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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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| US 07622075 | Meyerhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Meyerhoff (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ibrahim H. A. Badr (Cairo, Egypt) |
| ABSTRACT | A film for detecting fluoride concentrations is disclosed. The film includes an organic matrix having a lipophilic aluminum compound incorporated therein. The lipophilic aluminum compound is adapted to selectively bind with fluoride ions via a binding interaction. The fluoride is detectable through optical or electrochemical detection of the binding interaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330509 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/56 |
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| US 07622081 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a microfabricated device for the rapid detection of DNA, proteins or other molecules associated with a particular disease. The devices and methods of the invention can be used for the simultaneous diagnosis of multiple diseases by detecting molecules (e.g. amounts of molecules), such as polynucleotides (e.g., DNA) or proteins (e.g., antibodies), by measuring the signal of a detectable reporter associated with hybridized polynucleotides or antigen/antibody complex. In the microfabricated device according to the invention, detection of the presence of molecules (i.e., polynucleotides, proteins, or antigen/antibody complexes) are correlated to a hybridization signal from an optically-detectable (e.g. fluorescent) reporter associated with the bound molecules. These hybridization signals can be detected by any suitable means, for example optical, and can be stored for example in a computer as a representation of the presence of a particular gene. Hybridization probes can be immobilized on a substrate that forms part of or is exposed to a channel or channels of the device that form a closed loop, for circulation of sample to actively contact complementary probes. Universal chips according to the invention can be fabricated not only with DNA but also with other molecules such as RNA, proteins, peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and polyamide molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801361 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
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| US 07622106 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaodong Wang (Dallas, Texas); Sudan He (Dallas, Texas); Lai Wang (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A necrosis assays is performed with a cell expressing RIPK1 and RIP3 by (a) culturing the cell with a smac mimetic, caspase-8 inhibitor and TNF-α; and (b) detecting a resultant necrosis of the cell. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399872 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
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| US 07622107 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcus A. Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Gunter Harth (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic compositions comprising recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogens that have been transformed to express recombinant immunogenic antigens of the same or other intracellular pathogens are provided. Exemplary immunogenic compositions include, but are not limited to attenuated recombinant Mycobacteria expressing the major extracellular non-fusion proteins of Mycobacteria and/or other intracellular pathogens. Other embodiments are provided wherein the recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogen is auxotrophic. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/595385 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07622113 | Lai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Juh Lai (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize dengue type 1, 2, 3, and/or 4 virus. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining dengue virus-binding ability, fully human or humanized antibodies retaining dengue virus-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582006 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
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| US 07622117 | Tobia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dynamis Therapeutics, Inc. (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annette Tobia (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania); Francis Kappler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of removing 3-deoxyglucosone and other alpha-dicarbonyl sugars from skin. The invention further relates to methods of inhibiting production and function of 3-deoxyglucosone and other alpha-dicarbonyl sugars in skin. The invention also relates to methods of treating 3-deoxyglucosone and other alpha-dicarbonyl sugars associated diseases and disorders of skin. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 18, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/198706 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/146.100 |
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| US 07622120 | Poland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Poland (Rochester, Minnesota); Inna G. Ovsyannikova (Rochester, Minnesota); David C. Muddiman (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kenneth L. Johnson (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A vaccine for preventing or treating Orthopoxvirus infection that induces a protective or therapeutic immune response, wherein the vaccine comprises (1) an amino acid sequence of 20 amino acid or less (preferably 12 amino acid or less and most preferably 11 amino acid or less) of the formula X1-SEQ ID NO:1-X2, wherein X1 and X2 are peptides of 0-11 amino acid in length comprising either native or non-native amino acid sequences, (2) an antigen-presenting cell pulsed with the peptide, or (3) a cell sensitized in vitro to the peptide is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/738210 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
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| US 07622121 | Levis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Levis (New York, New York); Frank T. Martiniuk (Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to heat shock proteins from Mycobacterium leprae as well as their encoding polynucleotides and vectors and host cells containing these polynucleotides. These heat shock proteins and their encoding polynucleotides are useful in detection of Mycobacterium leprae. In addition, the heat shock protein can be used as an adjuvant in a pharmaceutical composition containing an antigen to induce or enhance the immune response against the antigen. Further, the heat shock protein may be used to treat atopic conditions or as a vaccine against Mycobacterium leprae. Alternatively, the heat shock protein can be used to form a fusion protein with an antigen to induce or enhance the immune response against the antigen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/523215 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 07622123 | Skiadopoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Kensington, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Alexander C. Schmidt (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric human-bovine parainfluenza viruses (PIVs) are infectious and attenuated in humans and other mammals and useful individually or in combination in vaccine formulations for eliciting an anti-PIV immune response. Also provided are isolated polynucleotide molecules and vectors incorporating a chimeric PIV genome or antigenome which includes a partial or complete human or bovine PIV “background” genome or antigenome combined or integrated with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) of a different PIV. Chimeric human-bovine PIV of the invention include a partial or complete “background” PIV genome or antigenome derived from or patterned after a human or bovine PIV virus combined with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) of a different PIV virus to form the human-bovine chimeric PIV genome or antigenome. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982223 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07622125 | zur Megede et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan zur Megede (San Francisco, California); Susan W. Barnett (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to vectors comprising polynucleotide sequences that encode HIV polypeptides. In particular, the disclosure relates polycistronic vector constructs comprising sequences that encode HIV polypeptides as a single polyprotein. Compositions comprising these vectors and sequences along with methods of using these vectors and sequences are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124602 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
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| US 07622128 | Darveau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Darveau (Redmond, Washington); Robert Reife (Redmond, Washington); Keith Knutson (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A preparation containing lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Porphyromonas gingivalis having a molecular negative mass ion of 1435 or 1449 is used as an immune system modulator to redirect a host's immune system against an antigen of interest. The 1435/1449 LPS preparation can be isolated from P. gingivalis or prepared as a derivative or mimetic thereof. The immunomodulating preparations of P. gingivalis 1435/1449 can be used as a vaccine adjuvant, and can be used to stimulate an immune response against a selected antigen associated with a disease of interest, such an antigen associated with a tumor, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, MHC antigen, or to modulate asthma or other inflammatory conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/301542 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/278.100 |
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| US 07622252 | Zechiedrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Lynn Zechiedrich (Houston, Texas); Jonathan Fogg (Houston, Texas); John Perona (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the production of supercoiled DNA minicircles and their use as substrates are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448590 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07622253 | Levy et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Levy (Stanford, California); Mark A. Wechser (Moraga, California); Izidore S. Lossos (Miami, Florida); Robert J. Tibshirani (Palo Alto, California); Ash A. Alizadeh (San Mateo, California); David Botstein (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits for classifying patients having diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) based upon expression of a plurality of genes are disclosed. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR can be used to measure expression values. Correlating expression values of the plurality of genes in a tumor sample from the patient to reference expression values obtained from DLBCL patients can stratify patients in the classification groups. The methods and kits can be used to predict overall patient survival. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542552 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07622255 | Jamieson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catriona Helen M. Jamieson (La Jolla, California); Laurie Ailles (Palo Alto, California); Tannishtha Reya (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for the identification of stem cells and cancer stem cells. β-catenin is also identified as a target for the development of therapeutic moieties against hematopoietic tumors, i.e. leukemia and lymphoma cells, which may include screening assays directed at β-catenin, or members of the β-catenin signaling pathway. Cellular proliferation in hematopoietic cells can be altered by introducing stabilized β-catenin into a hematopoietic cell that is altered in its ability to undergo apoptosis but which is not fully transformed. The immortalized cells are useful in screening assays, and in the analysis of pathways by which hematopoietic cells undergo transformation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799817 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07622260 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gavin J. Gordon (West Newbury, Massachusetts); Roderick V. Jensen (Pelham, Connecticut); Steven R. Gullans (Natick, Massachusetts); Raphael Bueno (Brookline, Massachusetts); Li-Li Hsiao (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for diagnosing biological states or conditions based on ratios of gene expression data from tissue samples, such as cancer tissue samples. The invention also provides sets of genes that are expressed differentially in malignant pleural mesothelioma. These sets of genes can be used to discriminate between normal and malignant tissues, and between classes of malignant tissues. Accordingly, diagnostic assays for classification of tumors, prediction of tumor outcome, selecting and monitoring treatment regimens and monitoring tumor progression/regression also are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/236031 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07622264 | Fasano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessio Fasano (West Friendship, Maryland); Ruiliang Lu (Baltimore, Maryland); Stefanie N. Vogel (Columbia, Maryland); Julie Brownley (Towson, Maryland); Karen Lammers (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | CXCR3 is identified as a physiological receptor for Gliadin. Assays for determining modulators of CXCR3 signaling are provided. Fragments of gliadin which function as inhibitors of CXCR3 signaling can be determined. Methods for treating diseases relating to gluten and/or autoimmunity by targeting CXCR3 are provided. Such diseases include celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, gluten allergy, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, immune-mediated or type 1 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, scleroderma, and autoimmune thyroid diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354948 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07622271 | Kennedy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Kennedy (Redmond, Washington); Matthew R. Kaeberlein (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | High throughput methods for screening genetic variants that are phenotypically distinguishable are provided. Methods for identifying “long-lived” genetic variants among a set of variants are also provided. Methods for identifying pharmaceutical compounds that can promote longevity in various subjects, including mammals, and that can delay the onset of various diseases associated with aging are also provided. Various vectors and host cells containing identified genes/gene products are useful for screening longevity-promoting compounds that can interact with life-span-regulating genes/gene products. Pharmaceutical compositions that can promote longevity are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107542 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.310 |
