polymers that can be used as p-type semiconductors. More specifically, the present teachings provide polymers that include a repeating unit of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Z, x, and x′ are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of preparing these polymers, and relate to various compositions, composites, and devices that incorporate these polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803020 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605262 | Yang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sutter West Bay Hospitals (San Francisco, California); Catholic Healthcare West (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li-Xi Yang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | 4-O esters of podophyllotoxin and 4′-demethylepipodophyllotoxin are provided. The compounds are 4-O esters of an alkanoic acid or substituted alkanoic acid and podophyllotoxin and 4′-demethylepipodophyllotoxin. The compounds are useful for treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016926 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605394 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Myung-Han Yoon (Evanston, Illinois); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Dielectric compositions comprising siloxane and polymeric components, as can be used in a range of transistor and related device configurations. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315076 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605591 | Tsenter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEM Power, LLC (Redlands, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris J. Tsenter (Roswell, Georgia); John E. James (Redlands, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An invention is provided for determining a state of health of a battery. The invention includes applying a predefined load profile to a battery, and obtaining a plurality of battery response voltage data corresponding to points along the predefined load profile. A matrix of parameters, which includes, among other data, battery ohm resistance data, battery chemical resistance data, and battery electrical double layer capacity data, is calculated from the battery response voltage data. Thereafter, the matrix of parameters is utilized to determine the state of health of the battery. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277732 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605767 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jar J. Lee (Irvine, California); Clifton Quan (Arcadia, California); Stanley W. Livingston (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A space-fed array is selectively operable in a reflective mode or in a feed-through mode. The array includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a primary array; and a feed array. The primary array includes a first side set of radiating elements, a first set of phase shifters, a set of switches, a second set of phase shifters and a second side set of radiating elements. Each of the switches is connected between corresponding ones of the first set and the second set of phase shifters and ground, selectively settable at an open position or at a closed position. The open position corresponds to the feed through mode, and the closed position corresponds to the reflective mode. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499591 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605923 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morgan Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery Lee Williams (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael Scott Kranz (Madison, Alabama); Larry Christopher Heaton (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the capability of ascertaining, through a quick and simple measurement, locations on a structure that may have experienced damage that could result in reduced structure lifetime, strength, or reliability. The sensing element is a connectorized section of polarization maintaining (“PM”) optical fiber, where a length of PM fiber represents a fully distributed sensor array. Stress-induced changes to the sensor are measured through white-light Polarimetric interferometry. The output of the measurement is a data array representing the stress concentration magnitude at an array of locations along the length of the sensor. In an application, the knowledge of the optical fiber position on the structure, coupled with the measurement of stress locations along the fiber length, allows the user to determine locations on the structure with large stress concentrations. These locations may signify structural damage. This knowledge would allow the user to employ a more sophisticated system, albeit a larger and slower one, to fully characterize and evaluate that area of potential damage and take appropriate action. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251739 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606010 | Parkin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | ZnMg oxide tunnel barriers are grown which, when sandwiched between ferri- or ferromagnetic layers, form magnetic tunnel junctions exhibiting high tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR). The TMR may be increased by annealing the magnetic tunnel junctions. The zinc-magnesium oxide tunnel barriers may be incorporated into a variety of other devices, such as magnetic tunneling transistors and spin injector devices. The ZnMg oxide tunnel barriers are grown by first depositing a zinc and/or magnesium layer onto an underlying substrate in oxygen-poor (or oxygen-free) conditions, and subsequently depositing zinc and/or magnesium onto this layer in the presence of reactive oxygen. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777219 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/324.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606113 | Londo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P Londo (Binghamton, New York); Matthew A Martz (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for quickly modeling the ideal acoustic sound propagation in a body of water based on current SVP data and the position of the sound source, comprising the steps of: obtaining SVP data for the body of water; determining a depth of a sound source within the body of water; selecting a first ray angle originating from the sound source; calculating a first ray trace for the first ray angle using only the SVP data as environmental inputs; repeating the selecting and calculating steps for second-nth ray angles to calculate second-nth ray traces for the second-nth ray angles; and plotting the first-nth ray traces to create a ray trace plot for the body of water relative to the depth of the sound source. