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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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| US 07615211 | Swamy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manjunath N. Swamy (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Amale Laouar (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Substantially purified populations of APCLP cells capable of expressing CD70 are described. Also described are methods for the treatment of certain diseases and medical conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, such as inflammatory bowel disease, by utilizing inhibitors of CD70 activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053285 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07615227 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Mei Zheng (Augusta, Georgia); Barry T. Rouse (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a method of inducing production of vascular endothelial growth factor by a cell. The method includes contacting the cell with a CpG oligonucleotide, thereby inducing the production of vascular endothelial growth factor by the cell. The disclosure further provides a method inducing neovascularization in a tissue. This method includes comprising introducing a CpG oligodeoxynucleotide into an area of the tissue wherein the formation of new blood vessels is desired, thereby inducing neovascularization in the area of the tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/499597 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
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| US 07615229 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth Holdings Corporation (Madison, New Jersey); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Green (New City, New York); Gary W. Zlotnick (New Windsor, New York); Leah D. Fletcher (Geneseo, New York); Arnold L. Smith (Mercer Island, Washington); Thomas J. Reilly (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A P4 variant protein that has reduced enzymatic activity and that induces antibody to wild-type P4 protein and/or has good bactericidal activity against non-typable H. influenzae (NTHi) is useful as an active component in an immunogenic composition for humans. Methods of using these proteins, and compositions containing them in combination with additional antigens, are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/507786 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/256.100 |
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| US 07615350 | Petersdorf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington); Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Effie W. Petersdorf (Seattle, Washington); Zhen Guo (Bellevue, Washington); Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel method for specifically isolating and separating large segments of genomic DNA that can subsequently be used to determine a genomic haplotype. The invention relies on using a solid phase having a flat surface arrayed with oligonucleotides designed to specifically hybridize to each particular haplotype of an individual sample, e.g., oligonucleotides designed to specifically hybridize with each of the two HLA-B haplotypes, HLA-A, HLA-C, HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, and the like. The genomic DNA is contacted and hybridized to the arrayed oligonucleotides to form a genomic DNA/oligonucleotide complex. The excess genomic DNA is washed away and the haplotype separated genomic DNA is denatured from the oligonucleotide probe and collected. The method of the present invention allows for the separation of genomic DNA fragments of between approximately 2 to about 4 megabases (Mb). Separation of the haplotypes of large genomic DNA fragments allows for linkage analysis of other HLA alleles and polymorphisms, microsatellite, SNPs, and the like across a large span of the HLA region, including HLA-A, -B, -C, and HLA-DRB1 regions. This linkage analysis is particularly useful when HLA typing for an individual with limited family HLA typing available. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874407 |
| 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 07615355 | Papadopoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vassilios Papadopoulos (N. Potomac, Maryland); Thierry Hauet (Saint Benoit, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods, reagents, and kits for assessing organ damage, such as damage due to ischemia reperfusion injury, in the course of a transplantation therapy and/or for assessing organ regeneration following transplantation therapy. The invention provides a method for determining an index of organ health in the course of transplantation therapy comprising measuring the expression level of peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) in the organ. Measuring the expression level of PBR is also useful for assessing the progress of organ regeneration in the course of transplantation therapy by comparing the index of organ health. The expression level of PBR may be used as a predictor of the outcome of transplantation therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/512060 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07615374 | Vodyanyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); Junying Yu (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining multipotent mesenchymal stem cells under serum-free conditions and methods for identifying multipotent mesenchymal progenitor cells are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024770 |
| 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 435/455 |
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| US 07615377 | Lippard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elizabeth Marie Nolan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed, in part, to fluorescein-based ligands for detection of metal ions, and methods of making and using the same. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928924 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/166 |
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| US 07615380 | Glimcher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie H. Glimcher (West Newton, Massachusetts); Mohamed Oukka (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention demonstrates that KRC molecules have multiple important functions as modulating agents in regulating a wide variety of cellular processes including: inhibiting NFkB transactivation, increasing TNF-alpha induced apoptosis, inhibiting JNK activation, inhibiting endogenous TNF-alpha expression, promoting immune cell proliferation and immune cell activation (e.g., in Th1 cells), activating IL-2 expression e.g., by activating the AP-1 transcription factor, and increasing actin polymerization. The present invention also demonstrates that KRC interacts with TRAF. Furthermore, the present invention demonstrates that KRC physically interacts with the c-Jun component of AP-1 to control its degradation Methods for identifying modulators of KRC activity are provided. Methods for modulating an immune response using agents that modulate KRC activity are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/701401 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
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| US 07615382 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California); Nader Pourmand (San Mateo, California); Robert L. White (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a magnetic sifter that is small in scale, enables three-dimensional flow in a direction normal to the substrate, allows relatively higher capture rates and higher flow rates, and provides a relatively easy method of releasing captured biomolecules. The magnetic sifter includes at least one substrate. Each substrate contains a plurality of slits, each of which extends through the substrate. The sifter also includes a plurality of magnets attached to the bottom surface of the substrate. These magnets are located proximal to the openings of the slits. An electromagnetic source controls the magnitude and direction of magnetic field gradient generated by the magnets. Either one device may be used, or multiple devices may be used in series. In addition, the magnetic sifter may be used in connection with a detection chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595818 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
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| US 07615527 | Farrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Farrell (Tualatin, Oregon); Rehana S. Lovely (Tigard, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide fragments that modulate thrombosis and methods of use thereof are provided. Also provided are synthetic bioactive anti-coagulation peptides, compositions comprising such peptides and methods for the administration to patients in need thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, July 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/482175 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07615528 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Truman R. Brown (New York, New York); Francis Keppler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a class of compounds which inhibit the enzymatic conversion of fructose-lysine into fructose-lysine-3-phosphate in an ATP dependent reaction in a recently discovered metabolic pathway. According to the normal functioning of this pathway, fructose-lysine-3-phosphate (FL3P) is broken down to form free lysine, inorganic phosphate and 3-deoxyglucosone (3DG), the latter being a reactive protein modifying agent. 3DG can be detoxified by reduction to 3-deoxyfructose (3DF), or it can react with endogenous proteins to form advanced glycation end-product modified proteins (AGE-proteins). Also disclosed are therapeutic methods of using such inhibitors to alleviate deleterious effects of 3-deoxyglucosone (3DG). |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/322541 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07615542 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); Emory UNiversity (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung K. Chu (Athens, Georgia); Raymond F. Schinazi (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of a dioxolane thymine compound according to the chemical structure of Formula (I): where R1 is H, an acyl group, a C1-C20 alkyl or ether group, a phosphate, diphosphate, triphosphate or phosphodiester group, for use in the treatment of HIV infections which exhibit resistance to 3TC and/or AZT. Preferably, compounds according to the present invention are combined with at least one anti-HIV agent which inhibits HIV by a mechanism other than through the inhibition of thymidine kinase (TK). These agents include those selected from among nuleocoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI), non-nucloeoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, fusion inhibitors, among others. These agents are generally selected from the group consisting of 3TC (Lamivudine), AZT (Zidovudine), (−)-FTC, ddI (Didanosine), ddC (zalcitabine), abacavir (ABC), tenofovir (PMPA), D-D4FC (Reverset), D4T (Stavudine), Racivir, L-D4FC, NVP (Nevirapine), DLV (Delavirdine), EFV (Efavirenz), SQVM (Saquinavir mesylate), RTV (Ritonavir), IDV (Indinavir), SQV (Saquinavir), NFV (Nelfinavir), APV (Amprenavir), LPV (Lopinavir), fuseon and mixtures thereof. The TK dependent agents, such as AZT and D4T, may be used in combination with one of the dioloxane thymine compounds according to the present invention, but the use of such agents may be less preferred. In preferred compositions according to the present invention, R1 is preferably H or a C2-C18 acyl group or a monophosphate group. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of reducing the likelihood that a patient at risk for contract an HIV infection will contract the infection are other aspects of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/530088 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/50 |