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| US 07622272 | Cuttitta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Cuttitta (Adamstown, Maryland); Alfredo Martinez (La Rioja, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods of the present invention demonstrate that adrenomedullin (AM) is expressed in human cancer cell lines of diverse origin and functions as a universal autocrine growth factor driving neoplastic proliferation. The present invention provides for AM peptides and AM antibodies useful in therapeutic, pharmacologic and physiologic compositions. The present invention additionally provides for methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease utilizing compositions comprising the AM peptides and antibodies of the present invention. The methods of the present invention also provide for experimental models for use in identifying the role of AM in pancreatic physiology. The methods pertaining to rat isolated islets have show that AM inhibits insulin secretion in a dose-dependent manner. The monoclonal antibody MoAb-G6, which neutralizes AM bioactivity, was show by the methods of the present invention to increase insulin release fivefold, an effect that was reversed by the addition of synthetic AM. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517599 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.800 |
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| US 07622279 | Ju |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for determining the sequence of a DNA or an RNA, wherein (i) about 1000 or fewer copies of the DNA or RNA are bound to a solid substrate via 1,3-dipolar azide-alkyne cycloaddition chemistry and (ii) each copy of the DNA or RNA comprises a self-priming moiety. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/591520 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
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| US 07622281 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (Palo Alto, California); Foad Mashayekhi (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and compositions relating to amplifying nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods for labeling and amplifying a nucleic acid molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134683 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
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| US 07622289 | Harran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Harran (Dallas, Texas); Xiaodong Wang (Dallas, Texas); Gelin Wang (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Ornithine δ-aminotransferase (OAT) facilitates microtubule assembly in addition to its aminotransferase activity in mitochondria. An N-terminal proteolysis of the first 17 amino acids of OAT block its transport to the mitochondria. The resultant truncated protein (OATC) forms specific complexes with mitotic spindle promoting proteins such as Eg5 and takes on a Ran-dependent spindle-assembly activity. Methods and compositions for inhibiting mitotic spindle assembly in a cell by specifically inhibiting OAT, and methods for screening for inhibitors of (1) the spindle-assembly function of OAT, (2) the protease that N-truncates OAT, (3) the OAT/RanGTP association and (4) the OAT/Eg5 association are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451926 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07622298 | Neumann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Norits, Inc. (Gig Harbor, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Neumann (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Microvessel networks are produced in vitro from tissue-engineered parent vessels sprouting into a supporting matrix, as for example gels, of extracellular matrix proteins. The microvessel systems are integrated into devices that allow for controlled perfusion with fluids. The vessels may include cells from one cell type, for example, endothelial cells, or from combinations of two or more cell types. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/388920 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/395 |
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| US 07622299 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan E. Sanders (Kirkland, Washington); Thomas Neumann (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods for forming a target tissue substitute. The methods of the invention comprise the following steps: (a) providing a scaffold comprising one or more layers of one or more arrays of microfibers, wherein one or more of the arrays of microfibers is designed to mimic the configuration of one or more structural elements in a target tissue; and (b) culturing cells on the scaffold to form a target tissue substitute. In another aspect, the invention provides implantable medical devices. The implantable medical devices of the invention comprise a scaffold comprising one or more layers of one or more arrays of microfibers, wherein one or more of the arrays of microfibers is arranged to mimic the configuration of one or more structural elements in a target tissue. Typically, cells are cultured on the scaffold to form a target tissue substitute. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374755 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/398 |
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| US 07622437 | Morrissey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Morrissey (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent S. Pureza (Champaign, Illinois); Stephen G. Sligar (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Tissue Factor (natural or recombinant truncated) can be incorporated into stable, soluble nanoscale particles so that activity is maintained. These particles can be used as a reagent in prothrombin clotting time assays or they can be used in therapeutic compositions for use in humans or animals. Therapeutic settings can include supplementation in the case of a genetic deficiency, uncontrolled bleeding, surgical incisions or seepage, thrombocytopenia, soft tissue trauma or other trauma, to effect tumor regression or to inhibit tumor growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259950 |
| 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 07622442 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongwon Choi (New York, New York); Brian Wong (New York, New York); Regis Josien (New York, New York); Ralph Steinman (Westport, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of modulating immune response in an animal is disclosed. Such a method interacting the immature dendritic cells from the animal with an antigen ex vivo so that the immature dendritic cells present the antigen on their surfaces, inducing maturation of the immature dendritic cells ex vivo, and contacting the mature dendritic cells ex vivo with a modulator comprising TRANCE, conservative variants thereof, fragments thereof, analogs or derivatives thereof, or a fusion protein comprising the amino acid sequence of TRANCE, conservative variants thereof, or fragments thereof. After contacting the modulator ex vivo, the mature dendritic cells are introduced into the animal. As a result, immune response in the animal towards the antigen is modulated relative to the immune response against the antigen in an animal in which dendritic cells did not interact with the antigen ex vivo, and did not contact a modulator ex vivo. Preferably, the method of the present invention results in increasing immune response towards the antigen in the animal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241106 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07622443 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Anderson (Altadena, California); Hai U. Wang (Folsom, California); Donghun Shin (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides, among other things, novel angiogenesis-related nucleic acids, polypeptides and methods of use. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437755 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622451 | Blagg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas); Mary Lou Michaelis (Lawrence, Kansas); Michelle McIntosh (Warrandyte, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Novobiocin analogues and pharmaceutical composition containing such compounds useful for the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative disorders and autoimmune disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801473 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622470 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Owen A. O'Connor (Scarsdale, New York); Francis M. Sirotnak (Hampton Bays, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | T cell lymphoma is treated by administering to a patient suffering from T cell lymphoma a therapeutically effective amount of 10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterin. Remission is observed in human patients, even with drug resistant T cell lymphoma at weekly dosages levels as low as 30 mg/m2. In general, the 10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterin is administered in an amount of from 30 to 275 mg/m2 per dose. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141868 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/249 |
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| US 07622497 | Cai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytovia, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sui Xiong Cai (San Diego, California); Songchun Jiang (San Diego, California); Han-Zhong Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel derivatives of gambogic acid and analogs thereof. The present invention also relates to the discovery that novel derivatives of gambogic acid are activators of caspases and inducers of apoptosis. Therefore, the activators of caspases and inducers of apoptosis of this invention can be used to induce cell death in a variety of clinical conditions in which uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells occurs. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/580263 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622503 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Karen A. Veverka (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides SARM compounds and their use in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/146427 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622533 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nerites Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis methods for creating polymeric compounds comprising dihydroxyphenyl derivatives (DHPD), or DHPp i.e. polymers modified with DHPD, with desired surface active effects are described. The polymer backbone of DHPp has structural or performance features that can be tailored to control physical properties of DHPp, allowing it to be useful for different applications i.e. tissue adhesives or sealants, adhesion promoting coatings, and antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834651 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622549 | Cech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, California); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Cech (Potomac, Maryland); Joachim Lingner (Epalinges, Switzerland); Toru Nakamura (San Diego, California); Karen B. Chapman (Mill Valley, California); Gregg B. Morin (Oakville, Canada); Calvin B. Harley (Palo Alto, California); William H. Andrews (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods related to human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTRT), the catalytic protein subunit of human telomerase. The polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention are useful for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of human diseases, for changing the proliferative capacity of cells and organisms, and for identification and screening of compounds and treatments useful for treatment of diseases such as cancers. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877124 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622557 | Sorrentino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Sorrentino (Memphis, Tennessee); John Schuetz (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods of identifying and/or isolating stem cells based on expression of BCRP. The present invention also describes methods of obtaining and/or using cell populations enriched for stem cells. In addition, methods are provided for diagnosing and/or prognosing leukemia, particularly human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), through assaying for BCRP expression in leukemic cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/866866 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622567 | Seeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York); Jiwen Zheng (Edison, New Jersey); Pamela E. Constantinou (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Two dimensional polynucleic acid arrays are assembled from robust nucleic acid motifs as polygonal units. The polygonal units in an array have edges composed of nucleic acid multi-crossover domains and are joined together by double cohesion of adjacent polygonal units. A subset of polygonal units in the array have a nanoparticle or pendant molecule attached to an end of one edge of each polygonal unit within this subset. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626184 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622571 | Baseman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Texas System, Board of Regents (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Barry Baseman (San Antonio, Texas); Thirumalai Rengasamy Kannan (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a Mycoplasma pneumoniae community acquired respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS) toxin, biologically active fragments/domains of the CARDS toxin, antibodies to the CARDS toxin and nucleic acids encoding the CARDS toxin. Also provided are methods of diagnosing, treating and/or preventing infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae using the compositions provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/573909 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622583 | Ungashe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Zheng Wei (Union City, California); Arindrajit Basak (Mountain View, California); Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Wei Chen (Freemont, California); Jeff Jin (Fremont, California); Jimmie Moore (Redwood City, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California); Daniel Dairaghi (Palo Alto, California); Derek Hansen (Half Moon Bay, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); John J. Wright (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486974 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622633 | Fire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Fire (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen Kostas (Chicago, Illinois); Mary Montgomery (St. Paul, Minnesota); Lisa Timmons (Lawrence, Kansas); SiQun Xu (Ballwin, Missouri); Hiroaki Tabara (Shizuoka, Japan); Samuel E. Driver (Providence, Rhode Island); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided of introducing an RNA into a living cell to inhibit gene expression of a target gene in that cell. The process may be practiced ex vivo or in vivo. The RNA has a region with double-stranded structure. Inhibition is sequence-specific in that the nucleotide sequences of the duplex region of the RNA and of a portion of the target gene are identical. The present invention is distinguished from prior art interference in gene expression by antisense or triple-strand methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283267 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623903 | Wacker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Frank K. Wacker (72074 Tuebingen, Germany); Jeffrey L. Duerk (Avon Lake, Ohio); Jonathan S. Lewin (Beachwood, Ohio); Robbert M. Maes (6525 ZC Nijmegen, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to detect the location of a catheter relative to a targeted location in a blood vessel is provided. One example method includes acquiring and displaying magnetic resonance (MR) images while a first MR contrast agent is present and while the operation of that first MR contrast agent is counter-acted by a second MR contrast agent. Both MR contrast agents may be introduced into a blood vessel by the catheter whose position is to be detected. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/441235 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623908 | Boppart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of examining a sample, which includes: exposing a reference to a first set of electromagnetic radiation, to form a second set of electromagnetic radiation scattered from the reference; exposing a sample to a third set of electromagnetic radiation to form a fourth set of electromagnetic radiation scattered from the sample; and interfering the second set of electromagnetic radiation and the fourth set of electromagnetic radiation. The first set and the third set of electromagnetic radiation are generated from a source; at least a portion of the second set of electromagnetic radiation is of a frequency different from that of the first set of electromagnetic radiation; and at least a portion of the fourth set of electromagnetic radiation is of a frequency different from that of the third set of electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717437 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623910 | Couderc et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Philippe Couderc (Rochester, New York); Martino Vaglio (Biella, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A method differentiating LQT1 mutation from LQT2 mutation is disclosed. An ECG signal is obtained for a patient. At least a first ECG parameter and a second ECG parameter are determined from the ECG signal. A probability that the patient is an LQT1 carrier or an LQT2 carrier is determined based on a regression model which takes into account the first ECG parameter and the second ECG parameter. A system for assessing repolarization abnormalities is also disclosed. The system has a processor configured to differentiate between LQT1 and LQT2 based on at least two ECG parameters from ECG data. The system also has a data input coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with the ECG data. The system further has a user interface coupled to either the processor or the data input. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685016 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41007 | Tabibzadeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siamak Tabibzadeh (Albertson, New York); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the early diagnosing of selected adenocarcinomas in a human comprising the steps of removing a bodily sample from the human, and assaying the bodily sample for elevated expression of a specific gene. The gene being assayed for in the, bodily sample is the TGFB-4 gene (hereinafter referred to as the endometrial bleeding associated factor (ebaf) gene. The bodily sample can be tissue from a specific organ in the body, or a blood sample. Increased levels of ebaf in the sample relative to basal levels may be indicative of a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon or ovaries, or an adenocarcinoma of the testis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801428 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Rochford (Litchfield, New Hampshire); Robert F. Madej (Plaistow, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A specialized tool is provided for the removal of components in a microwave module in which a fixed tool having a channeled tip is positioned adjacent the component to be removed, with hot gas from the channeled tip melting the epoxy or solder and with the module forced against the fixed tool to remove it. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/932402 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/426.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621230 | Anderson 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) | Robert W. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Stuart G. Ullman (Kensington, Maryland); Kellie L. Redcay (Pottstown, Pennsylvania); Ryan T. Hayleck (Fulton, Maryland); John F. O'Dea (Laurel, Maryland); Sean M. Gallagher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher J. Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida); Donald R. Jacobson (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for cargo transfer at sea, more particularly, a flow-through vessel and related method for the at-sea and underway launching and loading of air-cushion vehicles. The vessel includes a hull having a forward end and an aft end, a continuous deck extending from the forward end to the aft end of the hull, a forward ramp attached to the continuous deck at the forward end of the hull, and an aft ramp attached to the continuous deck at the aft end of the hull. At least a portion of the continuous deck is uncovered and accessible from above the deck. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789125 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621410 | Updegrove 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) | Darryl Updegrove (Panama City, Florida); Garrett W. Leavitt (Panama City Beach, Florida); James Ellington Sovel (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An X-Y bridge crane can be assembled and erected by workmen to lift and move loads at the end of a shipping and stowage container having block-shaped corner fittings at top corners and bottom corners. Rotatable top securing brackets engage the top block-shaped corner fittings and rotatable bottom securing brackets engage the bottom block-shaped corner fittings. Inner end portions of brace members are rotatably connected to the rotatable bottom securing brackets. A framework having inner extensions, outer projecting parts and a laterally extending hoist-traveling beam has inner extensions connected to the top securing brackets and outer projecting parts connected to the outer end portions of the brace members. A hoist is mounted on the hoist-traveling beam to lift and move loads on the framework, and first and second chainfalls connected to the hoist linearly displace the hoist in orthogonal directions. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378583 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Traversing hoists 212/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621429 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerojet- General Corporation (Sacramento, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peikuan Wu (Fairfax, Virginia); Guy B. Spear (Marshall, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A piston tank with elongated contact between the piston and the tank bore to prevent piston cocking and preserve alignment is equipped with a compound piston that includes a carriage (or glider) and a barrier that is movable relative to the carriage. The carriage is an elongate ring with sealing and contact sites between the ring and the tank bore and axially spaced apart, and the barrier moves or changes shape in response to pressure differentials across the barrier imposed by a pressurized driving fluid. The barrier and carriage can thus move between a position allowing the full volume of the tank to be occupied by fuel or other functional fluid and a position ejecting all of the fuel or functional fluid out of the tank through an outlet port. Two examples of the barrier are disclosed—a plate that is movable within the ring and a diaphragm affixed to the ring and deformable in both directions. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363573 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dispensing 222/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621719 | Lutjen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine); Gary Grogg (South Berwick, Maine); Christopher Joe (Wethersfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A blade outer air seal is provided with a plurality of distinct cooling circuit schemes. Preferably, compact heat exchanger structures are utilized, and can be individually tailored to the particular location along the blade outer air seal. As an example, a greater pressure ratio exists between the products of combustion and the cooling air at the trailing edge than would be found at the leading edge. The present invention takes advantage of this distinction by utilizing cooling schemes that have a greater pressure drop at the trailing edge than the cooling schemes utilized closer to the leading edge. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/240192 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622150 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Nisjakyuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji-Cheng Zhao (Niskayuna, New York); Bernard Patrick Bewlay (Schenectady, New York); Melvin Robert Jackson (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An environmentally resistant coating comprising silicon, titanium, chromium, and a balance of niobium and molybdenum for turbine components formed from molybdenum silicide-based composites. The turbine component may further include a thermal barrier coating disposed upon an outer surface of the environmentally resistant coating comprising zirconia, stabilized zirconia, zircon, mullite, and combinations thereof. The molybdenum silicide-based composite turbine component coated with the environmentally resistant coating and thermal barrier coating is resistant to oxidation at temperatures in the range from about 2000° F. to about 2600° F. and to pesting at temperatures in the range from about 1000° F. to about 1800° F. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/253750 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