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746918 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606180 | Ramaswami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tellabs Operations, Inc. (Naperville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajiv Ramaswami (Ossining, New York); Galen Sasaki (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A ring communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of nodes in which a single one of the nodes is configured for full channel conversion and the remaining nodes, other than the single node, are configured for no channel conversion. Links with no more than W channels couple the nodes. The ring communication network may include N nodes and links connecting the nodes for carrying data in W channels such that N≧2 log2 W−1, where W is a power of 2. Each of the N nodes includes switches connected such that each channel of a first one of the links adjacent to any one of the N nodes can be switched to no more than W−1 channels of another one of the links adjacent to any one node. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/131056 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606262 | Beshai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nortel Networks Limited (St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maged E. Beshai (Stittsville, Canada); Harold G. Edwards (Sterling, Virginia); Paul F. Daspit (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A universal electronic switching node serves as an edge node in a high-capacity network with an optical core. The universal edge node may handle a variety of traffic classes and may control traffic admission, connection definition, connection routing and core node configuration. The provided capabilities significantly simplify network operation and control. The universal edge node includes input ports for receiving data streams, output ports for transmitting the data streams though the optical core, a switching fabric for communicating these data streams between input and output ports and a controller for controlling this communicating. In particular, the controller can select a route through the optical core, schedule the communication between input and output ports and adaptively allocate the bitrate of this communication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447030 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606411 | Venetsky 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) | Larry Venetsky (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Jeffrey W. Tieman (Leonardtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A gesture recognition system enabling control of a robotic device through gesture command by a user is provided, comprising a robotic unit, a video or infrared camera affixed to the robotic unit, computing means, and high and low level of control gesture recognition application code capable of enabling the system to locate points of left hand, right hand, upper torso and lower torso of the user in the video imagery and convert it to waveform data, correlate the waveform data to user command data, and form corresponding control voltage command(s) for production of electric current voltage(s) to drive one or more of the electric motors or actuators of the robotic device to thereby control same. In addition, a computer software program is provided for use in the gesture recognition system described above. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586750 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606642 | Edwards 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) | Gail E. Edwards (Toms River, New Jersey); Thomas P. Kowalski (Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A just in time wiring information system, which includes an aircraft wiring information system module, a technical reference module, an interactive computer aided cable repair system module, and an e-suite. The e-suite communicates with the aircraft wiring information system module, the technical reference module, and the interactive computer aided cable repair system module such that via the e-suite a user may obtain information from each of the modules. |
| FILED | Friday, May 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437587 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — 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 71/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606777 | Serre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Serre (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tomaso Poggio (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Maximilian Riesenhuber (Vienna, Virginia); Lior Wolf (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stanley M. Bileschi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial visual recognition system and method employ a digital processor and a model executed by the digital processor. The model has a loose hierarchy of layers. Each layer, from a lowest hierarchy level to a top level, provides relatively increasing selectivity and invariance of the input image. The hierarchy allows bypass routes between layers. On output, the model produces feature recognition and classification of an object in the input image. In some embodiments, windowing means provide windows of the input image to the model, and the model responds to shape-based objects in the input image. In another feature, segmenting means segment the input image and enables the model to determine texture-based objects in the input image. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515503 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606927 | Tasman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell Paul Tasman (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); Richard Dennis Rockwell (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A network device (110) includes a forwarding module (230) and one or more network interfaces (240) that may be configured to transmit data units. The forwarding module (230) may be configured to identify one of the network interfaces (240) to transmit a data unit when the data unit is received by the network device (110) or generated by the network device (110), determine one of the network interfaces (240) to transmit the data unit when the data unit is ready to be transmitted by the network device (110), and forward the data unit to the determined network interface (240) for network when the determined network interface (240) is the identified network interface (240). |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/649030 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606934 | Vengerov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California); Harriet G. Coverston (New Brighton, Minnesota); Anton B. Rang (Houlton, Wisconsin); Andrew B. Hastings (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for routing an incoming service request is described wherein the service request is routed to a selected storage tier based on that selected storage tier having a predicted value indicating a state having greater utility as compared with the predicted value of the state associated with at least one other storage tier within the storage system. A computer system comprising a multi-tier storage system is described, the multi-tier storage system having a routing algorithm configured to adaptively tune functions which map variables describing the state of each storage tier of the storage system into the average latency experienced by incoming service requests associated with the storage tier. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077472 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Dean (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for importing DNA into the nuclei of a specific cell type. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for specifically targeting the nuclei of pulmonary cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182933 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604805 | Lim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendell Lim (San Francisco, California); John Dueber (San Francisco, California); Brian Yeh (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Protein logic gates are made from autoregulated fusion proteins comprising an output domain and a plurality of input domains, wherein at least one of the input domains is heterologous to the output domain, and the input domains interact with each other to allosterically and external, ligand-dependently regulate the output domain. The output domain may be constitutively active, and in the absence of the ligand, the input domains interact to inhibit the output domain. The activity of the output domain is user discretionary, and may include activities that are catalytic, label-generative, metabolic-regulative, apototic, specific-binding, etc. Multiple input domains can cooperatively regulate the fusion protein in a wide variety of functionalities, including as an OR-gate, an AND-gate, and an AND-NOT-gate. The gates may be incorporated into cells and therein used to modulate cell function. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613380 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604934 | LeCluyse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward L. LeCluyse (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kim L. R. Brouwer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xingrong Liu (Groton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening a candidate compound for susceptibility to biliary excretion. The method includes the steps of providing a culture of hepatocytes, 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. 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 | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854963 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604939 | Reisman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Reisman (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides screening methods for identifying BRM expression-promoting histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, diagnostic methods for determining the suitability of treatment of a candidate subject with a BRM expression-promoting HDAC inhibitor, and therapeutic methods for treating cancer cells in a patient with a BRM expression-promoting HDAC inhibitor. The present invention also provides BRG1 and BRM diagnostics, methods for increasing a cancer patient's resistance to viral infection, and methods for determining the suitability of treatment of a candidate subject with a glucocorticoid compound or retinoid compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365268 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604947 | Gudas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorraine J. Gudas (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to method for detecting and modulating the expression and activity of REX-1. As described herein, REX-1 is expressed in certain cancer cells, including cancer stem cells. The invention also provides methods for detecting and/or treating cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/148149 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604949 | Orlow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth J. Orlow (New York, New York); Andrea Hall (Astoria, New York); Prashiela Manga (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of screening for compounds that affect melanogenesis and the function of P protein in organisms, cells, or cell-free systems. The invention further relates to pharmacologic and cosmetic uses of methods of inhibiting melanogenesis, methods of activating melanogenesis, and compounds and pharmacologic compositions useful for the inhibition or activation of melanogenesis and, therefore, for lightening or darkening the pigmentation of cells and tissue, i.e., skin. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408108 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604975 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sung Lee (New York, New York); Vijay Pancholi (Forest Hills, New York); Vincent A. Fischetti (West Hempstead, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An endopeptidase is described which shows specificity for cleavage of a LPXTG (SEQ ID NO: 1) motif found in the cell membranes of gram positive bacteria, having an apparent molecular weight of 14,000 daltons, having a pH optimum of about 7.5 to 10, being salt sensitive, being heavily glycosylated, rich in alanine, lacking aromatic amino acids, having a Km of 0.26 mM and having a backbone comprised of about 30% unknown amino acids, and containing carbohydrates that are essential for its activity. Methods of use and pharmaceutical compositions of this inhibitor are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677097 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604997 | Esswein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Esswein (Conifer, Colorado); Mark F. Boeniger (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kevin E. Ashley (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Wipes, methods and kits useful for testing and/or removal of metal from surfaces (such as, dermal surfaces) are disclosed. Exemplar wipes, including the combination of a three-dimensionally textured absorbent support, a cationic surfactant, and a weak acid, are disclosed. In some examples, the cationic surfactant is isostearamidopropyl morpholine lactate (ISML), and the weak acid is citric acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039178 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605125 | Szekely et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zoltan Szekely (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Humcha Krishnamurthy Hariprakasha (Frederick, Maryland); Marek W. Cholody (Frederick, Maryland); Christopher Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A conjugate of formula: V—(Y)a—Z-T: (I), T-X—B—(Y)a—Z-T′: (II), V—(Y)a Z—(Y′)a V′: (III), T-X—B—(Y)a—Z—(Y′)a—X′—B′-T′: (IV), V—(Y)a—Z—(Y′)a—X—B-T: (V), V—(Y)a—Z—X—B—Z′—(Y′)a—(V′)b: (VI), or (W)a—(Y)b—[(Z)c—(Y′)d—(X—B)e—(Y″)f—(Z′)g]h—(Y . . . )i—(W′)j: (VII), in which W and W′ are independently a DNA intercalator or terminal subunit, V and V′ are independently a DNA intercalator, X and X′ are independently a DNA alkylator, B and B′ are the same or different and each is a heteoaromatic residue that is attached to the Nterminus of an alkylator subunit (X or X′), Y, Y′, Y″ and Y′″ are independently a linker, T and T′ are independently terminal subunits, Z and Z′ are independently a polyamide group that binds to the minor groove of DNA, a, b, c, d, f, g, i, and j are independently 0 to 5, and e and h are independently 1 to 5, a composition comprising a conjugate of any of formulae (I)-(VII) and a carrier, and a method for treating cancer in a mammal comprising administering an effective amount of a conjugate of any of formulae (I)-(VII) or a composition comprising same. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/506085 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605127 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. L. Chan (Rockville, Maryland); Jeffrey S. Rubin (Rockville, Maryland); Donald P. Bottaro (Kensington, Maryland); Stuart A. Aaronson (New York City, New York); Stephen J. Stahl (Bethesda, Maryland); Paul T. Wingfield (Bethesda, Maryland); Vittoria Cioce (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel truncated form of heptocyte growth factor (HGF) which specifically antagonizes the activity of HGF and to a novel truncated form of HGF that is a partial HGF agonist. In particular, the present invention relates to the purification, molecular cloning, recombinant expression of the truncated HGF variants and related pharmaceutical compositions. The present invention further relates to the utilization of the small HGF variants to either inhibit HGF mitogenesis or stimulate HGF mitogenesis in cells expressing the receptor for HGF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283769 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605128 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Buck Institute for Age Research (Novato, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Greenberg (Sonoma, California); Kunlin Jin (Novato, California); Xiao Ou Mao (Novato, California); Lin Xie (Novato, California); Yunjuan Sun (Novato, California); Jocelyn Childs (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to the identification of neurogenerative and/or neurotrophic factors that can induce migration of stem cells to neural tissue and/or induce proliferation and/or differentiation of such cells into neurons. Such agents include, but are not limited to stem cell factor (SCF), heparin binding EGF (HB-EGF), and VEGF. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/503786 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605143 | Rieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren J. Murphree (Rockville, Maryland); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196529 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605164 | Malik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytokinetics, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fady Malik (Burlingame, California); Adam Lewis Tomasi (San Francisco, California); Bainian Feng (Foster City, California); Erica Anne Kraynack (Belmont, California); Kathleen A. Elias (San Francisco, California); Pu-Ping Lu (Foster City, California); Whitney Walter Smith (El Cerrito, California); Xiangping Qian (Foster City, California); David J. Morgans, Jr. (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain substituted benzamide derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353252 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/255.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605241 | Hecht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney M. Hecht (Charlottesville, Virginia); David J. Maloney (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of the naturally occurring kaempferol glycoside SLO1O1-1, as well as analogs thereof, has been accomplished, as has its biochemical evaluation. SLO1O1-1 exhibits selective and potent p90 Rsk inhibitory activity at nanomolar concentrations without inhibiting the function of upstream kinases such as MEK, Raf, or PKC. The synthetic scheme of the invention verified the structural assignment of the natural product and has provided access to material sufficient for detailed biological evaluation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/794969 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/18.500 |
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| US 07605248 | Dattwyler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York); Brookhaven Sciences Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Dattwyler (Setauket, New York); Maria J. C. Gomes-Solecki (New York, New York); Benjamin J. Luft (East Setauket, New York); John J. Dunn (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel chimeric nucleic acids, encoding chimeric Borrelia proteins comprising OspC or an antigenic fragment thereof and OspA or an antigenic fragment thereof, are disclosed. Chimeric proteins encoded by the nucleic acid sequences are also disclosed. The chimeric proteins are useful as vaccine immunogens against Lyme borreliosis, as well as for immunodiagnostic reagents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527161 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07605288 | Blagg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas); Gang Shen (Lawrence, Kansas); Randell C. Clevenger (Eurdora, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds useful for inhibiting the 90 kDa heat shock proteins containing a quinone-like moiety and a di-hydroxy phenol like moiety, similar to geldanamycin and radicicol. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/728393 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/171 |
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| US 07606623 | Ludlow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christy L. Ludlow (Bethesda, Maryland); Eric Mann (Clarksville, Maryland); Theresa Burnett (Bloomington, Indiana); Steven Bielamowicz (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods were discovered that successfully provided patient autonomous control of both hyolaryngeal elevation, anterior hyoid motion and opening of the upper esophageal sphincter for swallowing by intramuscular stimulation of two muscles. The technology allows patient self stimulation of swallowing and can return oral feeding to dysphagia patients. Indwelling electrode stimulation of only two muscles generated as much as 80 % of normal synergistic movement leading to swallowing. The devices and methods also are useful for control of other upper respiratory muscle groups involved in speech and voice. Calibration techniques may be used in combination for greater freedom in setting and using electrodes over extended implantation time periods. These methods and devices can control complex movements of body solids such as bone and cartilage and tissues by electro stimulation of a minimum set of muscles simultaneously. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/529401 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606670 | Ramakrishnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); Medical Research Council (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Brian Thomas Wimberly (Guilford, Connecticut); Ditlev Egeskov Brodersen (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Andrew Philip Carter (Cambridge, United Kingdom); William Melvon Clemons, Jr. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an X-ray crystal structure of the 30S ribosome, obtained from Thermus thermophilus 30S subunit, having a tetragonal space group P41212 with unit cell dimensions of a=401.4±4.0 Å, b=401.4±4.0 Å, c=175.9±5.0 Å. An advantageous feature of the structure is that it diffracts beyond 3 Å resolution. The invention also provides a crystal of 30S having the three dimensional atomic coordinates of the 30S ribosome, the coordinates being provided in Tables 1A and 1B. The data may be used for the rational design and modelling of inhibitors for the 30S ribosome, which have potential use as antibiotics. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/953807 |