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| US 07615548 | Gottlieb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radical Therapeutix (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberta Gottlieb (Rancho Sante Fe, California); Paul Wentworth (San Diego, California); Eric F. Johnson (Encinitas, California); Mark J. Yeager (Del Mar, California); David Granville (Coquitlam, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating or inhibiting ischemia and reperfusion injury are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030717 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 07615554 | Selliah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prolexys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Selliah (Midvale, Utah); Longwu Qi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Paul B. Robbins (Park City, Utah); Sudhir R. Sahasrabudhe (Sandy, Utah); Brent R. Stockwell (New York, New York); Raj Gopal Venkat (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of screening for binding partners, especially binding partners essential for the biological activity of erastin (e.g. VDACs such as VDAC3). The invention also provides reagents and methods for effective killing of cancer cells with erastin and related compounds or derivatives. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340430 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/252.170 |
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| US 07615576 | Serhan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation, through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/742893 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/549 |
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| US 07615593 | Kao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weiyun John Kao (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jing Li (Madison, Wisconsin); David Lok (Madison, Wisconsin); Rathna Gundloori (Maharastra, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are hydrogels wherein a polymer matrix is modified to contain a bifunctional poly(alkylene glycol) molecule covalently bonded to the polymer matrix. The hydrogels can be cross-linked using, for example, glutaraldehyde. The hydrogels may also be crosslinked via an interpenetrating network of a photopolymerizable acrylates. The hydrogels may also be modified to have pharmacologically-active agents covalently bonded to the poly(alkylene glycol) molecules or entrained within the hydrogel. Living cells may also be entrained within the hydrogels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/128198 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.100 |
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| US 07615610 | Shenoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudha Shenoy (Durham, North Carolina); Robert J. Lefkowitz (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a modified arrestin which includes an arrestin molecule and a ubiquitin molecule. This modified arrestin has an increased affinity for a GPCR, and traffics with the GPCR into endosomes. The present invention further relates to a method of screening compounds and sample solutions for a GPCR agonist, antagonist, inverse agonist, or desensitization active compound. The modified arrestin is useful in the methods of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/543122 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 07615616 | Hook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Inhibitex, Inc. (Alpharetta, Georgia); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Magnus Hook (Houston, Texas); Yi Xu (Houston, Texas); Jouko V. Sillanpaa (Houston, Texas); Narayana Sthanam (Birmingham, Alabama); Karthe Ponnuraj (Birmingham, Alabama); Joseph M. Patti (Cumming, Georgia); Jeff T. Hutchins (Cumming, Georgia); Andrea Hall (Acworth, Georgia); Maria G. Bowden (Sugarland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioinformatic method is provided for identifying and isolating proteins with MSCRAMM®—like characteristics from Gram positive bacteria, such as Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Bacillus bacteria, which can then be utilized in methods to prevent and treat infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. The method involves identifying from sequence information those proteins with a putative C-terminal LPXTG (SEQ ID NO:1) cell wall sorting signal and other structural similarities to MSCRAMM® proteins having the LPXTG-anchored cell wall proteins. The MSCRAMM® proteins and immunogenic regions therein that are identified and isolated using the present invention may be used to generate antibodies useful in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of Gram positive bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/661809 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07615617 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne Skaja Robinson (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Clifford R. Robinson (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Debora Foguel (Copa Cabana, Brazil); Jerson Lima Silva (Copa Cabana, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel approach is described for reversing aggregation and increasing refolding by application of hydrostatic pressure. A protein of interest in an aggregated, or inclusion body, or other non-native or inactive state is subjected to high hydrostatic pressure. This treatment denatures the protein to states (or conformations) competant for refolding and results in increased formation of native protein once pressure is released. The technique can facilitate conversion non-native proteins, including inclusion bodies and aggregates to native proteins without addition of chaotropic agents, changes in buffer, or large-scale dilution of reagents required for traditional refolding methods. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/673000 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/412 |
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| US 07615623 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Shinichi Takayama (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a family of BAG-1 related proteins from humans (BAG-1L, BAG-1, BAG-2, BAG-3, BAG-4 and BAG-5), the invertebrate C. elegans (BAG-1, BAG-2) and the fission yeast S. pombe (BAG-1A, BAG-1B) and the nucleic acid molecules that encode them. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782627 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07615638 | Horne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Horne (Altadena, California); Richard Jove (Glendora, California); Sangkil Nam (Monrovia, California); Kenichi Yakushijin (Monrovia, California); Fumiko Y. Yakushijin (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment of the present invention, a synthesis of grossularine-1 and N,N-didesmethylgrossularine-1 2 and analogs thereof based on a novel oxidative dimerization-electrocyclization sequence of 2-amino-4-(3-indolyl)imidazoles derived from oxotryptamine 3 is described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/742383 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/64 |
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| US 07615646 | Mujumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); GE Healthcare UK Limited (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ratnaker B. Mujumdar (Placentia, California); Richard Martin West (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the functionalized cyanine dyes and more particularly, to the synthesis of chiral 3-substituted 2,3′-dymethyl-3H-indole and its derivatives as intermediates for preparation of cyanine dyes, to methods of preparing these dyes and the dyes so prepared. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/513141 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/455 |
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| US 07616304 | Gankkhanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feruz Gankkhanov (Annandale, New Jersey); Silvia Carrasco (Castelldefels, Spain); Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for providing a first electromagnetic field and a second electromagnetic field to vibrational analysis equipment that is responsive to a difference between first and second frequencies of the first and second electromagnetic fields respectively. The system includes a non-linear crystal that may be pumped at a high repetition rate to provide a pulsed signal field at a signal field frequency and a pulsed idler field at an idler field frequency as output. The signal field provides the first electromagnetic field and the idler field provides the second electromagnetic field. The system also includes a tuning system for permitting the difference between the signal field frequency and the idler field frequency to be changed. The system also includes an output unit for providing the first and second electromagnetic fields to the vibrational analysis equipment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/778838 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
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| US 07616305 | Murnick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Murnick (Bernardsville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A gaseous analyte including a small amount of a multiatomic moiety incorporating a particular isotope, such as 14CO2 is subjected to a standing optical wave at a resonant wavelength of the moiety while maintaining the moiety in an excited condition, such as in a gas discharge. The standing optical wave may be applied by a laser having a sample cell containing the analyte within the laser cavity. Monitoring an induced effect such as the optogalvanic effect yields a signal directly related to the quantity of the moiety. The test can detect quantities of the moiety of an attomole or less, and in some cases on the order of 100 molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607126 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/311 |
