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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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| US 07631480 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A tip turbine engine assembly includes a compressor module (12) and a fan module (14) located aft of the compressor module (12). The compressor module (12) and fan module (14) are fastened together along a mating portion with seals that generally prevent airflow from escaping through the mating portion. The compressor module (12) and fan module (14) are independently attachable to each other such that the compressor module (12) may be attached or detached to or from the fan module (14) without having to significantly disassemble the fan module (14), and verse visa. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/720529 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631481 | Cowan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis C Cowan (East Hampton, Connecticut); Jorge I. Farah (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Debora F. Kehret (Manchester, Connecticut); Stanley Keysa (Windsor, Connecticut); Jeffrey R. Lavin (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Michael Murphy (Vernon, Connecticut); Stephen A. Paul (Andover, Connecticut); Richard Scott (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooled exhaust duct for use in gas turbine engines is provided. The cooled exhaust duct includes an axial centerline, a circumference, an annulus, and a plurality of radially expandable bands. The annulus is disposed between a first wall and a second wall, and extends along the axial centerline. The first wall is disposed radially inside of the second wall. Each of the plurality of radially expandable bands extends circumferentially within the annulus. The bands are axially spaced apart from one another. Each band includes a first portion attached to the first wall, a second portion attached to the second wall and an intermediate portion connected to the first and second portions. The bands create circumferentially extending compartments that inhibit axial travel of the cooling air within the annulus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000829 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631485 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid-air heat exchanger extracts thermal energy from an engine lubricating fluid system. The liquid-air heat exchanger is located within a tailcone section and is in communication with a portion of the fan bypass airflow which enters the tailcone section through an annular tailcone exhaust nozzle entrance to transfer thermal energy into the combined airflow out of the engine to recover thrust loss ducted from the fan bypass stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/718429 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631487 | DiSalvo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto DiSalvo (Madison, Alabama); Mark Ostrander (Madison, Alabama); Adam Elliott (Hollywood, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a constant volume rocket motor that uses a non-detonating constant-volume, bipropellant combustion process in pulse-mode operation. Opening and closing of the combustion chamber exhaust outlet is controlled by an actuated reciprocating thrust valve (RTV). Fuel enters the combustion chamber at low pressure with the RTV closed. The valve opens after or during combustion when combustion chamber pressure is at or near maximum. The motor has applications in reaction control systems and attitude control systems in spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553899 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631518 | Kodas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Audunn Ludviksson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing glass powders are provided. The methods include generating an aerosol stream comprising droplets that include a liquid and a glass precursor. Glass particles are formed in the aerosol stream having a small average particle size. The powders can also have a small particle size, narrow size distribution, a high density and a spherical morphology. The invention also includes devices and products formed from the glass powders. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904909 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/21.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631567 | Hill |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Hill (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for collecting particles are provided. A representative system includes an aerosol-into-liquid collector that stores a collection liquid. The aerosol-into-liquid collector also includes a container, a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a source of vacuum pressure such that, when the source of vacuum pressure provides vacuum pressure at the gas outlet, gas with particles entrained therein is drawn into the container through the gas inlet. A well holds a volume of the collection liquid such that at least some of the particles entrained in the gas collide with the collection liquid and adhere thereto. Gas drawn into the container impinges upon an exposed surface of the collection liquid in the well. Forces exerted by the gas do not tend to push the collection liquid out of the well or cause the collection liquid to break into multiple droplets. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507203 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631608 | Lombardi 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) | Tammy Lombardi (Carlsbad, California); Samuel R. Bona (La Mesa, California); Steve Whiteside (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for cutting an underwater cable, wire or line is provided. The apparatus includes a body with a lid and a base. A piston is located, within the body, and a piston rod is coupled to the piston. An elongate lever cutting element is pivotally coupled to a distal end of the piston rod and also pivotally coupled to the base. Upon actuation, water is introduced through the lid and into the body, moving the piston and piston rod, which actuates the elongate lever cutting element. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure contained herein. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513430 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/221.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631611 | Dick 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) | James L. Dick (Saunderstown, Rhode Island); Duane M. Horton (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater vehicle is provided with facility for affixing to and maintaining station on a hull of another marine vehicle. The underwater vehicle includes a hull with a propulsion means for movement underwater. Maneuvering planes are mounted on the hull. Body panels are movably fixed to the hull and are moveable from first positions in which the panels conform to a shape of the hull to second positions in which the panels extend outwardly from the hull and toward the other marine vehicle, free edges of the panels being engageable with the other marine vehicle to deter flow of water between the underwater vehicle hull and the other marine vehicle and guide flow of water around the underwater vehicle hull to pin the underwater vehicle against the other marine vehicle hull. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842187 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07631833 — Smart counter asymmetric threat micromunition with autonomous target selection and homing
| US 07631833 | Ghaleb 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) | Sam Ghaleb (Ridgecrest, California); James Bobinchak (Ridgecrest, California); Keith P. Gray (Ridgecrest, California); Rodney E. Heil (Ridgecrest, California); Philip T. Aberer (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an unpowered low-cost “smart” micromunition unit for a weapon system for defense against an asymmetric attack upon ships and sea or land based facilities. A plurality of air dropped micromunition units are each capable of detecting and tracking a plurality of maneuvering targets and of establishing a fast acting local area wireless communication network among themselves to create a distributed database stored in each deployed micromunition unit for sharing target and micromunition unit data. Each micromunition unit autonomously applies stored algorithms to data from the distributed database to select a single target for intercept and to follow an intercept trajectory to the selected target. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833811 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07632331 — Aerosol method and apparatus, particulate products, and electronic devices made therefrom
| US 07632331 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Quint H. Powell (Sugar Land, Texas); Daniel J. Skamser (Simpsonville, South Carolina); James Caruso (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Clive D. Chandler (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an aerosol method, and accompanying apparatus, for preparing powdered products of a variety of materials involving the use of an ultrasonic aerosol generator (106) including a plurality of ultrasonic transducers (120) underlying and ultrasonically energizing a reservoir of liquid feed (102) which forms droplets of the aerosol. Carrier gas (104) is delivered to different portions of the reservoir by a plurality of gas delivery ports (136) delivering gas from a gas delivery system. The aerosol is pyrolyzed to form particles, which are then cooled and collected. The invention also provides powders made by the method and devices made using the powders. |
| FILED | Monday, February 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676469 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632336 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DRS Sustainment Systems, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Lee Williams (Saint Charles, Missouri); Jeffrey Stephen Malkmus (St. Peters, Missouri); Gerald Scott Brown (Ballwin, Missouri); Samuel Berliner, III (Westbury, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A degassing and water removal apparatus is used in combination with the testing or replacement of dielectric oil in an RF transmitter. The apparatus comprises at least one ultrasound transducer in vibrational communication with a bulk oil sample held in a tank having a reduced internal air pressure. The tank has fluid connections to the RF transmitter through which oil from the transmitter is drained to the tank and through which the ambient air pressure in the transmitter is reduced. A fluid pump is used to pump the oil from the tank back to the RF transmitter. In a method of using such an apparatus, the RF transmitter is held at reduced internal pressure during the return of oil thereto, so that the oil does not dissolve gases in the atmosphere internal to the RF transmitter. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619872 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632365 | D'Arche 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) | Steven P. D'Arche (Odon, Indiana); Travis Swanson (Bloomfield, Indiana); Brian Melof (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermite formulation for use in thermite torch applications made up of from about 3 percent by weight to about 35 percent by weight Mg/Al alloy, from about 30 percent by weight to about 70 percent by weight CuO, and from about 15 percent by weight to about 35 percent by weight MoO3. Additionally, the formulation may also include a binder material. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/144849 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632454 | Schlesser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raoul Schlesser (Cary, North Carolina); Rafael F. Dalmau (Cary, North Carolina); Vladimir Noveski (Chandler, Arizona); Zlatko Sitar (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of forming a dense, shaped article, such as a crucible, formed of a refractory material, the method comprising the steps of placing a refractory material having a melting point of at least about 2900° C. in a mold configured to form the powder into an approximation of the desired shape. The mold containing the powder is treated at a temperature and pressure sufficient to form a shape-sustaining molded powder that conforms to the shape of the mold, wherein the treating step involves sintering or isostatic pressing. The shape-sustaining molded powder can be machined into the final desired shap and then sintered at a temperature and for a time sufficient to produce a dense, shaped article having a density of greater than about 90% and very low open porosity. Preferred refractory materials include tantalum carbide and niobium carbide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398270 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632565 | Imam 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) | M. Ashraf Imam (Great Falls, Virginia); Bhakta B. Rath (Oakton, Virginia); Teddy M. Keller (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal foams are impregnated with resins. The metal foam/polymer composite formed upon curing has excellent acoustic dampening and structural properties. Foams of various metals, such as aluminum, titanium, nickel, copper, iron, zinc, lead, silver, gold, platinum, tantalum, and alloys based on these metals, may be used. The polymer component may be any polymeric resin, for example, epoxy, natural rubber, acrylic, or phenolic. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/845897 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/307.