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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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| US 07617577 | Ebel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Ebel (Centerville, Ohio); Rebecca Cortez (Xenia, Ohio); Richard E. Strawser (Greenville, Ohio); Kevin D. Leedy (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital variable capacitor package is provided as having a ground plane disposed on predetermined portion of the top surface of a substrate. An elongated signal electrode may also be disposed on the substrate and including a first end defining an input and a second end extending to a substantially central region of the top surface of the substrate. This elongated signal electrode is disposed to be electrically isolated from the ground plane. A number of elongated cantilevers are disposed on the substrate and each include first ends coupled to the second end of the signal electrode and each further include second ends suspended over different predetermined portions of the ground plane. In operation, one or more of the cantilevers may be actuated to move portion thereof into close proximity to the ground plane for providing one or more discrete capacitance values. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216261 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.420 |
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| US 07617585 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy R. W. James (Wichita, Kansas); Lance A Cutler (Maize, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Clamping devices and methods for supporting pipes that experience biaxial loading forces are provided. The clamping device transmits forces from the pipe to surrounding supporting frame structure. In one embodiment, a clamp apparatus includes a first piece having first and second staggered notches and a second piece having first and second staggered notches. The first and second pieces are placed in contact with each other with the first staggered notches of the first and second pieces contacting each other and the second staggered notches of the first and second pieces contacting each other. The clamp apparatus forms a cavity for receiving a pipe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/112951 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/525.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617639 | Pollard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Pollard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas W. Murphey (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-deployable, monolithic, open-lattice frame structure of resilient, tape-spring members. The structure is comprised of three or more longitudinal prismatic tape-spring members (longerons) and non-prismatic tape-spring members (battens) that are connected transversely to the longerons. The longerons can be reconfigured in a z-folding manner to compact the structure. The batten members have a twist at each end of the same magnitude and sense, such that when connected to the longerons, the concave surfaces of the battens substantially face along the longitudinal direction of the frame structure. This batten shape permits them to nest within adjacent battens when the structure is compacted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463063 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617728 | Cardarelli |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Donato Cardarelli (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A gyroscope for detecting rotation about a gyro input axis, having a support structure, at least one mass flexibly coupled to the support structure such that it is capable of motion in two directions along a drive axis, the mass offset from the gyro output axis, one or more drives for oscillating the flexibly-coupled masses along the drive axis, one or more mass motion sensors that sense motion of the flexibly-coupled masses along their drive axes, and one or more gyro output sensors that detect rotation of the support structure about the output axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/383814 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617736 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Mo Li (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin metallic films are used as the piezoresistive self-sensing element in microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems. The specific application to AFM probes is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/164620 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618007 | Dahlgren |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl A. Dahlgren (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a force balancing actuator for mounting a pressure vessel, containing an engine, to aircraft structure. The force balancing actuator includes a cylinder and piston that is mechanically connected between the pressure vessel and aircraft structure. This piston and cylinder adjustably provides force there between in response to variations in differential pressure between the pressurized cabin and ambient pressure. The cylinder and piston thereby relieves excessive load on engine isolators allowing the isolators to absorb engine vibrations. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370380 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618523 | Kidwell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Kidwell (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand-held portable drug monitoring system to detect and quantitate cocaine and other organic drugs in saliva, sweat, and surface wipes by using an ion selective electrode or an array of ion selective electrodes. The ion selective electrode has a cast membrane reference electrode and a sensing electrode with a hydrophobic polymer, a plasticizer, and an ionophore selective for the organic drug to be tested. The ion selective electrode can be connected to a converter that coverts a voltage reading from the ion selective electrode to a quantitative drug concentration level. Also disclosed is the related method of using an ion selective electrode to detect an organic drug in saliva, sweat, and surface wipes, the method of testing electrical contact in an ion selective electrode, and the method of making a cast membrane reference electrode. |
| FILED | Monday, April 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/833636 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618565 | Kazakov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Kazakov (White Plains, New York); Marian Kaholek (Bloomfield, New Jersey); Kalle Levon (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Lipobeads (liposome-encapsulated hydrogels) combine properties of hydrogels and liposomes to create systems that are sensitive to environmental conditions and respond to changes in those conditions in a fast time scale. Lipobeads may be produced by polymerizing anchored or unanchored hydrogels within liposomes or by mixing anchored or unanchored hydrogels with liposomes. Giant lipobeads may be produced by shrinking unanchored nanogels in lipobeads and fusing the resulting lipobead aggregates, long-term aging of anchored or unanchored lipobeads, or mixing anchored or unanchored aggregated nanogels with liposomes. Poly(acrylamide), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-1-vinylimidazole) lipobeads were produced and characterized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218553 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618580 | Coughlin 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) | Christopher S. Coughlin (Leonardtown, Maryland); Raymond J. Meilunas (Lexington Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabrication of an optical transparency, that includes electrospinning of an Indium Tin Oxide sol polymer solution such that nanofibers are formed, heat treating the electrospun nanofibers such that the Indium Tin Oxide is in a conductive form, and dispersing the heat treated nanofibers into a substantially optically clear polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251539 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618609 | Lyons 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) | Karen Swider Lyons (Arlington, Virginia); Debra R. Rolison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Increased lithium capacity of defective oxide materials and methods for preparation are described herein. Point defects may be introduced into a metal oxide to increase its lithium ion capacity. Defective metal oxides can be prepared by heating the metal oxide under O2/H2O at elevated temperatures. These increased lithium capacity metal oxides may be suitable for use as high specific energy cathodes in lithium metal and lithium ion batteries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/046295 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/594.170 |
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| US 07618680 | Gleason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen K. Gleason (Lexington, Massachusetts); John Lock (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Remarkably, disclosed herein is a solvent-less chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method for the oxidative polymerization and deposition of thin films of electrically-conducting polymers. In a preferred embodiment, the method provides poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) thin films. In other embodiments, the method is applicable to polymerization to give other conducting polymers, such as polyanilines, polypyrroles, polythiophenes and their derivatives. The all-vapor technique uses a moderate substrate temperature, making it compatible with a range of materials, including as fabric and paper. In addition, this method allows for the coating of high surface-area substrates with fibrous, porous and/or particulate morphologies. The coated substrates may be used in organic semiconductor devices, including organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), photovoltaics, electrochromics, and supercapacitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141353 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618698 | Walters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin D. Walters (St. Charles, Missouri); Travis T. Marshall (St. Peters, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus to protect exposed structures on an aircraft which includes a core; a securing mechanism coupled to the core; and an outer coating applied to the core to encapsulate the core and facilitate the attachment of the securing mechanism. A thermal protection layer may be applied to the apparatus for high temperature applications. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/697640 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618905 | Eyink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt G. Eyink (Beavercreek, Ohio); David H. Tomich (New Carlisle, Ohio); Lawrence Grazulis (Tipp City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for a heterostructure self-assembled quantum dot based on inherent strain present in underlying self-assembled quantum dots for the purpose of modification and control of the properties of the self assembled quantum dots structures formed on semiconductor surfaces. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789123 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/962 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619036 | Mays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy W. Mays (Knoxville, Tennessee); Samuel P. Gido (Hadley, Massachusetts); Tianzi Huang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kunlun Hong (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Copolymers of fluorinated polydienes and sulfonated polystyrene and their use in fuel cell membranes, batteries, breathable chemical-biological protective materials, and templates for sol-gel polymerization. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085619 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619054 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Central Michigan University Board of Trustees (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dillip K Mohanty (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Zhong-Biao Zhang (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Dendrimeric compounds and polymers are also provided wherein the dendrimer core is derived from the Michael reaction products. The branching pattern of the core and the multiplicity of the Michael addition lead to flexibility in designing and synthesizing dendrimeric materials. The Michael addition products are from a reaction between primary amines and activated α,β-unsaturated compounds exemplified by diethyl methylenemalonate (DEMM). In various embodiments, the reaction proceeds with high yields in the absence of strong base or Lewis acid catalyst under mild reaction conditions. Depending on the state of steric hindrance in the amine, the reaction products are a double Michael addition product or a so-called vicarious Michael addition reaction product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365903 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619290 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hongkun Park (Lexington, Massachusetts); Qingqiao Wei (Corvallis, Oregon); Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Wenjie Liang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038794 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619312 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Edward Lee Follmer (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that facilitates precise inter-chip alignment. The system includes a first integrated circuit chip, whose surface has etch pit wells. The system also includes a second integrated circuit chip, whose surface has corresponding etch pit wells that mate with the etch pit wells of the first integrated circuit chip. Spherical balls are placed in the etch pit wells of the first integrated circuit chip such that when the corresponding etch pit wells of the second integrated circuit chip are substantially aligned with the spherical balls, the spherical balls mate with the etch well pits of the second integrated circuit chip, thereby precisely aligning the first integrated circuit chip with the second integrated circuit chip. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243300 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619428 | Richmond, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aehr Test Systems (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Paul Richmond, II (Palo Alto, California); John Dinh Hoang (San Jose, California); Jerzy Lobacz (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A burn-in and electrical test system (20) includes a temperature controlled zone (22) and a cool zone (24) separated by a transition zone 25. The temperature controlled zone (22) is configured to receive a plurality of wafer cartridges (26) and connect the cartridges (26) to test electronics (28) and power electronics (30), which are mounted in the cool zone (24). Each of the wafer cartridges (26) contains a semiconductor wafer incorporating a plurality of integrated circuits. The test electronics (28) consists of a pattern generator PCB (100) and a signal driver and fault analysis PCB (102) connected together by a parallel bus (104). The pattern generator PCB (100) and the fault analysis PCB (102) are connected to a rigid signal probe PCB (104) in cartridge (26) to provide a straight through signal path. The probe PCB (104) is rigid in order to allow close control of capacitance between each signal line and a backplane, thus providing impedance controlled interconnections between a semiconductor wafer under test and the test electronics (28). The power distribution system (30) is connected to a probe power PCB (106) in the cartridge (26). The probe power PCB (106) has at least a bendable portion in order to allow it to be positioned closely adjacent to and parallel with the rigid probe PCB (104), yet extend a substantial distance away from the probe PCB (106) at its interconnection (109). |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/718825 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619485 | DeNatale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Frank DeNatale (Thousand Oaks, California); Robert Ladd Borwick, III (Thousand Oaks, California); Philip A. Stupar (Oxnard, California); Chialun Tsai (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a chip-scale atomic clock having a folded optic configuration or physics package. In particular, the physics package includes a vapor cell for containing gaseous alkali atoms and a VCSEL for generating a laser light One or more heating elements are positioned to simultaneously heat both the vapor cell and VCSEL to the required operating temperature. A micro-lens element, positioned between the VCSEL and a reflector, is used to first expand the beam of light, and then to subsequently collimate the light after it is once reflected. Collimated, reflected light passes through the vapor cell wherein the alkali atoms are excited and a percentage of the reflected light is absorbed. A detector, located opposite the reflector and micro-lens array, detects light passing through the cell. An error signal is generated and the output voltage of a local voltage oscillator is successively stabilized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669251 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619549 | Werking |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Werking (Rockford, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | For a sigma-delta digital-to-analog converter (SD DAC) that includes a voltage output and a low-pass filter having a given order, methods and systems for reducing a sign-bit pulse at the voltage output of the SD DAC without requiring use of a higher order low-pass filter are disclosed. A method includes receiving a first waveform and a second waveform, the first and second waveforms having a first phase relationship; setting the first phase relationship between the first and second waveforms to a second phase relationship by aligning at least one of the first and second waveforms such that a transition of the second waveform is approximately half way between a rising edge and adjacent falling edge of the first waveform; upon setting the second phase relationship, multiplying the first and second waveforms to produce a digital input; and providing the digital input to the SD DAC. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874737 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619567 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan J. Lynch (Oxnard, California); Peter D. Brewer (Westlake Village, California); Andrew T. Hunter (Woodland Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated communication device having a substrate layer of substantially electrically nonconductive material with two substantially parallel surfaces, an antenna element disposed on one of the surfaces, a ground layer of substantially electrically conductive material disposed on the other surface and having an opening formed therethrough opposite from the antenna element, and a transceiver device mounted to the ground layer to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic energy through the opening. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809175 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619811 | Franck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Pentagon (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome B. Franck (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a master lens, which initially focuses a laser pulse, and then the pulse passes through a zonal lenslet array, which uses different lenslet elements that provide for predetermined focal lengths so as to establish a three or two dimensional, predetermined dispersion of foci of the laser pulse. The zonal lenslet array of the present invention may be thought of as a variant of a Shack-Hartman wave front sensor, but used for an entirely different application. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/962811 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620077 | Henderson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angus J. Henderson (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is described that efficiently converts a near-infrared laser beam to tunable mid-infrared wavelength output. In some embodiments, the OPO includes an optical resonator containing a nonlinear crystal, such as periodically-poled lithium niobate. The OPO is pumped by a continuous-wave fiber-laser source having a low-power oscillator and a high-power amplifier, or using just a power oscillator). The fiber oscillator produces a single-frequency output defined by a distributed-feedback (DFB) structure of the fiber. The DFB-fiber-laser output is amplified to a pump level consistent with exceeding an oscillation threshold in the OPO in which only one of two generated waves (“signal” and “idler”) is resonant within the optical cavity. This pump source provides the capability to tune the DFB fiber laser by straining the fiber (using an attached piezoelectric element or by other means) that allows the OPO to be continuously tuned over substantial ranges, enabling rapid, wide continuous tuning of the OPO output frequency or frequencies. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484358 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