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| US 07622151 | Tzeng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yonhua Tzeng (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, methods of forming diamond are described. A representative method, among others, includes: providing a substrate in a reaction chamber in a non-magnetic-field microwave plasma system; introducing, in the absence of a gas stream, a liquid precursor substantially free of water and containing methanol and at least one carbon and oxygen containing compound having a carbon to oxygen ratio greater than one, into an inlet of the reaction chamber; vaporizing the liquid precursor; and subjecting the vaporized precursor, in the absence of a carrier gas and in the absence in a reactive gas, to a plasma under conditions effective to disassociate the vaporized precursor and promote diamond growth on the substrate in a pressure range from about 70 to 130 Torr. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/772740 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622191 | Malik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdul Malik (Tampa, Florida); Tae-Young Kim (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented describing in situ preparation of the titania-based sol-gel PDMS coating and its immobilization on the inner surface of a fused silica microextraction capillary. Sol-gel titania-poly (dimethylsiloxane) (TiO2-PDMS) coating was developed for capillary microextraction (CME) to perform on-line preconcentration and HPLC analysis of trace impurities in aqueous samples. The sol-gel titania-based coatings demonstrated strong pH stability and enhanced extraction capability over other commercially availble GC coatings. Extraction characteristics of a sol-gel titania-PDMS capillary remained practically unchanged after continuous rinsing with a 0.1 M NaOH solution (pH=13) for 12 hours. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/161005 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622239 | Ding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoling Ding (St. Petersburg, Florida); David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a patterned SiO2 films over TiO2 (Si02/Ti02) under ambient atmospheric conditions, including room temperature, through photo and chemical reactions. The method is simple, convenient and can be performed in a short period of time, typically less than two hours. The patterned TiO2 film is fabricated through photo-irradiation of a photosensitive organic-titanium film using a mask. Silica particles are generated from silicate solution by adjusting pH values to 10 to 8 with hydrochloric acid. The pre-deposited TiO2 film has a strong attraction for the SiO2 particles, leading to the instant formation of SiO2 film over the TiO2 film. The silica films are also amino-silylated with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane toward applications such as patternable, location-specific silica-based separation and purification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539987 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/269 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622246 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Contrast enhancing layers and other materials that can be used as a conformal mask over a photoresist are discussed. In particular, methods and compositions are discussed that can be advantageous when performing lithography using short wavelength actinic radiation (e.g., wavelengths below 200 nm, such as 193 nm or 157 nm). For example, contrast enhancing layers that include an organosilicon containing material can be used to enhance the contrast of a pattern formed on an underlying photoresist layer. Silicon containing polymers, oligomers, and other non-polymeric materials can be used as effective CEL materials. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534347 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622294 | Walt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Walt (Boston, Massachusetts); Karri Lynn Ballard (Pflugerville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsphere-based analytic chemistry system and method for making the same is disclosed in which microspheres or particles carrying bioactive agents may be combined randomly or in ordered fashion and dispersed on a substrate to form an array while maintaining the ability to identify the location of bioactive agents and particles within the array using an optically interrogatable, optical signature encoding scheme. A wide variety of modified substrates may be employed which provide either discrete or non-discrete sites for accommodating the microspheres in either random or patterned distributions. The substrates may be constructed from a variety of materials to form either two-dimensional or three-dimensional configurations. In a preferred embodiment, a modified fiber optic bundle or array is employed as a substrate to produce a high density array. The disclosed system and method have utility for detecting target analytes and screening large libraries of bioactive agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920637 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622315 | Mason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. B. Mason (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Larry A. Coldren (Santa Barbara, California); Gregory Fish (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable laser source with integrated optical modulator. The tunable laser source is a widely tunable semiconductor laser that is comprised of an active region on top of a thick, low bandgap, waveguide layer, wherein both the waveguide layer and the active region are fabricated between a p-doped region and an n-doped region. An electro-absorption modulator is integrated into the semiconductor laser, wherein the electro-absorption modulator shares the waveguide layer with the semiconductor laser. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/023922 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622322 | Schaff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Schaff (Ithaca, New York); Jeonghyun Hwang (Ithaca, New York); Bruce M. Green (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A passivation layer of AlN is deposited on a GaN channel HFET using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Using MBE, many other surfaces may also be coated with AlN, including silicon devices, nitride devices, GaN based LEDs and lasers as well as other semiconductor systems. The deposition is performed at approximately 150° C. and uses alternating beams of aluminum and remote plasma RF nitrogen to produce an approximately 500 Å thick AlN layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/858337 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622367 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Savoy, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145574 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and system for processing a thin film sample are provided. In particular, a beam generator can be controlled to emit at least one beam pulse. The beam pulse is then masked to produce at least one masked beam pulse, which is used to irradiate at least one portion of the thin film sample. With the at least one masked beam pulse, the portion of the film sample is irradiated with sufficient intensity for such portion to later crystallize. This portion of the film sample is allowed to crystallize so as to be composed of a first area and a second area. Upon the crystallization thereof, the first area includes a first set of grains, and the second area includes a second set of grains whose at least one characteristic is different from at least one characteristic of the second set of grains. The first area surrounds the second area, and is configured to allow an active region of a thin-film transistor (“TFT”) to be provided at a distance therefrom. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525297 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622541 | Verborgt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jozef Verborgt (Tarpon Springs, Florida); Arthur A Webb (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyurethane coating made by: applying to a surface a polyol composition and an isocyanate composition, such that a mixture of the polyol composition and the isocyanate composition is formed during the application; and allowing the mixture to cure to the polyurethane coating. The polyol composition has a polyol monomer having the chemical formula: R1 is a divalent radical selected from aliphatic, aromatic, and ether-containing group. R2 is a monovalent radical selected from aliphatic, aromatic, ester-containing group, ether-containing group, and acrylic-containing group. R2 is free of —O—CH2—CH(OH)— groups, and the polyol monomer is free of epoxy groups and amino hydrogens. The isocyanate composition comprises an isocyanate compound having at least two isocyanate groups. The polyol composition or the isocyanate composition comprises a water scavenger. The polyol composition or the isocyanate composition comprises a polyurethane catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828399 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622567 | Seeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York); Jiwen Zheng (Edison, New Jersey); Pamela E. Constantinou (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Two dimensional polynucleic acid arrays are assembled from robust nucleic acid motifs as polygonal units. The polygonal units in an array have edges composed of nucleic acid multi-crossover domains and are joined together by double cohesion of adjacent polygonal units. A subset of polygonal units in the array have a nanoparticle or pendant molecule attached to an end of one edge of each polygonal unit within this subset. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626184 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622735 | Worledge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Christopher Worledge (Poughquag, New York); Philip Louis Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey); David William Abraham (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Joerg Dietrich Schmid (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Probes are electrically connected to a surface of a tunnel junction film stack comprising a free layer, a tunnel barrier, and a pinned layer. Resistances are determined for a variety of probe spacings and for a number of magnetizations of one of the layers of the stack. The probe spacings are a distance from a length scale, which is related to the Resistance-Area (RA) product of the tunnel junction film stack. Spacings from as small as possible to about 40 times the length scale are used. Beneficially, the smallest spacing between probes used during a resistance measurement is under 100 microns. A measured in-plane MagnetoResistance (MR) curve is determined from the “high” and “low” resistances that occur at the two magnetizations of this layer. The RA product, resistances per square of the free and pinned layers, and perpendicular MR are determined through curve fitting. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119665 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622934 | Hibbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Electronic Bio Sciences, LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Hibbs (La Jolla, California); Regina E. Dugan (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitive sensing system is used to measure a time-varying ion current through a channel, such as an ion channel or protein pore. Such a capacitive system does not suffer problems of electrode corrosion and, when used with methods to control a build up of ion concentration, allows the use of measurement volumes around the channel with dimensions on a scale of nanometers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658094 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622977 | Papaefthymiou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marios C. Papaefthymiou (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Conrad H. Ziesler (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are digital systems and methods for use with a ramped clock signal. The digital system includes an input element having a data input to receive a data signal, a control input to receive a control signal, and a dynamic node to be driven by the ramped clock signal. The digital system further includes a static memory element having an input at the dynamic node and is configured to reside in an operational state in accordance with the data signal and the ramped clock signal. The input element further includes a switch coupled to the control input to condition updating of the operational state based on the control signal without decoupling the ramped clock signal from the dynamic node. In this way, distribution and delivery of the ramped clock signal to the digital system is continued to facilitate recovery of clock signal energy from the digital system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553778 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623002 | Steinbrecher |
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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) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for coupling a power source across a rotation boundary. A generator converts a DC source on the stationary side of a rotation boundary to a square-wave at a determined frequency. The generator output connects through a transmission line and a first transformer to a set of stator rings. A set of rotor rings form a set of coupling capacitors with the stator rings. The rotor rings connect through a second transformer and a transmission line to a non-linear circuit capable of converting the square-wave to a DC voltage and current that can power a load on the rotating side of the rotating boundary in which the power is nearly equal to the power available from the source on the stationary side of the rotation boundary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/022537 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/24.C00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623063 | Cantrell 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) | Ben Cantrell (Springfield, Virginia); Ching Tai-Lin (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In conventional phased array antennas, multiple signals that perform different functions, such as radar, electronic warfare (EW) and telecommunications, can each be simultaneously transmitted only through a different sub-aperture of the array. For maximum power and efficiency in conventional phased array antennas, the power amplifiers operate on one signal at a time. The present invention forms a common waveform from multiple signals for transmission through a common aperture of a phased array antenna. In wideband operations, waveform-shaping and amplitude-to-phase-modulation are used to transmit high-power diverse waveforms through every element of the array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850065 |
| 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 342/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623064 | Calderbank et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Robert Calderbank (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen David Howard (Vista, South Australia, 5019, Australia); William Moran (Balwyn VIC 3103, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A radar system and method that employs polarization-time diversity in transmitting signals and concurrently processing received reflections from both polarization modes provides information about the scattering matrix of a target without loss of information. Illustratively, the transmitted signals from Golay pairs, and the processing method employs a complex-conjugate time reversal operand. The received reflected signals are processed for a particular distance in mind to develop a scattering matrix of the medium at that distance. By comparing the scattering matrix to known scattering matrices an identification of the target from where the transmitted signals were reflected is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/084452 |