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632569 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to forming an array of fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, a macroscopic molecular array is provided comprising at least about 106 fullerene nanotubes in generally parallel orientation and having substantially similar lengths in the range of from about 5 to about 500 nanometers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507964 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632637 | Boss 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) | Pamela A. Boss (San Diego, California); Stephen H. Lieberman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for orienting and binding the head end of phage to a substrate is disclosed. The tail end of the phage is thereby made readily available for bacteria sensing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365191 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632659 | Oaks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin V. Oaks (Gambrills, Maryland); Robert W. Kaminski (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The in vivo and in vitro use of Invaplex to transport materials, including functional proteins and biologically active nucleic acids, across eukaryotic cell membranes. The eukaryotic cells include a variety of cell types, e.g. insect, reptile, fish, mammal and tumor cells. The suitable materials for transport include biochemicals such as reporter molecules, antibiotics, biopharmaceuticals and carbohydrates including polysaccharides, lipopolysaccharides, polynucleotides, such as DNA and RNA, and glycoproteins and proteins including antigens, enzymes, antibodies, receptors and hormones. In addition, Invaplex enhances the immune response to DNA vaccines and also can function by itself as a vaccine against shigellosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/994463 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632726 | Heying et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Heying (Fullerton, California); Ioulia Smorchkova (Lakewood, California); Vincent Gambin (Gardena, California); Robert Coffie (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a nitride-based FET device that provides reduced electron trapping and gate current leakage. The fabrication method provides a device that includes a relatively thick passivation layer to reduce traps caused by device processing and a thin passivation layer below the gate terminal to reduce gate current leakage. Semiconductor device layers are deposited on a substrate. A plurality of passivation layers are deposited on the semiconductor device layers, where at least two of the layers are made of a different dielectric material to provide an etch stop. One or more of the passivation layers can be removed using the interfaces between the layers as an etch stop so that the distance between the gate terminal and the semiconductor device layers can be tightly controlled, where the distance can be made very thin to increase device performance and reduce gate current leakage. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952537 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632762 | Tiano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tiano (Westford, Massachusetts); John Gannon (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Charles Carey (Burlington, Massachusetts); Brian Farrell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Richard Czerw (Clemmons, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube-based devices made by electrolytic deposition and applications thereof are provided. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a device comprising at least one array of active carbon nanotube junctions deposited on at least one microelectronic substrate. In another preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a device comprising a substrate, at least one pair of electrodes disposed on the substrate, wherein one or more pairs of electrodes are connected to a power source, and a bundle of carbon nanotubes disposed between the at least one pair of electrodes wherein the bundle of carbon nanotubes consist essentially of semiconductive carbon nanotubes. In another preferred embodiment, a semiconducting device formed by electrodeposition of carbon nanotubes between two electrodes is provided. The invention also provides preferred methods of forming a semiconductive device by applying a bias voltage to a carbon nanotube rope. The plurality of metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes are removed (e.g., by application of bias voltage) in an amount sufficient to form the semiconducting device. The devices of the invention include, but not limited to, chemical or biological sensors, carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs), tunnel junctions, Schottky junctions, and multi-dimensional nanotube arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638571 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632805 | Sebti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Growth factor binding molecules having a plurality of peptide loops attached to a non-peptide organic scaffold, preferably having pseudo-six amino acid peptide loops with four amino acid sidechains. The growth factor binding molecules specifically bind various growth factors and are suitable for treating a subject having tumors or restinosis. In one embodiment a platelet-derived growth factor binding molecule is disclosed that is used to inhibit tumor growth and angiogenesis in solid tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226112 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632809 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oncolix, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Yuan Chen (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for making multimeric proteins to increase stability over their monomer. For example, more stable growth hormone and prolactin receptor agonists are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/419976 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632943 | Chapman 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 D. Chapman (Ridgecrest, California); Thomas J. Groshens (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel reaction scheme is presented for making a 3,3,7,7-tetrakis(difluoramino)octahydro-1,5-diazocinium salt, such as HNFX, from a tetrahydro-1,5-diazocine-3,7(2H,6H)-dione that does not employ N-nitrolysis,—but that instead requires protolytic N-deprotection, or protolytic denosylation, (i.e., the nosyl N-protecting group is replaced with protons, forming the corresponding protonated amine or ammonium derivative). In summary, the present method subjects a suitably N-protected dione to difluoramination followed by protolytic N-deprotection by addition of a superacid and subsequent nitration utilizing an electrophilic nitrating agent to yield the diazocinium salt. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/010059 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633066 | Antel, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Joseph Antel, Jr. (Freising, Germany); Nirm Velumylum Nirmalan (Niskayuna, New York); Jason Randolph Allen (Niskayuna, New York); Jeffrey Lawrence Williams (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal measurement system includes a number of detectors configured to receive radiation within respective wavelength ranges. The system also includes a mirror configured to selectively direct the radiation from an object to each of the detectors. The system further includes an actuator mechanically coupled to the mirror and configured to rotate the mirror through a number of angles. The system also includes an optical and probe subsystem disposed between the object and the mirror to focus the radiation on to the mirror. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438604 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.20 |
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| US 07633070 | Zywno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek Zywno (San Jose, California); Noah Bareket (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate processing apparatus and method are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670896 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/442.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633083 | Lester et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke F. Lester (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry R. Dawson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edwin A. Pease (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device is supported by a substrate with a smaller lattice constant. A metamorphic buffer provides a transition from the smaller lattice constant of the substrate to the larger lattice constant of the semiconductor device. In one application, the semiconductor device has a lattice constant of between approximately 6.1 and 6.35 angstroms, metamorphic buffer layers include Sb (e.g., AlInSb buffer layers), and the substrate has a smaller lattice constant (e.g., Si, InP or GaAs substrates). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/078642 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/20 |
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| US 07633130 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Peide Ye (West Lafayette, Indiana); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Gang Lu (Midland, Michigan); Han Chung Lin (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Field effect transistor devices comprising III-V semiconductors and organic gate dielectric materials, such dielectric materials as can afford flexibility in device design and fabrication. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725350 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633426 | Sutphin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eldon M. Sutphin (Merrimack, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In a CW radar system for detecting motion behind a wall (12) involving modulation of the radar transmission, means (34) are provided to interrupt the CW wave when motion is detected and to use the same radar transmitter (30) to transmit a serial digital message to a remote monitoring receiver (34). The encoding can include a receiver wakeup message to turn on the receive only when motion has been detected. In one embodiment, a microprocessor (28) is used to detect when motion exists behind a wall and to provide a tailorable message to modulate the radar's transmitter in the period when the CW signal from the radar is turned off after the motion detector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/585882 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633432 | Wu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and devices are disclosed for positioning an antenna having a sub-reflector assembly. A conical scan processor receives a period for a reference time pulse and a time tag. The processor calculates a rotation angle of the sub-reflector assembly using the received period for the reference time pulse and the received time tag. The processor may also receive a power measurement associated with the time tag. The processor may calculate and then output antenna boresight errors based on the calculated rotation angle of the sub-reflector assembly and the power measurements associated with the time tag. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/610396 |
| 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 342/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633606 | Northrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microfluidic Systems, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Northrup (Orinda, California); Farzad Pourahmadi (Fremont, California); Bob Yuan (Belmont, California); Amy J. Devitt (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A collection and detection system is configured as a detect to warn system in which the presence of specific types of particles are detected, and may or may not be identified. An air collection module intakes ambient air, detect the presence of one or more different types of airborne particles within the ambient air, and collect the airborne particles, such as within a fluid. A triggering mechanism is positioned to continuously monitor the airflow, to determine one or more characteristics of the airborne particles. If those measured characteristics match specific known characteristics, a trigger signal is generated. In response, a confirmation device performs a detection method on a fluid solution including the airflow particles to determine the presence of one or more different types of specific biological particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509872 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633835 | Erikson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Erikson (Henniker, New Hampshire); Eric M. Will (Mont Vernon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A high intensity, low frequency underwater transducer for non-lethal deterrence of terrorist swimmers or divers in a body of water. The invention consists of a motor driven flextensional underwater transducer. In one embodiment, the phase of a transducer is sensed, enabling multiple projectors to achieve high acoustic sound pressure levels by beamforming and/or modal constructive interference (e.g. taking advantage of harbor bottom topography and boundaries.). |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/728849 |
