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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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| US 07608240 | Buzatu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan A. Buzatu (Benton, Arkansas); Jon G. Wilkes (Jefferson, Arkansas); Dwight Miller (Jefferson, Arkansas); Jerry A. Darsey (Little Rock, Arkansas); Tom Heinze (Jefferson, Arkansas); Alex Biris (Little Rock, Arkansas); Richard Berger (White Hall, Arkansas); Mark Diggs (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel approach to cancer therapy and diagnostics that utilizes nanotubes and other similar nanostructures as both an indirect source of radiation therapy (BNCT), and as delivery vehicles for other types of radio- and chemo-therapeutic materials, as well as imaging agents for diagnostic purposes. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005380 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.490 |
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| US 07608246 | van den Elzen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter van den Elzen (Vancouver, Canada); Michael B. Brenner (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions that contain a combination of apolipoprotein E and an antigenic lipid. The compositions may be administered to a subject for the purpose of inducing an immune response against the lipid and in immunization protocols. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516017 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
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| US 07608255 | Wold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. M. Wold (Chesterfield, Missouri); Karoly Toth (St. Louis, Missouri); Konstantin Doronin (St. Louis, Missouri); Ann E. Tollefson (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel vectors which are replication competent in neoplastic cells and which overexpress an adenovirus death protein are disclosed. Some of the disclosed vectors are replication-restricted to neoplastic cells or to neoplastic alveolar type II cells. Compositions and methods for promoting the death of neoplastic cells using these replication-competent vectors are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/249873 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07608264 | Wellstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wellstein (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the discovery that pleiotrophin binds to and activates a pleiotrophin-receptor which is responsible for the events associated with pleiotrophin activity including tumorigenesis, cell proliferation, and cell invasion. By interfering with that association, the cascade of events associated with pleiotrophin activity can be prevented or reversed. Further, by evaluating the effect of different compounds and conditions on the interaction, new drugs and treatments can be identified for use in preventing certain cancers and growth and developmental disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/436244 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
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| US 07608272 | Ansari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Israrul H. Ansari (Lincoln, Nebraska); Fernando A. Osorio (Lincoln, Nebraska); Asit K. Pattnaik (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Pigs challenged with hypoglycosylated variants of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) major surface protein GP5 exhibited increased production of PRRSV-neutralizing antibodies relative to the levels of neutralizing antibodies produced by pigs immunized with wild type (wt) or glycosylated GP5. This invention provides for methods of obtaining improved immune responses in pigs to PRRSV, compositions useful for obtaining the improved immune responses as well as isolated polynucleotides that encode hypoglycosylated variants of PRRSV major surface protein GP5. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/064877 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
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| US 07608277 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gene Therapy Systems, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Roth (San Diego, California); Huaping He (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides transcriptionally active Mtb polynucleotides, recombinant Mtb peptides and polypeptides, and immunogenic Mtb antigens. Immunogenic compositions are also provided that may be useful as recombinant, subunit and DNA vaccines. In addition, the invention provides diagnostic kits for Mtb. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/291616 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
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| US 07608395 | Pascual et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Virginia Pascual (Dallas, Texas); Jacques F. Banchereau (Dallas, Texas); Lynda B. Bennett (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for aiding in the diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis of SLE in a subject and for identifying potential therapeutic agents to treat and/or ameliorate the symptoms associated with SLE. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of identifying the gene expression profile of a suitable sample by screening for the presence of a differentially expressed SLE-associated gene isolated from a sample containing or suspected of containing a cell that can differentially express an SLE-associated gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228586 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07608412 | Wooten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marie W. Wooten (Auburn, Alabama); Maria T. Diaz-Meco (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jorge Moscat (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The p62 protein has been analyzed and identified as the significant contributor to several metabolic pathways that lead to metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer's Disease, and other related diseases. The absence of the p62 protein has a profound effect on the accumulation of tau protein, amyloid beta protein and an increase in blood insulin levels. The accumulation of tau protein and amyloid beta protein in neurological tissues is a hallmark of neurological metabolic diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. Moreover, increase blood insulin levels is an indicator of insulin resistance in mammals. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for screening a mammal for metabolic disease comprising the step of detecting the absence of the p62 protein. The present invention also contemplates a method of screening a mammal for a metabolic syndrome comprising the steps of detecting the level of p62 protein in a metabolic pathway and determining whether the level of p62 protein falls below a threshold level. A pharmaceutical composition is also contemplated for therapeutic supplementation of a metabolic pathway, the pharmaceutical composition comprising a p62 protein or an amide, ester or salt thereof and a pharmaceutically effective carrier. Such pharmaceutical composition will have an inhibitory action on the phosphorylation, ubiquitination, accumulation of tau protein, an inhibitory effect on the accumulation of APP/amyloid beta and may operate to lower blood insulin levels. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539035 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 07608416 | Fitzgerald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garret A. Fitzgerald (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of inflammation and pain without increasing cardiovascular risk by administration of an inhibitor of mPGES-1. The invention further is related to identifying inhibitors of mPGES-1 that do not increase cardiovascular risk when administered to an individual. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296979 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
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| US 07608422 | Pavlakis |
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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) | George N. Pavlakis (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid constructs containing HIV-1 gag/pol and SIV gag or SIV env genes which have been mutated to remove or reduce inhibitory/instability sequences are disclosed. Viral particles and host cells containing these constructs and/or viral particles are also disclosed. The exemplified constructs and viral particles of the invention may be useful in gene therapy for numerous disorders, including HIV infection, or as a vaccine for HIV-1 immunotherapy and immunoprophylaxis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/644027 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07608423 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710672 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07608434 | Reznikoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Reznikoff (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Richard J. Gradman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Transposase proteins that are modified relative to and have higher transposase activities than the wild-type Tn5 transposase are disclosed. A transposase protein of the present invention differs from the wild-type Tn5 transposase at amino acid position 41, 42, 450, or 454 and has greater avidity than the wild-type Tn5 transposase for at least one of a Tn5 outside end sequence as defined by SEQ ID NO:3, a Tn5 inside end sequence as defined by SEQ ID NO:4, and a modified Tn5 outside end sequence as defined by SEQ ID NO:5. Also disclosed are various systems and methods of using the transposase proteins of the present invention for in vitro or in vivo transposition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/195113 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.410 |