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| US 07620187 | Didier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Francis Didier (Marion, Iowa); Ray Lynn Cross (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Roger Charles Odell (Oceanside, California); Stephen Edward Ossenkop (North Liberty, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for obtaining a cryptographic key by dispatching a key request to a communications channel, receiving a response from one or more key sources, selecting a key source according to the received responses, preparing a requester credential, communicating the requester credential to the selected key source, receiving a source credential from the selected key source, receiving an encrypted key from the key source and decrypting the encrypted key source according to the received source credential, the requester credential and a pre-placed certificate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096700 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/279 |
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| US 07620277 | Ashley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Ashley (Toney, Alabama); Michael D. Bramson (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber pigtail and methods of fabricating of the same. The invention also relates to a method of self-alignment of a fiber pigtail and a method of attachment of a fiber pigtail to a surrogate chip. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710123 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620328 | Toliver |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Toliver (Tinton Falls, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to an optical CDMA transmission system and method employing differential optical encoding and bipolar decoding. Differential encoding and bipolar decoding may be performed at the bit level, wherein differential phase encoding and decoding occurs on an entire composite signal. Differential encoding and bipolar decoding may also be performed at the chip level, wherein differential phase encoding and decoding occurs on individual spectral components of a given signal. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/048394 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/188 |
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| US 07620424 | Cetiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bedri A. Cetiner (Morehead, Kentucky); Hamid Jafarkhani (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive MIMO communications system includes a multifunctional reconfigurable antenna with a selectively alterable effective physical antenna array configuration and radiation/polarization properties, which configuration and properties is a component in the optimization of the adaptive system parameters. The multifunctional reconfigurable antenna comprises a plurality of antenna components and a plurality of selectively controllable switches coupling selected ones of the plurality of antenna components together into a multifunctional reconfigurable subarray of antenna components. A processing unit coupled to the multifunctional reconfigurable antenna determines communication channel conditions for generating adaptive control signals to the plurality of selectively controllable switches to selectively apply a selected space-time coding protocol or a selected beam forming protocol together on the plurality of antenna components depending on channel conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330075 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/562.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620503 | Hughes 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) | Derke R. Hughes (Warwick, Rhode Island); Richard A. Katz (East Lyme, Connecticut); Albert H. Nuttall (Old Lyme, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fault detection system designed to evaluate the structural integrity of a material employs an array of sensors disposed over the material being evaluated. The sensors detect vibrations in the material and the sensor signals are fed to a data processor. The processor employs a method to analyze the linear and nonlinear characteristics of the sensor signals and then determines whether to proceed with a linear signal processing analysis or a nonlinear signal processing analysis of the sensor signals. Once the analysis is completed, the results are compared to baseline results to determine what if any divergence exists between the results and the baseline results. A significant divergence indicates a potential material failure. The fault detection system will indicate such a potential failure through a visual alarm on a graphical user interface. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777564 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620529 | Valley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HLR Laboratories (Malibu, California); Aerospace Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Valley (Los Angeles, California); Peter Petre (Oak Park, California); Shubha Kadambe (Thousand Oaks, California); Todd S. Kaplan (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for simulating a mixed-signal system. The invention comprises a first operation of generating a matrix-based wavelet operator representation of equations characterizing a system, with the matrix-based wavelet operator representation including wavelet connection coefficients. A second operation is performed by selecting a number of wavelets and a set of wavelet basis functions with which to represent a performance of the system, whereby the wavelet operator, the number of wavelets and the set of wavelet basis functions represent a wavelet model of the system. A third operation is performed by iteratively applying the wavelet model over a series of clock cycles to develop a behavioral model of the system. The invention has particular use in the area of computer-aided design and may be applied to any suitable system, whether electrical, mechanical, or other. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/685352 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| US 07620538 | Marcu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California); Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Los Angeles, California); Philipp Koehn (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine translation system may use non-parallel monolingual corpora to generate a translation lexicon. The system may identify identically spelled words in the two corpora, and use them as a seed lexicon. The system may use various clues, e.g., context and frequency, to identify and score other possible translation pairs, using the seed lexicon as a basis. An alternative system may use a small bilingual lexicon in addition to non-parallel corpora to learn translations of unknown words and to generate a parallel corpus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/401124 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620673 | Noga |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Noga (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for a complimentary discrete Fourier transform processor. An input signal is sampled, samples then being sequentially delayed, channelized, and processed. Synthesized outputs are provided in complimentary form. Channels are independent so as to allow for the application of gain, equalization and interference cancellation on a channel-by-channel basis. Both real and complex valued input signals may be processed. The invention optimizes computational efficiency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370375 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620819 | Phoha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Louisiana Tech University Foundation, Inc. (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vir V. Phoha (Ruston, Louisiana); Sunil Babu (Shreveport, Louisiana); Asok Ray (State College, Pennsylvania); Shashi P. Phoba (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | We develop a system consisting of a neural architecture resulting in classifying regions corresponding to users' keystroke patterns. We extend the adaptation properties to classification phase resulting in learning of changes over time. Classification results on login attempts of 43 users (216 valid, 657 impersonation samples) show considerable improvements over existing methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241103 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Willow Springs, Illinois); Tingyu Qu (Chicago, Illinois); Jose S. Pulido (Brookfield, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to novel mammalian multipotent neural stem cells (MNSCs), compositions thereof, and methods of preparing and administering the cells to diseased, aged or damaged tissue such that the cells properly migrate and differentiate and a neurological or corporal deficit is improved or remedied as a result. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/342616 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07618623 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United of States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changyu Zheng (Rockville, Maryland); Brian O'Connell (Dublin, Ireland); Bruce J. Baum (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An adenovirus, including adenoviral capsid proteins, and a replication-defective adenoviral vector that includes a 5′ retroviral LTR nucleic acid sequence, a 3′ retroviral LTR nucleic acid sequence, a nucleic acid sequence encoding a portion of a retroviral envelope protein adjacent to either the 5′ LTR or the 3′ LTR nucleic acid sequence, a retroviral packaging sequence and a nucleic acid sequence encoding a transgene located between the 5′ LTR and the 3′ LTR is provided. Host cells infected with this adenovirus are also provided. An adenoviral vector is provided that includes an adenoviral polynucleotide sequence comprising a nucleic acid encoding a transgene, a retroviral packaging signal, a 5′ and a 3′ retroviral LTR, and a portion of a retroviral envelope polypeptide, wherein the adenoviral polynucleotide sequence does not encode one or more of E1, E3 or E4. A method for transforming a cell is also provided using a virus or a vector of the invention, as is a method for introducing a transgene into a cell that is not able to produce viral particles with a single viral vector. A method is also provided for preventing or treating disorder in a subject using the adenoviral vectors of the invention. A pharmaceutical composition is also provided that includes an adenoviral vector of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255059 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618630 | Mundy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Mundy (San Antonio, Texas); Toshiyuki Yoneda (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Antagonists of α4 integrin/α4 integrin ligand adhesion, which inhibit the biological effects of such adhesion are described and methods for their use are detailed. Such antagonists are useful in suppressing bone destruction associated with multiple myeloma. The homing of multiple myeloma cells to bone marrow and their α4 integrin-dependent release of bone-resorbing factors, resulting in bone destruction in patients with multiple myeloma, is inhibited. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/086217 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618632 | Collins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth (Madison, New Jersey); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Collins (Natick, Massachusetts); Ethan Menahem Shevach (Rockville, Maryland); Rebecca Suzanne McHugh (Wellington, New Zealand); Matthew James Whitters (Hudson, Massachusetts); Deborah Ann Young (Melrose, Massachusetts); Michael Chapman Byrne (Brookline, Massachusetts); Padmalatha S. Reddy (Walpole, Massachusetts); Geoffrey Laurence Stephens (Damascus, Maryland); Beatriz M. Carreno (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel isolated and purified polynucleotides and polypeptides related to a novel ligand for glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptor (GITR). The invention also provides antibodies to the GITR ligand (GITRL). The present invention also is directed to novel methods for diagnosing, prognosing, monitoring the progress of, and treating disorders arising from disregulation of the immune system (e.g., autoimmune disorders, inflammatory diseases, and transplant rejection, and cancers and infectious diseases) using GITRL and/or modulators of GITRL. The present invention is further directed to novel therapeutics and therapeutic targets and to methods of screening and assessing test compounds for the intervention (treatment) and prevention of said disorders arising from disregulation of the immune system, as related to GITRL and GITR. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/853032 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618637 | Rothman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Rothman (New York, New York); F. Ulrich Hartl (Kottgeisering, Germany); Mee H. Hoe (New York, New York); Alan Houghton (New York, New York); Yoshizumi Takechi (Kobe, Japan); Mark Mayhew (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for inducing an immune response in a subject, wherein the subject is administered an effective amount of at least one heat shock protein in combination with one or more defined target antigens. These methods and compositions may be used in the treatment of infectious eases and cancers. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170738 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618654 | Weissman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving L. Weissman (Redwood City, California); David Jeffrey Traver (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Koichi Akashi (Palo Alto, California); Markus Gabriel Manz (Palo Alto, California); Toshihiro Miyamoto (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially enriched mammalian hematopoietic cell subpopulation is provided, which is characterized by progenitor cell activity for myeloid lineages, but lacking the potential to differentiate into lymphoid lineages. This population is further divided into specific myeloid progenitor subsets, including a common myeloid progenitor cells (CMP), megakaryocyte/erythroid progenitor cells (MEP) and granulocyte/monocyte lineage progenitor (GMP). Methods are provided for the isolation and culture of these subpopulations. The CMP population gives rise to all myeloid lineages, and can give rise to the two additional and isolatable progenitor populations that are exclusively committed to either the erythroid/megakaryocytic or myelomonocytic lineages. Tηε χελλ εν |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874841 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618775 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825867 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618789 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Roberts (Bethesda, Maryland); Henry C. Krutzsch (Bethesda, Maryland); Christine Krutzsch, legal representative (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of diagnosing cancer in a male mammal comprising obtaining and assaying a test sample for an increased level of semenogelin; method of diagnosing cancer in a female mammal comprising obtaining and assaying a test sample for the presence of semenogelin; methods of prognosticating and assessing the effectiveness of treatment of a cancer in a mammal comprising measuring the level of semenogelin in a test sample; method of inducing an immune response to a cancer in a mammal comprising administering to the mammal a composition comprising (a) an immune-response inducing effective amount of (i) semenogelin or (ii) antibody thereto or (b) a recombinant vector encoding and expressing an immune-response inducing effective amount of (i) or (ii); and composition comprising a carrier and (a) an immune-response inducing effective amount of (i) a polypeptide of any of SEQ ID NOS:1-27 or (ii) antibody thereto or (b) a recombinant vector encoding and expressing an immune-response inducing effective amount of (i) or (ii). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/474213 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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07618793 — Identifying agents for decreasing cellular toxicity associated with huntingin polypeptide
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Muchowski (Sunnyvale, California); Flaviano Giorgini (Leicester, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of screening candidate agents to identify potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of a neurodegenerative disease, such as Huntington's Disease and Parkinson's Disease and methods for identifying a mutation in, or changes in expression of, a gene associated with neurodegenerative disease, such as Huntington's Disease and Parkinson's Disease, are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970741 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.310 |
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| US 07618802 | Baric et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph S. Baric (Haw River, North Carolina); Rhonda Roberts (Durham, North Carolina); Boyd Yount (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Kristopher M. Curtis (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a cDNA of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, recombinant SARS coronavirus vectors, and SARS coronavirus replicon particles. Also provided are methods of making the compositions of this invention and methods of using the compositions as immunogens and/or vaccines and/or to express heterologous nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334877 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
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| US 07618806 | Reilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Reilly (Bloomington, Indiana); Matthew S. Thompson (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, device, and methods for fragmenting high molecular weight molecular ions, such as peptides or proteins, by treating the ions with predetermined wavelengths of light are described. Vacuum ultraviolet radiation as a source of predetermined wavelengths of laser light is described in one embodiment. A device (50) is described having a sample, such as a peptide, protein, protein digest, and the like enters through inlet (55) and is irradiated with a first source of light (60), which illustratively may be a laser light. The first source of laser light is illustratively at a wavelength and energy sufficient to convert molecules in the sample into molecular or precursor ions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/578679 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/283.100 |
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| US 07618817 | Campbell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry S. Campbell (Wyncote, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a natural killer cell, NK-92, modified to express an Fc receptor on the surface of the cell, such as CD16 (FcγRIII-A), or other Fcγ or Fc receptors. The modified NK-92 cell can be further modified to concurrently express an associated accessory signaling protein, such as FcεRI-γ, TCR-ζ, or to concurrently express interleukin-2 (IL-2) or other cytokines. Additional methods are disclosed for various assays, assessments, and therapeutic treatments with the modified NK-92 cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178258 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07618937 | Messersmith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Claredon Hills, Illinois); Annelise Barron (Chicago, Illinois); Andrea Statz (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Meagher (Mountain House, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptidomimetic polymers comprising one or more DOPA moieties and related coatings and composites. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/280107 |
| 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 07618939 | Gupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tapas Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Ananda Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising peptides that may be variants, derivatives and structural equivalents of cupredoxins that inhibit the development of premalignant lesions in mammalian cells, tissues and animals. Specifically, these compositions may comprise azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and/or the 50-77 residue region of azurin (p28). The present invention further relates to compositions that may comprise cupredoxin(s), and/or variants, derivatives or structural equivalents of cupredoxins, that retain the ability to inhibit the development of premalignant lesions in mammalian cells, tissues or animals. These compositions may be peptides or pharmaceutical compositions, among others. The compositions of the invention may be used to prevent the development of premalignant lesions in mammalian cells, tissues and animals, and thus prevent cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/854654 |
| 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 07618958 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISYS Technology Foundation, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Cook (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin); Hao Zhou (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Shengming Huang (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); P.V.V. Srirama Sarma (Germantown, Wisconsin); Chunchun Zhang (Nanuet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods of using stereospecific benzodiazepine derivatives, their salts and prodrugs for the treatment of anxiolytic or convulsant disorders having the side effects of reduced alcohol craving in human alcoholics and a concomitant reduced sedative, hypnotic, muscle relaxant and ataxic side-effects. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of anxiolytic and convulsant disorders in subjects in need thereof, comprising a compound, prodrug or a salt having a chemical structure represented by any one of Formula I-XXI and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173981 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/220 |