| 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 367/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633940 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the LeLand Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arjun Singh (Palo Alto, California); William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Network routing is effected for interconnection networks. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, an adaptive load-balanced routing approach is implemented for interconnection networks. Approximate global congestion is sensed as a function of congestion of channel queues, with routing approaches selected in accordance with the sensed congestion. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167906 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634061 | Tümer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nova R and D, Inc. (Riverside, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tümay O. Tümer (Riverside, California); Martin Clajus (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | New sensors, pixel detectors and different embodiments of multi-channel integrated circuit are disclosed. The new high energy and spatial resolution sensors use solid state detectors. Each channel or pixel of the readout chip employs low noise preamplifier at its input followed by other circuitry. The different embodiments of the sensors, detectors and the integrated circuit are designed to produce high energy and/or spatial resolution two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging for different applications. Some of these applications may require fast data acquisition, some others may need ultra high energy resolution, and a separate portion may require very high contrast. The embodiments described herein addresses these issues and also other issues that may be useful in two and three dimensional medical and industrial imaging. The applications of the new sensors, detectors and integrated circuits addresses a broad range of applications such as medical and industrial imaging, NDE and NDI, security, baggage scanning, astrophysics, nuclear physics and medicine. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090123 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/98.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634087 | Boneh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Regents of the University of California, Davis (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Matthew Franklin (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for encrypting a first piece of information M to be sent by a sender [100] to a receiver [110] allows both sender and receiver to compute a secret message key using identity-based information and a bilinear map. In a one embodiment, the sender [100] computes an identity-based encryption key from an identifier ID associated with the receiver [110]. The identifier ID may include various types of information such as the receiver's e-mail address, a receiver credential, a message identifier, or a date. The sender uses a bilinear map and the encryption key to compute a secret message key gIDr, which is then used to encrypt a message M, producing ciphertext V to be sent from the sender [100] to the receiver [110] together with an element rP. An identity-based decryption key dID is computed by a private key generator [120] based on the ID associated with the receiver and a secret master key s. After obtaining the private decryption key from the key generator [120], the receiver [110] uses it together with the element rP and the bilinear map to compute the secret message key gIDr, which is then used to decrypt V and recover the original message M. According to one embodiment, the bilinear map is based on a Weil pairing or a Tate pairing defined on a subgroup of an elliptic curve. Also described are several applications of the techniques, including key revocation, credential management, and return receipt notification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431410 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634162 | Kempa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jakub A. Rybczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for nanolithography using nanoscale optics are disclosed herein. Submicron-scale structures may be obtained using standard photolithography systems with a de-magnifying lens. A de-magnifying lens for use in a standard photolithography system includes a film having a top surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of cylindrical channels containing a dielectric material; and an array of carbon nanotubes penetrating the film through the plurality of cylindrical channels, wherein an image on the top surface of the film is converted into a de-magnified image on the bottom surface of the film by the carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509271 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634383 | Engel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Engel (East Northport, New York); David H. Hoitsma (Brentwood, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method for generating a probability distribution for a desired variable. A hyper parameter density function is provided, from which values are randomly selected. The selected hyper parameter value is used to compute an input variable value. A value is randomly selected from each input variable probability density function. These values are input into a physics model to compute an output value. This process is repeated to generate numerous output values, which are then used to construct an output value probability density function. After the output value probability density function is constructed, output value sensor data is obtained. The output density function is updated using the sensor data and a probabilistic evaluation of the hyper parameters. Improved predictions are iteratively made with the updated output distribution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888221 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634392 | Kwun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hegeon Kwun (San Antonio, Texas); Sang-Young Kim (San Antonio, Texas); Myoung-Seon Choi (Taegu, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for simulating defects in conduits, where the defects are detected using long-range guided-wave inspection techniques. The guided wave interaction with a defect is treated as a one-dimensional problem of plane wave reflection from a boundary of different acoustic impedances. The defect waveform is simulated using an electrical transmission line model and inverse fast Fourier transformation. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987226 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634525 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A shared lossless Haar transform and an appended type-IV discrete cosine transform are combined to form a lossless discrete cosine type-IV transform having a fast pipeline architecture for providing fast reversible lossless DCT-IV transform data. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/168977 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634642 | Hochschild et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. Hochschild (New York, New York); Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for efficient context switching are provided. An execution entity that is to be context switched out is allowed to continue executing for a predetermined period of time before being context switched out. During the predetermined period of time in which the execution entity continues to execute, the hardware or an operating system tracks and records its footprint such as the addresses and page and segment table entries and the like accessed by the continued execution. When the execution entity is being context switched back in, its page and segment table and cache states are reloaded for use in its immediate execution. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/481515 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a flexible circuit electrode array adapted for neural stimulation, comprising: a polymer base layer; metal traces deposited on said polymer base layer, including electrodes suitable to stimulate neural tissue; a polymer top layer deposited on said polymer base layer and said metal traces at least one tack opening; wherein said polymer base layer, said metal traces and said polymer top layer are thermoformed in a three dimensional shape. The present invention provides further a method of making a flexible circuit electrode array comprising depositing a polymer base layer; depositing metal on said polymer base layer; patterning said metal to form metal traces; depositing a polymer top layer on said polymer base layer and said metal traces; preparing at least one tack opening; and heating said flexible circuit electrode array in a mold to form a three dimensional shape in said flexible circuit electrode array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/928698 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/858 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632008 | Recht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Recht (Mountain View, California); Francisco E. Torres (San Jose, California); Richard H. Bruce (Los Altos, California); Alan G. Bell (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Test and reference groups of samples can be provided and concurrently combined and output signals can be provided. Each sample can have a volume not exceeding approximately 100 microliters, and each group can be provided in a region, such as in a cell of an array calorimeter. Each test group can include at least one fragment sample and one target sample, and its reference group can include similar samples. The output signals can include information about heat of reaction due to combining the fragment and target samples. For each target type, the output signals can be used to rank fragment types. For example, a subset of fragment types that react with the target type can be identified; an equilibrium constant or ligand efficiency can be obtained for each such fragment type; or a rank ordering can be obtained of such fragment types. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760236 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632230 | Varghese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomy Varghese (Madison, Wisconsin); Hairong Shi (Madison, Wisconsin); Hao Chen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | High-resolution elastography employs a multiple-step process in which successively finer samplings of data and smaller areas of data are evaluated to provide increasingly accurate displacement measurements, wherein each displacement measurement guides the determination of corresponding regions of comparison used in the next displacement evaluation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/384607 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632231 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingfeng Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin); Timothy Jon Hall (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for ultrasonic strain imaging computes displacement of tissue between a pre-deformation and post-deformation data set along columns to provide for independent calculations that may be parallelized for multiprocessor systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/386332 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632494 | Franano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proteon Therapeutics, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Nicholas Franano (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating an obstructed biological conduit that include administering to the conduit an agent that can degrade extracellular matrix of obstructing tissue. Particular methods include delivery of an enzyme or a mixture of several enzymes to the area or region of obstruction wherein the enzyme(s) have the capability to degrade extracellular matrix components within the obstruction thereby restoring the normal flow of transported fluid through the conduit. The invention also includes prophylactically dilating a section of conduit to minimize the risk of obstruction formation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082517 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632502 | Lopez-Ribot |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Lopez-Ribot (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated surface protein known as mp58 is provided from the yeast Candida albicans which has specific active peptide and carbohydrate regions and immunogenic epitopes therein and which elicits strong antibody responses during candidiasis. Antibodies raised from mp58 and the immunogenic regions and epitopes therein are also provided which can recognize the protein and its active regions and epitopes. The protein and antibodies of the present invention will thus be useful in methods of diagnosing, monitoring, treating or preventing infection of C. albicans and other yeast, and can also provide the basis for the development of immunity-based prophylactic, therapeutic and diagnostic techniques for the identification and management of disease conditions such as candidiasis. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/418303 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/137.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gwong-Jen J. Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses isolated nucleic acids containing transcriptional units which encode a signal sequence of one flavivirus and an immunogenic flavivirus antigen of a second flavivirus. The invention further encompasses a nucleic acid and protein vaccine and the use of the vaccine to immunize a subject against flavivirus infection. The invention also provides antigens encoded by nucleic acids of the invention, antibodies elicited in response to the antigens and use of the antigens and/or antibodies in detecting flavivirus or diagnosing flavivirus infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424138 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632634 | Ahmed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hafiz Ahmed (Aldie, Virginia); Gerardo R. Vasta (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and assay are described for determining prostate cancer and the general stage of progression of such cancer by quantifying levels of expression of different galectin isoforms and/or different levels of promoter methylation of such galectin isoforms. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405238 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07632640 | Puffenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Clinic for Special Children (Strasburg, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik G. Puffenberger (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Dietrich A. Stephan (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The identification of a novel mutation in the testis specific Y-like gene and association of the mutation with SIDDT syndrome are disclosed. Methods for diagnosing SIDDT syndrome are disclosed. Methods for identifying compounds for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders associated with mutation in the TSPYL gene are also disclosed. The invention therefore provides nucleic acid sequences, genes, polypeptides, antibodies, vectors containing the gene, host cells transformed with vectors containing the gene, animal models for the disease, methods for expressing the polypeptide, genetic screening methods and kits, diagnostic methods and kits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007924 |