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| US 07608449 | McCray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul McCray (Iowa City, Iowa); Hung Fan (Laguna Beach, California); Patrick Sinn (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the methods and compositions related to pseudotyped viral vectors. Embodiments of the invention include pseudotyping expression cassettes that include nucleic acid elements for enhancing the titer of pseudotyped viral particles. Embodiments of the invention include novel methods and compositions related to making high titer pseudotyped retroviral vector compositions. A heterologous envelope glycoprotein is typically incorporated into the virus during the budding or virus production process. Certain embodiments of the invention include pseudotyped retroviral vectors comprising a heterologous envelope glycoprotein derived from a Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV env). Pseudotyped viruses or viral particles may have a modified host range that is influenced by the properties of the heterologous envelope glycoprotein. Thus, embodiments of the invention include improved methods and compositions related to pseudotyped viruses suitable for ex vivo and in vivo methods including gene transfer and other therapeutic and experimental methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/845253 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07608454 | Badylak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Badylak (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tissue graft construct for use in repairing diseased or damaged tissues is provided. The tissue graft construct comprises a matrix composition selected from the group consisting of liver basement membrane and extracts and hydrolysates thereof, and processed collagen from vertebrate non-submucosal sources, added endothelial cells, and at least one additional preselected, exogenous population of cells which enhance the initiation of vessel-like structures in the grant. The preselected population of cells can be a population of non-keratinized or keratinized epithelial cells or a population of mesodermally derived cells selected from the group consisting of fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, skeletal muscle cells, cardiac muscle cells, multi-potential progenitor cells, pericytes, osteogenic cells, and any other suitable cell type, preferably selected based on the tissue to be repaired. Methods for enhancing the vascularization in vivo of these tissue graft constructs and for preparing these graft constructs are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/428355 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/371 |
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| US 07608586 | Zlokovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Rochester (New York, New York); Socratech L.L.C. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berislav V. Zlokovic (Rochester, New York); Rashid Deane (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A soluble derivative of low-density lipoprotein receptor related protein-1 (sLRP-1) binds directly to Alzheimer's amyloid-β peptide (Aβ). This binding may be used to detect Aβ or to separate Aβ from the rest of a subject's body. In Alzheimer's disease, it may be used to provide diagnostic results by detecting Aβ, treatment by removing Aβ, or both. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/558984 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07608591 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheng Liu (Carlsbad, California); Thomas S. Edgington (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new agents and methods useful for preventing, treating and diagnosing diseases such as cancer. For example, the invention relates to prodrug agents useful for targeting and delivering cytotoxic drugs to cancerous cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288978 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
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| US 07608594 | Blagg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas); Len Neckers (Bethesda, Maryland); Xiao Ming Yu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel analogues and derivatives of novobiocin are provided, including compounds having modifications to the amide side chain, coumarin ring, and sugar moieties. The compounds of the present invention are useful as heat shock protein 90 inhibitors, and may be used as anticancer and neuroprotective agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266149 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/27 |
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| US 07608611 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ross (Boulder, Colorado); David Siegel (Denver, Colorado); Philip Reigan (Denver, Colorado); Wenchang Guo (Denver, Colorado); Daniel L. Gustafson (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides purified 18,21-didehydro-18,21-dideoxo-18,21-dihydroxy-geldanamycin derivatives, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and prodrugs thereof that are potent Hsp90 binding agents that are useful for the treatment and/or the amelioration of symptoms of cancer and other proliferative tissue disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218320 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 07608688 | Quinnan, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald V. Quinnan, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Peng Fei Zhang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to HIV-1 envelope proteins from a donor with non-progressive HIV-1 infection whose serum contains broadly cross-reactive, primary virus neutralizing antibody. The invention also relates to isolated or purified proteins and protein fragments that share certain amino acids at particular positions with the foregoing HIV-1 proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473036 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07608691 | Center et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Center (Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts); William W. Cruikshank (Westford, Massachusetts); Hardy Kornfeld (Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention has found that a series of peptides having sequences that substantially correspond to specific regions of the C-terminus of IL-16 can inhibit the activity of IL-16. The present invention has demonstrated that such IL-16-inhibiting peptides can be as short as 4 amino acid in length. Based on these discoveries, the present invention provides IL-16 antagonist peptides and the use thereof for the treatment of IL-16 mediated disorders such as certain inflammatory diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544055 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
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| US 07608699 | Muesing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Muesing (New York, New York); Tshaka J. Cunningham (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel peptides, nucleic acids, vectors, compounds, compositions and methods for regulating nuclear import. The present invention also relates to a lentiviral NLS, and methods of use thereof for inhibiting HIV pathogenesis and disease progression, and for gene delivery methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/023996 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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07609060 — Non iterative shimming in magnetic resonance imaging in the presence of high LIPID levels
| US 07609060 | Hetherington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hoby P. Hetherington (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jullie W. Pan (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | For the brain, a variety of automated non-iterative shimming methods using phase evolution derived B0 maps have been reported. These methods assume that there is only a single chemical species contributing to the image. Although true in the brain, lipid contributions from skin, bone marrow and structural fat, may approach or exceed the concentration of water in other organs. In these instances, standard B0 mapping methods cannot be used due to contributions arising from the lipids. To overcome these limitations the present invention discloses a multi-point B0 mapping method combined with Dixon imaging to provide fully automated shimming of the human calf. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080510 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
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| US 07609808 | Tornai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin P. Tornai (Carrboro, North Carolina); James E. Bowsher (Durham, North Carolina); Joerg Peter (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact and mobile gantry for 3-dimensional Application Specific Emission and/or Transmission Tomography (ASETT) imaging of the breast in single photon or coincidence emission modes, and single photon, or coincidence, or x-ray transmission modes. While the ASETT gantry was designed, built and evaluated for imaging metabolically active lesions in the pendant breast, it can also be used to image other organs and objects. This system overcomes physical constraints associated with imaging a pendulous breast in prone patients, while simultaneously satisfying sampling criteria for sufficient data collection in the pendulous breast reference frame. When combined with an offset cone-beam tomographic x-ray transmission imaging system, this dual modality ASETT system could provide simultaneous and coregistered structural and functional information about large or dense breasts, breasts with indeterminate x-ray mammography, and could also be used to accurately 3-dimensionally guide biopsy or surgical resection. Moreover, with the offset beam orientation, the transmission system is designed to have a variable FOV and minimize overall absorbed breast dose. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/106393 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/63 |
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| US 07609841 | Freed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | House Ear Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Freed (Santa Monica, California); Sigfrid D. Soli (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A decorrelation method for improving feedback cancellation utilizes a small frequency shifting ratio, on the order of 0.3 percent. Frequency shifting is applied only to the high frequency portion of the signal, which is shifted alternately upward and downward. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/912690 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/318 |
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| US 07610074 | Boppart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an image of a sample, comprising: forming an image of a mixture, by exposing the mixture to electromagnetic radiation; wherein the mixture comprises the sample and plasmon-resonant nanoparticles, and wherein the electromagnetic radiation is in the frequency range of infra-red to ultraviolet light. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753972 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