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| US 07619057 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong-Fu Wang (Houston, Texas); Steven A Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Gang Zeng (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses the identification and isolation of novel MHC class II epitopes derived from the cancer antigen, NY ESO-1. The novel MHC class II epitopes from NY-EsO-1 are recognized by CD4+ T lymphocytes in an HLA class II restricted manner, in particular HLA-DR or HLA-DP restricted. The products of the gene are promising candidates for immunotherapeutic strategies for the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of patients with cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/182506 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07619079 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Friedman (New York, New York); Gwo-Hwa Lee (New York, New York); Ricardo Proenca (Astoria, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to identification of a receptor for a satiety factor, which is involved in body weight homeostasis. Mutations in this receptor are associated with obese phenotypes. In particular, the present invention relates to identification and characterization of the receptor for leptin, including a naturally occurring soluble form of the receptor that is expected to modulate leptin activity, in particular to agonize leptin activity. The invention further relates to the nucleic acids encoding the receptor, and to methods for using the receptor, e.g., to identify leptin analogs, therapeutically, such as in gene therapy or in soluble form as an agonist or antagonist of leptin activity, or diagnostically. |
| FILED | Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410186 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.310 |
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| US 07619290 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hongkun Park (Lexington, Massachusetts); Qingqiao Wei (Corvallis, Oregon); Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Wenjie Liang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038794 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619413 | Wiggins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Graham Charles Wiggins (Lynn, Massachusetts); Lawrence Leroy Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-element MRI head coil is formed in the shape of a helmet that fits over the head of a subject to be imaged. The coil elements are separately driven by rf transmit channels during an MR scan to shape the rf fields produced in the region of interest. The head coil can be used in the transmit only phase of the scan, or it can be used in both the transmit and receive phases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839094 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620493 | Stankiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Stankiewicz (Austin, Texas); Anthony R. Cassandra (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus to assist a user navigate from a current location to a second location within an environment by determining a distance traveled by the user or from the user to one or more objects. The current location is then identified using the distance and an environment data. Thereafter, a route to the second location is determined based on the current location and the environment data, and a directional cue is provided to the user based on the route. Note that the present invention can be implemented as a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium wherein the steps are performed by one or more code segments. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449481 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07617733 | Deemer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Deemer (Woodridge, Illinois); William A. Ellingson (Naperville, Illinois); J. Scott Steckenrider (Jacksonville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated scanning system and method, utilizing specialized dual phased array ultrasonic transducers for producing and detecting Rayleigh waves in ceramic bearing balls are provided for nondestructive, non-contact inspection of ceramic bearing balls. The phased array ultrasonic transducer utilizes a complex curvature configuration that enables the dual phased array ultrasonic transducers to focus ultrasonic energy onto the ball to optimally generate and receive Rayleigh wave signals in the spherical objects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/779677 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617742 | Radtke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey W. Radtke (Idaho Falls, Idaho); D. Brad Blackwelder (Blackfoot, Idaho); Joel M. Hubbell (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An in situ reactor for use in a geological strata includes a liner defining a centrally disposed passageway and a sampling conduit received within the passageway. The sampling conduit may be used to receive a geological specimen derived from geological strata therein and a lysimeter is disposed within the sampling conduit in communication with the geological specimen. Fluid may be added to the geological specimen through the passageway defined by the liner, between an inside surface of the liner and an outside surface of the sampling conduit. A distal portion of the sampling conduit may be in fluid communication with the passageway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424004 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618500 | Farmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); Frank M. G. Wong (Livermore, California); Jeffery J. Haslam (Livermore, California); Nancy Yang (Lafayette, California); Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California); Craig A. Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); Olivia A. Graeve (Reno, Nevada); Robert Bayles (Annandale, Virginia); John H. Perepezko (Madison, Wisconsin); Larry Kaufman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Julie Schoenung (Davis, California); Leo Ajdelsztajn (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for coating a surface comprises providing a source of amorphous metal, providing ceramic particles, and applying the amorphous metal and the ceramic particles to the surface by a spray. The coating comprises a composite material made of amorphous metal that contains one or more of the following elements in the specified range of composition: yttrium (≧1 atomic %), chromium (14 to 18 atomic %), molybdenum (≧7 atomic %), tungsten (≧1 atomic %), boron (≦5 atomic %), or carbon (≧4 atomic %). |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595676 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618524 | Shepodd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California); Mark S. Tichenor (San Diego, California); Alexander Artau (Humacao, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A “cast-in-place” monolithic microporous polymer salt bridge for conducting electrical current in microfluidic devices, and methods for manufacture thereof is disclosed. Polymeric salt bridges are formed in place in capillaries or microchannels. Formulations are prepared with monomer, suitable cross-linkers, solvent, and a thermal or radiation responsive initiator. The formulation is placed in a desired location and then suitable radiation such as UV light is used to polymerize the salt bridge within a desired structural location. Embodiments are provided wherein the polymeric salt bridges have sufficient porosity to allow ionic migration without bulk flow of solvents therethrough. The salt bridges form barriers that seal against fluid pressures in excess of 5000 pounds per square inch. The salt bridges can be formulated for carriage of suitable amperage at a desired voltage, and thus microfluidic devices using such salt bridges can be specifically constructed to meet selected analytical requirements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916310 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618546 | Bakac et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreja Bakac (Ames, Iowa); Oleg Pestovsky (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A means and method for improving ozone oxidation through the addition of an iron(II) catalyst is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669424 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618582 | Peaslee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Rolla, Missouri); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent D. Peaslee (Rolla, Missouri); Jörg J. Peter (McMinnville, Oregon); David G. C. Robertson (Rolla, Missouri); Brian G. Thomas (Champaign, Illinois); Lifeng Zhang (Trondheim, Norway) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for continuous refining of steel via multiple distinct reaction vessels for melting, oxidation, reduction, and refining for delivery of steel continuously to, for example, a tundish of a continuous caster system, and associated apparatus. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/381820 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metallurgical apparatus 266/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618600 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifang Luo (Livermore, California); Kenneth D. Stewart (Valley Springs, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a device for removing trace amounts of ammonia from a stream of gas, particularly hydrogen gas, prepared by a reformation apparatus. The apparatus is used to prevent PEM “poisoning” in a fuel cell receiving the incoming hydrogen stream. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487527 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618612 | Cortright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of producing hydrogen from oxygenated hydrocarbon reactants, such as methanol, glycerol, sugars (e.g. glucose and xylose), or sugar alcohols (e.g. sorbitol). The method takes place in the condensed liquid phase. The method includes the steps of reacting water and a water-soluble oxygenated hydrocarbon in the presence of a metal-containing catalyst. The catalyst contains a metal selected from the group consisting of Group VIIIB transitional metals, alloys thereof, and mixtures thereof. The disclosed method can be run at lower temperatures than those used in the conventional steam reforming of alkanes. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124717 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618627 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Park (San Francisco, California); Mina J. Bissell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for increasing or monitoring apoptosis in tumor cells by the co-administration of ionizing radiation and an anti-integrin antibody. Increasing apoptosis reduces tumor growth in vivo and in a cell culture model. The antibody is directed against the beta-1 integrin subunit and is inhibitory of beta-1 integrin signaling. Other molecules having an inhibitory effect on beta-1 integrin, either in signaling or in binding to its cognate extracellular receptors may also be used. The present method is particularly of interest in treatment of tumor cells associated with breast cancer, wherein radiation is currently used alone. The present method further contemplates a monoclonal antibody suitable for human administration that may further comprise a radioisotope attached thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628476 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618725 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Yimin Zhu (Urbana, Illinois); Zakia Kahn (Palatine, Illinois); Malcolm Man (Vancouver, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A low contaminant formic acid fuel is especially suited toward use in a direct organic liquid fuel cell. A fuel of the invention provides high power output that is maintained for a substantial time and the fuel is substantially non-flammable. Specific contaminants and contaminant levels have been identified as being deleterious to the performance of a formic acid fuel in a fuel cell, and embodiments of the invention provide low contaminant fuels that have improved performance compared to known commercial bulk grade and commercial purified grade formic acid fuels. Preferred embodiment fuels (and fuel cells containing such fuels) including low levels of a combination of key contaminants, including acetic acid, methyl formate, and methanol. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/079893 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618775 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/825867 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618915 | Popov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Branko N. Popov (Columbia, South Carolina); Nalini Subramanian (Kennesaw, Georgia); Hector R. Colon-Mercado (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a composite carbon catalyst is generally disclosed. The method includes oxidizing a carbon precursor (e.g., carbon black). Optionally, nitrogen functional groups can be added to the oxidized carbon precursor. Then, the oxidized carbon precursor is refluxed with a non-platinum transitional metal precursor in a solution. Finally, the solution is pyrolyzed at a temperature of at least about 500° C. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800978 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619011 | Gamwo 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) | Isaac K. Gamwo (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Dimitri Gidaspow (Northbrook, Illinois); Jonghwun Jung (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining optimum catalyst particle size for a gas-solid, liquid-solid, or gas-liquid-solid fluidized bed reactor such as a slurry bubble column reactor (SBCR) for converting synthesis gas into liquid fuels considers the complete granular temperature balance based on the kinetic theory of granular flow, the effect of a volumetric mass transfer coefficient between the liquid and the gas, and the water gas shift reaction. The granular temperature of the catalyst particles representing the kinetic energy of the catalyst particles is measured and the volumetric mass transfer coefficient between the gas and liquid phases is calculated using the granular temperature. Catalyst particle size is varied from 20 μm to 120 μm and a maximum mass transfer coefficient corresponding to optimum liquid hydrocarbon fuel production is determined. Optimum catalyst particle size for maximum methanol production in a SBCR was determined to be in the range of 60-70 μm. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366452 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619036 | Mays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy W. Mays (Knoxville, Tennessee); Samuel P. Gido (Hadley, Massachusetts); Tianzi Huang (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kunlun Hong (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Copolymers of fluorinated polydienes and sulfonated polystyrene and their use in fuel cell membranes, batteries, breathable chemical-biological protective materials, and templates for sol-gel polymerization. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085619 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619056 | East et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony East (Madison, New Jersey); Michael Jaffe (Maplewood, New Jersey); Yi Zhang (Harrison, New Jersey); Luiz H Catalani (Carapicuiba, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel thermoset epoxy polymers using the bisglycidyl ethers of anhydrosugars, such as isosorbide, isomannide, and isoidide, are disclosed. The bisglycidyl ethers are useful as substitutes for bisphenol A in the manufacture of thermoset epoxy ethers. The anhydrosugars are derived from renewable sources and the bisglycidyl ethers are not xenoestrogenic and the thermoset curing agents are likewise derived form renewable resources. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809034 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620269 | Nandy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabal Nandy (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Registration information for images of a common target obtained from a plurality of different spectral bands can be obtained by combining edge detection and phase correlation. The images are edge-filtered, and pairs of the edge-filtered images are then phase correlated to produce phase correlation images. The registration information can be determined based on these phase correlation images. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/057226 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620477 | Bruemmer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Bruemmer (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A robot platform includes perceptors, locomotors, and a system controller. The system controller executes a robot intelligence kernel (RIK) that includes a multi-level architecture and a dynamic autonomy structure. The multi-level architecture includes a robot behavior level for defining robot behaviors, that incorporate robot attributes and a cognitive level for defining conduct modules that blend an adaptive interaction between predefined decision functions and the robot behaviors. The dynamic autonomy structure is configured for modifying a transaction capacity between an operator intervention and a robot initiative and may include multiple levels with at least a teleoperation mode configured to maximize the operator intervention and minimize the robot initiative and an autonomous mode configured to minimize the operator intervention and maximize the robot initiative. Within the RIK at least the cognitive level includes the dynamic autonomy structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428650 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620507 | Richardson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Richardson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An impedance estimation method includes measuring three or more impedances of an object having a periphery using three or more probes coupled to the periphery. The three or more impedance measurements are made at a first frequency. Three or more additional impedance measurements of the object are made using the three or more probes. The three or more additional impedance measurements are made at a second frequency different from the first frequency. An impedance of the object at a point within the periphery is estimated based on the impedance measurements and the additional impedance measurements. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753214 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07617736 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Mo Li (Pasadena, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin metallic films are used as the piezoresistive self-sensing element in microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems. The specific application to AFM probes is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/164620 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07617891 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Chan (Millbrae, California); Julio Guerrero (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anette Hosoi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-propelled mechanical crawler adapted to move on a medium. One example of such a crawler includes a foot, a wave generator adapted to drive a periodic wave in the foot, and a wave transfer mechanism coupled between the wave generator and the foot. The wave transfer mechanism may be adapted to translate the periodic wave produced by the wave generator into a corresponding periodic deformation in the foot so as to generate forces in the medium to propel the crawler. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247918 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618544 | Massingill, Jr. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Lee Massingill, Jr. (San Marcos, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber reaction process whereby reactive components contained in immiscible streams are brought into contact to effect chemical reactions and separations. The conduit reactor utilized contains wettable fibers onto which one stream is substantially constrained and a second stream is flowed over to continuously create a new interface there between to efficiently bring about contact of the reactive species and thus promote reactions thereof or extractions thereby. Co-solvents and phase transfer catalysts may be employed to facilitate the process. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315996 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/749 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618838 | Levitsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor A. Levitsky (Fall River, Massachusetts); William B. Euler (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Natalya A. Tokranova (Cohoes, New York); Bai Xu (Slingerlands, New York); James Castracane (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a photovoltaic cell which includes forming a nanostructured layer in a semiconductor material having a plurality of pores opening onto a surface, the plurality of pores having a depth greater than about 1 micron and a diameter between about 5 nanometers and about 1,200 nanometers, and disposing an organic charge-transfer material in the pores of the nanostructured layer. A first electrode is attached to the semiconductor material, and a second electrode is attached to the organic charge-transfer material. The semiconductor material has a thickness between about 5 microns and about 700 microns. Desirably, the nanostructured layer has a porosity of less than the porosity corresponding to the percolation threshold, and the organic charge-transfer material extends at least about 100 nm from the surface of the nanostructured layer. The organic charge-transfer material may partially cover the sides of the pores of the nanostructured layer thereby providing a generally cylindrical cavity therein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410796 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619290 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hongkun Park (Lexington, Massachusetts); Qingqiao Wei (Corvallis, Oregon); Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Wenjie Liang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038794 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619656 | Ben-Ezra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moshe Ben-Ezra (Princeton, New Jersey); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing a substantially de-blurred image of a scene from a motion blurred image of the scene are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a primary detector for sensing the motion blurred image and generating primary image information representing the blurred image, a secondary detector for sensing two or more secondary images of the scene and for generating secondary image information representing the two or more secondary images, and a processor for determining motion information from the secondary image information, estimating a point spread function for the motion blurred image from the motion information, and applying the estimated point spread function to the primary image information to generate information representing the substantially de-blurred image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/980559 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619742 | Sanders |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Sanders (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-speed absorption spectrographic system employs a slit-less spectroscope to obtain high-resolution, high-speed spectrographic data of combustion gases in an internal combustion engine allowing precise measurement of gas parameters including temperature and species concentration. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/770325 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620281 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Limin Tong (Hangzhous, China PRC); Rafael Gattass (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nanometer-sized diameter silica fibers that exhibit high diameter uniformity and surface smoothness. The silica fibers can have diameters in a range of a about 20 nm to about 1000 nm. An exemplary method according to one embodiment of the invention for generating such fibers utilizes a two-step process in which in an initial step a micrometer sized diameter silica preform fiber is generated, and in a second step, the silica preform is drawn while coupled to a support element to form a nanometer sized diameter silica fiber. The portion of the support element to which the preform is coupled is maintained at a temperature suitable for drawing the nansized fiber, and is preferably controlled to exhibit a temporally stable temperature profile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/169173 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620424 | Cetiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bedri A. Cetiner (Morehead, Kentucky); Hamid Jafarkhani (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive MIMO communications system includes a multifunctional reconfigurable antenna with a selectively alterable effective physical antenna array configuration and radiation/polarization properties, which configuration and properties is a component in the optimization of the adaptive system parameters. The multifunctional reconfigurable antenna comprises a plurality of antenna components and a plurality of selectively controllable switches coupling selected ones of the plurality of antenna components together into a multifunctional reconfigurable subarray of antenna components. A processing unit coupled to the multifunctional reconfigurable antenna determines communication channel conditions for generating adaptive control signals to the plurality of selectively controllable switches to selectively apply a selected space-time coding protocol or a selected beam forming protocol together on the plurality of antenna components depending on channel conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330075 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/562.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07617719 | Su et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Michigan); Veeco Instruments Inc. (Plainview, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chanmin Su (Ventura, California); Craig Prater (Goleta, California); Gregory F. Meyers (Midland, Michigan); Bryant R. LaFreniere (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for its practice are provided of differentiating at least one component of a heterogeneous sample from other component(s) using harmonic resonance imaging and of obtaining information regarding the sample from the differentiation. In a preferred embodiment, an image is created of a property of a harmonic or a combination of a harmonics producing a response having a contrast factor between the sample's constituent components. The desired harmonic(s) can be identified either in a preliminary data acquisition procedure on the sample or, if the sample's constituent components are known in advance, predetermined. The desired harnonic(s) may be identified directly by the user or automatically through, e.g., pattern recognition. A compositional map may then be generated and displayed and/or additional information about the sample may be obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606695 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619055 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device like a thin film transistor containing an arylamine polymer of the formula wherein Ar is aryl or heteroaryl; X represents CH2, sulfur, oxygen, selenium, NR′, or SiR″2 wherein R′ and R″ are each a suitable hydrocarbon; m represents the number of X substituents; and n represents the number of repeating units. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399092 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619242 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device including a dielectric layer including a cellulose derivative is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/065149 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07620268 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory K. Myers (San Francisco, California); Robert C. Bolles (Mountain View, California); Quang-Tuan Luong (Menlo Park, California); James A. Herson (Emerald Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performance. The present invention also combines OCR results from multiple frames, in a manner that takes the best recognition results from each frame and forms a single result that can be more accurate than the results from any of the individual frames. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969032 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07618517 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Freya Tan (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland Gleisner (Jefferson, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are presented for determining the quantity of liquid and solid content in a removal stream of a froth created from a suspension that is generated during a froth flotation operation. Specifically, electrodes are immersed in the froth generated from a suspension having a known quantity of fiber particles, and the conductance of the froth is measured to establish a relationship between the measured conductance and the quantity of fiber particles. The electrodes are then submerged in a froth generated from a suspension having an unknown quantity of fiber particles, and the froth conductance is measured. The quantity of fiber particles in the froth can then be determined from the pre-established relationship between conductance and solid particle content. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080022 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/198 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07618544 | Massingill, Jr. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John Lee Massingill, Jr. (San Marcos, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber reaction process whereby reactive components contained in immiscible streams are brought into contact to effect chemical reactions and separations. The conduit reactor utilized contains wettable fibers onto which one stream is substantially constrained and a second stream is flowed over to continuously create a new interface there between to efficiently bring about contact of the reactive species and thus promote reactions thereof or extractions thereby. Co-solvents and phase transfer catalysts may be employed to facilitate the process. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315996 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/749 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619077 | Mohnen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debra Mohnen (Athens, Georgia); Jason Dwight Sterling (Athens, Georgia); Ron Lou Doong (Peoria, Illinois); Venkata Siva Kumar Kolli (Duluth, Georgia); Michael G. Hahn (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding the polypeptide GALAT1 having galacturonosyltransferase (GalAT) activity. The Arabidopsis GALAT1 sequence disclosed represents the first pectin biosynthetic glycosyltransferase gene isolated from plants. The invention further provides 14 GALAT and 10 GALAT-like gene superfamily members. The identification of the GALAT gene superfamily offers new opportunities to modulate pectin synthesis in vivo and in vitro by modulating the GALAT gene, for example, transgenic plants that produce modified pectins can be generated by altering the GALAT gene. Since modified pectins are predicted to affect plant growth, development, and plant defense responses, the transgenic plants are expected to have improved agricultural value. The modified pectins isolated from such transgenic plants are useful as gelling and stabilizing agents in the food, neutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries. The expressed proteins, and variants thereof, of the GALAT superfamily are useful to produce in vitro modified pectins of commercial value. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/544180 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07618300 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durhan, North Carolina); Xintek, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Chunsheng Du (Davis, California); Cheng Qian (Durham, North Carolina); Bo Gao (Elon, North Carolina); Qi Qiu (Cary, North Carolina); Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube material having an outer diameter less than 10 nm and a number of walls less than ten are disclosed. Also disclosed are an electron field emission device including a substrate, an optionally layer of adhesion-promoting layer, and a layer of electron field emission material. The electron field emission material includes a carbon nanotube having a number of concentric graphene shells per tube of from two to ten, an outer diameter from 2 to 8 nm, and a nanotube length greater than 0.1 microns. One method to fabricate carbon nanotubes includes the steps of (a) producing a catalyst containing Fe and Mo supported on MgO powder, (b) using a mixture of hydrogen and carbon containing gas as precursors, and (c) heating the catalyst to a temperature above 950° C. to produce a carbon nanotube. Another method of fabricating an electron field emission cathode includes the steps of (a) synthesizing electron field emission materials containing carbon nanotubes with a number of concentric graphene shells per tube from two to ten, an outer diameter of from 2 to 8 nm, and a length greater than 0.1 microns, (b) dispersing the electron field emission material in a suitable solvent, (c) depositing the electron field emission materials onto a substrate, and (d) annealing the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/012341 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619570 | Sarehraz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed Sarehraz (Tampa, Florida); Kenneth A. Buckle (Tampa, Florida); Elias Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida); Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); D. Yogi Goswami (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna apparatus and method for the interception of randomly polarized electromagnetic waves utilizing a dual polarized antenna which is excited through a cross-slot aperture using two well-isolated orthogonal feeds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107122 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07619908 | Hofmeister et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ridgetop Group, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P Hofmeister (Tucson, Arizona); Justin B Judkins (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The system includes a current injection device in electrical communication with the switch mode power supply. The current injection device is positioned to alter the initial, non-zero load current when activated. A prognostic control is in communication with the current injection device, controlling activation of the current injection device. A frequency detector is positioned to receive an output signal from the switch mode power supply and is able to count cycles in a sinusoidal wave within the output signal. An output device is in communication with the frequency detector. The output device outputs a result of the counted cycles, which are indicative of damage to an a remaining useful life of the switch mode power supply. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/778835 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 07619562 | Stumbo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NANOSYS, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Stumbo (Belmont, California); Richard Compton (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phased array system having antennas, non-variable phase shifters, and switches. The non-variable phase shifters are configured to be coupled selectively to a transmitter or a receiver. A non-variable phase shifter is configured to shift a phase of an electromagnetic energy wave that traverses the non-variable phase shifter by a fraction of a period of the electromagnetic energy wave for a range of frequencies of the electromagnetic energy wave. At least one of the fraction and the range associated with the non-variable phase shifter is different from at least one of the fraction and the range associated with other non-variable phase shifters. The switches are configured to couple selectively the antennas to the non-variable phase shifters, the transmitter, or the receiver. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/647584 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07620085 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew P. Joseph (Pickerington, Ohio); John S. Philips (Powell, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Hilliard, Ohio); Michael N. Patena (Pataskala, Ohio); Tim Burnham (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Paul Coleman (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus processes a surface of an inhabitable structure. The apparatus includes a laser base unit adapted to provide laser light to an interaction region, the laser light removing material from the structure. The laser base unit includes a laser generator and a laser head coupled to the laser generator. The laser head is adapted to remove the material from the interaction region, thereby providing reduced disruption to activities within the structure. The apparatus further includes an anchoring mechanism adapted to be releasably coupled to the structure and releasably coupled to the laser head. The apparatus further includes a controller electrically coupled to the laser base unit. The controller is adapted to transmit control signals to the laser base unit in response to user input. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653081 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/38.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07617761 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Two motors are arranged on opposing sides of a common shaft, drive plates of the pump/motors being rigidly coupled to each other, for example by being in hard contact with opposing sides of the shaft. By providing hard contact between the pump/motor drive plates and a common shaft, the drive plates and shaft act as a substantially solid element under compression, thereby substantially canceling axial loads generated by the pump/motors directly through the shaft. Residual axial loads are handled via bearings positioned on the shaft adjacent the drive plates in such a manner that the drive plates are in light contact only with the bearings. As a result, friction experienced by the bearings is substantially reduced as compared to conventional systems, thereby improving the efficiency of the system. To further reduce loads on the bearings, the pump/motors are arranged to ensure that they generate radial forces in a direction that is opposite to that of a separation force generated by a torque transferring device carried on the shaft and transmitted to the bearings. A common housing surrounding the two pump/motors, bearings and torque transferring device is divided into three regions, to segregate the bearings and torque transferring assembly from the pump/motors. In this manner, the regions containing the pump/motors are substantially filled with oil to, for example, fully lubricate the pump/motors, while the central region containing the gears and torque transferring device contains a significantly smaller volume of oil to simply splash lubricate the contents of the region, thereby reducing drag on the bearings. Control means are provided for selectively moving the two pump/motors substantially simultaneously to a selected displacement angle, using mechanical systems alone and in combination with hydraulic systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/130893 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Expansible chamber devices 092/12.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07620469 | Cusmariu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolf Cusmariu (Eldersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying file format, converting file from assumed format and bit ordering to user-definable format, dividing file into blocks, determining frequencies of occurrence in blocks, creating first set of frequencies of occurrence less than and equal to most frequently occurring integer, creating second set of frequencies of occurrence greater than the most frequently occurring integer, creating third set of differences in first sets, creating fourth set of differences in second sets, replacing third and fourth sets with polarity indicators, summing polarity indicators, determining sum percentages, pairing percentages, determining pairing maximum number, determining statistics, determining maximum of statistics, assigning result to converted file, selecting another format and bit ordering and returning to third step, identifying converted file with maximum statistic, and determining format and bit ordering of file to be that of assumed format associated with converted file identified in last step. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489804 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07620280 | Dimmick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy E. Dimmick (Oviedo, Florida); William E. Edwards, Jr. (West Melbourne, Florida); Douglas J. Markos (West Melbourne, Florida); Peter S. Scheuter (Melbourne, Florida); Kevin H. Smith (West Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A filled-core optical fiber (100) spliced to conventional, solid core optical transmission fiber (175) and a related method of making the same are provided. The optical fiber (100) comprises a core region (140), a cladding ring (120) enclosing the core region (120), and an outer cladding layer (160). A fill hole (115) is formed in the optical fiber (100) which extends from an outer sidewall (110) to the core region (140). The fill hole (115) is for introducing optical material (165) into the core region (140). The optical material (165) is introduced into the core region (140) after opposing ends (121, 122) of the optical fiber (100) are spliced to the free ends (176, 176) of conventional, solid core optical transmission fiber (175). The optical material (165) is introduced into core region (140) after splicing to avoid damage to the optical material (165) due to exposure to high temperatures generated during splicing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850272 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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