| 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 07632643 | Bussemakers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stichting Katholieke Universiteit, More Particularly the University Medical Centre Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marion J. G. Bussemakers (Nijmegen, Netherlands); William B. Isaacs (Glyndon, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to a prostate-specific antigen, PCA3. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules coding for the PCA3 protein; purified PCA3 proteins and polypeptides; recombinant nucleic acid molecules; cells containing the recombinant nucleic acid molecules; antibodies having binding affinity specifically to PCA3 proteins and polypeptides; hybridomas containing the antibodies; nucleic acid probes for the detection of nucleic acids encoding PCA3 proteins; a method of detecting nucleic acids encoding PCA3 proteins or polypeptides in a sample; kits containing nucleic acid probes or antibodies; bioassays using the nucleic acid sequence, protein or antibodies of this invention to diagnose, assess or prognose a mammal afflicted with prostate cancer; therapeutic uses; and methods of preventing prostate cancer in an animal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/260282 |
| 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 07632650 | Rubin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric H. Rubin (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Ahamed Saleem (Highland Park, New Jersey); Zeshaan Rasheed (Piscataway, New Jersey); Paul Haluska, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to topors and its association with cancer. Topors antibodies are provided for use in diagnosing cancer based upon the absence of topors in a given cell or tissue sample. The detection of topors nucleic acid molecules in the diagnosis of cancer is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671041 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632660 | Shipp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret A. Shipp (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Ricardo Aguiar (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Liqun Gu (Plainsboro, Massachusetts); Kunihiko Takeyama (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated BBAP nucleic acid molecules, which encode proteins that interact with or bind to BAL molecules, which are differentially expressed in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing BBAP nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and non-human transgenic animals in which a BBAP gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated BBAP proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-BBAP antibodies. Diagnostic methods using compositions of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125015 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07632801 | Palese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Robert O'Neill (Yonkers, New York); Ronald Harty (Bensalem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of host cell proteins that interact with viral proteins required for virus replication, and high throughput assays to identify compounds that interfere with the specific interaction between the viral and host cell protein. Interfering compounds that inhibit viral replication can be used therapeutically to treat viral infection. The invention is based, in part, on the Applicants' discovery of novel interactions between viral proteins and a human host cell proteins. One of these host cell proteins, referred to herein as NPI-1, interacts with influenza virus protein NP. Also, host cell proteins, referred to herein as NS1I-1 and NS1-BP interact with influenza virus protein NS1. In addition, host cell proteins containing WW domains that interact with viral proteins such as Rhabdoviral M protein are described. Compounds that interfere with the binding of the host cell and viral proteins, and inhibit viral replication can be useful for treating viral infection in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/337213 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07632805 | Sebti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Growth factor binding molecules having a plurality of peptide loops attached to a non-peptide organic scaffold, preferably having pseudo-six amino acid peptide loops with four amino acid sidechains. The growth factor binding molecules specifically bind various growth factors and are suitable for treating a subject having tumors or restinosis. In one embodiment a platelet-derived growth factor binding molecule is disclosed that is used to inhibit tumor growth and angiogenesis in solid tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226112 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07632809 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oncolix, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Yuan Chen (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for making multimeric proteins to increase stability over their monomer. For example, more stable growth hormone and prolactin receptor agonists are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/419976 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 07632814 | Hazlehurst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Tampa, Florida); The Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, Arizona); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lori Anne Hazlehurst (Ruskin, Florida); William S. Dalton (Temple Terrace, Florida); Anne E. Cress (Tucson, Arizona); Kit Lam (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns fragments and variants of the HYD1 peptide; polynucleotides encoding the peptides; host cells genetically modified with the polynucleotides; vectors comprising the polynucleotides; compositions containing these peptides, polynucleotides, vectors, or host cells; and methods of using the peptides, polynucleotides, vectors, and host cells as inhibitors of aberrant cell growth in vitro or in vivo, e.g., as anti-cancer agents for treatment of cancer, such as myeloma. The present invention further includes a method of increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, comprising administering an agent that binds β1 integrin to a patient in need thereof. In one embodiment, the β1 integrin binding agent is the HYD1 peptide, or a functional fragment or variant thereof. In another aspect, the invention pertains to a composition (an adhesion trap) comprising a substrate (also referred to as a surface or support) with a HYD1 peptide, or fragment or variant thereof, immobilized to the substrate, and a method of removing circulating tumor cells (CTC) from blood by contacting a subject's blood with the immobilized peptide. Another aspect of the invention concerns a method of identifying modulators of peptide binding. Another aspect of the invention concerns a method for detecting CTC. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852177 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 07632815 | Anderson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Anderson (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for treating structural heart disease in a subject, comprising administering an effective amount of an inhibitor of CaMKII to the subject, whereby the administration of the inhibitor treats the structural heart disease in the subject. Also provided are transgenic animal models for treating structural heart disease. Further provided is a means of screening for a compound that can treat structural heart disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983987 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07632816 | Wisniewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Wisniewski (Staten Island, New York); Marcin Sadowski (Bronx, New York); Einar M. Sigurdsson (New York, New York); Blas Frangione (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of preventing or treating Alzheimer's Disease or of inhibiting accumulation of amyloid-β deposits in a subject by administering to the subject an agent which inhibits interaction between amyloid-β and proteins which chaperone amyloid-β under conditions effective to prevent or treat Alzheimer's Disease in the subject or to inhibit accumulation of amyloid-β deposits in the subject's brain, respectively. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of inhibiting interaction between apolipoprotein E and amyloid-β by administering an agent which blocks interaction of apolipoprotein E and amyloid-β under conditions effect to block such interaction. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/810919 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07632819 | Kanthasamy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anumantha G. Kanthasamy (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided which inhibit the apoptotic activity associated with oxidative stress in many disease states. According to the invention, inhibition of chemical cleavage of PKCδ by caspase-3 results in reduction of apoptosis. Novel peptide inhibitors with the amino acid motif Asp Ile Pro Asp (SEQ ID NO:5) are also disclosed. The peptides are useful as inhibitors of PKCδ-mediated apoptosis and oxidative stress, and other diseases regulated by a catalytically active PKCδ. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262677 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
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| US 07632926 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Galaxy Biotech, LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung Jin Kim (Cupertino, California); Hangil Park (San Francisco, California); Lihong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Maximiliano Vasquez (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a humanized neutralizing monoclonal antibody to hepatocyte growth factor, a pharmaceutical composition comprising same, and methods of treatment comprising administering such a pharmaceutical composition to a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/731774 |
| 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 530/388.230 |
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| US 07632929 | Owens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel M. Owens (Little Rock, Arkansas); Frank Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Abraham (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to hapten compounds comprising either (+) methamphetamine or (+) amphetamine conjugated to a linker. Generally speaking, hapten compounds of the invention may be used to elicit an immune response to one or more of (+) methamphetamine, (+) amphetamine, or (+) MDMA. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733085 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/403 |
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| US 07632984 | Chory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanne Chory (Del Mar, California); Pablo Cerdan (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | The PFT1 (Phytochrome and Flowering Time 1) locus is described and identified. PFT1 acts in a light-quality pathway downstream of phyB that acts through modulation of FT transcription. Plants containing a truncated pft1 gene display an altered shade avoidance syndrome including an increase in time to flowering. The corresponding PFT1 gene has been isolated and characterized. Recombinant vectors, recombinant plants containing the PFT1 gene and methods of using the PFT1 gene to modulate a photosensitive trait, especially time to flowering, are described. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/560652 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
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| US 07633007 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Muthiah Chinnasamy (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell is described that comprises: (a) a semiconductor charge separation material; (b) at least one electrode connected to the charge separation material; and (c) a light-harvesting film on the charge separation material, the light-harvesting film comprising non-covalently coupled, self-assembled units of porphyrinic macrocycles. The porphyrinic macrocycles preferably comprise: (i) an intramolecularly coordinated metal; (ii) a first coordinating substituent; and (iii) a second coordinating substituent opposite the first coordinating substituent. The porphyrinic macrocycles can be assembled by repeating intermolecular coordination complexes of the metal, the first coordinating substituent and the second coordinating substituent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782288 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
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| US 07633293 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Olson (Minneapolis, Minnesota); J. Thomas Vaughan (Stillwater, Minnesota); Anand Gopinath (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Technology for controlling non-uniformity in the B1 field includes selecting the phase, magnitude, frequency, time, or spatial relationship among various elements of a multi-channel excitation coil in order to control the radio frequency (RF) power emanating from the coil antenna elements. Non-uniformity can be used to steer a constructively interfering B1 field node to spatially correlate with an anatomic region of interest. A convex (quadratically constrained quadratic problem) formulation of the B1 localization problem can be used to select parameters for exciting the coil. Localization can be used in simulated Finite Difference Time Domain B1 field human head distributions and human head phantom measurement. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800055 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