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| US 07616800 | Paik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Paik (Half Moon Bay, California); Padmavathi Sundaram (Palo Alto, California); Christopher F. Beaulieu (Los Altos, California); Sandy A. Napel (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying polyps and in a medical image is provided. In a first step, a 3-dimensional model is made of the medical image that contains both polyps (if any were present in the original medical image) and folds. Next, a second 3-dimensional model of the medical image, which is a filtered version of the first model, is constructed in which folds are preserved, but polyps are minimized or eliminated. In a third step, any polyps that were contained in the medical image are identified by subtracting the second 3-dimensional model from the first 3-dimensional model. This subtraction results in a third 3-dimensional model, in which polyps are preserved but folds are minimized or eliminated. With the present inventive method, polyps may be easily and quickly identified without interference from folds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/666202 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616984 | Barbour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Barbour (Glen Head, New York); Yaling Pei (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Computation-saving techniques and stability-adding techniques provide for fast, accurate reconstructions of a time series of images involving large-scale 3D problems, such as real-time image recovery in an optical tomography imaging system. A system equation for a target medium (116) such as tissue is solved using a Normalized Difference Method (NDM) (250). Because of the inherent stability of the NDM solutions, a weight matrix (W) of the system equation can be provided for a given point in a time series (220), then reused without recalculation at subsequent points. Further savings are achieved by decomposing W using singular value decomposition or direct matrix decomposition, transforming it to reduce its dimensions, and/or scaling it to achieve a more stable numerical solution. Values of measured energy (112) emerging from the target medium are back-substituted into the system equation for the different points to obtain the target medium properties. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408511 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616986 | Seibel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Seibel (Seattle, Washington); Xingde Li (Seattle, Washington); Xiumei Liu (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber scanner is used for multiphoton excitation imaging, optical coherence tomography, or for confocal imaging in which transverse scans are carried out at a plurality of successively different depths within tissue. The optical fiber scanner is implemented as a scanning endoscope using a cantilevered optical fiber that is driven into resonance or near resonance by an actuator. The actuator is energized with drive signals that cause the optical fiber to scan in a desired pattern at successively different depths as the depth of the focal point is changed. Various techniques can be employed for depth focus tracking at a rate that is much slower than the transverse scanning carried out by the vibrating optical fiber. The optical fiber scanner can be used for confocal imaging, multiphoton fluorescence imaging, nonlinear harmonic generation imaging, or in an OCT system that includes a phase or frequency modulator and delay line. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/880008 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617080 | Barbour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Barbour (Glen Head, New York); Harry L. Graber (Brooklyn, New York); Yaling Pei (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Yong Xu (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Data from a target system (616) that exhibits a non-linear relationship between system properties and measurement data, is processed by applying a linear filter (F) to improve resolution and accuracy. The filter reduces inaccuracies that are introduced by an algorithm used to reconstruct the data. The filter is defined by assigning time varying functions, such as sinusoids (200), to elements (210) in a model (Y) of the system to perturbate the elements. The resulting data output from the model is reconstructed using the same algorithm used to subsequently reconstruct the data from the target system. The filter is defined as a matrix (F) that transforms the reconstructed data of the model (X) back toward the known properties of the model (Y). A library of filters can be pre-calculated for different applications. In an example implementation, the system is tissue that is imaged using optical tomography. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894317 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07614280 | Gardner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Gardner (Bel Air, Maryland); Jonathan P. Eshbaugh (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantitative fit test (QNFT) system and method for assessing the biological fit factor (FF) performance of respiratory protective devices. The biological QNFT system includes the following three main elements: an aerosol generation system; an exposure chamber; and an aerosol sampling subsystem. The aerosol sampling subsystem includes an aerosol spectrometer that counts particles in discrete size units ranging from 0.5 to 20 micrometers (μm) making it possible to obtain several size-specific FF measurements from a single respirator fit test. A virtual impactor in the aerosol generation system increases the number of challenge particles in the primary target size of interest (1 to 5 μm) and increases the sensitivity of the method allowing FF values of up to one million to be measured without the need to correct for in-mask background particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613577 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07614303 | McInerney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. McInerney (Champaign, Illinois); Sean W. Morefield (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent F. Hock, Jr. (Mahomet, Illinois); Victor H. Kelly (West Chester, Pennsylvania); John M. Carlyle (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A configuration for use with a processor that incorporates a suite of agents in a “flat” hardware architecture and superimposes thereon a self-forming, self-healing, hierarchical architecture implemented in software. Embodiments may be employed in various applications, such as maintaining network integrity. In one embodiment a building security monitoring network provides for automated network agents to each be capable of communication with any other automated agents on a network at network startup. Shortly after network initialization, the software architecture is superimposed on the flat hardware architecture, re-arranging communication links to provide an efficient hierarchy of control and substituting working agents for compromised agents as necessary in the network. All of this is done in a “live” network, not requiring shutdown, or even reduced operation to accomplish. This “dual” architecture (hierarchical software and flat hardware) provides excellent reliability in those “layered” network applications requiring near total reliability, such as security surveillance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/727600 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07614334 | Bellino 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) | Frank Joseph Bellino (Inyokern, California); John Andrew Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); David Virgil Jester (Ridgecrest, California); Roy Joseph Harmon (Ridgecrest, California); Timothy Allen Froehner (Ridgecrest, California); Alberto Garza (Ridgecrest, California); Richard Matthew Dillon (Camarillo, California); Hugh Henley Hood (Crestview, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to a pod based countermeasure dispensing system for external mounting on wide variety of manned aircraft. The pod based system is readily configurable for dispensing different types of infrared countermeasure (IRCM) devices and different types of radio frequency countermeasure (RFCM) devices at a rapid rate. The primary use of the rapidly dispensed IRCMs and RFCMs is to protect the host aircraft while ingress and egress maneuvers are performed in a hostile area. A secondary use of the pod based countermeasure dispensing system is for use in defending commercial aircraft from missile threats. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863641 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07614345 | Schiller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronnie Schiller (Ridgecrest, California); Wayne Goodrich (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method to initiate a detonation utilizing an impact switch. A nose assembly is mounted upon a missile or other kind of explosive device. Within the nose assembly conductive elements are separated from one another. The conductive elements are electrically connected to a fuze within the weapon. Upon an impact, the conducting elements within the assembly are forced together thereby completing a circuit in the fuze and initiating a detonation. A method of initiating a detonation utilizes an impact switch within which forcing conducting elements together initiates a detonation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128549 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615349 | Riker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida); University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam I. Riker (Mobile, Alabama); Steven Alan Enkemann (Lutz, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for evaluating gene expression in melanoma samples are provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852102 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615369 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-Tin Lin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Amaya Frost (Huntington, New York); Edgar Meyhöfer (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Katsuo Kurabayashi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Chao Yung Fan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A protein patterning electrode device consisting of capacitor microelectrode arrays coated with a protein non-adherent layer is provided. Operation of the electrode is based on a phenomenon called “electrowetting,” where surface wettability can dynamically be controlled by varying the voltage across the device electrodes. When an electric field is applied across the electrode layers, the surface accumulates charge and becomes hydrophilic, binding the proteins to the surface via ionic bonding. Electrically controlling the amount of the surface charge permits controlled protein surface affinity. The device provides a means for reconfigurable protein patterning. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233975 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615382 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California); Nader Pourmand (San Mateo, California); Robert L. White (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a magnetic sifter that is small in scale, enables three-dimensional flow in a direction normal to the substrate, allows relatively higher capture rates and higher flow rates, and provides a relatively easy method of releasing captured biomolecules. The magnetic sifter includes at least one substrate. Each substrate contains a plurality of slits, each of which extends through the substrate. The sifter also includes a plurality of magnets attached to the bottom surface of the substrate. These magnets are located proximal to the openings of the slits. An electromagnetic source controls the magnitude and direction of magnetic field gradient generated by the magnets. Either one device may be used, or multiple devices may be used in series. In addition, the magnetic sifter may be used in connection with a detection chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595818 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615385 | Tolpygo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey K. Tolpygo (Putnam Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique is presented for improving the microfabrication yield of Josephson junctions in superconducting integrated circuits. This is based on the use of a double-layer lithographic mask for partial anodization of the side-walls and base electrode of the junctions. The top layer of the mask is a resist material, and the bottom layer is a dielectric material chosen so as to a) maximize adhesion between the resist and the underlying superconducting layer, b) be etch-compatible with the underlying superconducting layer, and c) be insoluble in the resist and anodization processing chemistries. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the superconductor is niobium, the material on top of this is silicon dioxide, and the top layer is conventional photoresist or electron-beam resist. The use of this combination results in a substantial increase in the fabrication yield of high-density superconducting integrated circuits due to increase in junction uniformity and reduction in defect density. An additional improvement over the prior art involves the replacement of a wet-etch step with a dry etch more compatible with microlithography. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/616382 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615405 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Stephen Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); Leena Paivikki Buchwalter (Hopewell Junction, New York); Raymond R. Horton (Dover Plains, New York); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Cornelia K. Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York); Steven Lorenz Wright (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic dive and method of fabricating an electronic device. The method including placing a placement guide over a top surface of a module substrate, the placement guide having a guide opening, the guide opening extending from a top surface of the placement guide to a bottom surface of the placement guide; aligning the placement guide to an integrated circuit chip position on the module substrate; fixing the placement guide to the module substrate; placing an integrated circuit chip in the guide opening, sidewalls of the placement guide opening constraining electrically conductive bonding structures on bottom surface of the integrated circuit chip to self-align to an electrically conductive module substrate contact pad on the top surface of the module substrate in the integrated circuit chip position; and bonding the bonding structures to the module substrate contact pads, the bonding structures and the module substrate contact pads in direct physical and electrical contact after the bonding. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/872331 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615604 | Verborgt 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) | Jozef Verborgt (Clearwater, Florida); Arthur Anthony Webb (Fort Washington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyol monomer comprising the formula: R1 and R3 are —H, aliphatic, aromatic, or ether; R2 is aliphatic, aromatic, ester, ether, or acrylic, and R1 contains a hydroxyl group, R3 contains a hydroxyl group, R2 contains —O—CH2—CH(OH)—, or any combination thereof. The polyol monomer may be made by reacting an epoxy and an amine. Either the epoxy contains more than one epoxide groups, the amine contains a hydroxyl group, or both. A thermoset made by reacting the polyol monomer with a polyisocyanate. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/346061 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615780 | Tysoe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Alfred Tysoe (Ballston Spa, New York); Eugene Barash (Niskayuna, New York); Andrew David Pris (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are biosensors and methods for making and using the same. In one embodiment, the sensor for detecting an analyte comprises: a substrate, recognition elements specific for the analyte, an excitation source, a detector, a chamber located between the substrate and the excitation source and between the substrate and the detector, and an emission filter. The recognition elements are tethered to the substrate such that the recognition elements can be exposed to a sample. The excitation source is capable of emitting a first light having a first light peak intensity at a first wavelength, wherein the first light can excite a luminophore to emit a second light when the recognition elements interact with the analyte. The detector is capable of detecting the second light emitted by the luminophore. The emission filter is capable of filtering in a band gap that includes the first light peak intensity. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427544 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615834 | Khuri-Yakub et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Burtis Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, California); Arif Sanli Ergun (Mountain View, California); G. Göksenin Yaralioglu (Mountain View, California); Yongli Huang (San Jose, California); Sean Hansen (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Structure for capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) device or other vibrating membrane device having non-uniform membrane so that membrane mass and stiffness characteristics may be substantially independently adjusted. CMUT having trenched membrane and/or membrane with non-uniform thickness or density. Method for operating transducer or vibrating membrane device. Array of devices at least some of which have non-uniform membrane properties. CMUT comprising substrate, support for membrane, and membrane extending over support to create cavity, membrane having non-uniform membrane thickness resulting from at least one of: thickening on upper surface of the membrane outside of cavity, thickening on lower surface of membrane inside cavity, trench on upper surface of membrane, trench on lower surface of the membrane, and any combination of two or more of these. Method for fabricating CMUT or vibrating membrane device having non-uniform membrane. High mechanical sensitivity transducer for sensor, microphone, and/or transmitter. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707623 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615926 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Paul A. Tchertchian (Urbana, Illinois); Seung Hoon Sung (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Microcavity plasma devices and arrays of microcavity plasma devices are provided that have a reduced excitation voltage. A trigger electrode disposed proximate to a microcavity reduce the excitation voltage required between first and second electrodes to ignite a plasma in the microcavity when gas(es) or vapor(s) (or combinations thereof) are contained within the microcavity. The invention also provides symmetrical microplasma devices and arrays of microcavity plasma devices for which current waveforms are the same for each half-cycle of the voltage driving waveform. Additionally, the invention also provides devices that have standoff portions and voids that can reduce cross talk. The devices are preferably also used with a trigger electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811892 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616004 | Schofield, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Paul Schofield, III (Washington, Indiana); Dennis George Jones (Bloomington, Indiana); Mark G. Taylor (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania); Leonard J. Mayotte (White Oak, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention can be generally described as a backplane test device that provides the possible flexibility of being operationally resident on a standard card form factor, and thereby, potentially able to provide a testing capability that does not require the use of hardware or software not residing on the card form factor. Moveover, since the test device may be operationally inserted into a backplane, the present invention may be effectively used in a variety of environments including, but not limited to, those constrained by space considerations, and/or to those that are subject to vibrations due to their operational nature. This may provide a technician with greater flexibility, and could possibly allow a backplane to be tested, and possibly repaired, while the platform is operational. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/975126 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616237 | Fridrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Fridrich (Vestal, New York); Miroslav Goljan (Vestal, New York); Jan Lukas (Johnson City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique for identifying whether images are derived from a common imager, e.g., a camera, or other imaging device such as a scanner, based on the device's measured or inferred reference noise pattern, a unique stochastic characteristic of all common digital imaging sensors, including CCD, CMOS (Foveon™ X3), and JFET. The measured or inferred noise pattern of two images may be extracted and then cross correlated, with a high correlation being consistent with a common imager. Various preprocessing techniques may be used to improve tolerance to various types of image transform. It is also possible to perform the analysis without explicit separation of inferred image and inferred noise. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437176 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616303 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Yang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shear (Northbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/411538 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616618 | Kumar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Vijay Kumar (Rolling Hills Estates, California); Reza Omrani (Los Angeles, California); Joseph D. Touch (Manhattan Beach, California); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California); Poorya Saghari (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system includes an optical transmitter system configured to transmit data from a plurality of users through a shared optical channel by encoding the data from each user with a spreading code assigned to that user. Each spreading code includes a unique sequence of T time chips along a time axis. The data from each user is representable by T symbols. The OCDMA system further includes an optical receiver system configured to demodulate the data from each user by correlating signals received from the transmitter system with the spreading code assigned to that user. When transmitting a data symbol for each user, the transmitter system selects one out of T distinct cyclic shifts of the spreading code assigned to that user, and transmits the selected cyclic shift of the assigned spreading code along the time axis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/289259 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616817 | Hilde |