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| US 07610076 | Riederer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota); David G. Kruger (Nelson, Wisconsin); Ananth J. Madhuranthakam (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | MRA data is acquired from an extended field of view by translating the patient through the bore of the MRI system as three-dimensional MRA data sets are acquired and time-resolved images reconstructed. The leading edge of a contrast bolus can be tracked in these images and parameters such as bolus velocity and bolus arrival time can be calculated to provide functional information in addition to anatomical information. Temporal resolution is improved by undersampling peripheral k-space and sampling the center of k-space at a higher temporal rate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/795044 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/415 |
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| US 07610096 | McDonald, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. McDonald, III (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the treatment of CNS damage are described, and include inducing in a subject in need of such treatment, a therapeutically effective amount of functional electronic stimulation (FES) sufficient to evoke patterned movement in the subject's muscles, the control of which has been affected by the CNS damage. The induction of FES-evoked patterned movement at least partially restores lost motor and sensory function, and stimulates regeneration of neural progenitor cells in the subject patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/654832 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610192 | Jamieson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick William Jamieson (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Coding free text documents, especially in medicine, has become an urgent priority as electronic medical records (EMR) mature, and the need to exchange data between EMRs becomes more acute. However, only a few automated coding systems exist, and they can only code a small portion of the free text against a limited number of codes. The precision of these systems is low and code quality is not measured. The present invention discloses a process and system which implements semantic coding against standard lexicon(s) with high precision. The standard lexicon can come from a number of different sources, but is usually developed by a standard's body. The system is semi-automated to enable medical coders or others to process free text documents at a rapid rate and with high precision. The system performs the steps of segmenting a document, flagging the need for corrections, validating the document against a data type definition, and looking up both the semantics and standard codes which correspond to the document's sentences. The coder has the option to intervene at any step in the process to fix mistakes made by the system. A knowledge base, consisting of propositions, represents the semantic knowledge in the domain. When sentences with unknown semantics are discovered they can be easily added to the knowledge base. The propositions in the knowledge base are associated with codes in the standard lexicon. The quality of each match is rated by a professional who understands the knowledge domain. The system uses this information to perform high precision coding and measure the quality of the match. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/386996 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihael Pleskach (Orlando, Florida); Paul Koeneman (Palm Bay, Florida); Carol Gamlen (Melbourne, Florida); Steven R. Snyder (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-fluidic interconnection. The interconnection includes a body (200) formed of a ceramic material. The body (200) is provided with an aperture (206) having a profile suitable for receiving an interconnecting conduit (400). The interconnecting conduit (400) can be formed of the same type of ceramic material as the body (200). The conduit (400) is defined by an outer shell (403) with a hollow bore (402) for transporting a fluid. A mating portion (404) of the conduit has an exterior profile that matches the profile of the aperture. Moreover, the mating portion (404) of the conduit (400) can be compression fitted within the aperture (206). Conductive traces (406, 208) on the conduit and the body can be electrically connected to complete the electro-fluidic interconnection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834797 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/846 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07607285 | Futa, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Futa, Jr. (North Liberty, Indiana); David J. Hauck (Granger, Indiana); Gregory E. Kline (South Bend, Indiana); Steven A. Lewis (South Bend, Indiana); George S. Wieger (Niles, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal recirculation throttle valve (1) for an aircraft fuel system includes a housing (11) having a throttling valve chamber; a cover (5) operatively engaging a first side of the housing (11); a power piston (6) within a power piston sleeve (7), the power piston (6) having a first (21) and second face (22) for control pressure to act upon, the power piston (6) and power piston sleeve (7) operatively engaged with the housing (11) within the throttling valve chamber; a Linear Variable Differential Transformer (15) for measuring a linear position of the power piston (6) within the housing (11); a throttling valve (8) within a throttling valve sleeve (9), the throttling valve (8) operatively engaged with the power piston (60) to transfer the linear movement of the piston (6) between a fully extended and a fully retracted operating position; and a flow deflector (10) engaged with the throttling valve (8) for protecting the housing (11) from flow erosion from fuel exiting flow windows (37). The throttling valve (8) includes a pair of fail-safe operating positions, a fully open operating position, a low leakage shutoff operating position, and a variety of variable flow operating positions between the shutoff and fully open operating positions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740651 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07607286 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut); Craig A. Nordeen (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fan-turbine rotor assembly (24) includes a multitude of turbine blades (34) which each define a turbine blade passage which bleed air from a diffuser section (74) to provide for regenerative cooling. Regenerative cooling airflow is communicated from the radial core airflow passage (80) through the diffuser passages (144), through diffuser aspiration passages (146A, 146B) and into the turbine blade passages (150a). The regenerative cooling airflow exits from the turbine blade passage (150a) and transfers received thermal energy into an annular combustor (30). The received thermal energy is recovered at the highest temperature in the cycle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719956 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07607523 | Clemens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanford Clemens (Westfield, Indiana); Kelby Hassenzahl (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a lock mechanism and method for selectively coupling two concentric shafts rotatable about a common axis. The lock mechanism includes a locking ring assembly movable along an axis of rotation of two rotatable shafts between a locked position to transmit rotation between the two shafts and an unlocked position. The lock mechanism also includes a first locking portion extending radially from the locking ring assembly and circumferentially about the axis of rotation for engaging a first of the two shafts. The lock mechanism also includes a second locking portion extending radially from the locking ring assembly opposite the first locking portion and circumferentially about the axis of rotation for engaging a second of the two shafts. The lock mechanism also includes a third locking portion extending radially from the locking ring assembly opposite the first locking portion and circumferentially about the axis of rotation for engaging a second of the two shafts and spaced the second locking portion along the axis of rotation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353442 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Clutches and power-stop control 192/69.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608158 | Liu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Ping Liu (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes particle compositions and methods of fabrication that prevent agglomeration, thereby maintaining particle size and/or shape. Particles of the present invention were prepared after embedding chemically disordered metal-containing particles in at least one salt to form a dispersion. The dispersion of particles in salt was treated to temperatures of at least about 500 degrees Centigrade for several hours. Particles were easily recovered from the dispersion and did not agglomerate. The particles were also absent contaminating salts after performing simple washing and/or rinsing steps. Structural, compositional and/or magnetic characterizations of the metal-containing particles confirmed that they had not agglomerated. When particles with an fcc structure formed a dispersion with at least one salt, the method yielded the formation of particles having an fct structure with high magnetic anisotropy and without a substantial change in size and/or shape. When desired, however, particles shape and/or size may be changed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374633 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608179 | Irvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California); David L. Witker (Bay City, Michigan); John D. Stenger-Smith (Ridgecrest, California); Jennifer A. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention demonstrates the synthesis of a new pyrazole-containing monomer by an easily implemented two-step process. This monomer can be electropolymerized to yield a stable n-doping polymer that may easily be electrochemically characterized. It is demonstrated that the electrochemical behavior of the polymer films produced is dependent upon the conditions applied during electrodeposition. Films deposited by cycling only at relatively positive potentials (0 to 2000 mV) show less intense n-doping responses than those films obtained by scanning the applied potential throughout a wider range (−2000 mV to 2000 mV). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178947 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608186 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vishal Bansal (Overland Park, Kansas); Hieu Minh Duong (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous membrane assembly includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a porous membrane substrate having hydrophobic properties. The membrane substrate includes a first side, an opposing second side and a plurality of pores extending therethrough. The membrane substrate also includes a discontinuous layer of an oleophobic coating applied to the first side so that the plurality of pores in the first side are substantially free of the oleophobic coating, and a continuous layer of an amine containing hydrophilic polymer coating applied to the second side of the membrane substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/694590 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wellstein (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the discovery that pleiotrophin binds to and activates a pleiotrophin-receptor which is responsible for the events associated with pleiotrophin activity including tumorigenesis, cell proliferation, and cell invasion. By interfering with that association, the cascade of events associated with pleiotrophin activity can be prevented or reversed. Further, by evaluating the effect of different compounds and conditions on the interaction, new drugs and treatments can be identified for use in preventing certain cancers and growth and developmental disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/436244 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608269 | Clinton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gail M. Clinton (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternative HER-2/neu product, herstatin, consists of subdomains I and II from the ectodomain of p185HER-2 and a unique 79 amino acid C-terminus encoded by intron 8. Recombinant herstatin added to cells was found to bind to and inhibit p185HER-2. The effects of ectopic expression of herstatin in combination with either p185HER-2 or with its homolog, the EGF receptor, in several cell lines was studied. Cotransfection of herstatin with HER-2 inhibited p185HER-2 levels and caused an approximate 8-fold reduction in p185 tyrosine phosphorylation. Inhibition of p185HER-2 tyrosine phosphorylation corresponded to a dramatic decline in colony formation by cells that coexpressed p185HER-2 and herstatin. Herstatin also interferred with EGF activation of the EGF receptor in cotransfected cells as demonstrated by impaired receptor tyrosine phosphorylation, reduced receptor down-regulation, and growth suppression. For both p185HER-2 and the EGF receptor, the extent of inhibition was affected by the expression levels of herstatin relative to the receptor. Herstatin is an autoinhibitor of p185HER-2 and expands its inhibitory activity to another member of the group I family of receptor tyrosine kinases, the EGF receptor. Herstatin blocked the activated Akt-mediated EGF survival signal, as well as transforming growth factor alpha (TGFα)-mediated EGF receptor activation, survival signal and proliferation signal. Purified recombinant herstatin specifically inhibited human carcinoma cells that over-express HER-2, and was effectively absorbed into the blood of intraperitoneally injected mice, where it was not proteolytically degraded and was present for between one and three hours. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344470 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xing-Fu Zhong (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Photocurable, conductive, and transparent polymer coating compositions and methods of using the same are provided. The compositions include a photopolymer and an electrically conductive polymer dissolved or dispersed in a solvent system. Preferred photopolymers include water-miscible, multifunctional acrylates. Preferred electrically conductive polymers include poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT-PSS). The compositions preferably also contain a photoinitiator and may contain a water-immiscible acrylate and/or a surfactant. The compositions are applied to substrates and exposed to actinic radiation such as ultraviolet (UV) light to form a cured, durable, conductive, and transparent coating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550279 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608688 | Quinnan, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald V. Quinnan, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Peng Fei Zhang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to HIV-1 envelope proteins from a donor with non-progressive HIV-1 infection whose serum contains broadly cross-reactive, primary virus neutralizing antibody. The invention also relates to isolated or purified proteins and protein fragments that share certain amino acids at particular positions with the foregoing HIV-1 proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473036 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608951 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin C. Potter (Mesa, Arizona); David Corcino (Chandler, Arizona); Paul T. Wingett (Mesa, Arizona); Casey Hanlon (Queen Creek, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy storage flywheel system for a spacecraft is implemented with a fully redundant rotating group and gimbal actuator. In particular, the gimbal actuator, motor/generator, primary bearings, and secondary bearing actuator are each implemented with a pair of redundant coils or motors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580664 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608965 | Aydin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Metin Aydin (Peoria, Illinois); Thomas A. Lipo (Middleton, Wisconsin); Surong Huang (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical machine is provided. The machine includes at least one rotor mounted for rotation about a central axis and at least two stator sections mounted axially adjacent to and on opposite sides of the rotor. The rotor includes two circumferentially arrayed rows of alternating segments of permanent magnet and ferromagnetic pole pieces. One of the rows is spaced radially inwardly from the other row. The permanent magnet and ferromagnetic pole pieces are separated by a non-ferromagnetic material. The pole pieces are arranged so that the permanent magnet segments in the first row are radially adjacent to ferromagnetic segments in the second row so that the N-S magnetic fields of the permanent magnet segments are aligned axially. Each stator section includes a ferromagnetic stator frame, at least a first AC winding wound in circumferential slots in the stator frame, and a DC field winding wound on the stator frame. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218316 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608989 | Heydt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Heydt (Palo Alto, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Louisville, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Neville A. Bonwit (Palo Alto, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compliant electroactive polymer transducers for use in acoustic applications. A compliant electroactive polymer transducer includes a compliant electroactive polymer at least two electrodes. For sound production, circuitry in electrical communication with the transducer electrodes is configured to apply a driving signal that causes the electroactive polymer to deflect in the acoustic range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676977 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609073 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jared K. Olson (Saratoga Springs, Utah); Ronald G. Mellus (Erda, Utah); Travis A. Bodrero (West Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring the volume resistivity of materials and method of measuring are disclosed. The device for measuring has a receptacle of a known volume in which fluid materials, for example powdered or granular materials which may assume the shape of the receptacle, may be placed. The receptacle may have an insulating body and electrodes in the form of conductive end caps on either longitudinal end of the body. The resistance across the device, between the electrodes, may be measured. The volume resistivity of the fluid materials may be determined using the known volume of the receptacle and the resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438084 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609215 | Apostolos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Apostolos (Lyndeborough, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A coaxial antenna is implemented that combines a VHF and UHF antenna on a common radiating element. The antenna may further include a satellite antenna that, together with the VHF/UHF antenna fits into a whip antenna footprint. The antenna incorporates chokes that may be implemented using meanderline techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/783824 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/711 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Wheeler Warren (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer apparatus includes a refractor element, a slit, a detector, a diffraction grating, and a corrector lens. The refractor element includes a rear surface and a front surface. The slit provides an optical path to the rear surface of the refractor element, and is configured to transmit an image incident thereupon along the optical path. The detector is positioned facing the rear surface of the refractor element. The diffraction grating faces the front surface of the refractor element, and is configured to spectrally disperse and reimage the image of the slit toward the front surface of the refractor element. The corrector lens is positioned between the refractor element and the diffraction grating such that the image is provided to the detector corrected for a spherical aberration caused by a separation distance between the detector and the rear surface of the refractor element. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052705 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxion Technologies, Inc. (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Leavitt (Silver Spring, Maryland); John L. Bradshaw (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Quantum-cascade lasers are provided with an active section in which relaxation of carriers from a lower laser level is provided by three or more phonon-assisted transitions to levels within the active section whose energies are below the energy of the lower laser level. The gain region of the laser consists of alternating active and injector sections, with an injection barrier inserted between each injector section and the adjacent active section, and an exit barrier inserted between each active section and the adjacent injector section. The active section comprises a sufficient number of quantum wells separated by quantum barriers to produce the desired energy-level structure consisting of an upper laser level, a lower laser level, and at least three levels that have lower energies than the lower laser level, with the separation of adjacent energy levels below and including the lower laser level that are at least equal to the energy of the quantum well material's longitudinal optical phonon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/929061 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/43.