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| US 07633627 | Choma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Choma (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Audrey Ellerbee (Durham, North Carolina); Marinko Sarunic (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Structure profiles from optical interferometric data can be identified by obtaining a plurality of broadband interferometric optical profiles of a structure as a function of structure depth in an axial direction. Each of the plurality of interferometric optical profiles include a reference signal propagated through a reference path and a sample signal reflected from a sample reflector in the axial direction. An axial position corresponding to at least a portion of the structure is selected. Phase variations of the plurality of interferometric optical profiles are determined at the selected axial position. A physical displacement of the structure is identified based on the phase variations at the selected axial position. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337166 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
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| US 07634125 | Ortyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David A. Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Philip Morrissey (Bellevue, Washington); Thaddeus George (Seattle, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); Cathleen Zimmerman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimodal/multispectral images of a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric features identifiable in the images are used to separate the population of cells into a plurality of subpopulations. Where the population of cells includes diseased cells and healthy cells, the images can be separated into a healthy subpopulation, and a diseased subpopulation. Where the population of cells does not include diseased cells, one or more ratios of different cell types in patients not having a disease condition can be compared to the corresponding ratios in patients having the disease condition, enabling the disease condition to be detected. For example, blood cells can be separated into different types based on their images, and an increase in the number of lymphocytes, a phenomenon associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, can readily be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194842 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
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| US 07634126 | Ortyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David A. Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Philip Morrissey (Bellevue, Washington); Thaddeus George (Seattle, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); Cathleen Zimmerman (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multimodal/multispectral images of a population of cells are simultaneously collected. Photometric and/or morphometric features identifiable in the images are used to separate the population of cells into a plurality of subpopulations. Where the population of cells includes diseased cells and healthy cells, the images can be separated into a healthy subpopulation, and a diseased subpopulation. Where the population of cells does not include diseased cells, one or more ratios of different cell types in patients not having a disease condition can be compared to the corresponding ratios in patients having the disease condition, enabling the disease condition to be detected. For example, blood cells can be separated into different types based on their images, and an increase in the number of lymphocytes, a phenomenon associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, can readily be detected. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/362170 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Bland (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An axially staged combustion system is provided for a gas turbine engine comprising a main body structure having a plurality of first and second injectors. First structure provides fuel to at least one of the first injectors. The fuel provided to the one first injector is adapted to mix with air and ignite to produce a flame such that the flame associated with the one first injector defines a flame front having an average length when measured from a reference surface of the main body structure. Each of the second injectors comprising a section extending from the reference surface of the main body structure through the flame front and having a length greater than the average length of the flame front. Second structure provides fuel to at least one of the second injectors. The fuel passes through the one second injector and exits the one second injector at a location axially spaced from the flame front. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498480 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/747 |
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| US 07631566 | Farthing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Earl Farthing (Pinson, Alabama); Larry Gordon Felix (Pelham, Alabama); Todd Robert Snyder (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for diluting and cooling that is extracted from high temperature and/or high pressure industrial processes. Through a feedback process, a specialized, CFD-modeled dilution cooler is employed along with real-time estimations of the point at which condensation will occur within the dilution cooler to define a level of dilution and diluted gas temperature that results in a gas that can be conveyed to standard gas analyzers that contains no condensed hydrocarbon compounds or condensed moisture. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999648 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863 |
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| US 07631689 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Del Scot Christensen (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming a barrier around at least a portion of a treatment area in a subsurface formation are described herein. Sulfur may be introduced into one or more wellbores located inside a perimeter of a treatment area in the formation having a permeability of at least 0.1 darcy. At least some of the sulfur is allowed to move towards portions of the formation cooler than the melting point of sulfur to solidify the sulfur in the formation to form the barrier. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788861 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/245 |
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| US 07631690 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); David Scott Miller (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation are described herein. Methods may include treating a first zone of the formation. Treatment of a plurality of zones of the formation may be begun at selected times after the treatment of the first zone begins. The treatment of at least two successively treated zones may begin at a selected time after treatment of the previous zone begins. At least two of the successively treated zones may be adjacent to the zone treated previously. The successive treatment of the zones proceeds in an outward, substantially spiral sequence from the first zone so that the treatment of the zones may move substantially spirally outwards towards a boundary of the treatment area. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975701 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/245 |
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| US 07631950 | Wattenburg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willard H. Wattenburg (Walnut Creek, California); David B. McCallen (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for externally controlling one or more brakes on a vehicle having a pressurized fluid braking system. The apparatus can include a pressurizable vessel that is adapted for fluid-tight coupling to the braking system. Impact to the rear of the vehicle by a pursuit vehicle, shooting a target mounted on the vehicle or sending a signal from a remote control can all result in the fluid pressures in the braking system of the vehicle being modified so that the vehicle is stopped and rendered temporarily inoperable. A control device can also be provided in the driver's compartment of the vehicle for similarly rendering the vehicle inoperable. A driver or hijacker of the vehicle preferably cannot overcome the stopping action from the driver's compartment. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062159 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems 33/89 |
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| US 07632317 | Belharouak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilias Belharouak (Westmont, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for coating an active material with carbon to form an electrode material is disclosed, comprising: exposing olivine or nasicon to a carbon source gas in a furnace; and heating the carbon source gas to deposit carbon thereon. The carbon source gas, which may be mixed with an inert gas, generally decomposes between 100° C. and 1300° C. to generate carbon material. The amount of coated carbon on the olivine or nasicon is preferably <15 wt %, and more preferably about 4 wt % or less. Also disclosed is a battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising the inventive electrode material; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612439 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/623.500 |
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| US 07632384 | Redey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laszlo Redey (Downers Grove, Illinois); Karthick Gourishankar (Downers Grove, Illinois); Mark A. Williamson (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a multi-functional sensor system that simultaneously measures cathode and anode electrode potentials, dissolved ion (i.e. oxide) concentration, and temperatures in an electrochemical cell. One embodiment of the invented system generally comprises: a reference(saturated) electrode, a reference(sensing) electrode, and a data acquisition system. Thermocouples are built into the two reference electrodes to provide important temperature information. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288057 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/422 |
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| US 07632387 | Hryn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John N. Hryn (Naperville, Illinois); Edward J. Daniels (Orland Park, Illinois); Greg K. Krumdick (Crete, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method for improving the efficiency of electrodialysis (ED) cells and stacks, in particular those used in chemical synthesis. The process entails adding a buffer solution to the stack for subsequent depletion in the stack during electrolysis. The buffer solution is regenerated continuously after depletion. This buffer process serves to control the hydrogen ion or hydroxide ion concentration so as to protect the active sites of electrodialysis membranes. The process enables electrodialysis processing options for products that are sensitive to pH changes. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/824741 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/525 |
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07632406 — Smart membranes for nitrate removal, water purification, and selective ion transportation
| US 07632406 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Wilson (Pleasanton, California); Charlene M. Schaldach (Pleasanton, California); William L. Bourcier (Livermore, California); Phillip H. Paul (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer designed nanoengineered membrane for separation of dissolved species. One embodiment provides an apparatus for treatment of a fluid that includes ions comprising a microengineered porous membrane, a system for producing an electrical charge across the membrane, and a series of nanopores extending through the membrane. The nanopores have a pore size such that when the fluid contacts the membrane, the nanopores will be in a condition of double layer overlap and allow passage only of ions opposite to the electrical charge across the membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110598 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/257.200 |
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| US 07632482 | Insepov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeke Insepov (Darien, Illinois); Ahmed Hassanein (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes and, more specifically, to a method and system for nano-pumping media through carbon nanotubes. One preferred embodiment of the invention generally comprises: method for nano-pumping, comprising the following steps: providing one or more media; providing one or more carbon nanotubes, the one or more nanotubes having a first end and a second end, wherein said first end of one or more nanotubes is in contact with the media; and creating surface waves on the carbon nanotubes, wherein at least a portion of the media is pumped through the nanotube. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566362 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632593 | Carter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John David Carter (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Joong-Myeon Bae (Daejon, South Korea); Terry Alan Cruse (Lisle, Illinois); James Michael Ralph (Fairlawn, Ohio); Deborah J. Myers (Lisle, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A bipolar plate supported solid oxide fuel cell with a sealed anode compartment is provided. The solid oxide fuel cell includes a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode, which are supported on a metallic bipolar plate assembly including gas flow fields and the gas impermeable bipolar plate. The electrolyte and anode are sealed into an anode compartment with a metal perimeter seal. An improved method of sealing is provided by extending the metal seal around the entire perimeter of the cell between an electrolyte and the bipolar plate to form the anode compartment. During a single-step high temperature sintering process the metal seal bonds to the edges of the electrolyte and anode layers, the metal foam flow field and the bipolar plate to form a gastight containment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/406097 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632595 | Bourgeois et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Scott Bourgeois (Albany, New York); Sauri Gudlavalleti (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell assembly comprising at least one metallic component, at least one ceramic component and a structure disposed between the metallic component and the ceramic component. The structure is configured to have a lower stiffness compared to at least one of the metallic component and the ceramic component, to accommodate a difference in strain between the metallic component and the ceramic component of the fuel cell assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/816697 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632601 | Adzic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Tao Huang (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to palladium-cobalt particles useful as oxygen-reducing electrocatalysts. The invention also relates to oxygen-reducing cathodes and fuel cells containing these palladium-cobalt particles. The invention additionally relates to methods for the production of electrical energy by using the palladium-cobalt particles of the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054587 |