| 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 342/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623068 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke Stephen Powell (San Antonio, Texas); Thomas Howard Jaeckle (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting the presence of a deception signal associated with a satellite navigation system. The deception signal has certain “observables”, which can be used by a GPS receiver to detect the presence of the deception signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749603 |
| 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 342/357.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623409 | Plunkett 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) | Stephen J. Plunkett (Middletown, Rhode Island); Neil J. Dubois (Cranston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having an array plate and an isolation section joined to the perimetrical edge of the plate. The isolation section has a plurality of isolation layers and a plurality of intermediate layers alternately arranged wherein an intermediate layer is positioned between consecutive isolation layers. An innermost isolation layer is joined to the perimetrical edge of the array plate and an outermost isolation layer is adapted to be joined to a hull structure of an underwater vehicle. Each isolation layer is made from energy absorbing material and each intermediate layer is made from generally rigid material. The isolation section substantially reduces vehicle self-noise from traveling to the array plate. Interchangeable depth stop members having various geometries are used to adjust the stiffness of the isolation section so as to maximize the isolation characteristics of the isolation section at particular water depths at which the underwater vehicle operates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768221 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623410 | Rubin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of American as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Harvey Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for hard real-time adaptive wave modulation, comprising: populating a case base with waveform pairs, each waveform pair comprising a primary waveform, and a secondary waveform, wherein the primary waveform induces the secondary waveform; synthesizing a known target waveform s(t) by selecting waveform pairs from the case base such that the expression ∥s(t)−g∥2 is minimized, where g is the secondary waveform; and mutating the primary waveforms for each waveform pair based on a normal distribution until ∥s(t)−g′∥2<∥s(t)−g∥2 where g′ is a new secondary waveform induced by the mutated primary waveform. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691080 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623685 | Boult et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrance Edward Boult (Monument, Colorado); Gang Zheng (Erie, Pennsylvania); Chia-Jiu Wang (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems and methods for obtaining biometric signatures and identification are described. Broadly stated, embodiments of the present invention utilize specified geometric principles to provide means for accurate biometric identification using projective invariant features of a subregion of the human body. The present invention provides a means for computing biometric signatures and identification that are projective invariant and hence are not impacted by the viewing angle of the subregion of the human body containing the biometric data. This novel invention removes the restriction, often implicit in the previous work, of the imaging or sensing system being in a fixed repeatable (and generally orthogonal) viewing position. This invention can be applied across a wide range of biometrics, although it is most easily applicable to features that are approximately co-planar. A plurality of such projective invariant features can be used to define a biometric signature to either verify an individual's identity, or recognize an individual from a database of already known persons. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/659640 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623746 | Naughton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts); Krzysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoscale optical probes for use with nanoscale optical microscopy are disclosed herein. A nanoscale optical probe for use with a near-field scanning optical microscope includes an inner conductor having a top end, a bottom end, and a body; a dielectric material engaging the inner conductor; and an outer conductor engaging the dielectric material, wherein the inner conductor is longer at a tip surface of the probe than the dielectric material and the outer conductor. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509519 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623935 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam L. Cohen (Los Angeles, California); Jeffrey A. Thompson (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments of the invention are directed to techniques for electrochemically fabricating multi-layer three-dimensional structures where selective patterning of at least one or more layers occurs via a mask which is formed using data representing cross-sections of the three-dimensional structure which has been modified to place it in a polygonal form which defines only regions of positive area. The regions of positive area are regions where structural material is to be located or regions where structural material is not to be located depending on whether the mask will be used, for example, in selectively depositing a structural material or a sacrificial material. The modified data may take the form of adjacent or slightly overlapped relative narrow rectangular structures where the width of the structures is related to a desired formation resolution. The spacing between centers of adjacent rectangles may be uniform or may be a variable. The data modification may also include the formation of duplicate copies of an original structure, scaled copies, mirrored copies, rotated copies, complementary copies, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, January 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029173 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623997 | Malanoski 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) | Anthony P. Malanoski (Greenbelt, Maryland); Baochuan Lin (Bethesda, Maryland); Joel M Schnur (Burke, Virginia); David A Stenger (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of: submitting reference sequences to a taxonomic database to produce taxonomic results; and reporting a taxonomic identification based on the taxonomic results. The reference sequences are the output of genetic database queries that return a score for each reference sequence. A method for processing a biological sequence obtained from an assay by: converting base calls located in a predetermined list of positions within the biological sequence to N; and determining the ratio of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the biological sequence relative to a reference sequence. Each entry in the predetermined list of positions represents the capability of a substance hybridizing to a microarray used to generate the biological sequence. The substance is not the nucleic acid of a target pathogen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422431 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07624005 | Koehn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Koehn (Venice, California); Kevin Knight (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes detecting a syntactic chunk in a source string in a first language, assigning a syntactic label to the detected syntactic chunk in the source string, mapping the detected syntactic chunk in the source string to a syntactic chunk in a target string in a second language, said mapping based on the assigned syntactic label, and translating the source string into a possible translation in the second language. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/403862 |
| 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 07624080 | Morales 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) | Miguel A. Morales (Leesburg, Virginia); David J. Haas (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | As the present invention's adaptation process is typically practiced, an observation made by one or more sensing element(s) is classified as being either recognized or unrecognized in the context of a knowledge base. If the observation is classified as being recognized and consistent, then the observation is assimilated into the knowledge base; otherwise, it is not assimilated. If the observation is classified as being unrecognized, then the observation is classified as being uncorroborated in the context of the knowledge base. Prior to being classified as being uncorroborated, the unrecognized observation is categorized in the context of the knowledge base and is associated with an outcome in terms of relationship between/among physical parameters. At the time that corroboration is determined, the observation (originally unrecognized) and its categorization-related and association-related information are assimilated into the knowledge base. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/362595 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07624296 | Peters |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Karl Peters (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency generating system comprises a synchronization board that receives an external clock signal from a clock source and generates multiple copies of the external clock signal. Each of a plurality of signal generation board receives a copy of the external clock signal from the synchronization board. Each signal generation board comprises a plurality of direct digital synthesizers that are synchronized using the external clock signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641677 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07624383 | Barr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rimon Barr (Ithaca, New York); Zygmunt J. Haas (Summit, New Jersey); Robbert Vanrenesse (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method of the present invention can allow the imbedding of simulation primitives within a conventional programming language in order to use the full capabilities of the conventional programming language and its compiler without modification in the programming of efficient, scalable simulators. The simulation primitives are designed to be preserved through the compilation process, thus allowing a rewriter to modify the compiler's byte code output without accessing the source code. Also, since the rewriter output is a set of class files and a kernel can be written in the conventional programming language, and the system and method of the present invention can execute within a conventional virtual machine associated with the conventional programming language. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116733 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07624448 | Coffman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 21st Century Technologies, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thayne Richard Coffman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for utilizing a mapping of activity occurring at and between devices on a computer network to detect and prevent network intrusions. An enhanced graph matching intrusion detection system (eGMIDS) is provided that provides data collection functions, data fusion techniques, graph matching algorithms, and secondary and other search mechanisms. Threats are modeled as a set of entities and interrelations between the entities and sample threat patterns are stored within a database. The eGMIDS utility initiates a graph matching algorithm by which the threat patterns are compared within the generated activity graph via subgraph isomorphism. A multi-layered approach including a targeted secondary layer search following a match during a primary layer search is provided. Searches are tempered by attributes and constraints and the eGMIDS reduces the number of threat patterns searched by utilizing ontological generalization. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/367943 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D604531 | Annicelli |
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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) | Lance L. Annicelli (Bolling AFB, District of Columbia) |
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| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 29/312222 |