| 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 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606777 | Serre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Serre (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tomaso Poggio (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Maximilian Riesenhuber (Vienna, Virginia); Lior Wolf (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stanley M. Bileschi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial visual recognition system and method employ a digital processor and a model executed by the digital processor. The model has a loose hierarchy of layers. Each layer, from a lowest hierarchy level to a top level, provides relatively increasing selectivity and invariance of the input image. The hierarchy allows bypass routes between layers. On output, the model produces feature recognition and classification of an object in the input image. In some embodiments, windowing means provide windows of the input image to the model, and the model responds to shape-based objects in the input image. In another feature, segmenting means segment the input image and enables the model to determine texture-based objects in the input image. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515503 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07603822 | Kosny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Kosny (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Sally Gaskin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A wall system includes a plurality of wall members, the wall members having a first metal panel, a second metal panel, and an insulating core between the first panel and the second panel. At least one of the first panel and the second panel include ridge portions. The insulating core can be a foam, such as a polyurethane foam. The foam can include at least one opacifier to improve the k-factor of the foam. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/234397 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/282.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603841 | Steele et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramgen Power Systems, LLC (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Steele (Woodinville, Washington); Ryan G. Edmonds (Renton, Washington); Joseph T. Williams (Kirkland, Washington); Stephen P. Baldwin (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A trapped vortex combustor. The trapped vortex combustor is configured for receiving a lean premixed gaseous fuel and oxidant stream, where the fuel includes hydrogen gas. The trapped vortex combustor is configured to receive the lean premixed fuel and oxidant stream at a velocity which significantly exceeds combustion flame speed in a selected lean premixed fuel and oxidant mixture. The combustor is configured to operate at relatively high bulk fluid velocities while maintaining stable combustion, and low NOx emissions. The combustor is useful in gas turbines in a process of burning synfuels, as it offers the opportunity to avoid use of diluent gas to reduce combustion temperatures. The combustor also offers the possibility of avoiding the use of selected catalytic reaction units for removal of oxides of nitrogen from combustion gases exiting a gas turbine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365969 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603858 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high efficiency harmonic engine based on a resonantly reciprocating piston expander that extracts work from heat and pressurizes working fluid in a reciprocating piston compressor. The engine preferably includes harmonic oscillator valves capable of oscillating at a resonant frequency for controlling the flow of working fluid into and out of the expander, and also preferably includes a shunt line connecting an expansion chamber of the expander to a buffer chamber of the expander for minimizing pressure variations in the fluidic circuit of the engine. The engine is especially designed to operate with very high temperature input to the expander and very low temperature input to the compressor, to produce very high thermal conversion efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801987 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07603963 | 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); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jonathan S. Morrell (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for initiating a process gas plasma. A conductive plate having a plurality of conductive fingers is positioned in a microwave applicator. An arc forms between the conductive fingers to initiate the formation of a plasma. A transport mechanism may convey process materials through the plasma. A spray port may be provided to expel processed materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415839 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/723.MW0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604052 | Roes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustinus Wilhelmus Maria Roes (Houston, Texas); Vijay Nair (Katy, Texas); Erwin Henh Munsterman (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Petrus Franciscus Van Bergen (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Franciscus Gondulfus Antonius Van Den Berg (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and heaters for treating a subsurface formation are described herein. At least one method for producing hydrocarbons from a subsurface formation includes providing heat to the subsurface formation using an in situ heat treatment process. One or more formation particles may be formed during heating of the subsurface formation. Fluid that includes hydrocarbons and the formation particles may be produced from the subsurface formation. The formation particles in the produced fluid may include cenospheres and have an average particle size of at least 0.5 micrometers. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788867 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604451 | Stringer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Kent Stringer (Bucyrus, Kansas); Simon Scott Yerganian (Lee's Summit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A feeding mechanism and method for feeding minute items, such as capacitors, resistors, or solder preforms. The mechanism is adapted to receive a plurality of the randomly-positioned and randomly-oriented extremely small or minute items, and to isolate, orient, and position one or more of the items in a specific repeatable pickup location wherefrom they may be removed for use by, for example, a computer-controlled automated assembly machine. The mechanism comprises a sliding shelf adapted to receive and support the items; a wiper arm adapted to achieve a single even layer of the items; and a pushing arm adapted to push the items into the pickup location. The mechanism can be adapted for providing the items with a more exact orientation, and can also be adapted for use in a liquid environment. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/385122 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Material or article handling 414/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604771 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sun-Ju Song (Orland Park, Illinois); Tae H. Lee (Naperville, Illinois); Ling Chen (Woodridge, Illinois); Stephen E. Dorris (LaGrange Park, Illinois); Uthamalingam Balachandran (Hinsdale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal method of making a hydrogen permeable composition is disclosed. A mixture of metal oxide powder and ceramic oxide powder and optionally a pore former is formed and pressed to form an article. The article is dried at elevated temperatures and then sintered in a reducing atmosphere to provide a dense hydrogen permeable portion near the surface of the sintered mixture. The dense hydrogen permeable portion has a higher initial concentration of metal than the remainder of the sintered mixture and is present in the range of from about 20 to about 80 percent by volume of the dense hydrogen permeable portion. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418957 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/674 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604787 | Maroto-Valer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer (State College, Pennsylvania); Yinzhi Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Matthew E. Kuchta (State College, Pennsylvania); John M. Andresen (State College, Pennsylvania); Dan J. Fauth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for sequestering carbon dioxide, which includes reacting a silicate based material with an acid to form a suspension, and combining the suspension with carbon dioxide to create active carbonation of the silicate-based material, and thereafter producing a metal salt, silica and regenerating the acid in the liquid phase of the suspension. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835241 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604839 | McCleskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yuan Lin (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer assisted deposition process for deposition of metal oxide films and the like is presented. The process includes solutions of one or more metal precursor and soluble polymers having binding properties for the one or more metal precursor. After a coating operation, the resultant coating is heated at high temperatures to yield metal oxide films and the like. Such films can be epitaxial in structure and can be of optical quality. The process can be organic solvent-free. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/888868 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604967 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Yang (Hanover, New Hampshire); Charles E. Wyman (Norwich, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of high lignin solids. The treatment enhances cellulase availability in cellulose conversion. Cellulase efficiencies are improved by the protein or polypeptide treatment. The treatment may be used in combination with steam explosion and acid prehydrolysis techniques. Hydrolysis yields from lignin containing biomass are enhanced 5-20%, and enzyme utilization is increased from 10% to 50%. Thus, a more efficient and economical method of processing lignin containing biomass materials utilizes a polypeptide/protein treatment step that effectively blocks lignin binding of cellulase. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391740 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605062 | Kahen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith B. Kahen (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A doped semiconductor junction for use in an electronic device and a method for making such junction is disclosed. The junction includes a first polycrystalline semiconductor layer doped with donors or acceptors over a substrate such that the first doped semiconductor layer has a first polarity, the first layer including fused semiconductor nanoparticles; and a second layer in contact with the first semiconductor layer over a substrate to form the semiconductor junction. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678734 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605200 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zane William Bell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gilbert Morris Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee); Leon Maya (Knoxville, Tennessee); Frederick Victor Sloop, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A scintillating composition for detecting neutrons and other radiation comprises a phenyl containing silicone rubber with carborane units and at least one phosphor molecule. The carborane units can either be a carborane molecule dispersed in the rubber with the aid of a compatiblization agent or can be covalently bound to the silicone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/392397 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605329 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nexans (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Schmidt (Langenhagen, Germany); Arnaud Allais (Hannover, Germany); Pierre Mirebeau (Villebon sur Yvette, France); Francois Ganhungu (Vieux-Reng, France); Nicolas Lallouet (Saint Martin Boulogne, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A terminal structure (2) for a superconducting cable (1) is described. It consists of a conductor (2a) and an insulator (2b) that surrounds the conductor (2a), wherein the superconducting cable (1) has a core with a superconducting conductor (5) and a layer of insulation that surrounds the conductor (5), and wherein the core is arranged in such a way that it can move longitudinally in a cryostat. The conductor (2a) of the terminal structure (2) is electrically connected with the superconducting conductor (5) or with a normal conductor (6) that is connected with the superconducting conductor (5) by means of a tubular part (7) made of an electrically conductive material, wherein the superconducting conductor (5) or the normal conductor (6) can slide in the part (7) in the direction of the superconductor. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/149451 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/15.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07604805 | Lim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendell Lim (San Francisco, California); John Dueber (San Francisco, California); Brian Yeh (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Protein logic gates are made from autoregulated fusion proteins comprising an output domain and a plurality of input domains, wherein at least one of the input domains is heterologous to the output domain, and the input domains interact with each other to allosterically and external, ligand-dependently regulate the output domain. The output domain may be constitutively active, and in the absence of the ligand, the input domains interact to inhibit the output domain. The activity of the output domain is user discretionary, and may include activities that are catalytic, label-generative, metabolic-regulative, apototic, specific-binding, etc. Multiple input domains can cooperatively regulate the fusion protein in a wide variety of functionalities, including as an OR-gate, an AND-gate, and an AND-NOT-gate. The gates may be incorporated into cells and therein used to modulate cell function. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/613380 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604850 | Kumar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satyendra Kumar (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optical device including a biaxial liquid crystal having a primary and secondary director is provided. A change in orientation of at least one of the directors due to an applied electric field produces a change in the optical state of the device. Response times are increased dramatically over uniaxial nematic based liquid crystal devices, offering improved performance and efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508526 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605150 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Felix Hausch (Langenselbold, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering an effective dose of a tTGase inhibitor to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces the toxic effects of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/514177 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605225 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Gang Lu (Midland, Michigan); Hakan Usta (Chicago, Illinois); Joseph Letizia (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide silole-based polymers that can be used as p-type semiconductors. More specifically, the present teachings provide polymers that include a repeating unit of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Z, x, and x′ are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of preparing these polymers, and relate to various compositions, composites, and devices that incorporate these polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803020 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605308 | Conkling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Conkling (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina); Wen Song (San Diego, California); Nandini Mendu (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA encoding a plant quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPRTase) enzyme, and constructs comprising such DNA are provided. Methods of altering quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase expression are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/963340 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605394 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Myung-Han Yoon (Evanston, Illinois); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Dielectric compositions comprising siloxane and polymeric components, as can be used in a range of transistor and related device configurations. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315076 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606274 | Mirov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Mirov (Birmingham, Alabama); Vladimir Fedorov (Birmingham, Alabama); Igor Moskalev (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical nose for detecting the presence of molecular contaminants in gaseous samples utilizes a tunable seed laser output in conjunction with a pulsed reference laser output to generate a mid-range IR laser output in the 2 to 20 micrometer range for use as a discriminating light source in a photo-acoustic gas analyzer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375601 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07606777 | Serre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Serre (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tomaso Poggio (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Maximilian Riesenhuber (Vienna, Virginia); Lior Wolf (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stanley M. Bileschi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial visual recognition system and method employ a digital processor and a model executed by the digital processor. The model has a loose hierarchy of layers. Each layer, from a lowest hierarchy level to a top level, provides relatively increasing selectivity and invariance of the input image. The hierarchy allows bypass routes between layers. On output, the model produces feature recognition and classification of an object in the input image. In some embodiments, windowing means provide windows of the input image to the model, and the model responds to shape-based objects in the input image. In another feature, segmenting means segment the input image and enables the model to determine texture-based objects in the input image. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515503 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07604067 | Kornecki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted Stanley Kornecki (Auburn, Alabama); Randy L. Raper (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A cover crop termination system includes a smooth drum and a crimping arm assembly operatively connected to the drum through a cam mechanism including a cam follower. The crimping arm assembly includes a plurality of crimping assemblies having crimping bars which crimp the cover crop after it has been rolled in order to prevent resprouting of the crop. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244733 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth working 172/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604953 | Porter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Agriculture/Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service (USDA/CSREES) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc D. Porter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Betsy Jean Yakes (Alexandria, Virginia); Robert J. Lipert (Ames, Iowa); John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of detection of the causative agent of Johne's disease (Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis) (MAP) by detecting shedding of surface protein of MAP. A preferred way is use of surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. The system of detecting MAP shedding of protein provides early detection and diagnosis, and therefore allows early treatment for Johne's disease in ruminant animals. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130528 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07604973 | DeAngelis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul DeAngelis (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nucleic acid segment having a coding region segment encoding enzymatically active Pasteurella multocida hyaluronate synthase (PmHAS), and to the use of this nucleic acid segment in the preparation of recombinant cells which produce hyaluronate synthase and its hyaluronic acid product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799130 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605197 | Matuana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurent Matuana (Holt, Michigan); Karana Carlborn (Hancock, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Wood particles or fibers and a maleated polyolefin are used to produce a composite in absence of a non-maleated polyolefin. The composite has properties enabling use in homes and avoiding the risk of formaldehyde based adhesives or other hazardous air pollutants. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/186065 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07604782 | Dingell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Dingell (Friendswood, Texas); Clemente E. Quintana (Houston, Texas); Suy Le (League City, Texas); Michael R. Clark (LaPorte, Texas); Robert E. Cloutier (Webster, Texas); David Scott Hafermalz (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A sublimator includes a sublimation plate having a thermal element disposed adjacent to a feed water channel and a control point disposed between at least a portion of the thermal element and a large pore substrate. The control point includes a sintered metal material. A method of dissipating heat using a sublimator includes a sublimation plate having a thermal element and a control point. The thermal element is disposed adjacent to a feed water channel and the control point is disposed between at least a portion of the thermal element and a large pore substrate. The method includes controlling a flow rate of feed water to the large pore substrate at the control point and supplying heated coolant to the thermal element. Sublimation occurs in the large pore substrate and the controlling of the flow rate of feed water is independent of time. A sublimator includes a sublimation plate having a thermal element disposed adjacent to a feed water channel and a control point disposed between at least a portion of the thermal element and a large pore substrate. The control point restricts a flow rate of feed water from the feed water channel to the large pore substrate independent of time. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/625670 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605225 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Gang Lu (Midland, Michigan); Hakan Usta (Chicago, Illinois); Joseph Letizia (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide silole-based polymers that can be used as p-type semiconductors. More specifically, the present teachings provide polymers that include a repeating unit of Formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Z, x, and x′ are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of preparing these polymers, and relate to various compositions, composites, and devices that incorporate these polymers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803020 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07605394 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Myung-Han Yoon (Evanston, Illinois); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Dielectric compositions comprising siloxane and polymeric components, as can be used in a range of transistor and related device configurations. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315076 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 07606768 | Graubart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Graubart (Andover, Massachusetts); Beth Abramowitz (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Voice signature method. The signer obtains a public key from an intended recipient of a document to be electronically signed. The signer speaks a personal identification number (PIN) to generate a voice PIN and the signer also speaks at least the signer's name. The voice PIN and voice signature are appended to the document and the voice PIN is encrypted using the public key to create an encrypted voice PIN. A polynomial hash is generated based on the document, the voice signature and the encrypted voice PIN and this hash is itself encrypted based on the PIN to generate an encrypted hash. Finally, the document, the voice signature, the encrypted voice PIN and the encrypted hash are sent to the intended recipient. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/347109 |
| ART UNIT | 3621 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07604394 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Jianjun Feng (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are disclosed for mixing and self-cleaning elements in microfluidic systems based on electrothermally induced fluid flow. The apparatus and methods provide for the control of fluid flow in and between components in a microfluidic system to cause the removal of unwanted liquids and particulates or mixing of liquids. The geometry and position of electrodes is adjusted to generate a temperature gradient in the liquid, thereby causing a non-uniform distribution of dielectric properties within the liquid. The dielectric non-uniformity produces a body force and flow in the solution, which is controlled by element and electrode geometries, electrode placement, and the frequency and waveform of the applied voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516358 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07604804 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lai-Xi Wang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Hengguang Li (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to multivalent HIV inhibitors that bind to multiple sites on a trimeric gp120 complex thereby blocking the CD4 binding site on the trimeric gp120 complex and inhibiting the attachment and entry of HIV through gp120-CD4 interactions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054398 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 20, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20091020.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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