| 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 07632602 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Hee Lee (Lakewood, Colorado); C. Edwin Tracy (Golden, Colorado); Ping Liu (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A reverse configuration, lithium thin film battery (300) having a buried lithium anode layer (305) and process for making the same. The present invention is formed from a precursor composite structure (200) made by depositing electrolyte layer (204) onto substrate (201), followed by sequential depositions of cathode layer (203) and current collector (202) on the electrolyte layer. The precursor is subjected to an activation step, wherein a buried lithium anode layer (305) is formed via electroplating a lithium anode layer at the interface of substrate (201) and electrolyte film (204). The electroplating is accomplished by applying a current between anode current collector (201) and cathode current collector (202). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901863 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632701 | Dhere et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neelkanth G. Dhere (Merritt Island, Florida); Ankur A. Kadam (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a CIGSS absorber layer includes the steps of providing a metal precursor, and selenizing the metal precursor using diethyl selenium to form a selenized metal precursor layer (CIGSS absorber layer). A high efficiency solar cell includes a CIGSS absorber layer formed by a process including selenizing a metal precursor using diethyl selenium to form the CIGSS absorber layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745621 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632898 | Klaehn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Alan K. Wertsching (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Christopher J. Orme (Shelley, Idaho); Thomas A. Luther (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael G. Jones (Pocatello, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A PBI compound includes imidazole nitrogens at least a portion of which are substituted with an organic-inorganic hybrid moiety may be included in a separatory medium. At least 85% of the imidazole nitrogens may be substituted. The organic-inorganic hybrid moiety may be an organosilane moiety, for example, (R)Me2SiCH2— where R is selected from among methyl, phenyl, vinyl, and allyl. The separatory medium may exhibit an H2, Ar, N2, O2, CH3, or CO2 gas permeability greater than the gas permeability of a comparable separatory medium comprising the PBI compound without substitution. The separatory medium may further include an electronically conductive medium and/or an ionically conductive medium. The separatory medium may be used as a membrane (semi-permeable, permeable, and non-permeable), a barrier, an ion exchange media, a filter, a gas chromatography coating (such as stationary phase coating in affinity chromatography), etc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772872 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633007 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Muthiah Chinnasamy (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell is described that comprises: (a) a semiconductor charge separation material; (b) at least one electrode connected to the charge separation material; and (c) a light-harvesting film on the charge separation material, the light-harvesting film comprising non-covalently coupled, self-assembled units of porphyrinic macrocycles. The porphyrinic macrocycles preferably comprise: (i) an intramolecularly coordinated metal; (ii) a first coordinating substituent; and (iii) a second coordinating substituent opposite the first coordinating substituent. The porphyrinic macrocycles can be assembled by repeating intermolecular coordination complexes of the metal, the first coordinating substituent and the second coordinating substituent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782288 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633014 | Allais et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nexans (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnaud Allais (Hannover, Germany); Frank Schmidt (Langenhagen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconductor cable includes a superconductive cable core (1) and a cryostat (2) enclosing the same. The cable core (1) has a superconductive conductor (3), an insulation (4) surrounding the same and a shielding (5) surrounding the insulation (4). A layer (3b) of a dielectric or semiconducting material is applied to a central element (3a) formed from a normally conducting material as a strand or tube and a layer (3c) of at least one wire or strip of superconductive material is placed helically on top. The central element (3a) and the layer (3c) are connected to each other in an electrically conducting manner at the ends of the cable core (1). |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/384032 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/125.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633062 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Morris (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Konstantin N. Borozdin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); J. Andrew Green (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gary E. Hogan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark F. Makela (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William C. Priedhorsky (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alexander Saunders (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Larry J. Schultz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael J. Sossong (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A portal monitoring system has a cosmic ray charged particle tracker with a plurality of drift cells. The drift cells, which can be for example aluminum drift tubes, can be arranged at least above and below a volume to be scanned to thereby track incoming and outgoing charged particles, such as cosmic ray muons, whilst also detecting gamma rays. The system can selectively detect devices or materials, such as iron, lead, gold and/or tungsten, occupying the volume from multiple scattering of the charged particles passing through the volume and can also detect any radioactive sources occupying the volume from gamma rays emitted therefrom. If necessary, the drift tubes can be sealed to eliminate the need for a gas handling system. The system can be employed to inspect occupied vehicles at border crossings for nuclear threat objects. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/771169 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633202 | Hull |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Hull (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for improved damping in high-temperature superconducting levitation systems are disclosed. A superconducting element (e.g., a stator) generating a magnetic field and a magnet (e.g. a rotor) supported by the magnetic field are provided such that the superconducting element is supported relative to a ground state with damped motion substantially perpendicular to the support of the magnetic field on the magnet. Applying this, a cryostat housing the superconducting bearing may be coupled to the ground state with high damping but low radial stiffness, such that its resonant frequency is less than that of the superconducting bearing. The damping of the cryostat may be substantially transferred to the levitated magnetic rotor, thus, providing damping without affecting the rotational loss, as can be derived applying coupled harmonic oscillator theory in rotor dynamics. Thus, damping can be provided to a levitated object, without substantially affecting the rotational loss. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745376 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/90.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633203 | Hull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Hull (Sammamish, Washington); Carl R. McIver (Everett, Washington); John A. Mittleider (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses to provide improved auxiliary damping for superconducting bearings in superconducting levitation systems are disclosed. In a superconducting bearing, a cryostat housing the superconductors is connected to a ground state with a combination of a damping strip of material, a set of linkage arms to provide vertical support, and spring washers to provide stiffness. Alternately, the superconducting bearing may be supported by a cryostat connected to a ground state by posts constructed from a mesh of fibers, with the damping and stiffness controlled by the fiber composition, size, and mesh geometry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/968350 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/90.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633267 | Kepler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Farasis Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Douglas Kepler (Belmont, California); Yu Wang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high throughput combinatorial screening method and apparatus for the evaluation of electrochemical materials using a single voltage source (2) is disclosed wherein temperature changes arising from the application of an electrical load to a cell array (1) are used to evaluate the relative electrochemical efficiency of the materials comprising the array. The apparatus may include an array of electrochemical cells (1) that are connected to each other in parallel or in series, an electronic load (2) for applying a voltage or current to the electrochemical cells (1), and a device (3), external to the cells, for monitoring the relative temperature of each cell when the load is applied. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/175555 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633362 | Christenson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd R. Christenson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marc A. Polosky (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEM) device is disclosed that includes a shuttle suspended for movement above a substrate. A plurality of permanent magnets in the shuttle of the MEM device interact with a metal plate which forms the substrate or a metal portion thereof to provide an eddy-current damping of the shuttle, thereby making the shuttle responsive to changes in acceleration or velocity of the MEM device. Alternately, the permanent magnets can be located in the substrate, and the metal portion can form the shuttle. An electrical switch closure in the MEM device can occur in response to a predetermined acceleration-time event. The MEM device, which can be fabricated either by micromachining or LIGA, can be used for sensing an acceleration or deceleration event (e.g. in automotive applications such as airbag deployment or seat belt retraction). |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901384 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633669 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anoop Agrawal (Tucson, Arizona); John P. Cronin (Tucson, Arizona); Juan C. L. Tonazzi (Tucson, Arizona); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrolyte solutions for electrochromic devices such as rear view mirrors and displays with low leakage currents are prepared using inexpensive, low conductivity conductors. Preferred electrolytes include bifunctional redox dyes and molten salt solvents with enhanced stability toward ultraviolet radiation. The solvents include lithium or quaternary ammonium cations, and perfluorinated sulfonylimide anions selected from trifluoromethylsulfonate (CF3SO3−), bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3SO2)2N−), bis(perfluoroethylsulfonyl)imide ((CF3CF2SO2)2N−) and tris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methide ((CF3SO2)3C−). Electroluminescent, electrochromic and photoelectrochromic devices with nanostructured electrodes include ionic liquids with bifunctional redox dyes. Some of the electrolyte solutions color to red when devices employing the solutions are powered, leading to red or neutral electrooptic devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291381 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633980 | Comaskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Comaskey (Walnut Creek, California); George F. Albrecht (Livermore, California); Karl F. Scheibner (Livermore, California); Earl R. Ault (Livermore, California); Hubert Joachim Vollmer (Tracy, California); J. Philip Brady, Jr. (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for transferring thermal energy from a heat load is disclosed. In particular, use of a phase change material and specific flow designs enables cooling with temperature regulation well above the fusion temperature of the phase change material for medium and high heat loads from devices operated intermittently (in burst mode). Exemplary heat loads include burst mode lasers and laser diodes, flight avionics, and high power space instruments. Thermal energy is transferred from the heat load to liquid phase change material from a phase change material reservoir. The liquid phase change material is split into two flows. Thermal energy is transferred from the first flow via a phase change material heat sink. The second flow bypasses the phase change material heat sink and joins with liquid phase change material exiting from the phase change material heat sink. The combined liquid phase change material is returned to the liquid phase change material reservoir. The ratio of bypass flow to flow into the phase change material heat sink can be varied to adjust the temperature of the liquid phase change material returned to the liquid phase change material reservoir. Varying the flowrate and temperature of the liquid phase change material presented to the heat load determines the magnitude of thermal energy transferred from the heat load. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/039766 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634328 | Medizade et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Masoud Medizade (San Luis Obispo, California); John Robert Ridgely (Los Osos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An arrangement which utilizes an inexpensive flap valve/flow transducer combination and a simple local supervisory control system to monitor and/or control the operation of a positive displacement pump used to extract petroleum from geologic strata. The local supervisory control system controls the operation of an electric motor which drives a reciprocating positive displacement pump so as to maximize the volume of petroleum extracted from the well per pump stroke while minimizing electricity usage and pump-off situations. By reducing the electrical demand and pump-off (i.e., “pounding” or “fluid pound”) occurrences, operating and maintenance costs should be reduced sufficiently to allow petroleum recovery from marginally productive petroleum fields. The local supervisory control system includes one or more applications to at least collect flow signal data generated during operation of the positive displacement pump. No flow, low flow and flow duration are easily evaluated using the flap valve/flow transducer arrangement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/760437 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07632569 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to forming an array of fullerene nanotubes. In one embodiment, a macroscopic molecular array is provided comprising at least about 106 fullerene nanotubes in generally parallel orientation and having substantially similar lengths in the range of from about 5 to about 500 nanometers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507964 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632972 | Hergenrother et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illionis (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); Vitaliy Nesterenko (Rantoul, Illinois); Karson Putt (Urbana, Illinois); Brittany Joy Allen (Champaign, Illinois); Robin Shane Dothager (Gifford, Illinois); Benjamin James Leslie (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and related methods for synthesis, and the use of compounds and combination therapies for the treatment of cancer and modulation of apoptosis in cells are disclosed. The generation of synthetic combinatorial libraries and the evaluation of library member compounds regarding induction of apoptosis selectively in cancer cells are disclosed. Compounds, methods of making the compounds, and therapeutic methods with application against breast cancer cells, melanoma cancer cells, colon cancer cells, and other cancer cells are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976186 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633295 | Tyszka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julian Michael Tyszka (Altadena, California); Andrey V. Demyanenko (South Pasadena, California); Yun Kee (San Marino, California); Scott E. Fraser (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance (MR) microscope and a dual-mode optic and MR microscope system are disclosed. The MR microscope is provided with a horizontal stage above which a sample to be analyzed is located, a radiofrequency coil assembly located above the horizontal stage and below the sample, a magnetic field gradient module located under the horizontal stage, and a heat exchange unit thermally coupled to the magnetic field gradient module and located under the magnetic field gradient module. The dual-mode optic and MR microscope system is provided with an MR microscope and an optical microscope, the optical microscope comprising a mirror located above the sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109174 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633886 | Sahni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida); Haibin Lu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for classifying data packets transmitted over a data communications network based upon a set of predetermined prefixes associated with destination addresses of the data packets is provided. The includes a data structure stored in an electronic memory. The data structure is a prefix-in-B-tree (PIBT) data structure and/or a range-in-B-tree (RIBT) data structure, the at least one data structure comprising a plurality of nodes based upon the set of predetermined prefixes. The system also includes a determination module for determining a match between one or more of the plurality of nodes and a destination address of a particular data packet. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/027164 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633894 | Cruz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rene L. Cruz (La Jolla, California); Arvind V. Santhanam (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns routing, scheduling, and power control methods for single and multi-hop wireless networks. A multi-hop network is one in which source and destination nodes may communicate directly or through relay nodes. Nodes in single hop networks communicate without use of relay nodes. Embodiments of the invention may produce an optimal schedule to provide for the best-case goal for a given parameter. In a preferred embodiment, total power is the parameter and total power is minimized for the network. In another preferred embodiment, data throughput is the parameter, and throughput is maximized for the network. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525696 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633977 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Thomas Sanders (Madison, Wisconsin); Thilo Kraetschmer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser provides a cavity with complementary wavelength-dependent delay elements to provide the same optical length but time-staggered light paths for different colors. This provides the ability to individually control multiple narrow bands of colors each in a separate time division window. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835842 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07632317 | Belharouak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilias Belharouak (Westmont, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for coating an active material with carbon to form an electrode material is disclosed, comprising: exposing olivine or nasicon to a carbon source gas in a furnace; and heating the carbon source gas to deposit carbon thereon. The carbon source gas, which may be mixed with an inert gas, generally decomposes between 100° C. and 1300° C. to generate carbon material. The amount of coated carbon on the olivine or nasicon is preferably <15 wt %, and more preferably about 4 wt % or less. Also disclosed is a battery comprising: a positive electrode comprising the inventive electrode material; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612439 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/623.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632703 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for improving organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) performance by acid doping of the semiconducting layer. The semiconducting polymer comprising the semiconductor layer is doped with an acid, especially a Lewis acid, either during or after polymerization of the polymer, but prior to application of the polymer onto the OTFT. Also disclosed are OTFTs having enhanced charge carrier mobility produced by these methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315785 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634119 | Tsougarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ConforMIS, Inc. (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantinos Tsougarakis (Mountain View, California); Daniel Steines (Palo Alto, California); Bijan Timsari (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention there is provided methods for generating an isotropic or near-isotropic three-dimensional images from two-dimensional images. In accordance with the present invention the method includes, obtaining a first image of a body part in a first plane, wherein the first image generates a first image data volume; obtaining a second image of the body part in a second plane, wherein the second image generates a second image data volume; and combining the first and second image data volumes to form a resultant image data volume, wherein the resultant image data volume is isotropic or near-isotropic. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/728731 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07632393 | Kounaves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel P. Kounaves (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention disclosed is a total organic carbon (TOC) analyzer comprised of an electrochemical cell comprising a diamond-film electrode (2) doped with boron or other conductivity including material. The diamond-film electrode is the working electrode and carries out the oxidation of TOC to produce carbon dioxide. The apparatus further comprises sensors for detecting the carbon dioxide produced. Such sensors include but are not limited to a tunable diode laser (1) and/or ion-selective electrode (5). The invention also discloses a method for measuring TOC in an aqueous solution using a total organic carbon analyzer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/517584 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/785.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633130 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Peide Ye (West Lafayette, Indiana); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Gang Lu (Midland, Michigan); Han Chung Lin (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Field effect transistor devices comprising III-V semiconductors and organic gate dielectric materials, such dielectric materials as can afford flexibility in device design and fabrication. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725350 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634319 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Lee Schneider (Livonia, Michigan); Nader Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David J. Goetzinger (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An anchor and procedure for placing a medical implant, such as for monitoring physiological parameters. The anchor includes a central body in which a medical implant can be received. Arms and members extend radially from first and second ends, respectively, of the central body. Each member defines a leg extending toward distal portions of the arms to provide a clamping action. The anchor and its implant are placed by coupling first and second guidewires to first and second portions of the anchor, placing an end of a delivery catheter in a wall where implantation is desired, inserting the anchor in the catheter with the guidewires to locate the anchor within the wall, deploying the arms of the anchor at one side of the wall followed by deployment of the members at the opposite side of the wall, and thereafter decoupling the guidewires from the anchor. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933519 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07632762 | Tiano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tiano (Westford, Massachusetts); John Gannon (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Charles Carey (Burlington, Massachusetts); Brian Farrell (Quincy, Massachusetts); Richard Czerw (Clemmons, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube-based devices made by electrolytic deposition and applications thereof are provided. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a device comprising at least one array of active carbon nanotube junctions deposited on at least one microelectronic substrate. In another preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a device comprising a substrate, at least one pair of electrodes disposed on the substrate, wherein one or more pairs of electrodes are connected to a power source, and a bundle of carbon nanotubes disposed between the at least one pair of electrodes wherein the bundle of carbon nanotubes consist essentially of semiconductive carbon nanotubes. In another preferred embodiment, a semiconducting device formed by electrodeposition of carbon nanotubes between two electrodes is provided. The invention also provides preferred methods of forming a semiconductive device by applying a bias voltage to a carbon nanotube rope. The plurality of metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes are removed (e.g., by application of bias voltage) in an amount sufficient to form the semiconducting device. The devices of the invention include, but not limited to, chemical or biological sensors, carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs), tunnel junctions, Schottky junctions, and multi-dimensional nanotube arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638571 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07633432 | Wu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yeong-wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and devices are disclosed for positioning an antenna having a sub-reflector assembly. A conical scan processor receives a period for a reference time pulse and a time tag. The processor calculates a rotation angle of the sub-reflector assembly using the received period for the reference time pulse and the received time tag. The processor may also receive a power measurement associated with the time tag. The processor may calculate and then output antenna boresight errors based on the calculated rotation angle of the sub-reflector assembly and the power measurements associated with the time tag. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/610396 |