| ART UNIT | 2913 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Furnishings D6/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07621315 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridged, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyou Han (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiaogang Jian (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hanbing Xu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas T. Meek (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a material includes the steps of: vibrating a molten material at an ultrasonic frequency while cooling the material to a semi-solid state to form non-dendritic grains therein; forming the semi-solid material into a desired shape; and cooling the material to a solid state. The method makes semi-solid castings directly from molten materials (usually a metal), produces grain size usually in the range of smaller than 50 μm, and can be easily retrofitted into existing conventional forming machine. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/357857 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621672 | Ripley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermocouple shield for use in radio frequency fields. In some embodiments the shield includes an electrically conductive tube that houses a standard thermocouple having a thermocouple junction. The electrically conductive tube protects the thermocouple from damage by an RF (including microwave) field and mitigates erroneous temperature readings due to the microwave or RF field. The thermocouple may be surrounded by a ceramic sheath to further protect the thermocouple. The ceramic sheath is generally formed from a material that is transparent to the wavelength of the microwave or RF energy. The microwave transparency property precludes heating of the ceramic sheath due to microwave coupling, which could affect the accuracy of temperature measurements. The ceramic sheath material is typically an electrically insulating material. The electrically insulative properties of the ceramic sheath help avert electrical arcing, which could damage the thermocouple junction. The electrically conductive tube is generally disposed around the thermocouple junction and disposed around at least a portion of the ceramic sheath. The concepts of the thermocouple shield may be incorporated into an integrated shielded thermocouple assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687820 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621878 | Ericson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton N. Ericson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Stephen F. Smith (London, Tennessee); James O. Hylton (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a completely implantable intracranial pressure monitor, which can couple to existing fluid shunting systems as well as other internal monitoring probes. The implant sensor produces an analog data signal which is then converted electronically to a digital pulse by generation of a spreading code signal and then transmitted to a location outside the patient by a radio-frequency transmitter to an external receiver. The implanted device can receive power from an internal source as well as an inductive external source. Remote control of the implant is also provided by a control receiver which passes commands from an external source to the implant system logic. Alarm parameters can be programmed into the device which are capable of producing an audible or visual alarm signal. The utility of the monitor can be greatly expanded by using multiple pressure sensors simultaneously or by combining sensors of various physiological types. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374928 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622189 | Ripley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jonathan S. Morrell (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Structures and methods for the fabrication of ceramic nanostructures. Structures include metal particles, preferably comprising copper, disposed on a ceramic substrate. The structures are heated, preferably in the presence of microwaves, to a temperature that softens the metal particles and preferably forms a pool of molten ceramic under the softened metal particle. A nano-generator is created wherein ceramic material diffuses through the molten particle and forms ceramic nanostructures on a polar site of the metal particle. The nanostructures may comprise silica, alumina, titania, or compounds or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472080 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622217 | Debe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark K. Debe (Stillwater, Minnesota); Susan M. Hendricks (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); George D. Vernstrom (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Alison K. Schmoeckel (Stillwater, Minnesota); Radoslav Atanasoski (Edina, Minnesota); Clayton V. Hamilton, Jr. (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell cathode catalyst is provided comprising nanostructured elements comprising microstructured support whiskers bearing nanoscopic catalyst particles; wherein the catalyst comprises platinum and manganese and at least one other metal selected from the group consisting of Group VIb metals, Group VIIb metals and Group VIIIb metals other than platinum and manganese; wherein the volume ratio of platinum to the sum of all other metals in the catalyst is between about 1 and about 4 and wherein the Mn content is equal to or greater than about 5 micrograms/cm2 areal density. Typically, the volume ratio of manganese to the at least one other metal is between 10:90 and 90:10. Typically, the at least one other metal is Ni or Co. In addition, a fuel cell MBA comprising the present cathode catalyst is provided. In addition, methods of making the present cathode catalyst are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248561 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622367 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Savoy, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for fabricating printable semiconductor elements and assembling printable semiconductor elements onto substrate surfaces. Methods, devices and device components of the present invention are capable of generating a wide range of flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices and arrays of devices on substrates comprising polymeric materials. The present invention also provides stretchable semiconductor structures and stretchable electronic devices capable of good performance in stretched configurations. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145574 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622426 | Solovyov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vyacheslav Solovyov (Rocky Point, New York); Harold Wiesmann (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for producing a crystalline end-product. The method comprising exposing a fluoride-containing precursor to a hydrogen fluoride absorber under conditions suitable for the conversion of the precursor into the crystalline end-product. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245138 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622596 | McElhanon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. McElhanon (Manteca, California); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Thomas Zifer (Manteca, California); Gregory M. Jamison (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas A. Loy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kamyar Rahimian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Timothy M. Long (Urbana, Illinois); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chad L. Staiger (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Two new surfactant molecules are reported which contain thermally labile Diels-Alder adducts connecting the polar and non-polar sections of each molecule. The two surfactants possess identical non-polar dodecyl tail segments but exhibit different polar headgroups. The surfactants become soluble in water when anionic salts are formed through the deprotonation of the surfactant headgroups by the addition of potassium hydroxide. When either surfactant is exposed to temperature above about 60° C., the retro Diels-Alder reaction occurs, yielding hydrophilic and hydrophobic fragments or the aqueous solutions of the surfactants subsequently exhibit loss of all surface-active behavior. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394294 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622912 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Adams (Los Altos, California); David L. Klein (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Power consumption at a site is monitored. An electrical load is connected to a power source by an electrical conductor. A fuel-less energy producing device is electrically connected to a junction along the electrical conductor. A current sensor is electromagnetically coupled to the electrical conductor at a sensing position between the power source and the junction to create a current sensor signal. Sensed current and voltage signals are produced from the current sensor signal. A sensed phase relationship between the sensed signals is determined and compared to a baseline phase relationship to determine the direction of current flow through the conductor. A power source signal, based on the current flowing through the conductor at the sensing position, is created. With some examples a Rogowski type differential current sensor is used. In some examples a single current sensor is used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/136698 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622976 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); John K. McIver, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a radiation hardened sequential circuit, such as a bistable circuit, flip-flop or other suitable design that presents substantial immunity to ionizing radiation while simultaneously maintaining a low operating voltage. In one embodiment, the circuit includes a plurality of logic elements that operate on relatively low voltage, and a master and slave latches each having storage elements that operate on a relatively high voltage. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774380 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623340 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lulu Song (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment of the present invention is a meso-porous nanocomposite material comprising: (A) nano-scaled graphene platelets, wherein each of the platelets comprises a sheet of graphite plane or multiple sheets of graphite plane, and the platelets have a thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably smaller than 10 nm) and an average length, width, or diameter no greater than 10 μm (preferably smaller than 500 nm); and (B) an electrically conducting binder or matrix material attached or bonded to the platelets to form the nanocomposite material having liquid accessible pores, which provide a surface area greater than about 100 m2/gm, preferably greater than 500 m2/gm, and most preferably greater than 1000 m2/gm. Also disclosed is a capacitor that includes at least an electrode comprising such a meso-porous nanocomposite material. A supercapacitor featuring such a nanocomposite exhibits an exceptionally high capacitance value. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499861 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07621668 | Littman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Littman (Niskayuna, New York); Joel L. Plawsky (Albany, New York); John D. Paccione (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved draft tube spout fluid bed (DTSFB) mixing, handling, conveying, and treating apparatus and systems, and methods for operating are provided. The apparatus and systems can accept particulate material and pneumatically or hydraulically conveying the material to mix and/or treat the material. In addition to conveying apparatus, a collection and separation apparatus adapted to receive the conveyed particulate material is also provided. The collection apparatus may include an impaction plate against which the conveyed material is directed to improve mixing and/or treatment. The improved apparatus are characterized by means of controlling the operation of the pneumatic or hydraulic transfer to enhance the mixing and/or reacting by controlling the flow of fluids, for example, air, into and out of the apparatus. The disclosed apparatus may be used to mix particulate material, for example, mortar; react fluids with particulate material; coat particulate material, or simply convey particulate material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567100 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621873 | Owen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Owen (Seattle, Washington); Michael R. Bailey (Seattle, Washington); James Hossack (Duvall, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Interference in ultrasound imaging when used in connection with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is avoided by employing a synchronization signal to control the HIFU signal. Unless the timing of the HIFU transducer is controlled, its output will substantially overwhelm the signal produced by ultrasound imaging system and obscure the image it produces. The synchronization signal employed to control the HIFU transducer is obtained without requiring modification of the ultrasound imaging system. Signals corresponding to scattered ultrasound imaging waves are collected using either the HIFU transducer or a dedicated receiver. A synchronization processor manipulates the scattered ultrasound imaging signals to achieve the synchronization signal, which is then used to control the HIFU bursts so as to substantially reduce or eliminate HIFU interference in the ultrasound image. The synchronization processor can alternatively be implemented using a computing device or an application-specific circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206640 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622151 | Tzeng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yonhua Tzeng (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, methods of forming diamond are described. A representative method, among others, includes: providing a substrate in a reaction chamber in a non-magnetic-field microwave plasma system; introducing, in the absence of a gas stream, a liquid precursor substantially free of water and containing methanol and at least one carbon and oxygen containing compound having a carbon to oxygen ratio greater than one, into an inlet of the reaction chamber; vaporizing the liquid precursor; and subjecting the vaporized precursor, in the absence of a carrier gas and in the absence in a reactive gas, to a plasma under conditions effective to disassociate the vaporized precursor and promote diamond growth on the substrate in a pressure range from about 70 to 130 Torr. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/772740 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622907 | Vranish |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Vranish (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a driven ground electrical circuit. A driven ground is a current-measuring ground termination to an electrical circuit with the current measured as a vector with amplification. The driven ground module may include an electric potential source VS driving an electric current through an impedance (load Z) to a driven ground. Voltage from the source VS excites the minus terminal of an operational amplifier inside the driven ground which, in turn, may react by generating an equal and opposite voltage to drive the net potential to approximately zero (effectively ground). A driven ground may also be a means of passing information via the current passing through one grounded circuit to another electronic circuit as input. It may ground one circuit, amplify the information carried in its current and pass this information on as input to the next circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535872 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623621 | Schramm, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry F. Schramm, Jr. (Winchester, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An object has a taggant placed in a first portion thereof and has a visible symbol placed on a second portion thereof. When the object is to be identified and authenticated, the taggant is made to radiate with a specific energy signature. The energy signature and at least one image of the symbol are recorded along with a relative location that identifies the first portion of the object. The combination of the energy signature, symbol image and relative location are used to repeatedly identify and authenticate the object. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/047686 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623908 | Boppart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of examining a sample, which includes: exposing a reference to a first set of electromagnetic radiation, to form a second set of electromagnetic radiation scattered from the reference; exposing a sample to a third set of electromagnetic radiation to form a fourth set of electromagnetic radiation scattered from the sample; and interfering the second set of electromagnetic radiation and the fourth set of electromagnetic radiation. The first set and the third set of electromagnetic radiation are generated from a source; at least a portion of the second set of electromagnetic radiation is of a frequency different from that of the first set of electromagnetic radiation; and at least a portion of the fourth set of electromagnetic radiation is of a frequency different from that of the third set of electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/717437 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623972 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Li (San Jose, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California); Yijiang Lu (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for determining if one or more target molecules are present in a gas, by exposing a functionalized carbon nanostructure (CNS) to the gas and measuring an electrical parameter value EPV(n) associated with each of N CNS sub-arrays. In a first embodiment, a most-probable concentration value C(opt) is estimated, and an error value, depending upon differences between the measured values EPV(n) and corresponding values EPV(n;C(opt)) is computed. If the error value is less than a first error threshold value, the system interprets this as indicating that the target molecule is present in a concentration C≈C(opt). A second embodiment uses extensive statistical and vector space analysis to estimate target molecule concentration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591630 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623993 | Kelkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atul Kelkar (Ames, Iowa); Suresh M. Joshi (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to provide active noise control to reduce noise and vibration in reverberant acoustic enclosures such as aircraft, vehicles, appliances, instruments, industrial equipment and the like is presented. A continuous-time multi-input multi-output (MIMO) state space mathematical model of the plant is obtained via analytical modeling and system identification. Compensation is designed to render the mathematical model passive in the sense of mathematical system theory. The compensated system is checked to ensure robustness of the passive property of the plant. The check ensures that the passivity is preserved if the mathematical model parameters are perturbed from nominal values. A passivity-based controller is designed and verified using numerical simulations and then tested. The controller is designed so that the resulting closed-loop response shows the desired noise reduction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731742 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07624368 | Whitaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sterling R. Whitaker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lowell H. Miles (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An application specific integrated circuit is optimized by translating a first representation of its digital design to a second representation. The second representation includes multiple syntactic expressions that admit a representation of a higher-order function of base Boolean values. The syntactic expressions are manipulated to form a third representation of the digital design. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/267587 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07622129 | Haberstroh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen M. Haberstroh (Lafayette, Indiana); Thomas J. Webster (Lafayette, Indiana); Anil Thapa (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Derick C. Miller (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric materials and processes for making the same are provided herein wherein said polymeric materials have nano-sized topological features or textures. These features have dimensions in various ranges including, but not limited to, dimensions less than about 100 nanometers. In addition, polymeric materials are described herein that have a surface roughness of about 50 nm or greater. These polymeric materials are useful for making implants for soft tissues, such as bladder tissue replacement implants. Methods of treatment using such implants are also described. In such methods, polymers that are biocompatible, and biodegradable are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/634292 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622252 | Zechiedrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Lynn Zechiedrich (Houston, Texas); Jonathan Fogg (Houston, Texas); John Perona (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the production of supercoiled DNA minicircles and their use as substrates are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448590 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622299 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joan E. Sanders (Kirkland, Washington); Thomas Neumann (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods for forming a target tissue substitute. The methods of the invention comprise the following steps: (a) providing a scaffold comprising one or more layers of one or more arrays of microfibers, wherein one or more of the arrays of microfibers is designed to mimic the configuration of one or more structural elements in a target tissue; and (b) culturing cells on the scaffold to form a target tissue substitute. In another aspect, the invention provides implantable medical devices. The implantable medical devices of the invention comprise a scaffold comprising one or more layers of one or more arrays of microfibers, wherein one or more of the arrays of microfibers is arranged to mimic the configuration of one or more structural elements in a target tissue. Typically, cells are cultured on the scaffold to form a target tissue substitute. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374755 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/398 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622532 | Gadeken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas); BetaBatt, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry L. Gadeken (Houston, Texas); Paul S. Engel (Houston, Texas); Kenneth S. Laverdure (Lake Jackson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to synthesis of radioactive material, such as a tritiated polymer, and an apparatus for generating electrical current from the nuclear decay process of a radioactive material. In one embodiment, the invention relates to an energy cell (e.g., a battery) for generating electrical current derived from particle emissions occurring within a radioactive material such as a tritiated polymer) on pore walls of a porous semiconductor. The radioactive material may be introduced into the energy cell by a wetting process. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676233 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622533 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nerites Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis methods for creating polymeric compounds comprising dihydroxyphenyl derivatives (DHPD), or DHPp i.e. polymers modified with DHPD, with desired surface active effects are described. The polymer backbone of DHPp has structural or performance features that can be tailored to control physical properties of DHPp, allowing it to be useful for different applications i.e. tissue adhesives or sealants, adhesion promoting coatings, and antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834651 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622567 | Seeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York); Jiwen Zheng (Edison, New Jersey); Pamela E. Constantinou (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Two dimensional polynucleic acid arrays are assembled from robust nucleic acid motifs as polygonal units. The polygonal units in an array have edges composed of nucleic acid multi-crossover domains and are joined together by double cohesion of adjacent polygonal units. A subset of polygonal units in the array have a nanoparticle or pendant molecule attached to an end of one edge of each polygonal unit within this subset. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626184 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622590 | Nolan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Orleans Foundation (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Nolan (New Orleans, Louisiana); Jinkun Huang (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalytic complexes including a metal atom having anionic ligands, at least one nucleophilic carbene ligand, and an alkylidene, vinylidene, or allenylidene ligand. The complexes are highly stable to air, moisture and thermal degradation. The complexes are designed to efficiently carry out a variety of olefin metathesis reactions. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/392869 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622779 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Kuan Cheng (San Diego, California); Hongyu Chen (La Jolla, California); Bo Yao (La Jolla, California); Ronald Graham (La Jolla, California); Esther Y. Cheng (San Diego, California); Feng Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-celled chip. The chip includes a plurality of hexagonal cells arranged in an array. A plurality of interconnects including Y's connect the cells in clusters of three cells each, so that each of the cells is interconnected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/526523 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623993 | Kelkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atul Kelkar (Ames, Iowa); Suresh M. Joshi (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to provide active noise control to reduce noise and vibration in reverberant acoustic enclosures such as aircraft, vehicles, appliances, instruments, industrial equipment and the like is presented. A continuous-time multi-input multi-output (MIMO) state space mathematical model of the plant is obtained via analytical modeling and system identification. Compensation is designed to render the mathematical model passive in the sense of mathematical system theory. The compensated system is checked to ensure robustness of the passive property of the plant. The check ensures that the passivity is preserved if the mathematical model parameters are perturbed from nominal values. A passivity-based controller is designed and verified using numerical simulations and then tested. The controller is designed so that the resulting closed-loop response shows the desired noise reduction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731742 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07621171 | O'Brien |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert O'Brien (Damascus, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for analyzing samples, such as gas samples, are described. One method comprises providing a gas sample, increasing pressure applied to the gas sample to compress the sample to a smaller volume and provide a pneumatically focused gas sample, and analyzing the pneumatically focused gas sample using any of a variety of analytical techniques. Also disclosed are systems for gas analysis, including systems for analysis of pneumatically focused, and thereby concentrated, gas samples and for analysis of particulate matter in gas samples. Analytical systems constructed within personal computer cases also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715273 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621668 | Littman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Littman (Niskayuna, New York); Joel L. Plawsky (Albany, New York); John D. Paccione (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved draft tube spout fluid bed (DTSFB) mixing, handling, conveying, and treating apparatus and systems, and methods for operating are provided. The apparatus and systems can accept particulate material and pneumatically or hydraulically conveying the material to mix and/or treat the material. In addition to conveying apparatus, a collection and separation apparatus adapted to receive the conveyed particulate material is also provided. The collection apparatus may include an impaction plate against which the conveyed material is directed to improve mixing and/or treatment. The improved apparatus are characterized by means of controlling the operation of the pneumatic or hydraulic transfer to enhance the mixing and/or reacting by controlling the flow of fluids, for example, air, into and out of the apparatus. The disclosed apparatus may be used to mix particulate material, for example, mortar; react fluids with particulate material; coat particulate material, or simply convey particulate material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567100 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623745 | Podolskiy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting By and through the State Board at Higher Education (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Viktor A. Podolskiy (Corvallis, Oregon); Alexander A. Govyadinov (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an apparatus for propagating electromagnetic radiation of a selected vacuum wavelength beyond the diffraction limit. The apparatus comprises a waveguide core and a cladding disposed about the core. The waveguide core may include a material with an anisotropic dielectric permittivity, with the optical axis of the material primarily aligned with direction of light propagation. In addition, the waveguide core may have a cross-sectional dimension smaller than about ½ of the selected wavelength at least at one portion of the waveguide core. The cross-sectional dimension of the waveguide core may decrease along the length of the waveguide core creating a taper to provide a photonic funnel. The waveguide core may comprise a homogeneous anisotropic material, anisotropic metamaterial, or a photonic crystal. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/854961 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07622254 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Matthew M. Erdman (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polypeptide of a protective antigenic determinant (PAD polypeptide) of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide. The PAD polypeptide and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide are useful in the development of antibodies directed to PAD, vaccines effective in providing protection against PRRSV infection, and diagnostic assays detecting the presence of PAD antibodies generated by a PAD-specific vaccine. The invention also discloses methods of generating antibodies to PAD, for vaccinating a pig to provide protection from PRRSV infections, a method of preparing the vaccine, a method of treating PRRSV infections in a pig, and a method of detecting antibodies to PAD of PRRSV. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/564717 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622533 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nerites Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis methods for creating polymeric compounds comprising dihydroxyphenyl derivatives (DHPD), or DHPp i.e. polymers modified with DHPD, with desired surface active effects are described. The polymer backbone of DHPp has structural or performance features that can be tailored to control physical properties of DHPp, allowing it to be useful for different applications i.e. tissue adhesives or sealants, adhesion promoting coatings, and antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834651 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07622253 | Levy et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Levy (Stanford, California); Mark A. Wechser (Moraga, California); Izidore S. Lossos (Miami, Florida); Robert J. Tibshirani (Palo Alto, California); Ash A. Alizadeh (San Mateo, California); David Botstein (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits for classifying patients having diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) based upon expression of a plurality of genes are disclosed. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR can be used to measure expression values. Correlating expression values of the plurality of genes in a tumor sample from the patient to reference expression values obtained from DLBCL patients can stratify patients in the classification groups. The methods and kits can be used to predict overall patient survival. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542552 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623169 | Apte |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raj B. Apte (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect of the present application, provided is a charge gain imaging system and a method of operating the charge gain imaging system. The method includes collecting a pixel charge. The collected pixel charge being stored by a pixel capacitance (Cp). Thereafter the pixel having the stored pixel charge is selected via a pixel select switch, and the pixel voltage is transferred and stored by data line capacitance (Cd) of a data line of the imager. An amplifier select switch is activated connecting the data line to a charge amplifier, and a charge gain defined by a relationship Cd/Cp, is sensed by a charge amplifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431255 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07622532 | Gadeken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas); BetaBatt, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry L. Gadeken (Houston, Texas); Paul S. Engel (Houston, Texas); Kenneth S. Laverdure (Lake Jackson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to synthesis of radioactive material, such as a tritiated polymer, and an apparatus for generating electrical current from the nuclear decay process of a radioactive material. In one embodiment, the invention relates to an energy cell (e.g., a battery) for generating electrical current derived from particle emissions occurring within a radioactive material such as a tritiated polymer) on pore walls of a porous semiconductor. The radioactive material may be introduced into the energy cell by a wetting process. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676233 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623340 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lulu Song (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment of the present invention is a meso-porous nanocomposite material comprising: (A) nano-scaled graphene platelets, wherein each of the platelets comprises a sheet of graphite plane or multiple sheets of graphite plane, and the platelets have a thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably smaller than 10 nm) and an average length, width, or diameter no greater than 10 μm (preferably smaller than 500 nm); and (B) an electrically conducting binder or matrix material attached or bonded to the platelets to form the nanocomposite material having liquid accessible pores, which provide a surface area greater than about 100 m2/gm, preferably greater than 500 m2/gm, and most preferably greater than 1000 m2/gm. Also disclosed is a capacitor that includes at least an electrode comprising such a meso-porous nanocomposite material. A supercapacitor featuring such a nanocomposite exhibits an exceptionally high capacitance value. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499861 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07624087 | Birdwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Douglas Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Dale V. Stansberry (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jared Pendleton (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of analyzing data are provided. An expert system receives input from at least a first source. Data is imported and analyzed by an expert system, wherein the expert system makes at least one first decision, which characterizes the data based on a rule base. The at least one first decision is displayable and modifiable by a first input from a first source. In response to the first input from the first source, the rule base may be re-applied to make at least one second decision, wherein the at least one second decision is different from the at least one first decision, or the at least one first decision may be accepted. The at least one first decision or the at least one second decision is then displayable and modifiable in response to a first input from a second source. In response to the first input from the second source, the rule base is either re-applied to make at least one third decision, wherein the third decision is different from the second decision, or either the first or second decisions are accepted. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560580 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07621668 | Littman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Littman (Niskayuna, New York); Joel L. Plawsky (Albany, New York); John D. Paccione (Voorheesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved draft tube spout fluid bed (DTSFB) mixing, handling, conveying, and treating apparatus and systems, and methods for operating are provided. The apparatus and systems can accept particulate material and pneumatically or hydraulically conveying the material to mix and/or treat the material. In addition to conveying apparatus, a collection and separation apparatus adapted to receive the conveyed particulate material is also provided. The collection apparatus may include an impaction plate against which the conveyed material is directed to improve mixing and/or treatment. The improved apparatus are characterized by means of controlling the operation of the pneumatic or hydraulic transfer to enhance the mixing and/or reacting by controlling the flow of fluids, for example, air, into and out of the apparatus. The disclosed apparatus may be used to mix particulate material, for example, mortar; react fluids with particulate material; coat particulate material, or simply convey particulate material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567100 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07624296 | Peters |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Karl Peters (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency generating system comprises a synchronization board that receives an external clock signal from a clock source and generates multiple copies of the external clock signal. Each of a plurality of signal generation board receives a copy of the external clock signal from the synchronization board. Each signal generation board comprises a plurality of direct digital synthesizers that are synchronized using the external clock signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641677 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07622692 | McDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn Edward McDonald (Alexandria, Virginia); Wilson Wong (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for sorting a plurality of unaddressed items may comprise receiving delivery point address data. Furthermore, systems and methods for sorting a plurality of unaddressed items may comprise sorting the plurality of unaddressed items based on the delivery point address data. The plurality of unaddressed items may be sorted in an order in which they are to be delivered within a delivery zone specified by the delivery point address data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657018 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07621220 | Sanford et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Sanford (Bel Alton, Maryland); Zachary A. Spears (Cincinnati, Ohio); Pamela Johns (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A warhead includes a gas containing canister having a front end onto which is screwed a valve assembly having an interior which is in gas communication with the canister. A structure-penetrating nose connected onto the valve assembly. Positioned around a periphery of the valve assembly is a plurality of hollow frangible plugs. The nose includes a shoulder portion that shears the plugs upon impact with a target thus allowing gas within the canister and valve assembly to escape to an atmosphere. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973979 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07621670 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautica and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dwight England (Arab, Alabama); Anthony R. Kelley (Somerville, Alabama); Paul D. Van Buskirk (Humble, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid mixer plug has holes formed therethrough such that a remaining portion is closed to fluid flow. The plug's inlet face defines a central circuit region and a ring-shaped region with the ring-shaped region including at least some of the plug's remaining portion so-closed to fluid flow. This remaining portion or closed region at each radius R of the ring shaped region satisfies a radius independent, flow-based relationship. Entry openings are defined in the plug's inlet face in correspondence with the holes. The entry openings define an open flow area at each radius of the ring-shaped region. The open flow area at each such radius satisfies the inverse of the flow-based relationship defining the closed regions of the plug. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392867 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07622045 | Vane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Admin. of Environmental Prot. Agcy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leland Vane (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ravi Ponangi (Modesto, California); Vasudevan Namboodiri (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrophilic cross-linked polymeric membranes, when prepared according to the process of the present invention, are unique in character in as much as the steady state permeability of the membrane has been altered by blending and cross-linking polyalkyl amines and polyalcohols. To obtain desired results, the compositions must contain at least 10% polyalkyl amines, with preferred amounts of polyalkyl amines in the composition being in excess of 40%, with over 50% polyalkyl amine concentration by weight. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/358427 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07623676 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Zhao (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Manoj Aggarwal (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (West Windsor, New Jersey); Harpreet Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and/or system for tracking objects, such as humans, over a wide area (that is, over an area that is delineated by a large spatial domain and/or a long-duration temporal domain) is provided. Such tracking is facilitated by processing, in real-time, near real-time or otherwise contemporaneous with receiving, images captured by each of a plurality or network of slightly overlapping stereo sensors, such as stereo cameras. The method includes and the apparatus is adapted for obtaining a plurality of local-track segments, wherein the plurality of local-track segments correspond to an object captured in images taken by a respective plurality of stereo sensors; and combining the local-track segments to form a global track. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314954 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, November 24, 2009.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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