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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) | Jeffrey J. Hilde (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A three dimensional shape correlation computer software program which uses laser radar data for target identification. The correlation program obtains a scan of laser radar data of a target from a Ladar sensor. The data includes a plurality of X,Y,Z coordinate detection points for the target. The software simulates the sensor scan using a 3D wire-frame model of the target. An X,Y,Z coordinate location is computed for every point in the computer model of the target. The software compares the X,Y,Z coordinate detection points for the target with the X,Y,Z coordinate points for the computer model to determine if the points match. When there is a match a target identification is declared. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926252 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616854 | Gill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas M. Gill (South Orange, New Jersey); Sanjay Patel (New Providence, New Jersey); Mahmoud Rasras (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus and method for operation therefore. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes an optical coupling structure disposed within a cladding region, wherein the optical coupling structure includes a first guiding portion and a second guiding portion. In this embodiment the first guiding portion has a first end proximate a core of a planar waveguide, and a second end proximate the second guiding portion and having a first thickness. Moreover, in this embodiment the second guiding portion has a first end proximate the first guiding portion and a second end, the second end of the second guiding portion having a second thickness less than the first thickness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746162 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617470 | Dehon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre M. Dehon (Pasadena, California); Benjamin Gojman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed to increase yielded performance of a reconfigurable integrated circuit; improve performance of an application running on a reconfigurable integrated circuit; reduce degradation of an integrated circuit over time; and maintain performance of an integrated circuit time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/546526 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07614381 | Hoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Hoff (East Peoria, Illinois); Sivaprasad Akasam (Peoria, Illinois); Marcelo C. Algrain (Peoria, Illinois); Kris W. Johnson (Washington, Illinois); William H. Lane (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system includes an engine having a first lubrication circuit and at least one auxiliary power unit having a second lubrication circuit. The first lubrication circuit is in fluid communication with the second lubrication circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/738169 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/196.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615097 | McKechnie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Plasma Processes, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy N. McKechnie (Brownsboro, Alabama); Leo V. M. Antony (Huntsville, Alabama); Scott O'Dell (Arab, Alabama); Chris Power (Guntersville, Alabama); Terry Tabor (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultra fine and nanometer powders and a method of producing same are provided, preferably refractory metal and ceramic nanopowders. When certain precursors are injected into the plasma flame in a reactor chamber, the materials are heated, melted and vaporized and the chemical reaction is induced in the vapor phase. The vapor phase is quenched rapidly to solid phase to yield the ultra pure, ultra fine and nano product. With this technique, powders have been made 20 nanometers in size in a system capable of a bulk production rate of more than 10 lbs/hr. The process is particularly applicable to tungsten, molybdenum, rhenium, tungsten carbide, molybdenum carbide and other related materials. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544338 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/346 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615153 | Bagwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher E. Bagwell (Aiken, South Carolina); David L. Freedman (Clemson, South Carolina); Robin L. Brigmon (North Augusta, South Carolina); William B. Bratt (Atlanta, Georgia); Elizabeth A. Wood (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixed culture of Dehalococcoides species is provided that has an ability to catalyze the complete dechlorination of polychlorinated ethenes such as PCE, TCE, cDCE, 1,1-DCE and vinyl chloride as well as halogenated ethanes such as 1,2-DCA and EDB. The mixed culture demonstrates the ability to achieve dechlorination even in the presence of high source concentrations of chlorinated ethenes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/151559 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615267 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anoop Agrawal (Tucson, Arizona); Simon B. Hall (Palmerston North, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | Radiofrequency attenuator and method. The attenuator includes a pair of transparent windows. A chamber between the windows is filled with molten salt. Preferred molten salts include quarternary ammonium cations and fluorine-containing anions such as tetrafluoroborate (BF4−), hexafluorophosphate (PF6−), hexafluoroarsenate (AsF6−), trifluoromethylsulfonate (CF3SO3−), bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3SO2)2N−), bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3CF2SO2)2N−) and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide ((CF3SO2)3 C−). Radicals or radical cations may be added to or electrochemically generated in the molten salt to enhance the RF attenuation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101666 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615299 | MacBain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. MacBain (Carmel, Indiana); Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Christopher Mergler (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-oxide fuel cell stack assembly comprising a plurality of sub-stacks, preferably two sub-stacks each containing one-half the total number of fuel cells. Cathode air and fuel gas are passed through the first sub-stack, wherein they are partially reacted and also heated. The exhaust cathode air and the exhaust fuel gas from the first sub-stack are directed to the respective inlets of the second sub-stack, becoming the supply cathode air and fuel gas therefor. A first heat exchanger in the flow paths between the sub-stacks and a second heat exchanger ahead of the sub-stacks can help to balance the performance of the two stacks. The result of dividing the number of cells into a plurality of sub-stacks, wherein the exhaust of one sub-stack becomes the supply for the next sub-stack, is that fuel efficiency and utilization are improved, thermal stresses are reduced, and electrical power generation is increased. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/046251 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615644 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zaiwei Li (Moreno Valley, California); Yongchun Tang (Walnut, California); Jihong Cheng (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present invention relate to compositions and methods for the use of ionic liquids with dissolved metal compounds as catalysts for a variety of chemical reactions. Ionic liquids are salts that generally are liquids at room temperature, and are capable of dissolving a many types of compounds that are relatively insoluble in aqueous or organic solvent systems. Specifically, ionic liquids may dissolve metal compounds to produce homogeneous and heterogeneous organometallic catalysts. One industrially-important chemical reaction that may be catalyzed by metal-containing ionic liquid catalysts is the conversion of methane to methanol. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228788 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/335.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615652 | Holladay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnathan E. Holladay (Kennewick, Washington); Jianli Hu (Kennewick, Washington); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Todd A. Werpy (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods for producing dianhydrosugar alcohol by providing an acid catalyst within a reactor and passing a starting material through the reactor at a first temperature. At least a portion of the staring material is converted to a monoanhydrosugar isomer during the passing through the column. The monoanhydrosugar is subjected to a second temperature which is greater than the first to produce a dianhydrosugar. The invention includes a method of producing isosorbide. An initial feed stream containing sorbitol is fed into a continuous reactor containing an acid catalyst at a temperature of less than 120° C. The residence time for the reactor is less than or equal to about 30 minutes. Sorbitol converted to 1,4-sorbitan in the continuous reactor is subsequently provided to a second reactor and is dehydrated at a temperature of at least 120° C. to produce isosorbide. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/341930 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615739 | 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 impaired 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 | 11/846081 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615942 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); TPL, Inc. (Albuquerque, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Sanders (Livermore, California); Stephen Sampayan (Manteca, California); Kirk Slenes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); H. M. Stoller (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A linear accelerator having cast dielectric composite layers integrally formed with conductor electrodes in a solventless fabrication process, with the cast dielectric composite preferably having a nanoparticle filler in an organic polymer such as a thermosetting resin. By incorporating this cast dielectric composite the dielectric constant of critical insulating layers of the transmission lines of the accelerator are increased while simultaneously maintaining high dielectric strengths for the accelerator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599797 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616077 | Wittwer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Wittwer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for the robust fabrication of a microelectromechanical (MEM) resonator. In this method, a pattern of holes is formed in the resonator mass with the position, size and number of holes in the pattern being optimized to minimize an uncertainty Δf in the resonant frequency f0 of the MEM resonator due to manufacturing process variations (e.g. edge bias). A number of different types of MEM resonators are disclosed which can be formed using this method, including capacitively transduced Lamé, wineglass and extensional resonators, and piezoelectric length-extensional resonators. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689567 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616421 | Hickam |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Hickam (Glasford, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface system may be used to connect an electrical device to an electrical bus. The interface system may include a first end and a second end in electrical communication with the first end. Where the interface system is used to connect an electrical device to an electrical bus, the first end may be connected to the electrical bus and the second end may be connected to the electrical device. The interface system may also include a reverse current blocking circuit configured to block current from flowing from the second end to the first end. Additionally, the interface system may include a discharge circuit electrically connected between the first end and the second end for discharging the blocked current. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/948282 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616728 | Gilmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Gilmore (Greensburg, Pennsylvania); Norman R. Singleton (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An alignment system that employs jacking block assemblies and alignment posts around the periphery of the top plate of a nuclear reactor lower internals core shroud to align an upper core plate with the lower internals and the core shroud with the core barrel. The distal ends of the alignment posts are chamfered and are closely received within notches machined in the upper core plate at spaced locations around the outer circumference of the upper core plate. The jacking block assemblies are used to center the core shroud in the core barrel and the alignment posts assure the proper orientation of the upper core plate. The alignment posts may alternately be formed in the upper core plate and the notches may be formed in top plate. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/844614 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616850 | Watts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albaquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Watts (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas C. Trotter (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ralph W. Young (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical ring resonator devices are disclosed that can be used for optical filtering, modulation or switching, or for use as photodetectors or sensors. These devices can be formed as microdisk ring resonators, or as open-ring resonators with an optical waveguide having a width that varies adiabatically. Electrical and mechanical connections to the open-ring resonators are made near a maximum width of the optical waveguide to minimize losses and thereby provide a high resonator Q. The ring resonators can be tuned using an integral electrical heater, or an integral semiconductor junction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100004 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07615141 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. Schwartz (Seattle, Washington); John D. Whitaker (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical printing system (100, 200) and method are disclosed having a printer head (130, 230) that expels a small jet of electrolyte (112) towards a conductive substrate (92) to facilitate electrodeposition or removal of material from the substrate. In an embodiment of the invention the printer head includes a plurality of individually addressable electrodes (220), each electrode having a channel therethrough and wherein the electrodes are much larger than the electrolyte jet outlet. The printer head includes means for inhibiting cross talk between electrodes. For example, the printer head may include a plenum (241) and a nonconductive cross-talk inhibition layer (245) upstream of the electrodes. A resolution defining layer (270) having small apertures (271) is provided at the distal end of the printer head. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574552 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615189 | Aslam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan); Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean M. Aslam (Okemos, Michigan); Edward T. Zellers (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yang Lu (Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for accumulation of vapor analytes incorporating nanotubes grown by CVD is described. The devices are used in sensors and as a preconcentrator for a gas chromatograph. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145292 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615204 | Ajayan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York); Tsinghua University (Beijing, China PRC) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pulickel M. Ajayan (Troy, New York); Bingqing Wei (Troy, New York); Hongwei Zhu (Beijing, China PRC); Cailu Xu (Beijing, China PRC); Dehai Wu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Long, macroscopic nanotube strands or cables, up to several tens of centimeters in length, of aligned single-walled nanotubes are synthesized by the catalytic pyrolysis of n-hexane using an enhanced vertical floating catalyst CVD technique. The long strands of nanotubes assemble continuously from ropes or arrays of nanotubes, which are intrinsically long. These directly synthesized long nanotube strands or cables can be easily manipulated using macroscopic tools. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/370519 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615617 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne Skaja Robinson (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Clifford R. Robinson (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Debora Foguel (Copa Cabana, Brazil); Jerson Lima Silva (Copa Cabana, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel approach is described for reversing aggregation and increasing refolding by application of hydrostatic pressure. A protein of interest in an aggregated, or inclusion body, or other non-native or inactive state is subjected to high hydrostatic pressure. This treatment denatures the protein to states (or conformations) competant for refolding and results in increased formation of native protein once pressure is released. The technique can facilitate conversion non-native proteins, including inclusion bodies and aggregates to native proteins without addition of chaotropic agents, changes in buffer, or large-scale dilution of reagents required for traditional refolding methods. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/673000 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615646 | Mujumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); GE Healthcare UK Limited (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ratnaker B. Mujumdar (Placentia, California); Richard Martin West (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the functionalized cyanine dyes and more particularly, to the synthesis of chiral 3-substituted 2,3′-dymethyl-3H-indole and its derivatives as intermediates for preparation of cyanine dyes, to methods of preparing these dyes and the dyes so prepared. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/513141 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615788 | Kornegay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Kornegay (Ithaca, New York); Andrew R. Atwell (Alexandria, Virginia); Mihaela Balseanu (Ithaca, New York); Jon Duster (Ithaca, New York); Eskinder Hailu (Ithaca, New York); Ce Li (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of forming electronics and microelectromechanical on a silicon carbide substrate having a slow etch rate is performed by forming circuitry on the substrate. A protective layer is formed over the circuitry having a slower etch rate than the etch rate of the silicon carbide substrate. Microelectromechanical structures supported by the substrate are then formed. The circuitry comprises a field effect transistor in one embodiment, and the protective layer comprises a heavy metal layer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699713 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615926 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Sung-Jin Park (Champaign, Illinois); Paul A. Tchertchian (Urbana, Illinois); Seung Hoon Sung (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Microcavity plasma devices and arrays of microcavity plasma devices are provided that have a reduced excitation voltage. A trigger electrode disposed proximate to a microcavity reduce the excitation voltage required between first and second electrodes to ignite a plasma in the microcavity when gas(es) or vapor(s) (or combinations thereof) are contained within the microcavity. The invention also provides symmetrical microplasma devices and arrays of microcavity plasma devices for which current waveforms are the same for each half-cycle of the voltage driving waveform. Additionally, the invention also provides devices that have standoff portions and voids that can reduce cross talk. The devices are preferably also used with a trigger electrode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811892 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/582 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616013 | Messenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Messenger (Springville, Utah); Timothy W. McLain (Provo, Utah); Jeffrey K. Anderson (Provo, Utah); Larry L. Howell (Orem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical device may include one or more piezoresistive elements whose electrical resistance changes in response to externally or internally induced strain. The present invention leverages the piezoresistive properties of such devices to sense the positional state of the device. A sensing circuit may be integrated into the device that senses an electrical resistance of at least a portion of the micromechanical device and provides information regarding the positional state of the micromechanical device. The micromechanical device may be a compliant device that includes relatively flexible members such as mechanical beams or ribbons. The positional states may be continuous positional states (such as the position of an actuator) or discreet positional states (such as the positional state of a bistable memory device). In certain embodiments, the micromechanical device is a threshold detector that latches to a particular stable configuration when an applied force exceeds a selected value. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271541 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616084 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaodong Lu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David L. Trumper (Plaistow, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to high bandwidth positioning systems such as fast tool servos (FTS). The applications of this invention include, for example, diamond turning of mold with structured surface for mass production of films for brightness enhancement and controlled reflectivity, diamond turning of molds for contact lens and micro-optical positioning devices. Preferred embodiments of the fast tool servo can have a closed-loop bandwidth of approximately 20±5 kHz, with acceleration of up to approximately 1000 G or more. The resolution or position error is approximately 1 nm root mean square (RMS). In a preferred embodiment, the full stroke of 50 μm can be achieved up to 1 kHz operation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977122 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616304 | Gankkhanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feruz Gankkhanov (Annandale, New Jersey); Silvia Carrasco (Castelldefels, Spain); Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for providing a first electromagnetic field and a second electromagnetic field to vibrational analysis equipment that is responsive to a difference between first and second frequencies of the first and second electromagnetic fields respectively. The system includes a non-linear crystal that may be pumped at a high repetition rate to provide a pulsed signal field at a signal field frequency and a pulsed idler field at an idler field frequency as output. The signal field provides the first electromagnetic field and the idler field provides the second electromagnetic field. The system also includes a tuning system for permitting the difference between the signal field frequency and the idler field frequency to be changed. The system also includes an output unit for providing the first and second electromagnetic fields to the vibrational analysis equipment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/778838 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616733 | Sommer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spectramet, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Sommer (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert H. Parrish (Nashville, Tennessee); David B. Spencer (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles E. Roos (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process for classifying a piece of material of unknown composition at high speeds, where the system connected to a power supply. The piece is irradiated with first x-rays from an x-ray source, causing the piece to fluoresce x-rays. The fluoresced x-rays are detected with an x-ray detector, and the piece of material is classified from the detected fluoresced x-rays. Detecting and classifying may be cumulatively performed in less than one second. An x-ray fluorescence spectrum of the piece of material may be determined from the detected fluoresced x-rays, and the detection of the fluoresced x-rays may be conditioned such that accurate determination of the x-ray fluorescence spectrum is not significantly compromised, slowed or complicated by extraneous x-rays. The piece of material may be classified by recognizing the spectral pattern of the determined x-ray fluorescence spectrum. The piece of material may be flattened prior to irradiation and detection. The x-ray source may irradiate the first x-rays at a high intensity, and the x-ray source may be an x-ray tube. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/138927 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616826 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Toronto (, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Freeman (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert D. W. Fergus (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Barun Singh (Boston, Massachusetts); Aaron Phillip Hertzmann (Toronto, Canada); Sam T. Roweis (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method and system for deblurring an image is provided. The invention method and system of deblurring employs statistics on distribution of intensity gradients of a known model. The known model is based on a natural image which may be unrelated to the subject image to be deblurred by the system. Given a subject image having blur, the invention method/system estimates a blur kernel and a solution image portion corresponding to a sample area of the subject image, by applying the statistics to intensity gradients of the sample area and solving for most probable solution image. The estimation process is carried out at multiple scales and results in a blur kernel. In a last step, the subject image is deconvolved image using the resulting blur kernel. The deconvolution generates a deblurred image corresponding to the subject image. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495062 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07615097 | McKechnie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Plasma Processes, Inc. (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy N. McKechnie (Brownsboro, Alabama); Leo V. M. Antony (Huntsville, Alabama); Scott O'Dell (Arab, Alabama); Chris Power (Guntersville, Alabama); Terry Tabor (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultra fine and nanometer powders and a method of producing same are provided, preferably refractory metal and ceramic nanopowders. When certain precursors are injected into the plasma flame in a reactor chamber, the materials are heated, melted and vaporized and the chemical reaction is induced in the vapor phase. The vapor phase is quenched rapidly to solid phase to yield the ultra pure, ultra fine and nano product. With this technique, powders have been made 20 nanometers in size in a system capable of a bulk production rate of more than 10 lbs/hr. The process is particularly applicable to tungsten, molybdenum, rhenium, tungsten carbide, molybdenum carbide and other related materials. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544338 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/346 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615808 | Pain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California); Thomas J. Cunningham (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure for implementation of back-illuminated CMOS or CCD imagers. An epitaxial silicon layer is connected with a passivation layer, acting as a junction anode. The epitaxial silicon layer converts light passing through the passivation layer and collected by the imaging structure to photoelectrons. A semiconductor well is also provided, located opposite the passivation layer with respect to the epitaxial silicon layer, acting as a junction cathode. Prior to detection, light does not pass through a dielectric separating interconnection metal layers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226903 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616303 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Yang (Worcester, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts); Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Michael A. Shear (Northbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We disclose measurement systems and methods for measuring analytes in target regions of samples that also include features overlying the target regions. The systems include: (a) a light source; (b) a detection system; (c) a set of at least first, second, and third light ports which transmit light from the light source to a sample and receive and direct light reflected from the sample to the detection system, generating a first set of data including information corresponding to both an internal target within the sample and features overlying the internal target, and a second set of data including information corresponding to features overlying the internal target; and (d) a processor configured to remove information characteristic of the overlying features from the first set of data using the first and second sets of data to produce corrected information representing the internal target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/411538 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616903 | Wollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | 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 | 12/057060 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616982 | Schipper |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schipper (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile pill transmitter system that moves through or adjacent to one or more organs in an animal's body and that provides signals from which the pill's present location and/or present angular orientation can be determined. The system also provides signals from which the present roll angle of the pill, about a selected axis, can be determined. When the location coordinates and the roll angle of the pill are within selected ranges, an aperture on the pill container releases a selected chemical into or onto the body. Optionally, the pill as it moves also provides a sequence of visually perceptible images; the times for image formation may correspond to times at which the pill transmitter system location or image satisfies one or at least four different criteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473499 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617057 | May et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George A. May (Slidell, Louisiana); Mark Allen Lanoue (Long Beach, Mississippi); Matthew Bethel (Slidell, Louisiana); Robert E. Ryan (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system for optimizing crop growth, vegetation is cultivated in a contained environment, such as a greenhouse, an underground cavern or other enclosed space. Imaging equipment is positioned within or about the contained environment, to acquire spatially distributed crop growth information, and environmental sensors are provided to acquire data regarding multiple environmental conditions that can affect crop development. Illumination within the contained environment, and the addition of essential nutrients and chemicals are in turn controlled in response to data acquired by the imaging apparatus and environmental sensors, by an “expert system” which is trained to analyze and evaluate crop conditions. The expert system controls the spatial and temporal lighting pattern within the contained area, and the timing and allocation of nutrients and chemicals to achieve optimized crop development. A user can access the “expert system” remotely, to assess activity within the growth chamber, and can override the “expert system”. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/312464 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07615240 | Mosjidis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge A. Mosjidis (Auburn, Alabama); Thomas H. Terrill (Macon, Georgia); James E. Miller (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Joan M. Burke (Greenwood, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for controlling gastrointestinal parasitic infections in animals. More specifically, the invention involves the use of sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata), commonly referred to as Chinese bush clover, in the diet of animals to control nematodal gastrointestinal infections. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327066 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615649 | Kraus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc, (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Kraus (Ames, Iowa); Yi Yuan (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing A-type procyanidins is provided by reacting flavylium salts with catechins and analogs thereof, under anhydrous conditions in alcohol. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/275756 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/382 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP20463 | Henny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Greenwood, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Henny (Tavares, Florida); Jianjun Chen (Apopka, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of Aglaonema, denominated ‘UF-742-3’, has small to medium size and upright plant growth habit, vigorous and dense growth habit, very freely clumping habit, dark green-colored leaves with large grey green-colored venal areas covering over half the leaf surface, and white colored petioles. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/231142 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/376 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07615607 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer comprising those selected from the group consisting of at least one of Formula (I), Formula (II), or mixtures thereof wherein each R1 to R10 is independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, halogen, arylalkyl, cyano, or nitro providing that R1 and R2 exclude halogen, nitro and cyano; a and b represent the number of rings; and n represents the number of repeating groups or moieties. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399230 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07614673 | Maitland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murray E. Maitland (Seattle, Washington); M. Jason Highsmith (Tampa, Florida); Craig Lusk (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A prosthetic finger includes a crossed four (4) bar linkage system having a base formed by a base bar, two cross bars, and an interface bar that engages an object to be held. The base bar is fixed to an artificial finger of an amputee. A first cross bar has a first end pivotally mounted to a first end of the base bar and a second cross bar has a first end pivotally mounted to a second end of the base bar. The first cross bar has a second end pivotally mounted to a first end of the interface bar and the second cross bar has a second end pivotally mounted to a second end of the interface bar. The first and second cross bars are slideably interconnected to one another at a cross point which changes its location as the prosthesis grasps objects of differing sizes and shapes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933806 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of State (DOS)
| US 07616304 | Gankkhanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feruz Gankkhanov (Annandale, New Jersey); Silvia Carrasco (Castelldefels, Spain); Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for providing a first electromagnetic field and a second electromagnetic field to vibrational analysis equipment that is responsive to a difference between first and second frequencies of the first and second electromagnetic fields respectively. The system includes a non-linear crystal that may be pumped at a high repetition rate to provide a pulsed signal field at a signal field frequency and a pulsed idler field at an idler field frequency as output. The signal field provides the first electromagnetic field and the idler field provides the second electromagnetic field. The system also includes a tuning system for permitting the difference between the signal field frequency and the idler field frequency to be changed. The system also includes an output unit for providing the first and second electromagnetic fields to the vibrational analysis equipment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/778838 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07615676 | Heinrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerhard Heinrich (Pleasant Hill, California); Gigi Huynh (Vallejo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic screen and method for screening biological and chemical test substances or molecules for their ability to influence or modulate the production of BDNF in cells, includes a fusion gene having a zebrafish BDNF gene fragment (promoter) and a fluorescent marker gene inserted downstream of the BDNF gene fragment. When the fusion gene is injected into a zebrafish embryo, the BDNF promoter causes the production of fluorescent protein in various cell types. The embryo is exposed to a test substance for determining the effect thereof on the production of the fluorescent marker protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/742828 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07615101 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Holmes (Thompson, North Dakota); John H Pavlish (East Grand Forks, Minnesota); Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Ye Zhuang (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for controlling mercury emissions in the gas stream from a fuel fired system includes a chamber for creating dissociated halogen to be supplied to the gas stream, with or without carbonaceous material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/220810 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07616816 | Cheng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a virtual data collection system and method that provides an image analyst with full-control of the image, including the ability to retrieve and reorganize information from an existing video database of images. The system provides for the search and retrieval of information from previously collected images, and reorganize them to meet new or revised mission objectives. The system also enables quick access of the “right” information through virtual data collection from the existing video database. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688433 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07615405 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Stephen Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); Leena Paivikki Buchwalter (Hopewell Junction, New York); Raymond R. Horton (Dover Plains, New York); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Cornelia K. Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York); Steven Lorenz Wright (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic dive and method of fabricating an electronic device. The method including placing a placement guide over a top surface of a module substrate, the placement guide having a guide opening, the guide opening extending from a top surface of the placement guide to a bottom surface of the placement guide; aligning the placement guide to an integrated circuit chip position on the module substrate; fixing the placement guide to the module substrate; placing an integrated circuit chip in the guide opening, sidewalls of the placement guide opening constraining electrically conductive bonding structures on bottom surface of the integrated circuit chip to self-align to an electrically conductive module substrate contact pad on the top surface of the module substrate in the integrated circuit chip position; and bonding the bonding structures to the module substrate contact pads, the bonding structures and the module substrate contact pads in direct physical and electrical contact after the bonding. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/872331 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07615479 | Craig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon S. W. Craig (Palo Alto, California); Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Susan Swindlehurst (Morgan Hill, California); Ali A. Tootoonchi (San Jose, California); Eric Kanemoto (San Jose, California); Eric Jonathan Snyder (South San Francisco, California); Scott Herrmann (Hollister, California); Glenn Gengel (Hollister, California); Lily Liong (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic assembly. The assembly includes a substrate, a plurality of recessed regions, and a plurality of functional blocks. Each functional block is deposited in one of the recessed regions. A substantial amount of the plurality of functional blocks is recessed below a top surface of the substrate. Substantial amount is defined by any one of less than 10% of said functional blocks protrudes above the top surface of the substrate; less than 1% of the functional blocks protrudes above the top surface of the substrate; more than 90% of the functional blocks are recessed below the top surface of the substrate; or more than 99% of the functional blocks are recessed below the top surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/159526 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07615622 | Saenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgueni L. Saenko (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Andrey G Sarafanov (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of increasing the half-life factor VIII. More specifically, the invention methods of increasing the half-life of factor VIII by substituting amino acids in the A2 domain or in the C2 domain of factor VIII or in both domains. It further provides factor VIII mutants produced by these methods. The invention also provides a method of using receptor-associated protein (RAP) to increase the half-life of factor VIII. The invention also provides polynucleotides encoding the mutant factor VIII, polynucleotides encoding RAP, and methods of treating hemophilia using the polypeptides and polynucleotides of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472516 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07616149 | Powers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley J. Powers (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Russell H. Aten (Berlin, Massachusetts); Anthony J. Jagodnik, Jr. (Bolton, Massachusetts); Brian J. Danley (Framingham, Massachusetts); Simon J. Hennin (Worcester, Massachusetts); Robert J. Stamm (Westborough, Massachusetts); Timothy I. Harding (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus to detect and measure energy transmission or azimuth angle information from a radar system at one or more known or measured azimuth angles, determine, for each azimuth angle, the time corresponding to the center of the beam of the energy transmission, receive universal time information, tag the time measurement for each azimuth angle with the universal time information to provide a report, transmit the report to a radar automation system, and determine the radar measurement time for each target report at any azimuth angle from that radar. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536198 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2009/fedinvent-patents-20091110.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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