| 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 342/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Classified Government Agency
| US 07634557 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NetWitness Corporation (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd A. Moore (McLean, Virginia); Mark E. Longworth (Sterling, Virginia); Brian Girardi (McLean, Virginia); Damon Love (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for and method of extracting information from multiple sessions of disparate protocols into a common language is disclosed. A method of creating a record conforming to an event-based language is also disclosed. A system configured to create a record conforming to an event-based language is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/133392 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07632481 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Lei Zhang (Houston, Texas); John L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Mary Lou Margrave, legal representative (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of forming sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes, wherein such functionalized carbon nanotubes have hydroxyl-terminated moieties covalently attached to their sidewalls. Generally, such methods involve chemistry on carbon nanotubes that have first been fluorinated. In some embodiments, fluorinated carbon nanotubes (“fluoronanotubes”) are reacted with mono-metal salts of a dialcohol, MO—R—OH, where M is a metal and R is hydrocarbon or other organic chain and/or ring structural unit. In such embodiments, —O—R—OH displaces —F on the nanotube, the fluorine leaving as MF. Generally, such mono-metal salts are formed in situ by the addition of MOH to one or more dialcohols in which the fluoronanotubes have been dispersed. In some embodiments, fluoronanotubes are reacted with amino alcohols, such as being of the type H2N—R—OH, wherein —N(H)—R—OH displaces —F on the nanotube, the fluorine leaving as HF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/560351 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07631487 | DiSalvo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto DiSalvo (Madison, Alabama); Mark Ostrander (Madison, Alabama); Adam Elliott (Hollywood, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a constant volume rocket motor that uses a non-detonating constant-volume, bipropellant combustion process in pulse-mode operation. Opening and closing of the combustion chamber exhaust outlet is controlled by an actuated reciprocating thrust valve (RTV). Fuel enters the combustion chamber at low pressure with the RTV closed. The valve opens after or during combustion when combustion chamber pressure is at or near maximum. The motor has applications in reaction control systems and attitude control systems in spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553899 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
| US 07633284 | Ingram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tennessee Valley Authority (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Ingram (Harrison, Tennessee); Dale T. Bradshaw (Chattanooga, Tennessee); Thomas D. Geist (Knoxville, Tennessee); Haresh Kamath (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arshad Mansoor (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Doni Nastasi (Knoxville, Tennessee); Scott Bunton (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for automatically monitoring and controlling various parameters of individual ultracapacitor cells in a series string of such cells. These parameters are monitored, and a replacement charge current is delivered to any cell which has lost charge due to discharge either external or internal to the cell. Also, the application of this method and apparatus to energy storage systems for an electrical power transmission grid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276629 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07634332 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Williams (Stafford, Virginia); Stephen J. McElroy (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for creating route for powered industrial vehicles are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a route generation module configured to determine route data based on facility layout data and historical usage data. The system also includes a PIV equipped with various sensors and a user interface module configured to allow selective access to the operative components of the PIV. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417009 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07631652 | Archer, Jr. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Harry L. Archer, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for rinsing an article includes a tank having an upper portion, the upper portion including a rim; a discharge pipe connected to the tank; a generally cylindrical spray assembly disposed in a middle portion of the tank; a second tank; a source of rinse fluid connected to the second tank and to the spray assembly through a valve, the valve being operable to open to both the second tank and the spray assembly when a level of rinse fluid in the second tank is decreasing and operable to close to both the second tank and the spray assembly when the level in the second tank is at a full level; a fluid connection between the second tank and the rim of the tank; and a second valve disposed in the fluid connection and operable to open to allow rinse fluid to flow from the second tank to the rim of the tank and operable to close to allow refilling of the second tank. |
| FILED | Friday, January 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031735 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning and liquid contact with solids 134/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07631705 | Harte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip T. Harte (Concord, New Hampshire); Glenn A. Berwick (Epson, New Hampshire); Jeffrey B. Grey (Loudon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A removable plug and collar for a hollow stem screened auger and a method of collecting water samples using the plug and collar. The plug has an outer threaded surface that is threaded in a first direction. The top of the plug has an internal threaded cavity that is threaded in a second direction opposite that of the first direction. The collar is pressure fit within the top of the screened auger, held in place with an auger bolt, and has an internal threaded surface to receive the plug. The plug has multiple ports to receive air and sample tubes, enabling samples to be collected without removing the plug from the screened auger. To set a well after sampling, the plug is removed from the collar down hole as a drill rod is threaded into the plug's internal threaded cavity in a direction the same as the second direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688778 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632335 | Iwasaki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iwao Iwasaki (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Michael J. Lalich (Duluth, Minnesota); Robert C. Beaudin (Duluth, Minnesota); Richard F. Kiesel (Hibbing, Minnesota); Andrew J. Lindgren (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Rodney L. Bleifuss (Grand Rapids, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for producing metallic nuggets includes providing reducible mixture (e.g., reducible micro-agglomerates; reducing material and reducible iron bearing material; reducible mixture including additives such as a fluxing agent; compacts, etc.) on at least a portion of a hearth material layer. In one embodiment, a plurality of channel openings extend at least partially through a layer of the reducible mixture to define a plurality of nugget forming reducible material regions. Such channel openings may be at least partially filled with nugget separation fill material (e.g., carbonaceous material). Thermally treating the layer of reducible mixture results in formation of one or more metallic iron nuggets. In other embodiments, various compositions of the reducible mixture and the formation of the reducible mixture provide one or more beneficial characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296197 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632364 | Jouet et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Jason Jouet (Washington, District of Columbia); Andrea D. Warren (Washington, District of Columbia); Thomas P. Russell (Manassas Park, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An energetic composite material is provided that includes inorganic particles and self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) formed on the inorganic particles. The SAMs include multifunctional linking molecules and optionally non-linking molecules. The multifunctional linking molecules have linking functional groups respectively chemically bonding to a corresponding pair of the inorganic particles so that the multifunctional linking molecules interconnect the inorganic particles to one another to form a network of inorganic particles. The optional non-linking molecules include a non-linking functional group chemically bonded to a corresponding one of the inorganic particles. Preferably, the multifunctional linking molecules and/or the optional non-linking molecules are fluorinated. Also preferably, bare aluminum particles are selected as the inorganic particles and are passivated with the SAMs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/695349 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632433 | Gallant et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Mitchell Gallant (Waldorf, Maryland); Hugh Alan Bruck (Wheaton, Maryland); David I. Bigio (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a process for making a gradient material using a screw extruder system having material input conditions, operating conditions, and hardware element configurations and introducing disturbances into at least one of the material input conditions, operating conditions, or hardware element configurations so that a gradient material is formed by the screw extruder system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807582 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/3.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07632508 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander C. Schmidt (Washington, District of Columbia); Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Rockville, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Jane E. Bailly (Quebec, Canada); Anna P. Durbin (Takoma Park, 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 immune response to PIV or other pathogens. 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 pathogen, including different PIV virus to form the human-bovine chimeric PIV genome or antigenome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/324284 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634114 | Zappia |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Zappia (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for designing an iris biometrics system that operates in minimally constrained settings. The image acquisition system has fewer constraints on subjects than traditional methods by extending standoff distance and capture volume. The method receives design parameters and provides derived quantities that are useful in designing an image acquisition system having a specific set of performance requirements. Exemplary scenarios of minimally constrained settings are provided, such as a high volume security checkpoint, an office, an aircraft boarding bridge, a wide corridor, and an automobile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/849969 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07634393 | Tunick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold D. Tunick (Baltimore, Maryland); Ronald E. Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith S. Deacon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of predicting multi-dimensional meteorological and acoustic effects within and above a forest environment comprises collecting input data comprising meteorological and forest canopy characterization data for a specified forest environment; inputting the input data into program meteorology modules comprising an embedded radiative transfer and energy budget methodology module adapted to predict a heat source within and above the forest environment for any location at any time; calculating an incoming total radiation at a top of the forest environment; outputting multi-dimensional acoustics and meteorology numerical codes based on the program meteorology modules and the calculated total radiation; and formulating sound speeds within and above the forest environment based on the numerical codes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/326686 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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.
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