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609755 | Rasmussen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald John Rasmussen (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A simplified timing correction method is provided for data despreading of serial offset quadrature pulse-shaped spread signals. The simplified timing correction algorithm is applied to a rake receiver for improved performance in a multi-path channel. Serial formatting of the spreading modulation waveform is selected to reduce the SYNC/serial probe correlation complexity. The method includes the steps of: (a) decimating serial inphase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals to form decimated I and Q even samples and decimated I and Q odd samples; (b) obtaining an autocorrelation profile of a spreading sequence used by the receiver; (c) detecting a synchronization starting point using the I and Q even samples; and (d) deciding to either move, or not move, the synchronization starting point, based on the autocorrelation profile obtained in step (b). Step (d) decides to move the synchronization starting point, and uses the I and Q odd samples for subsequent despreading of the I and Q signals. Step (d) also decides not to move the synchronization starting point, and uses the I and Q even samples for subsequent despreading of the I and Q signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/313476 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609877 | Carlson 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) | Benjamin Paul Carlson (Lawton, Oklahoma); William Rodney Ditzler (Ridgecrest, California); Michael R. Havlin (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the timely processing of tactical images which allows a military pilot adequate time to track and engage a target. The method uses a correlation process and back propagated neural network to home in on a correct position parameters for the tactical image including the heading and the range for the tactical image. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/352067 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609915 | Shvets |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gennady Shvets (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus for a one-way waveguide and/or a circular polarizer that includes a waveguide having a height, a width, a length and a wave propagation direction. A first wall of the waveguide has a first slanted groove. A second wall opposite the first wall of the waveguide has a second slanted groove. The first and second grooves are rotated clockwise around the wave propagation direction to approximate a helical groove. The present invention may also include a third slanted groove in a third wall adjacent to the first wall and second wall, a fourth slanted groove in a fourth wall opposite the third wall, and the first, second, third and fourth grooves are rotated clockwise around the wave propagation direction to approximate the helical groove. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855149 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609971 | Zhou |
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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) | Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An multi-beam multifunction electro optical scanning antenna having a first variable wavelength tunable laser having an output wavelength variable within a first range and a second variable wavelength tunable laser having an output wavelength variable within a second range, different from the first range. The outputs from both lasers are modulated by independent microwave sources and the modulated outputs from both lasers are combined by an optical combiner into a combined output signal. An antenna array includes a plurality of radiators and a photodetector is associated with each radiator which converts the combined optical output from the lasers to microwave signals. Beam splitters divide the combined output signals to each of the antenna radiators while first and second wavelength-dependent time delay elements are optically connected in series between each sequential beam splitter. Each first time delay element is operable within the first wavelength range, while each second time delay element is operable within the second wavelength range. The antenna can generate two or more RF microwave beams simultaneously and independently scan/steer them. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292114 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609972 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Cunningham (Dayton, Ohio); Dean Grinch (Dublin, Ohio); Donald Fisher (Spring Valley Township, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for acquiring and tracking terminals in a free-space laser communication system involves exchanging beacon laser beams between the terminals to acquire and then track the terminals such that data laser beams exchanged by the terminals for communication are steered based on feedback from detection of the beacon laser beams. The beacon laser beams used for acquisition have a greater beam divergence than those used for tracking. Gimbals provide coarse steering of the data laser beams, and steering mirrors provide fine steering. GPS position data exchanged via an RF link can be used for initial pointing of the beacon laser beams for acquisition. The beacon laser beams can be chopped such that all terminals can use the same beacon wavelength and are distinguished by using different chopping frequencies. By detecting a chopped signal, the position sensor detector can be AC coupled to reduce sensitivity to solar radiation and glint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194741 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610266 | Cascaval et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe C. Cascaval (Carmel, New York); Evelyn Duesterwald (New York, New York); Peter F. Sweeney (Spring Valley, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for vertical integrated performance and environment monitoring includes steps, or acts, of: defining one or more events to provide a unified specification; registering one or more events to be detected; detecting an occurrence of at least one of the registered event or events; generating a monitoring entry each time one of the registered events is detected; and entering each of the monitoring entries generated into a single logical entity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137293 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610397 | Gedik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive load shedding includes receiving at least one data stream (comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into a first sliding window of memory. A subset of tuples from the received data stream is then selected for processing in accordance with at least one data stream operation, such as a data stream join operation. Tuples that are not selected for processing are ignored. The number of tuples selected and the specific tuples selected depend at least in part on a variety of dynamic parameters, including the rate at which the data stream (and any other processed data streams) is received, time delays associated with the received data stream, a direction of a join operation performed on the data stream and the values of the individual tuples with respect to an expected output. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068137 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610541 | Tremaine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York); Peter A. Franaszek (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer compressed memory system for storing and retrieving data in a processing system, includes a memory including at least one memory device for storing at least one of uncompressed data and compressed data, a compressor for encoding data blocks into smaller compressed data blocks for storage in the memory, a decompressor for reconstituting encoded data into original uncompressed data blocks, a memory controller for generating, receiving and responding to memory access requests from processing and input/output units and responsively controlling access to the memory from the compressor and the decompressor for storing and retrieving data, and a hardware priority filter associated with the memory controller for selecting specific memory access requests according to attributes and access type within prescribed rates and under specific conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/369987 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07608174 | Hachman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Hachman (Stockton, California); Matthew W. Losey (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Dorrance E. McLean (Manteca, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fixture is disclosed to more easily affix a workpiece in the proper orientation and spacing with sealed electrical interconnection within an electrochemical plating bath. The workpiece can be any planar metallic or non-metallic substrate such as a silicon wafer commonly used in LIGA or microsystem fabrication. The fixture described allows the workpiece to be submerged deep within an electrolytic cell, facing upwards, and allows easy transfer from one cell to another. The edges, backside, and electrical connections are sealed and protected from the electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599766 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/297.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608233 | Rönnebro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ewa Carin Ellinor Rönnebro (Dublin, California); Eric H. Majzoub (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for directly preparing an alkaline earth metal borohydride, i.e. Ca(BH4)2, from the alkaline earth metal hydride and the alkaline earth metal boride. The borohydride thus prepared is doped with a small portion of a metal chloride catalyst compound, such as RuCl3, TiCl3, or a mixture of TiCl3 and palladium metal. The process provides for mechanically mixing the dry reagents under an inert atmosphere followed by charging the mixed materials with high pressure hydrogen at about 70 MPa while heating the mixture to about 400° C. The method is relatively simple and inexpensive and provides reversible hydride compounds which are free of the usual contamination introduced by prior art wet chemical methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/807012 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608334 | Frisk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Frisk (Oakdale, Minnesota); Wayne M. Boand (Line Lakes, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a microlayer for use with an electrically conductive porous substrate of a gas diffusion layer. The microlayer includes carbon particles and a polymeric composition of first highly-fluorinated polymers that are non-melt processable and second highly-fluorinated polymers that are melt processable. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092017 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608335 | Findikoglu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alp T. Findikoglu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vladimir Matias (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Woong Choi (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A template article including a base substrate including: (i) a base material selected from the group consisting of polycrystalline substrates and amorphous substrates, and (ii) at least one layer of a differing material upon the surface of the base material; and, a buffer material layer upon the base substrate, the buffer material layer characterized by: (a) low chemical reactivity with the base substrate, (b) stability at temperatures up to at least about 800° C. under low vacuum conditions, and (c) a lattice crystal structure adapted for subsequent deposition of a semiconductor material; is provided, together with a semiconductor article including a base substrate including: (i) a base material selected from the group consisting of polycrystalline substrates and amorphous substrates, and (ii) at least one layer of a differing material upon the surface of the base material; and, a buffer material layer upon the base substrate, the buffer material layer characterized by: (a) low chemical reactivity with the base substrate, (b) stability at temperatures up to at least about 800° C. under low vacuum conditions, and (c) a lattice crystal structure adapted for subsequent deposition of a semiconductor material, and, a top-layer of semiconductor material upon the buffer material layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001461 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608367 | Aigeldinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georg Aigeldinger (Livermore, California); Dawn M. Skala (Fremont, California); Stewart K. Griffiths (Livermore, California); Albert Alec Talin (Livermore, California); Matthew W. Losey (Livermore, California); Chu-Yeu Peter Yang (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the use of vitreous carbon as a substrate material for providing masks for X-ray lithography. The new substrate also enables a small thickness of the mask absorber used to pattern the resist, and this enables improved mask accuracy. An alternative embodiment comprised the use of vitreous carbon as a LIGA substrate wherein the VC wafer blank is etched in a reactive ion plasma after which an X-ray resist is bonded. This surface treatment provides a surface enabling good adhesion of the X-ray photoresist and subsequent nucleation and adhesion of the electrodeposited metal for LIGA mold-making while the VC substrate practically eliminates secondary radiation effects that lead to delamination of the X-ray resist form the substrate, the loss of isolated resist features, and the formation of a resist layer adjacent to the substrate that is insoluble in the developer. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192797 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608423 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710672 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608461 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Albert Alec Talin (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing metal nanoparticles that when associated with an analyte material will generate an amplified SERS spectrum when the analyte material is illuminated by a light source and a spectrum is recorded. The method for preparing the metal nanoparticles comprises the steps of (i) forming a water-in-oil microemulsion comprising a bulk oil phase, a dilute water phase, and one or more surfactants, wherein the water phase comprises a transition metal ion; (ii) adding an aqueous solution comprising a mild reducing agent to the water-in-oil microemulsion; (iii) stirring the water-in-oil microemulsion and aqueous solution to initiate a reduction reaction resulting in the formation of a fine precipitate dispersed in the water-in-oil microemulsion; and (iv) separating the precipitate from the water-in-oil microemulsion. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228934 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608677 | Cella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for the preparation of polymeric organic iridium complexes useful in electronic devices such as OLEDs. The method provides polymeric organic iridium compositions comprising at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The polymeric organic iridium compositions provided are referred to as Type (2) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that at least one ligand of the polymeric organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (2) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “polymeric organic iridium complexes”. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a non-polymeric organic iridium complex comprising one or more reactive functional groups and carrying out a polymerization step to provide the polymeric organic iridium complex comprising at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599972 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608689 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (David, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Michael Rey (Davis, California); Hanshu Ding (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing a substance from a cellulosic material. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541099 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608777 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BSST, LLC (Irwindale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lon E. Bell (Altadena, California); Douglas Todd Crane (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric power generator is disclosed for use to generate electrical power from heat, typically waste heat. An intermediate heat transfer loop forms a part of the system to permit added control and adjustability in the system. This allows the thermoelectric power generator to more effectively and efficiently generate power in the face of dynamically varying temperatures and heat flux conditions, such as where the heat source is the exhaust of an automobile, or any other heat source with dynamic temperature and heat flux conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/476326 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608820 | Berman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennady P. Berman (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Boris M. Chernobrod (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to scanning magnetic microscope which has a photoluminescent nanoprobe implanted in the tip apex of an atomic force microscope (AFM), a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) or a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) and exhibits optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) in the vicinity of unpaired electron spins or nuclear magnetic moments in the sample material. The described spin microscope has demonstrated nanoscale lateral resolution and single spin sensitivity for the AFM and STM embodiments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845931 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608824 | Korsah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kofi Korsah (Knoxville, Tennessee); Larry R Baylor (Farragut, Tennessee); John B Caughman (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger A Kisner (Knoxville, Tennessee); Philip D Rack (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ilia N Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An infrared imaging device and method for making infrared detector(s) having at least one anode, at least one cathode with a substrate electrically connected to a plurality of doped carbon nanostructures; and bias circuitry for applying an electric field between the anode and the cathode such that when infrared photons are absorbed by the nanostructures the emitted field current is modulated. The detectors can be doped with cesium to lower the work function. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/858296 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609139 | Bird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Bird (Tallahassee, Florida); Scott T. Bole (Tallahassee, Florida); Scott R. Gundlach (Tallahassee, Florida); Jack Toth (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An electromagnet having at least one access port oriented perpendicularly to the electromagnet's central axis. The magnet has a conventional helical winding along its central axis. However, at some point along the length of the axis, the pitch of the helical winding is greatly increased in order to create a region with a comparatively low turn density. One or more ports are provided in this region. These ports provide access from the magnet's central bore to the magnet's exterior. A sample can be placed in the central bore near the ports. A beam traveling down the central bore, or through one of the radial ports, will strike the sample and be scattered in all directions. The ports allow access for instrumentation which is used to evaluate the scattered beam. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/716492 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609731 | Dantus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcos Dantus (Okemos, Michigan); Vadim V. Lozovoy (Okemos, Michigan); Matthew Comstock (Milford, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system using ultrashort laser pulses is provided. In another aspect of the present invention, the system includes a laser, pulse shaper and detection device. A further aspect of the present invention employs a femtosecond laser and binary pulse shaping (BPS). Still another aspect of the present invention uses a laser beam pulse, a pulse shaper and a SHG crystal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/791377 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609808 | Tornai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin P. Tornai (Carrboro, North Carolina); James E. Bowsher (Durham, North Carolina); Joerg Peter (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact and mobile gantry for 3-dimensional Application Specific Emission and/or Transmission Tomography (ASETT) imaging of the breast in single photon or coincidence emission modes, and single photon, or coincidence, or x-ray transmission modes. While the ASETT gantry was designed, built and evaluated for imaging metabolically active lesions in the pendant breast, it can also be used to image other organs and objects. This system overcomes physical constraints associated with imaging a pendulous breast in prone patients, while simultaneously satisfying sampling criteria for sufficient data collection in the pendulous breast reference frame. When combined with an offset cone-beam tomographic x-ray transmission imaging system, this dual modality ASETT system could provide simultaneous and coregistered structural and functional information about large or dense breasts, breasts with indeterminate x-ray mammography, and could also be used to accurately 3-dimensionally guide biopsy or surgical resection. Moreover, with the offset beam orientation, the transmission system is designed to have a variable FOV and minimize overall absorbed breast dose. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/106393 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609815 | Leung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Ngo Leung (Hercules, California); Qing Ji (Albany, California); William A. Barletta (Oakland, California); Ximan Jiang (El Cerrito, California); Lili Ji (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for controllably directing beamlets to a target substrate are disclosed. The beamlets may be either positive ions or electrons. It has been shown that beamlets may be produced with a diameter of 1 μm, with inter-aperture spacings of 12 μm. An array of such beamlets, may be used for maskless lithography. By step-wise movement of the beamlets relative to the target substrate, individual devices may be directly e-beam written. Ion beams may be directly written as well. Due to the high brightness of the beamlets from extraction from a multicusp source, exposure times for lithographic exposure are thought to be minimized. Alternatively, the beamlets may be electrons striking a high Z material for X-ray production, thereafter collimated to provide patterned X-ray exposures such as those used in CAT scans. Such a device may be used for remote detection of explosives. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757137 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610071 | Welp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Welp (Lisle, Illinois); Alexei E. Koshelev (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Kenneth E. Gray (Evanston, Illinois); Wai-Kwong Kwok (Evanston, Illinois); Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, solid-state THz source based on the driven Josephson vortex lattice in a highly anisotropic superconductor such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 that allows cw emission at tunable frequency. A second order metallic Bragg grating is used to achieve impedance matching and to induce surface emission of THz-radiation from a Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 sample. Steering of the emitted THz beam is accomplished by tuning the Josephson vortex spacing around the grating period using a superimposed magnetic control field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/728615 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610130 | Dixon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Dixon (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James C. Forsythe (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Carl E. Lippitt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lois Diane Lippitt, legal representative (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Computer software for and a method of enhancing safety for an operator of a motor vehicle comprising employing a plurality of sensors of vehicle and operator conditions, matching collective output from the sensors against a plurality of known dangerous conditions, and preventing certain activity of the operator if a known dangerous condition is detected. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489833 |
| 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 71/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07608419 | Ponce |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Ponce (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for detecting and quantifying bacterial spores on a surface. In accordance with the method: a matrix including lanthanide ions is provided on the surface containing the bacterial spores; functionalized aromatic molecules are released from the bacterial spores on the surface; a complex of the lanthanide ion and the aromatic molecule is formed on the surface; the complex of the lanthanide ion and the aromatic molecule is excited to generate a characteristic luminescence of the complex on the surface; and the bacterial spores exhibiting the luminescence of the complex on the surface are detected and quantified. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987202 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609220 | Engargiola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Engargiola (El Cerrito, California); Adrian Lee (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A log-periodic antenna coupled to a channelizer is described in which matched scale constants for the antenna and the channelizer are used to achieve substantially identical coupling over each fractional bandwidth channel. Embodiments for simultaneous dual polarization operation are described as well as embodiments suited for planar lithographic fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/430524 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/792.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609978 | Wollack 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) | Edward J. Wollack (Clarksville, Maryland); Samuel H. Moseley (University Park, Maryland); Giles A. Novak (Evanston, Illinois); David T. Chuss (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal conditioning module provides a polarimeter capability in a photometric system. The module may include multiple variable delay polarization modulators. Each modulator may include an input port, and a first arm formed to include a first reflector and first rooftop mirror arranged in opposed relationship. The first reflector may direct an input radiation signal to the first rooftop mirror. Each modulator also may include an output port and a second arm formed to include a second reflector and second rooftop mirror arranged in opposed relationship. The second reflector can guide a signal from the second rooftop mirror towards the output port to provide an output radiation signal. A beamsplitting grid may be placed between the first reflector and the first rooftop mirror, and also between the second reflector and the second rooftop mirror. A translation apparatus can provide adjustment relative to optical path length vis-à-vis the first arm, the second arm and the grid. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056964 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610074 | Boppart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an image of a sample, comprising: forming an image of a mixture, by exposing the mixture to electromagnetic radiation; wherein the mixture comprises the sample and plasmon-resonant nanoparticles, and wherein the electromagnetic radiation is in the frequency range of infra-red to ultraviolet light. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/753972 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610179 | Florea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Razvan Florea (Manchester, Connecticut); Luca Bertuccioli (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for designing gas turbine engine components using a coupled parametric analysis of part geometry and flow control is disclosed. Included are the steps of parametrically defining the geometry of the duct wall shape, parametrically defining one or more flow control actuators in the duct wall, measuring a plurality of performance parameters or metrics (e.g., flow characteristics) of the duct and comparing the results of the measurement with desired or target parameters, and selecting the optimal duct geometry and flow control for at least a portion of the duct, the selection process including evaluating the plurality of performance metrics in a pareto analysis. The use of this method in the design of inter-turbine transition ducts, serpentine ducts, inlets, diffusers, and similar components provides a design which reduces pressure losses and flow profile distortions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/948114 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610199 | Abrash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Abrash (Montara, California); Federico Cesari (Menlo Park, California); Horacio Franco (Menlo Park, California); Christopher George (Los Osos, California); Jing Zheng (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, the method continuously records an audio stream comprising a sequence of frames to a circular buffer. When a user command to commence or terminate speech recognition is received, the method obtains a number of frames of the audio stream occurring before or after the user command in order to identify an augmented audio signal for speech recognition processing. In further embodiments, the method analyzes the augmented audio signal in order to locate starting and ending speech endpoints that bound at least a portion of speech to be processed for recognition. At least one of the speech endpoints is located using a Hidden Markov Model. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217912 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07609220 | Engargiola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Engargiola (El Cerrito, California); Adrian Lee (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A log-periodic antenna coupled to a channelizer is described in which matched scale constants for the antenna and the channelizer are used to achieve substantially identical coupling over each fractional bandwidth channel. Embodiments for simultaneous dual polarization operation are described as well as embodiments suited for planar lithographic fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/430524 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/792.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609392 | Yaqoob et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahid Yaqoob (Pasadena, California); Jigang Wu (Pasadena, California); Marinko Sarunic (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device realize shallow gratings-based planar beam splitter/combiner. Non-trivial phase shifts between different ports of resulting interferometers are used to acquire full-field phase measurements. The non-trivial phase shifts between different ports of the planar beam splitter/combiner can be adjusted by simply shearing one grating with respect to the second grating. The two shallow diffraction gratings are harmonically-related and can be recorded on a single substrate for compact interferometric based schemes. During the recording process, the two gratings are aligned such that the grating planes and the grating vectors are parallel to that of each other. The relative phase of the recording beams controls the shearing between the recorded harmonically-related shallow phase gratings. The relative shearing of the two gratings defines the non-trivial phase shift between different ports of the compact planar beam splitter/combiner. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/770553 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609782 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Shengli Zhou (Mansfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for space-time block coding for single-carrier block transmissions over frequency selective multipath fading channels. Techniques are described that achieve a maximum diversity of order NtNr (L+1) in rich scattering environments, where Nt (Nr) is the number of transmit (receive) antennas, and L is the order of the finite impulse response (FIR) channels. The techniques may include parsing a stream of information-bearing symbols to form blocks of K symbols, precoding the symbols to form blocks having J symbols, and collecting consecutive Ns blocks. The techniques may further include applying a permutation matrix to the Ns blocks, generating a space-time block coded matrix having Nt rows that are communicated through a wireless communication medium. The receiver complexity is comparable to single antenna transmissions, and the exact Viterbi's algorithm can be applied for maximum-likelihood (ML) optimal decoding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682664 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609816 | Rocca |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge J. Rocca (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Generation of 2 μW average output power at 13.9 nm from a table-top laser-pumped Ni-like Ag laser operating at 5 Hz repetition rate using a silver-coated helical target which is rotated and advanced such that the target surface is renewed between pulses, is described. Greater than 2×104 soft x-ray laser pulses were obtained using a single target. Similar results were obtained at 13.2 nm for Ni-like Cd using a cadmium-coated target. Uninterrupted operation of laser-pumped soft x-ray lasers at a repetition rates of about 10 Hz for periods of several hours enables the generation of pulsed, high average power soft x-rays for applications. Other embodiments of the renewable laser target are described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751568 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07607338 | Lewis 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) | Wallace J. Lewis (Tifton, Georgia); Glen C. Rains (Tifton, Georgia); Samuel L. Utley (Tifton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A Computer Vision Chemical Detector has been developed that uses invertebrate organisms trained to respond to targeted chemical odors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/185109 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608272 | Ansari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Israrul H. Ansari (Lincoln, Nebraska); Fernando A. Osorio (Lincoln, Nebraska); Asit K. Pattnaik (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Pigs challenged with hypoglycosylated variants of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) major surface protein GP5 exhibited increased production of PRRSV-neutralizing antibodies relative to the levels of neutralizing antibodies produced by pigs immunized with wild type (wt) or glycosylated GP5. This invention provides for methods of obtaining improved immune responses in pigs to PRRSV, compositions useful for obtaining the improved immune responses as well as isolated polynucleotides that encode hypoglycosylated variants of PRRSV major surface protein GP5. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/064877 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608451 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transgen Rx, Inc. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Cooper (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Gary G. Cadd (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); William C. Fioretti (Addison, Texas); Kenneth F. De Boer (Rygate, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Administration of modified transposon-based vectors has been used to achieve stable incorporation of exogenous genes into animals. These transgenic animals produce transgenic progeny. Further, these transgenic animals produce large quantities of desired molecules encoded by the transgene. Transgenic egg-laying animals produce large quantities of desired molecules encoded by the transgene and deposit these molecules in the egg. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981574 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07607342 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vecco Instruments, Inc. (Santa Barara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin Huang (Goleta, California); Charles Meyer (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cantilever probe-based instrument is controlled to reduce the lateral loads imposed on the probe as a result of probe/sample interaction. In a preferred embodiment, the probe tip and/or sample are driven to move laterally relative to one another as a function of cantilever deflection in order to compensate for lateral tip motion that would otherwise be caused by cantilever deflection. In the case of a probe having a passive cantilever, the sample and/or the probe as a whole are driven to move laterally to obtain the desired magnitude of compensation as direct function of cantilever deflection. In the case of a probe having an active cantilever, the sample or probe may be moved as a function of cantilever drive signal, or the cantilever may be controlled to bend as a function of cantilever drive signal so that the tip moves to obtain the desired magnitude of compensation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/380338 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07608838 | Browning |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Browning (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron optical component used to improve the spatial resolution in magnetic projection electron lenses or other electron optical devices by filtering the cyclotron orbit radii of electron trajectories in the lens magnetic field. |
| FILED | Monday, January 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623258 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.ML0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07609709 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Taeho Kim (Dallas, Texas); Frederick Skoog (Colleyville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiplexer selectively chooses packets for discarding during periods of congestion. In a first embodiment, thresholds for fill levels of a FIFO queue are set for a plurality of priority types. As thresholds are exceeded, incoming packet below a set priority level will be prevented from entering the queue and packets at the front of the queue below the set priority will be discarded. In a second embodiment, packets within a queue may be marked for deletion. A forward/discard list assigns an index to a new packet and maintains a list of the stream associated with each packet. A priority index list maintains a list of packets for each priority type by index number. A video metadata buffer stores the metadata for each enqueued packet. A physical video buffer stores the packets. When an incoming packet cannot be enqueued, packets of lower priority are detected by reference to the index list and marked for discard. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337372 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07607858 | Mosholder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, The National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary S. Mosholder (Sykesville, Maryland); Thomas Zuby (Linthicum, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced security manhole cover is disclosed, comprising a frame, outer cover, inner cover, crossbar, saddle, eyebolt, and padlock. The inner cover, which closes the lower opening in a manhole, includes a detent in the top surface for receiving the eyebolt. The crossbar is positioned above the inner cover and engages the walls of the frame. The crossbar includes a threaded hole that aligns with the detent. The saddle, an upside down U-shaped member, is positioned over the crossbar and includes a slot for the eyebolt to partially extend through. The saddle may include a shoulder on the base, to protect the eyebolt. The eyebolt passes partially through the saddle and crossbar and threads into the bore. The shackle of the padlock passes through holes in the upright of the U-shaped saddle below the crossbar, locking the saddle in place. The upper cover closes the top of the frame. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154813 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07610397 | Gedik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive load shedding includes receiving at least one data stream (comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into a first sliding window of memory. A subset of tuples from the received data stream is then selected for processing in accordance with at least one data stream operation, such as a data stream join operation. Tuples that are not selected for processing are ignored. The number of tuples selected and the specific tuples selected depend at least in part on a variety of dynamic parameters, including the rate at which the data stream (and any other processed data streams) is received, time delays associated with the received data stream, a direction of a join operation performed on the data stream and the values of the individual tuples with respect to an expected output. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068137 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07608699 | Muesing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Muesing (New York, New York); Tshaka J. Cunningham (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel peptides, nucleic acids, vectors, compounds, compositions and methods for regulating nuclear import. The present invention also relates to a lentiviral NLS, and methods of use thereof for inhibiting HIV pathogenesis and disease progression, and for gene delivery methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/023996 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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